Stepping out on a limb
I’m guessing that no matter what President Carebear says today, he is going to concede ground to the GOP, you know as a pre-negotiating cave-in, so you know, to show everyone that he is the adult in the room and whatnot. It’s work so well for him before, too.
I mean, Jeebus, he’s starting from the Cat Food Commission which already was dead in the water, so there is not much surprise here.
UPDATE 1: Crooks and Liars has the livestream and transcript; they will have the video up soon.
UPDATE 2: it was a great speech, but as always, the deeds matter more than the words. I want to see some follow-up, so I’m not holding my breath.
UPDATE 3: Krugman
weighs in, and he’s right: “I should probably say, I could live with this as an end result. If this becomes the left pole, and the center is halfway between this and Ryan, then no — better to pursue the zero option of just doing nothing and letting the Bush tax cuts as a whole expire.”
Well it was his Catfood Commission, so he’s gonna do his level best to bring its crappy recommendations back to life.
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As much as I wanted to hear what he had to say, I could not stay awake. They even showed a guy in the audience fighting to stay awake and that just pushed me over the edge. It’s like dramamine, but it’s nodramabama and off to dreamland you go.
As the saying goes ‘Walk the walk’.
But then he praised Reagan – again and couldn’t bring himself to blame ‘w’ and the GOPig’s for their bloating the budget, whoring our country’s future
with 2 failed wars, bailouts to wall street and shitting on the constitution..
But I guess anyone was better than Hillary.
From today’s The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/159906/false-debate-debt
“…we are left with an absurd debate over how deeply to cut teachers’ pensions and seniors’ medical benefits while preserving tax breaks for the superrich and their large corporations. At a time when 10 million American families will have lost their homes by year’s end, when $5.6 trillion in home equity has been wiped out, when most Americans face steep unemployment rates and stagnant wages, a Democratic president is likely to compromise with Republican ideologues who insist that further cuts in taxes for the rich is the way to bring back jobs.”
Suckers.
Baa-waa HA ha.
I never thought I quote Moose-a-you-know-who but…How’s that Hope and Changie thing going?