Obama's not a moderate; "Privately, Obama describes himself as a BlueDogDem
BlueDogDem
If anybody needs to read the Taibbi link, it's those who think what Obama's doing is good.
The deal that Obama is trying to get has no job creation in it.
About Deficit
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I don't take compromise as weakness; I take your support for it as a measure that Obama and Democrats aren't dealing away your issues. Talk of Democratic politician
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-contro
If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and Rove were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush and Rove were just more ruthless in doing what politician
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination
Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.
The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to achieve our alleged shared objectives.
Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters
About 112th Congress
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Do you want Obama slashing $4 trillion programs for the poor and middle classes?
How about $1 trillion in cuts, including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and veterans' care and more?
That's what Obama's continuing debt ceiling talks are about.
In these talks, he's already conceded $1 trillion in cuts, which include cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
The only viable solution for the People is for Obama to invoke the 14th amendment solution (and it is, indeed, a legitimate option), which means that he'll raise the debt ceiling and kick these issues to the 2012 election.
Boehner offered a variation of that.
What is it that you want?
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In the 2010 midterm campaign, I asked rhetorical
If any deal that's on the table now goes through that isn't merely just raising the debt ceiling, there is NOTHING in these deals to create jobs. Tax cuts do NOT create jobs.
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That's it, the economy is now off the edge and MASSIVE stimulus is needed. Government spending on infrastruc
Obama has to invoke the 14th Amendment solution.
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Lie number 3) U.S. corporatio
Example: Republican presidenti
We have the highest corporate tax rate, or one of them, in the OECD nations.Actually, as measured in terms of share of GDP, the U.S. has the lowest corporate tax burden of any OECD nation. While the official tax bracket may seems high -- 35 percent -- if one takes into account various loopholes and tax dodges, the effective tax rate is considerab
Lie number 2) The U.S. suffers from high taxes.
Example: The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore:
What all this means is that in the late 1980s, the U.S. was nearly the lowest taxed nation in the world, and a quarter century later we're nearly the highest.Totally untrue. As measured in terms of total tax revenue as a share of overall GDP the average tax burden for countries that are members of the Organizati
Step right up, son, for questionin
How old are you? What do you do for a living? What's your highest level of education? Where did you go to school? What do your parents do for a living? Where did they go to school? Are you married? Tell us about your wife/husba
That's the first round of questions.
About Tea Party
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Why are Harry Reid and Democrats giving any oxygen to a Tea Party debt plan instead of this, the People's Budget (read it here)?
The Progressiv
As Krugman has said, the Progressiv
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I have an idea that would help our current debt problem. The majority of us who post do not pay feral income taxes. We should opt out of receiving a refund of our 2011 taxes.
At a hearing last month, SenatorChaThe Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesrlesGrassl ey said, "According to the JointCommi tteeOnTaxa tion, 49 percent of households are paying 100 percent of taxes coming in to the federal government ." At the same hearing, CatoInstit uteSeniorF ellow AlanReynol ds asserted, "Poor people don't pay taxes in this country." Last April, referring to a TaxPolicyC enter estimate of households with no federal income tax liability in 2009, FoxBusines s host StuartVarn ey said on Fox and Friends, "Yes, 47 percent of households pay not a single dime in taxes."
You mean $1.5 TRILLION.
About Barack Obama
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Where have you been outside of the U.S.?
About Barack Obama
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Blaming President Obama for not being as progressive in no way deals with the root of the causes. Try working for campaign finance reform to end corporate dominance over our government . Try mobilizing people in your community to get behind progressiv e Democrats running for the legislatur e. There are lots of things we can do, but sitting around complainin g that you're not getting exactly what you want isn't going to help. Period.
Blaming President Obama for not being as progressive in no way deals with the root of the causes. Try working for campaign finance reform to end corporate dominance over our government . Try mobilizing people in your community to get behind progressiv e Democrats running for the legislatur e. There are lots of things we can do, but sitting around complainin g that you're not getting exactly what you want isn't going to help. Period.
The most important read of the day.
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Had McCain Won:
McCain as president would clearly have produced a long string of catastrophes: He would probably have approved a failed troop surge in Afghanista n, engaged in worldwide extrajudic ial assassinat ion, destabiliz ed nuclear-ar med Pakistan, failed to bring Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to the negotiatin g table, expanded prosecutio n of whistle-bl owers, sought to expand executive branch power, failed to close Guantanamo , failed to act on climate change, pushed both nuclear energy and opened new areas to domestic oil drilling, failed to reform the financial sector enough to prevent another financial catastroph e, supported an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the rich, presided over a growing divide between rich and poor, and failed to lower the jobless rate.
There is no ending of the Bush-Obama tax cuts for the rich in this deal.
No revenues raised.
$1.5 Trillion in spending cuts of programs which the poor and middle classes rely on.
DOA.
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There is no ending of the Bush-Obama tax cuts for the rich in this deal.
No revenues raised.
DOA.
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