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In reply to the discussion: Obama Tells Democrats They Must Be Open to Entitlement Changes [View all]NeoConsSuck
(2,544 posts)61. What else was discussed at this meeting?
Did they discuss dismantling the military industrial complex and thereby saving trillions of dollars? Did they discuss closing corporate tax loopholes? Did they discuss anything other than raping the middle and lower class?
If this leads to cuts to the middle class, the poor, the needy, then shame on me for allowing Obama to fool me again on the 2012 campaign trail. I had given up on him during his first term, but campaigning in 2012, he seemed like a changed man, like he was ready to really try to push a progressive agenda in his second term, now that he didn't have to worry about another re-election.
Obama the candidate has absolutely nothing in common with President Obama.
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Screw that, it's time to reform campaign finance and top this idiotic, legalized bribery of our Pols
Dustlawyer
Mar 2013
#209
You're right. And this should also be done on the local level. Contact each Democratic mayor, etc.
AnotherMcIntosh
Mar 2013
#223
No, the best way to keep Social Security viable for the foreseeable future is to get our Living Wage
RC
Mar 2013
#74
Here is my grand bargain.....fuck with SS and I stay home for the 2014 elections.
yourout
Mar 2013
#11
That's my inclination, too, EXCEPT that'd leave the field wide open for more damage
Honeycombe8
Mar 2013
#33
And so will we: this is the GOP's only hope to hold the House in 2014 and maybe
indepat
Mar 2013
#43
Our grand children will be much more concerned about how to try surviving a Venus-lite climate
Amonester
Mar 2013
#173
If I have to choose between Dems slashing SS or Republicans slashing SS I would rather have the....
yourout
Mar 2013
#73
Bullshit. The faster Leftists understand that the most powerful branch of our gov't is CONGRESS
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#153
Get a fucking clue. President Obama can have a decree that he'd like pink unicorns for every
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#157
Stop lying, read again who was telling who to get ready to fuck with entitlements
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#159
The Senate refused to change the filibuster rule, so everything this president does is
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#161
You still deny the reports? All of them? He really is the one making the offers you know
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#163
yes I have, I really think this one needs help, I don't say that sarcastically
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#242
Um . . . just to refresh your memory . . . Obama NEVER campaigned on single-payer.
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#247
If you do not want a grand bargain you better vote in 2014 and win the House back
krawhitham
Mar 2013
#68
He had the House for two years and pissed it away making nice with his Repub and WallSt overlords.
Lionessa
Mar 2013
#149
1.1 million more votes were cast for Democratic House candidates than for Republican candidates
markpkessinger
Mar 2013
#276
Same here. But I doubt Obama cares. Seems like he WANTS to destroy the Democratic Party.
forestpath
Mar 2013
#98
I'm open to changing the entitlements that the oil corporations are receiving.
olddad56
Mar 2013
#13
Let the caving to Republican principles begin again... UGH! F', Obama, you ran on the opposite!
Lionessa
Mar 2013
#14
He's been dead to me ever since he didn't put a moratorium on banks over robo-signing.
Lionessa
Mar 2013
#20
Why wrong? Because they're inconvenient truths to the fringe and their enablers?
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#258
Hey Manny, ^why didn't you give Obama a congress he could work with,^ how long
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#170
They are awaiting new talking points JoePhil and sid and the rest of the gang
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#40
I'm waiting for ..."Obama figures that if he is for it then the repukes will fight against it. n/t
L0oniX
Mar 2013
#124
That's a popular one, variation 38 of the multi-dimensional chess apologetic, truly a classic
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#152
Now they'll just disappear, or tell you it's all YOUR fault because you didn't "push him".
Marr
Mar 2013
#94
one might ask, "why is a democratic president arguing for the republican position"? nt
msongs
Mar 2013
#35
One might also ask, "if a democratic president argues the GOP view, is he a Democrat"
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#50
Well that doesn't hold water since he pissed away his very own two years of effective Dem Congress.
Lionessa
Mar 2013
#169
Nothing we little folk do will have an effect on him anymore, just those up for election.
madfloridian
Mar 2013
#39
I totally agree with Pres Obama. We must change our social safety network.
rhett o rick
Mar 2013
#45
The fact that you cant believe it reveals the huge problem we have in America.
rhett o rick
Mar 2013
#89
Wall Street and our corporate overlords have spoken, and the Word for the poor is
Fire Walk With Me
Mar 2013
#53
I, for one, am pleased that we're making common-sense tough choices about
MannyGoldstein
Mar 2013
#55
The part that the House AND Senate is still solidly under Republican control.
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#145
Well, there's no nice guy Obama if we are to believe the words that have come straight from his
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#206
Yes. It is. A Conservative Dem is a Dem like Manchin or Landrieu or Ben Nelson.
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#259
The public secret in our government is, Congress, not the White House, is the most powerful
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#262
Bullshit. Congress, not the Judicial branch, is the most powerful branch of gov't, and the fact
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#281
100% true. And it couldn't have been clearer than when they voted *against*
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#251
Democrats control the Senate, which is why Reid is called 'Majority Leader'.
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2013
#201
Bullshit. Republicans effectively control the Senate - through filibustering.
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#203
No--if Obama doesn't give up this DLC shit, progressive Dems should triangulate him
yurbud
Mar 2013
#86
we have been getting screwed in the arse for years and now they want to screw us even more?
indivisibleman
Mar 2013
#113
Naw. I'm no "rightist". I'm a DEMOCRAT who supports our DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT.
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#154
"Only the extremes on the Left are." No, the right also has them, they are just hiding under
cstanleytech
Mar 2013
#217
The unrealistic Leftists like you and others infesting this Democratic Party site
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#202
The article is using direct quotes. The reporter is not distorting, or passing along rumors.
Demit
Mar 2013
#197
If Obama had public ally taken this position on entitlements prior to his nomination, we might
ladjf
Mar 2013
#177
I dont think this is new information... he has made similar statements in the past.
DCBob
Mar 2013
#188
I don't see any post saying they are surprised. Disgusted is a better word for the mood of the
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2013
#205
start with their salaries and benefits - make them have to take on the same healthcare everyone else
2Design
Mar 2013
#238
If millions are still be spent in Iraq and Afghanistan then there is no deal
Rosa Luxemburg
Mar 2013
#243
Your position is somewhat inconsistent - if you oppose 100% off all, then you oppose Rand Paul's
24601
Mar 2013
#288
NO Way...I have paid into SS and Medicare for 40 years...Entitlement my ass
ELI BOY 1950
Mar 2013
#278
We do, we just dont have them in majority control over congress nor are they the majority
cstanleytech
Mar 2013
#292