“We’re not gonna balance the budget in ten years because if you look at what Paul Ryan does to balance the budget, it means that you have to voucher-ize Medicare, you have to slash deeply into programs like Medicaid, you’ve essentially got to — either tax — middle class families a lot higher than you [...]
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House Democrats Call On President Obama To Reject Benefit Cuts To Medicare, Medicaid, And Social Security Benefits
HOUSE PROGRESSIVES and Democrats sent a letter to President Obama opposing entitlement benefit cuts, demanding he reject these cuts at a time when the 1% are the only ones benefiting from the recovery. The press release and letter are below. WASHINGTON—107 House Democrats, a majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives, wrote President Obama [...]
Obama Nailed Paul “Straw Man” Ryan, Jon Stewart Explains [Video]
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook “Right now about 60 percent of the American people get more benefits in dollar value from the federal government than they pay back in taxes,” Ryan said. “So we’re going to a majority of takers versus [...]
Top Story — President Obama Lays Out Democratic Vision
EVERY DEMOCRAT and progressive had to thoroughly enjoy the Inauguration of President Obama. It was a marvelous ceremony, and the star of the whole day was just as much First Lady Michelle Obama and her high fashion statement, as the President himself. As for President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address, it was a manifesto for what [...]
Top Story: Why President Obama and Democrats Shouldn’t Be Trusted Anymore than Republicans
Everyone is confused about the Fiscal Cliffhanger. Obama is struggling to make a deal to prolong most of the Bush-era tax cuts. The Republicans are holding back. Yet if a deal is reached, the federal government and the long-term purpose of the Democratic Party are both likely to be ruined for years to come. If [...]
Support for Major Medicaid Cuts Dropped by Obama
The Hill is reporting that today Obama … backed away … from roughly $100 billion in Medicaid savings it had proposed during deficit-reduction talks earlier this year. The move comes as liberals have pressed the White House to take Medicaid off the table in negotiations surrounding the ‘fiscal cliff’ — and it will make any [...]
Medicaid, Obamacare and What Happens to the ‘Neediest’
At HuffPo, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar writes: It’s health care brinksmanship, with hundreds of billions of dollars and the well-being of millions of people at stake. President Barack Obama’s health care law expands Medicaid, the federal-state health program for low-income people, but cost-wary states must decide whether to take the deal. Turn it down, and governors risk [...]
Is Grover Over?
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive “I think we ought to take the 98 percent deal right now,” [Republican Rep. Tom Cole] said of freezing income tax rates for all but the top 2 percent of earners. “It doesn’t mean I agree with raising the top 2. [...]
AFSCME, the National Education Association, and SEIU Target Democrats in “Jobs Not Cuts” Ads
THERE’S A campaign not so quietly growing in volume, with Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh the loudest, that has Republicans having a hissy fit over Obama’s proposed tax increases for the wealthiest. Rush is using the Santa Claus line, a take off on O’Reilly’s people want stuff belch, but both are focused on making people [...]
Top Story — Obama’s 2011 Grand Bargain Detailed in Documents Obtained by Bob Woodward
“He is, in his gut, a fiscal conservative. There is a Blue Dog Streak in him.” – David Plouffe in The Price of Politics, by Bob Woodward IF YOU haven’t read Bob Woodward’s latest book, The Price of Politics, you may not appreciate the documents below fully. We’re about to see Obama’s “excessive pragmatism,” as [...]
Obama’s Grand Bargain is Not a “Betrayal,” It’s What He Believes In
“It is safe to say many groups are very concerned that a grand bargain will be foisted on the Congress that goes against what Democratic candidates promised on the campaign trail,” said Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future. “And it is clear the president is considering making the grand bargain that he [...]
Tommy Thompson’s Son: Send Obama Back “to Chicago or Kenya!” [Video]
IT MAKES you root for Tammy Baldwin all the more. From Daniel Brice: Jason Thompson, the son of former Gov. Tommy Thompson, was caught on video Sunday suggesting at a Republican event that voters this fall could send President Barack Obama back “to Kenya.” “We have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago [...]
Top Story: Romney’s Best Debate Hope, Gear Up the Old Etch-a-Sketch
TAKING A PAGE from the playbook on his late move on young immigrant visas, Mitt Romney needs to unload his wingnuttery and embrace his alter ego, Governor Mitt from Massachusetts, then offer a mea culpa for falling off the right-wing cliff. Don’t worry about Barack Obama in the debate. The troubles Romney has are real [...]
Plan for Entitlement Cuts Continues on Course
THE WRITING has been on the Democratic wall since President Obama created his own austerity commission known as Simpson-Bowles. It’s true that Republicans might do worse, but then at least Democrats could blame them for cutting a massively popular program like Social Security, instead of doing it themselves and destroying the Democratic brand forever. From [...]
Dueling Ads, with Obama Pitching “Clean Coal” and $4 Trillion Grand Bargain Again
OBAMA BEGINS by saying straight to camera, we were “losing nearly 800,000 a month” and were “mired in Iraq.” Romney’s ad to the camera is below, which debuted yesterday. Obama’s in a suit; Romney’s casual. The direct pitch from Romney straight to camera is an effort to change the trajectory of his losing campaign by [...]
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