What Is Mark Halperin Smoking? Blames Obama For Lack Of Bipartisanship on Social Security
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In a move as predictable as Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, Democrats are using Social Security scare tactics to gain ground before the November election. President Barack Obama is not only tolerating this classic old politics maneuver by his party — he is leading the charge.
Amid a flurry of Democratic Party news releases and press conferences warning voters that Republicans are targeting Social Security for destruction, the President devoted his radio and Internet address last week to commemorating the 75th anniversary of the signing of the law that created the program. He cautioned that "some Republican leaders in Congress don't seem to have learned any lessons" from the past and are "pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress." This familiar refrain might indeed help the Democrats limit their midterm losses, but Obama's involvement shows that on this issue he is putting party before bipartisanship and that he sometimes can be tone-deaf to the human element required to change Washington's acid culture.
I read the new GOP road map on TMO and privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda.
Well it is...
What social security?
...and comment less. Social Security is not in any trouble and is funded for at least another 30 years. The B.S. that it's going broke is nothing more than the usual wing nut and tea bagger drivel.
Madoff had people convinced there for a while everything was "nifty".
GOP agent. Always winking at the right.
once again, the supposed lock-box is ledger entries, you want something to back up social security? stockpile copper, it is going nowhere but up. taking care of our citizens should be, and in reality is, part of the general budget.
Ya got any copper?
don't laugh, with electric cars, expanded power grid, copper is pricey, hardly scrap.
there are precious metals lurking in the rubbish
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/297662...
drive around in beat up trucks. Looking for "metal" . . A bright future rummaging though peoples trash and throw outs.
could be beets, could be peaches, just cause it's free don't mean it's no good.
we collect aluminum cans, crush 'em, save 'em, turn them in, little money, but good for the environment.
the essentials.
Everything is Obama's fault, and it's always going to be Obama's fault.
I must confess that Obama's attempt at bipartisanship has been a complete failure.
the saying goes.
Better to be screwed gently then roughly.
Mark my words.
It will be Democrats who undermine and destroy Social Security.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
destroyed our containment of the ChiComs.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
If he's smoking you're sure to know he's bogarting it.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Stop popping out baby's that would help. The planet is woefully overcrowded already.
That Obama is engaging in an incredibly cynical sleight of hand?! He's trying to paint the Republicans as the boogeyman, when the boogeyman is actually himself. *Obama* is the one who formed the Catfood Commission stacked with rightwingers, 14 of the 18 members and BOTH co-chairs against Social Security, including the lunatic Alan Simpson - personally appointed by Obama himself - who has been on a lifelong crusade against SS and hates the "lesser" people. Obama's Catfood Commission symbolizes everything that is wrong with Washington (and Obama) - greedy elites taking the 'little people's' money to further enrich themselves.
The Republicans already failed on privatization under Bush and aren't likely to be broaching it again anytime soon. Obama is the one in power and Obama is deadset on cutting SS, reflecting his contempt for the New Deal and the ordinary American. Whenever Obama is handed an opportunity to make his corporate benefactors happy and in the process step on the backs of ordinary Americans, he jumps on it, but always in a secretive and dishonest manner, hiding under Republican and Blue Dog skirts.
See Social Security: The Republicans Are Right -
Bingo!
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
"14 of the 18 members and BOTH co-chairs against Social Security"
Give me the fourteen names and a link for each proving they are against Social Security.
Otherwise I consider you to be a left version of FOX railing against the "Ground Zero Mosque."
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Ricky considers me the left version of Fox! Oh nose!! The talking points are getting ever so original! Here a table for you - from a Professional Left blog which I'm sure you'll find S-C-A-R-Y; unfortunately, the corporatist blogs/news don't seem to want to investigate this, so that left either the Professional Left or the Teabaggers! Man up!
Obama Packs Debt Commission With Social Security Privatization & Benefit Cut Supporters
Soooo..from this table, 14 of the 18 members are 'likely' to cut SS benefits. Some "bipartisanship". The 2 co-chairs are real progressives:
Member Open to cutting benefits? YES - Bowles is on the record that the commission will “mess with Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, because if you take those off the table, you can’t get there.
Expressed support for privatization? YES - Negotiated deal with Newt Gingrich to raise Social Security retirement age & some privatization under Clinton; deal was stopped by Lewinski scandal.
Conflicts of Interest: Sits on the board of Morgan Stanley. Wife Candice is on the board of JP Morgan Chase. Finance, insurance & real estate sector donated over $3 million to his unsuccessful 2004 Senate bid.
Alan Simpson, R-WY-ret, Co-Chair -
Open to cutting benefits? YES. When asked about cuts he would recommend to the President and Congress on CNBC, Simpson said “We are going to stick to the big three,” meaning Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Expressed support for privatization? YES - “[A]s recently as 2005, Simpson…supported attempts by President George Bush to privatize Social Security by turning part of the pension and insurance program into millions of individual investment accounts, which by now would have lost 20 percent of their value.” (2/27/2010)
Conflicts of Interest: Simpson and Peterson were appointed to Bill Clinton’s Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement Reform in 1994. Both voted to recommend partial privatization of Medicare, and raising Social Security age of eligibility to 70, Simpson awarded “Economic Patriot” award by Peterson’s Concord Coalition in 1996.
There already IS bipartisanship in the Social Security Two-Step.
The Republicans are playing the Bad Cop: "Elect us & we'll privatize it!"
Obama & the Dems playing Good Cop: "We'll save you from the Republicans!"
