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21stcentury commented on the blog post The Republicans Should Take More Hostages
“Of course there is also the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. While Obama claims he will veto a plan that extends the tax cuts for the wealthy, there is no reason to believe he will risk letting them expire for everyone since he didn’t last time. The repeat of this fight will likely plan out in a similar.”
Unemployment is not going to improve, so Obama already has the hostage scoped out for taking….again. They’ll trade federal unemployment benefits extensions for extension of the tax cuts.
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21stcentury commented on the blog post Senate Hunting for Republican Votes on Reid Debt Limit Bill
Exactly.
That’s why I’ve been saying that the Tea Party is the best thing that Obama has going for him.
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21stcentury commented on the blog post Democrats Total Health Care Reform Messaging Failure
“The entire Democratic messaging operation, which tried to make the Affordable Care Act deficit reducing nature a key selling point with the public, was an abject failure.”
They’re in a beltway, out-of-touch, echo chamber.
Nobody ever cared about the DAMN DEFICIT.Citizens wanted to know exactly how much would be coming out of their own pockets.
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21stcentury commented on the blog post Meet the Man Who Could Decide the 2012 Presidential Election: Standard and Poor’s David Beers
“And it seems the Whole Wide Financial World has their greedy eyes set on the prize of that Social Security Trust Fund.”
YES
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21stcentury commented on the blog post Meet the Man Who Could Decide the 2012 Presidential Election: Standard and Poor’s David Beers
“As the London-based managing director of sovereign credit ratings at Standard & Poor’s….”
SOVEREIGN.
The USA isn’t acting like it.
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21stcentury commented on the blog post Establishment Republicans Beginning to Lose Patience with Teabaggers
Now would be a great time to stop calling them “The Tea Party” or “Teabaggers” and start calling them by the banner they campaigned under:
Republicans.Don’t let the Republicans distance themselves from the monster they created.
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21stcentury commented on the blog post Another Yo-Yo Trick: White House Floats, Then Denies, All-Cuts Deal
There’s already been a military coup. That’s why it grows as a monstrosity while everything else continues to be cut.
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21stcentury commented on the blog post Why Aren’t the Banks Lobbying Over the Debt Ceiling?
It’s a useful tactic to create a climate of fear and let their main man Obama sell the “need” for cuts to SS.
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21stcentury commented on the diary post The Kleptocracy’s Great Global Gamble and Why They are Doing It Now by OhioGringo.
“The Great American Housing Bubble and a financial collapse only averted by the US Treasury shoveling trillions of dollars made out of thin air to the Wall Street banks….”
All gambling addicts run into cash flow problems.
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21stcentury commented on the blog post Not a Bad Political Consolation Prize for McConnell
Oops..can you believe I confused Palin with Bachmann?
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21stcentury commented on the blog post Not a Bad Political Consolation Prize for McConnell
We could all really have a great laugh at an already paralyzed federal government if in 2012 there was a majority House and majority Senate of Democrats dealing with a President Palin.
Nothing great would really come out of it and I don’t know if that would even last 4 years…but what FUN!!! -
21stcentury commented on the diary post Can someone remove Lawrence O’Donnell’s head from his ass? by Bin Quick.
The mainstream Democratic pundits and media are pretending the President is bluffing about the cuts to SS and Medicare.
That’s what’s most insulting.
