By: Vote Socialist
Anyone who is “shocked” that Obama and the Money Party are planning “entitlement reform” is either lying or really stupid. (Or, possibly, both.) He’s been talking about this since 2008, and I clearly...
View ArticleBy: robbep
Hard to feel sorry for people who voted for the less evil candidate and now are worried about what he is going to do them and the programs they care about. Obama has won and without reelection to worry...
View ArticleBy: juliania
Excellent diary, fairleft. Recommended. I’m not ready to read the shapeshifters on policy yet, not even the worthy Bill Black, even dear old Noam. Not Matt Taibbi, not anyone who said we have to vote...
View ArticleBy: wendydavis
I’d say it’s yet to be seen whether they *are worried*, robbep. We may be in for another round of Through the Looking Glass “Oh! He had to find bipartisan consensus! It was the only way to retire the...
View ArticleBy: Barmitt O'bamney
Lesser Evil? That comparative just gets so tiresomely odious after awhile… Don’t sell the man short: he’s a TERRIFIC evil in his own right.
View ArticleBy: beleck
lesser evil, my eye. lol Obama’s the greater evil for Social Security, Medicare and the poor. Romeny was direct and honest about his feelings about the “takers.” Obama is by far the greater danger,...
View ArticleBy: fairleft
Actually, since 2007, links in the Krugman piece below. As Krugman notes, Obama wanted to turn overturn Bush’s 2005 failure to cut Social Security. That’s about when I knew — AND WHEN EVERYONE...
View ArticleBy: fairleft
Make that September, 2007. Details here: http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh092807.shtml
View ArticleBy: fairleft
Matt Bai tells it like it is in this blockquote: The problem here is that urging Mr. Obama not to join House Republicans in reducing entitlement spending is like pleading with John Travolta and Olivia...
View ArticleBy: cassiodorus
What’s amazing is that the followers of Barack Obama think of themselves as the “reality-based community” while defending the most unreal administration in memory, and as the vanguard of political...
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