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In reply to the discussion: "Not going to happen"? Guess what: It already fucking happened. [View all]PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)13. Great post and excellent questions you've asked.
Now, of course, the "Pugs" will scream the Democrats are screwing with Mom's Social Security!!!
'Course the filthy, lying rat-bastards will never admit they wanted to fuck grandpa out of it years ago by handing it over on a silver platter to Wall Street.
(and they will never stop in their attempts either)
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And now this horrible policy will be proposed over and over again until the cuts happen.
myrna minx
Apr 2013
#1
But only Nixon could go to china, as the ancient romulan saying goes.
ChairmanAgnostic
Apr 2013
#127
This will go down in history as one of the biggest blunders when the next several elections are
RKP5637
Apr 2013
#4
Horrific. And plotting strategy for here for 2014 and saving SS and Medicare going forward is
stevenleser
Apr 2013
#5
Tone deafness is a generous reading. Look at the cabinent secretaries and his advisors and
byeya
Apr 2013
#10
The way Obama's governed, I'm assuming he doesn't want a Dem majority in Congress. Eom
TransitJohn
Apr 2013
#41
I fear our president is very bull headed and/or has extremely poor and unperceptive advisers. n/t
RKP5637
Apr 2013
#47
It's maddening. Whatever momentum may have been in play for our side is stopped dead
byeya
Apr 2013
#7
Maybe this was the plan? It's hard to believe that anyone could have been this stupid that they
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#8
sometimes the obvious needs to be said, I don't understand why some aren't getting this
quinnox
Apr 2013
#11
They get it, they don't care. One good thing about this final betrayal, and I say final because a
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#69
I Fail To See How Having The GOP Screaming to Protect SS From Cuts Is A Bad Thing
Skraxx
Apr 2013
#15
Because the R's will say we have to privatize it to save it. Eyes opened?
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
#115
I fear the democratic party is full of Trojan horses! It's not the party I joined years ago. n/t
RKP5637
Apr 2013
#49
It's certainly starting to look that way. It looks like a mercy killing of the poor and middle
RKP5637
Apr 2013
#50
Well it has Changed the fact the Repubs are always saying, the Democrats will not put entitlements
Thinkingabout
Apr 2013
#21
"The fact that the proposal was in the budget in the first place is the catastrophe. "
kentuck
Apr 2013
#24
Agreed--putting SS on the table was a HUGE mistake, regardless of how it turns out
AndyA
Apr 2013
#33
And now we will have to defend this terrible idea forever (until it happens) and we will
beyurslf
Apr 2013
#29
It was also in the NRCC budget that about half the House GOP voted for a month ago
antigop
Apr 2013
#31
People don't remember procedural budget votes - they tend to remember what presidents say/propose
hatrack
Apr 2013
#42
I'm certainly going to make use of the info in my district. My Repug rep voted for it. nt
antigop
Apr 2013
#63
Which is why the corporate media dubbed Clinton and Obama the only "viable" Democratic
Marr
Apr 2013
#104
Bush tried, multiple times, to sell the privatization of Social Security and got
winter is coming
Apr 2013
#46
I don't understand why the lesson wasn't learned -- by BOTH sides. Bush got away with
gateley
Apr 2013
#53
Yeah well, we're just all hatin' on the pres. He's just playing 3D chess or poker or ..........
SammyWinstonJack
Apr 2013
#48
Oh really? Like he's got some masterful move up his sleeve? We're not that stupid
YOHABLO
Apr 2013
#59
Will "We were just fuckin' with your heads" be the 2014 campaign slogan.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Apr 2013
#58
Just like it required more than a few pawns to sacrifice themselves to let the other side win. THEY
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#129
"These Repubs are forcing the President to serve up YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY..."
WorseBeforeBetter
Apr 2013
#128