THIS ISN’T going to go over well with most people. Talking to a Tea Party group back in June, Thompson preens he got rid of one entitlement program, so he’s just the guy to finish off the rest. From JSonline: “… change Medicare and Medicaid like I did (to welfare) and who better than me, [...]
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David Brooks: Traditional Conservatism “Eclipsed” by Economic Conservatism
IT’S CLEAR that the re-election of President Obama will lead to debates on austerity, the grand bargain and, hopefully, changes in the ridiculous tax code that gives most Americans a headache. If Mitt Romney was elected we don’t know what he’d do because he either doesn’t know or is too afraid to say for fear [...]
Obama, the Only Moderate Republican in 2012
“Obama is the conservative reformist of my dreams. #ToryPOTUS” – Andrew Sullivan (via Twitter) IF YOU have any remaining doubts about how far right the Democratic Party has been led under President Obama perhaps now you’re finally getting the picture. Obama’s been aided by the wingnut right in falsely caricaturing him as a radical socialist, [...]
TOP STORY: A Talk Only Bill Clinton Could Deliver [full remarks]
“It takes some brass to attack a guy for doing what you did.” – President Bill Clinton PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON was on a mission and he was going to leave no fact unfurled. Coaxing the audience, “Now, listen to me now,” he continued to bring everyone ’round to hear his pitch. It was vintage Clinton. [...]
Top Story: Paul Ryan Lands, Received as New Conservative Leader
“A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom’s generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours,” Ryan said. “My mom started a small business, and I’ve seen what it takes. Mom was 50 when my dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles [...]
Paul Ryan’s Budget Austerity Targets the Poor
NO WONDER Nuns on the Bus was dogging Paul Ryan. “It’s immoral!” an 81 year-old nun cried out. The Ryan budget carves away subsidies for the poor, as Ezra Klein laid out today, while he debunks what people think they know about the Ryan budget and the focus on Medicare. Ryan’s budget, which Mitt Romney has [...]
Trending: Robert Gibbs v. Paul Ryan, and Defending Joe
“If [Paul Ryan] wants to protect Medicare for his mother, he should thank President Obama for what he has done to extend the life of the Medicare trust fund. What President Obama did was strengthen the Medicare benefits to help Medicare beneficiaries and extend it more than 8 years.” – Robert Gibbs on Fox News [...]
News Desk: Romney Hits Obama on Medicare in ‘Paid In’
THE CUTS to Medicare talked about in the ad above are not in disagreement. However, the Ryan plan would keep these same Medicare cuts. The devil is in how the cuts are utilized. Obamacare reduces reimbursements to hospitals and private insurance, as well as Medicaid, all of which AARP signed on to when they came [...]
Fed to Mitch Daniels: You’re An Idiot
A RESTRICTIVE LAW signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels has been declared illegal. It discriminated against poor women, because they don’t vote and it’s the easiest demographic to push around. A controversial Indiana law that would keep low-income women from using federal Medicaid benefits to receive any kind of reproductive medical care from Planned Parenthood is [...]
The Roberts Court Respects Congress to Enact Laws, While CNN & FOX Blow the SCOTUS Moment
Today’s Supreme Court is often referred to as Anthony Kennedy’s Court. Although Kennedy is the swing justice who usually casts the deciding vote in close cases, the landmark ruling this week in the healthcare cases clearly marks the maturation of the “Roberts Court.” – The Roberts Court Is Born CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS and the majority [...]
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS OBAMACARE AND INDIVIDUAL MANDATE
**UPDATED** “Chief Justice Roberts’ vote saved the ACA.” – SCOTUSBLOG “I do think the court will surprise a lot of people when it probably upholds the Affordable Care Act in an opinion written by another former student of mine, Chief Justice Roberts this Thursday… You can be deeply conservative and still believe that the Affordable [...]
Washington Post: Grand Bargain on Entitlements ‘Still on the Table’
White House officials said this week that the offer is still on the table. – Obama’s evolution: Behind the failed ‘grand bargain’ on the debt How quickly people forget. A 2010 Gallup poll serves as a reality backdrop to this tale. The report in the Washington Post over the weekend gives you an idea of [...]
Progressive Notes: Hoyer Moves to Quash Progressive Sheyman, Pray for Demise of Super Committee, and Other Doings
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. “Every American ought to have the right to be treated; as he would like to be treated, as one would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated.” -JFK. Labor is launching a great ad campaign against Republican lawmakers in key [...]
One Woman Supercommittee: Revenues for Entitlement Cuts
That’s the debt deal cog, revenues for entitlement cuts, which Speaker Boehner addressed yesterday. From CBS News: “I think there is room for revenues, but I think there clearly is a limit to the amount of revenues that are available,” Boehner told reporters. The comment was significant because Boehner and other Republican leaders have repeatedly [...]
CBPP: Republican Deficit Plan Offers ‘Minuscule Revenue’
chart via TPM The full headline from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is this: Republican Plan Contains Minuscule Revenue Increase Alongside Deep Cuts in Medicare and Medicaid. It’s the story on what the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (aka the “supercommittee”) is planning and proposing. But get this, Republicans also consider increases [...]
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