- Jan 15, 2013
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This is why Obama can’t make a deal with Republicans
The gist of the article? From what I get, the Repub leadership is protecting the rich no matter what else happens to the country. They even sold out their own loyal middle class and poor constituents to keep those cherished loopholes and subsidies from getting axed.
The rich showered untold millions and millions of $$$ on our legislators to corrupt them into sliding these golden eggs into law, so I guess these thoroughly corrupted legislators had to take a "courageous" stand to defend the rich or get their magic carpet ride pulled right out from under them.
The lame ass excuses these Repub legislators have been coming up with only makes them look worse day after day. I'd be surprised if polls blame Obama more than the Repubs up on the hill for why the sequestration got kicked in.
In some ways I really do feel a little pinch of sympathy for the Repub leadership, as their stance to staunchly defend the rich whilst demanding cuts in and privatizing of social assistance programs make them ever more unpopular amongst the majority working class. This realization has been crystalizing ever since Obama took office, and it looks like Obama is capitalizing on it with good effect.
We are back to requiring comments I believe
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The important point in my opinion is this:
Upton Sinclairs famous line: It is impossible to make a man understand something if his livelihood depends on not understanding it.
What neuroscience shows us it that conservatives rationalize when reality causes them to feel emotional pain, that a preference for an altered reality outweighs their ability to deal with reality as it is. This makes them not only dangerous to the general community but total assholes to deal with.
Deal back on???
Obama offers to cut safety nets: http://news.yahoo.com/spending-cut-...s-second-term-agenda-025029989--business.html
Personally I find generalizing an ideology and attributing every motivation that it encompasses to a specific cognitive reflex a bit absurd.
"Besides his online contributions, Klein worked on Howard Dean's primary campaign in Vermont in 2003"
Deal back on???
Obama offers to cut safety nets: http://news.yahoo.com/spending-cut-...s-second-term-agenda-025029989--business.html
As the budget battles rage on in Washington, sources said Obama plans to nominate on Monday Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head to White House Office of Management and Budget. A veteran of the Bill Clinton White House, Burwell is president of the Walmart Foundation, which handles the corporation's charitable efforts.
JournoList Ezra Klein? Yeah, I'm going to trust anything that Democrat has to say politically about Republicans.
JournoList Ezra Klein? Yeah, I'm going to trust anything that Democrat has to say politically about Republicans.
Here are the facts:
Republicans said they would be ok with closing tax loopholes.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ak-tax-pledge-for-sake-looming-fiscal-crisis/
Now they are against it.
They asked for chained CPI and higher payments by some users and Obama agreed.
Republicans then said that's not enough.
So basically no deal can be made because republicans can't agree in something they agreed on in the past.
The American people aren't fooled.
Here are the facts:
Republicans said they would be ok with closing tax loopholes.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ak-tax-pledge-for-sake-looming-fiscal-crisis/
Now they are against it.
They asked for chained CPI and higher payments by some users and Obama agreed.
Republicans then said that's not enough.
So basically no deal can be made because republicans can't agree in something they agreed on in the past.
The American people aren't fooled.
That was the GOP concession from the last argument, which Obama "won" by getting his tax increase. This is a different argument, and Obama can't simply recycle his previous bargaining position having pocketed the tax increase.
You know perfectly well that because of your brain defect you could trust almost anybody over yourself. But, of course, the reason you're fucked is because you can't see this.
Is the press corps getting some balls (to put it crudely but graphically)? Are they finally prepared to challenge the President’s untruthful assertions on facts that are crucial to understanding policy?
None other than NBC’s David Gregory today pressed Obama’s chief economic advisor, Gene Sperling, whether his boss told the truth in the third presidential debate that “the sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.”
You and Obama are stuck on the conversation from 2 months ago. Obama already shot his wad on tax increases and we're now on the spending cut discussion. If Obama (or you) thought there would be multiple tax hike measures passed that's quite frankly delusional.
We're fucked (as a country) because gullible fools like you actually believe that a lying piece of shit like Obama can be trusted when he has repeatedly lied and lied and lied again to the people of this nation to a point some are not willing to accept his word on anything.
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/fashion-shows/
and to add this.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrod...ird-time-president-obama-fibbed-on-sequester/
So after being caught in yet another lie, for some reason the Republicans are supposed to believe that this time he's actually telling the truth.