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In reply to the discussion: "Not going to happen"? Guess what: It already fucking happened. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)30. We simply cannot trust DLC types, and that includes Hillary Clinton.
In fact she may just be at the top of the list of those we should not trust.
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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