Disparate Senate Coalition Rejects Deficit Reduction Commission
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How often does one see the Senate's leading Fascist and only Socialist join together in a highly contentious and high profile vote? If you were watching yesterday, you did. The Senate rejected Obama's somewhat squirrelly hopes for a deficit reduction commission. Needing 60 votes to avoid a filibuster, the bill only drew 53. Liberals like Bernie Sanders, Jeff Merkley, Sherrod Brown, Daniel Akaka, Sheldon Whitehouse, Chris Dodd, Roland Burris, Tom Udall, Maria Cantwell, Frank Lautenberg, Ben Cardin and Jack Reed opposed it because they knew it was a way for conservatives to gut Social Security and Medicare without leaving their bloody fingerprints at the crime scene. Meanwhile, arch obstructionists like DeMint, Sam Brownback, Jeff Sessions, Chuck Grassley, the two lunatic fringe maniacs from Oklahoma, John McCain, Jon Kyl, John Ensign, Miss McConnell and Richard Burr were afraid it might lead to higher taxes on their wealthy backers.
In the end it was a coalition of 23 mostly progressive Democrats and 23 mostly extreme right Republicans voting to kill the proposal-- for opposite reasons-- while corporate shills from both parties backed it. Obama is determined to push ahead with an advisory panel within the Executive Branch tasked with coming up with the same crappy proposals the bipartisan anti-working family Establishment is demanding. Remember, it is accepted wisdom Inside the Beltway that Republicans are allowed to run up gargantuan deficits with tax cuts for the wealthy and unfunded wars which can then be left for Democrats to clean up and get blamed for, helping elect Republicans who will run up more deficits for all the wrong reasons.
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posted by DownWithTyranny @ 10:00 AM
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Posting a graphic like that and not revealing its source is a pretty low thing to do. What are you trying to hide?
Or perhaps it was just an oversight. Please post the source, so that your readers can evaluate the numbers for themselves.
I'm sure the chart is simple arithmetic. The only real deficit is the intelligence deficit.
whenever doing a survey or poll we need to ask if the respondent is a college graduate or not. Check the Fox crowd and I am sure the majority of the viewers are uneducated morons, or at least 35%. These are folks who believe in the bible and never passed a science class.
People with higher IQ's have 1.5 children. Undereducated folks have four. Does this give us a clue of what's going wrong? If you want to know the reason Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Hannity are so popular with the dopes it's because they are dopes too. May I call you Charlie? May I call you Joe? Only if we can call you stupid Sarah.
I kid the dopes.
along the same line did you notice that Coakley won the the college graduate vote by 5% and I believe the women vote also. That in itself should tell you a lot.
Perhaps only college graduates should be allowed to vote.....
Sure it's simple arithmetic. Don't throw red herrings in the way.
The issue is, where did those numbers come from??
For any report to have any meaning at all, it must allow the reader to reproduce its results.
This doesn't; therefore it is meaningless. And publishing meaningless reports that "support" your political point of view is a tactic I associate more with winger media. It is not appropriate for a respectable venue.
Support that graphic or take it down.
Someone went to the actual budget numbers and said look this percent came from here and this percent came from here. Then they made a pie chart showing how the percentages broke. Please someone tell me who did this. Me could have probably done this meself.
Me don't know who wrote this either the only question is does it make sense. How can we take me seriously when we don't know who me is?
The blue part are the taxes we didn't get. The red part is the war plus the tax cuts. See how easy it is. Of course the conservatives are blaming the entire deficit on Obama but anyone can clearly see his stimulus and other incentives etc. are a small part of this deficit. The deficit is just imaginary anyway, so not to worry. A bunch of numbers in a computer We have everything we need to make the world a success for everyone.
If we don't start educating people (instead of brain washing them) there is little hope our Representative form of government will survive which is the very thing the founders feared.
Wow, me. Took "me" aka Jacqrat all of 30 seconds to google and find this pie chart, made by matt yglesias, here:
http://bit.ly/4wyrt
which was based upon an article in the New York Times by David Leonhardt, here:
http://bit.ly/9b7OeV
Think Progress via New York Times are SOURCES for the pie chart. Now, go take a nap; "Me"thinks you need one.
eda: well said and at least me knows who said it.
I never said the graphic was wrong; I merely pointed out that it was unsupported, and that unsupported claims are a hallmark of the right (in their case, because there usually is no support).
Shame on people of all sides who uncritically accept everything they're told. They are the reason that demagogues succeed.
Thanks for providing the link, however ungraciously, that the author neglected.
mea culpa, me, perhaps it was I who needed a nap. I agree, we need to take the higher ground and be better than the right; who lie and lie and are never accountable.
I think I was triggered by your original post - it was accusatory in tone. My ire got the best of me, because know a little bit about having to research, handle phones, keep up on what is happening, and then grinding out 4+ posts a day, every day.
Next time, instead of pointing fingers, how about offering advice; or better yet, offering to help?
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