But what is Obama's plan?
Oh yeah .. wait until the CatFood Commission makes it's non-negotiable "recommendations."
See? It's already a bipartisan approach to Social Security.
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
Exactly correct.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Talk about Washington's acid culture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGmkM4v9AaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks8WPOCj_jo
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
he can pass the torch to Sarah Palin in a couple years why worry. And relax in the ex presidents club.
between the scare tactics the Democrats are supposedly using and the ones used on this site to convince people Obama is out to destroy Social Security? I've got to admit Cat Food Commission is pretty snappy propaganda.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
substantive to say, or just the name calling? Can the DLC crowd argue persuasively for anything Obama does, or must it always resort to personal attacks and diversions in an attempt to shut down discussion and keep the little people from analyzing his policies (just look at the gibberish on this thread for an example of diversionary tactics)?
What do you think the goal of Obama's Catfood Commission is? Is it to strengten SS? Is it to raise taxes and preserve SS? Surely, you must have an opinion knowing who he appointed and given Obama's past policies and statements on Social Security.
Are Democrats allowed to discuss it, or does Obama expect the 'base' to STFU and trust in all-knowng, superior intelligence and 11D-thinking of Obama and the Washington elite? Are we supposed to wait in obedient silence until the Great One pronounces the ever-lasting wisdom of the esteemed elite on the hallowed commission?
anyone, VirtualAccuracy?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
we are to "STFU and trust in all-knowng, superior intelligence and 11D-thinking of Obama and the Washington elite" i think you've got it.
Now everyone understands why Sen. Grayson didn't answer my question yesterday.
Rahm will "leave to spend more time with family" once the Commission releases its report and the political plan to "reform" Social Security is in place.
The liberals will CHEER his leaving, they will defend Obama's reform of the Social Security system and it will be healthcare allll over again.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Social Security has been dead since Tip and Ronnie raised the retirement age. Haven't you heard?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Sure it has.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
isn't the death senence, then.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Eliminate the income cap which Reagan instituted.
The single biggest giveaway to rich people up to that time.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
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Hasa Diga Eebowai
that any opinion I might have regarding the commission studying the future of Social Security is worthless without having any report to study or any legislation stemming from that report. I also recognize that you're opinion on the subject is equally worthless for the same reasons. What's to discuss?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
during the healthcare reform debates telling everyone there wasn't enough data to 'prove' that Obama wasn't working for the public option, so we should just sit on our hands and wait until it was too late to do anything about it.
And in keeping with Democratic Compassion. "We don't want to kill old people, we are just trying to pay back Purina Pac for their contributions" Rahm "4.5 Fingers"
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
C & L had an entire thread yesterday devoted to attacking the "professional Left" blog, The Huffington Post, basically because it regularly criticizes Obama's leadership. What makes the Huffington Post so threatening to the Professional DLC is that it attracts a very large readership and has some excellent writers, a real threat to the Obama Administration, who would rather the "childish" Americans pull the wool over their eyes and let him tell them what to do (ie., let him kick them to the curb in obedient silence). So, is next step censorship for the Obama Administration (or C & L)?
is their asinine adherence to loony new age anti-scientific nonsense. Mainly Huffpo is embarrassing.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
because they have excellent columnists who question and are critical of Obama and a wide readership who reads those columns. Period.
is more realistic sounding.
He's just another willing tool of the media Politboro robotically repeating the pre approved propaganda. This dupe sold his soul to the company till long ago.
Who cares about the truth when you get paid big money to lie your ass off, right Mark? Integrity doesn't pay so well, does it?
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Mark Halperin, in case you haven't guessed by now, is a rabid zionist who recently said on Morning Joe..."What Obama needs to do is double down in Afghanistan!" Sure we should Mark. (Translation) Let's not remove the troops from that part of the world just when Iran is looking sooooo juicey for bombing.
This man should be flipping burgers not treated like a respected journalist. He is Judith Miller in drag.
don smith
It's getting so I don't trust any politician. They only seem to care only about themselves and not the voters who elected them.
After one decade of the equivalent of strong armed robbery it seems?
It's getting so I don't trust any politician.
What took you so long?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
vacationing this week? Sheesh he's going to beat W at this rate.
before he scratches Shrub's record.
Thank the gods Obama doesn't have a ranch to clear brush from.
Chesterfield.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
FWIW.
Yours:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=...
Mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJNOISmZSoY&fe...
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Halperin has no consistency at all. He blows in the wind and seems to lack balls.
Halperin has been functioning as a paid shill for quite a while now. I'll be he makes good money being one of Fox's "democrats."
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No where but in America can a person write a book of quotes and not source them, and not get laughed off the stage.
are you referring to "Game Change"?
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
-_- We've seen this movie before. "If only Obama would meet us somewhere in the middle between keeping social security and dismantling it/privatizing it, we'd have bipartisanship. Instead he REFUSES to debate with the right-wing ideology that it should go away. What's wrong with him?"
Of course, I give Obama too much credit, and actually DO fear him meeting in the middle between keeping it and getting rid of it, (i.e. cuts, raising retirement age, ect.)
Mark Halperin is a pompous Jackass. Conniving and disingenuous. His comments on the Mosque are a repetition in spirit of the ones he made on Social Security. His punditry is fake and constant smirk a give away of his thoughtlessness. He makes it light of heinous role of Newt Gingrich or Franklin Graham and the stoking of the fire by 100% of Republican / Tea Party leadership by making Obama's speech as the real culprit.
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