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Who's advising Obama regarding Social security? (Original Post) Unknown Beatle Apr 2013 OP
BINGO. Rex Apr 2013 #1
He's serious. Very serious about making needed compromises w/sociopaths. Mika Apr 2013 #3
And they don't even have to do anything! Rex Apr 2013 #7
Whoever they are, they're getting paid too much. neverforget Apr 2013 #2
He shouldn't even need advisers on SS. What is his problem?...n/t monmouth3 Apr 2013 #4
I blame Michelle. She needs to slap some sense into him. Downwinder Apr 2013 #5
this is the line pushed almost nonstop by the mainstream media pundits Douglas Carpenter Apr 2013 #6
This is part of the Third Way/ Democrats for the Leisure Class wishlist... tokenlib Apr 2013 #8
nt reteachinwi Apr 2013 #9
Dr Strangelove? nt Xipe Totec Apr 2013 #10
Whoever they are, they are telling him what he wants to hear. forestpath Apr 2013 #11
Eddie Munster Blue Owl Apr 2013 #12
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
7. And they don't even have to do anything!
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 07:11 PM
Apr 2013

Just sit there and tell him NO, until they get exactly what they want AND a pony! And you can always tell, because they name call The Left as The Left hammers them with facts that they cannot ignore. So they just come up with stupid shit like 'emoprogs' or call us 'retards'. It is the only way they can ignore us and be childish at the same time.

Nothing better than getting beat up by the people you put into office. Especially when THEY look like a bunch of idiots to the majority. So much fun...

Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)
6. this is the line pushed almost nonstop by the mainstream media pundits
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 07:11 PM
Apr 2013

It is almost the consensus of the mainstream media elites that the problem is that the far right want to cut everything and the far left who oppose "entitlement reform" don't want to reduce benefits at all. Practically all of mainstream media pundits are saying it. Just a couple weeks back I saw David Brooks and former New Deal Democrat Mark Shields both joining together in agreement in arguing that the Democrats have to stop listening to their far left base who don't want to accept "entitlement reform" just as Republicans have to stop listening to he far right who want to privatized Social Security. This is the "liberal media" consensus - that "modest" reductions in Social Security and Medicare benefits are the moderate alternative between two extremes.

tokenlib

(4,186 posts)
8. This is part of the Third Way/ Democrats for the Leisure Class wishlist...
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 07:11 PM
Apr 2013

...with the skids greased by Pete Peterson and others.

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