Ed Rendell: Obama cutting Social Security would be like Lincoln freeing the slaves

[Report1212]

This is beyond horrible.

RENDELL: Give the President credit, he said he would consider chained CPI, he said back in 2011 that he would raise the Medicare age, with carveouts. [...] Those are things he’s going to have to deliver. [...] He has to lead. And boy I’d love the whole Congress, this new Congress and the President, they should all go see a screening of Lincoln together, because Abraham Lincoln led on the 13th amendment when everybody on both sides told him he was crazy.

Read more, watch it: http://boldprogressives.org/ed-rendell-obama-should-cut-social-security-benefits-to-be-like-lincoln-freeing-the-slaves/

[Skidmore]

1. Ed Rendell is a corporate shill.

He works for a group of corporate heads in "Fix the Debt." I loathe that he is a go to for commentary from the left on MSNBC.

[Report1212]

3. I wonder if they give him any money.

I don't think they disclose that.

[Mojorabbit]

19. I cannot believe he made that statement.

What a sad day.

[raouldukelives]

24. Yep. Well paid and supported by every Wall St investor. nt

[peacebird]

2. Nope. Remove the cap on social security taxes and allow everyone to buy into medicare coverage

Healthy younger folks would help medicares bottom line and paying on all money earned, not just the first 108k would help Social Security.

[putitinD]

9. Exactly

[atreides1]

4. Rendell is out of his ever loving mind...

...cutting social security benefits is like freeing the slaves?

WTF is he talking about...freeing the slaves was a good thing, cutting people's social security could lead to people dying from lack of food, shelter, and health care...but to Rendell this is a good thing!!!!

I've never seen anyone in more need of a baseball bat to the head then Rendell...but I'm sure the candidate list will grow over the next few months!

[bluethruandthru]

5. Horrible analogy!

A much better analogy would have been "Obama initiating universal, single payer healthcare would be like Lincoln freeing the slaves".

[Scuba]

39. +1,000

[butterfly77]

6. He is the first one they are sending out...

to run the republicons' talking points "WE GOT TO CUT THE SPENDING!"WE GOT TO CUT THE SPENDING!

Another one is "THE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO LEAD!or WE NEED LEADERSHIP! More to come who's next?

[Skittles]

13. yup - there's a reason it was put on the table

get ready for the onslaught - they're gonna make up that revenue somehow

[Report1212]

14. Him and Villaraigosa

The Vichy Democrats?

[RainDog]

7. Logic fail

Social security keeps the elderly from abject poverty...like slavery.

Cutting social security would be like Obama instituting Jim Crow laws for the elderly.

[bullwinkle428]

8. Fuck Ed Rendell and the DINOsaur he rode in on.

[ProSense]

10. Ed Rendell is a tool n/t

[JoePhilly]

11. Ed's getting paid.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. Why doesn't this piece of shit request cuts on his bloated pension first? nt

[SunSeeker]

15. I did see Lincoln. And not "everybody on both sides told him he was crazy."

Just the conservatives and racists told him he was crazy. The progressives (for example, Thaddeus Stevens, brilliantly played by Tommy Lee Jones) urged him to push for the 13th Amendment. The progressives were right then, and they are right now. Cutting Medicare benefits is dead wrong on so many levels. Fuck you, Ed Rendell.

[Report1212]

18. Image of Lincoln as compromiser is overplayed

In reality he took some radical steps he was bitterly criticized for on behalf of progress

[Zen Democrat]

16. Can't Stand Rendell. Obama needs to increase the SS wage limit to $150,000, minimum.

[TheKentuckian]

17. Rendell is an old box of putrid turds

[CreekDog]

20. I always thought I'd oppose having anything get named in Ed Rendell's honor

but I could make an exception for the cat food aisle at the grocery store.

[W_HAMILTON]

21. Nice to see the elimination of the payroll tax holiday end talks of cutting Social Security.

[Blue_In_AK]

22. Ed Rendell reminds me of a mobster. n/t

[UnrepentantLiberal]

23. Ed Rendell has always been a blue dog asshole.

[diane in sf]

25. Rendell, what an *sshole.

[still_one]

26. The Democrats today would not pass social security or Medicare

As it stands

[RBInMaine]

27. OK, enough of the purist bullshit.

[still_one]

36. It isn't purist bullshit. Except for a few Democrats, and some like Bernie Sanders, they would be

privatizing it all.

The FDRs and LBJs are far and few between

[leftstreet]

33. +1 They'd mandate Medicare from private insurers

[still_one]

35. That is exactly what I am saying. This isn't a "purest" of anything I am saying, this is what most

of the Democratic party have evolved into

It is all corporate lobbyists

[JEB]

28. Rendell doing his best

Lieberman impression. Sold out so long ago he's rancid. Probably not safe to even have such putrid rot in the fridge.

[Freddie]

29. Too many cheesesteaks, Ed

I liked him as PA Governor. God knows what's happened to him since.

[Oilwellian]

30. And so it begins...again

Get ready to bend over, America. Grand Bargain III (third time's the charm?) is gearing up!

[bvar22]

31. Ed Rendell.... the perfect spokesman for the "Centrist" Wing of the "New Democrat" Party

"The DLC New Dem of The Week"
http://www.dlc.org/ndol_cif67c.html?contentid=254200&subid=116&kaid=104


He was but ONE of the traitorous conservatives masquerading as Democrats that Paul Wellstone was talking about in the following quote:

[font color=firebrick]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center]
[center][/font]
[font size=1]photo by bvar22
Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.
[font size=5 color=green]Solidarity99![/font][font size=2 color=green]

[senseandsensibility]

32. So no one on MSNBC is going to call him out?

Everyone on The Cycle just sat there in silence today when he gave his spell.

[Report1212]

38. I heard Kornacki pushed back nt

[Faryn Balyncd]

34. Ed Rendell should become a Republican.

[kentuck]

37. If we had some ham, we'd have some ham and eggs...

..if we had some eggs.

[butterfly77]

40. K&R..

[jsr]

41. Typical asshole

[SammyWinstonJack]

42. Un freakin' real!

[SoCalDem]

43. I am sick-to-death of seeing 6 & 7 figure income pundits

gloriously extolling the virtues of cutting/tweaking/fixing/extending Social Security/Medicare.

NONE of these people will EVER truly need either of those entitlements.

I call them entitlements because they ARE entitlements..not a "charitable gesture" or a Federal bon mot to lazy folks".

They are an entitlement we earned by a lifetime of labor (mostly underpaid & overworked), and are but two of the ever-dwindling perks of being a citizen of this nation.