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Fiscal Cliff: GOP Gives In On Social Security Cuts In Stalled Talks (UPDATE)

Monday, December 31, 2012

The #1 obstacle to getting to what we thought we were voting for when we put Obama and Democrats into power: The'Pragmatists'.

Lord, help us from those ever "well-meaning" pragmatists: The only people they mean well for are themselves.

We hear about "pragmatism" a lot from Obama's 'most ardent supporters'. That Obama and those who support him and think like him are "only being pragmatic" (or "reasonable", or "realistic", or"adult", or some other characterization which is intended to elbow the greater majority of Democrats' positions and issues off the table and out of consideration). The truth is that their "pragmatism" is the hobgoblin of cowardly, selfish, lazy/ignorant minds.

'Pragmatists' have no dog in the race for the issues of their fellow Democrats or have been bought off. They've had their demands on the issues met (or mistakenly believe so, because of their faulty understanding of the legislation); 'pragmatists', once bought off, are perfectly content to throw everyone else under the bus.

'Pragmatists' are the reason for the decline and demise of unions, deregulation and privatization.

Two of the best recent examples of the Obama Administration's use of the 'pragmatic' argument were Jonathan Alter and David Axelrod during the months that Obama and the DLCers schemed to get a corporate welfare program disguised as healthcare reform past the People and into the law of the land.

See here.

And here.

And here.

And here.

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Fiscal Cliff: GOP Gives In On Social Security Cuts In Stalled Talks (UPDATE)

You and I aren't average Democratic voters; I don't know what it's going to take for the truth to get through to the others about the modern Democratic Party. Those who believe he's a liberal continue to make excuses for him. One that I encountered earlier today talked about how Obama was "better than the alternative", refusing to accept that he is equivalent to the alternative.

Anyone who believes that Obama is a liberal is flat-out ignorant about his record and history. Obama's got nothing but contempt for liberals, stemming from long before he ever ran for office in Chicago. In hindsight, it's pretty clear that he's been a cold, calculating character who has lied to a great many people over the years to get to where he is. There are liberals who knew him in the early days, at Harvard Law Review and then later in Chicago, and questioned his intent, his philosophy and commitment to people's issues, but found him to be slippery and hard to nail down.

Our nature, of giving others the benefit of the doubt, has been our undoing.
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Fiscal Cliff: GOP Gives In On Social Security Cuts In Stalled Talks (UPDATE)

I don't think this is going to sink in to the average Democratic voter - Look at how this article has been written. As if it's Republicans who proposed chained CPI.
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