Toon: Selling the Grand Bargain

[n2doc]

Nobody wants a piece of that action!

[99Forever]

1. Take note, Mr President. n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

2. I think he threw in the towel a couple of weeks ago

For now...

[99Forever]

3. More like years, if you ask me.

But that's just me.

[forestpath]

4. K&R

[alfredo]

5. I think he understands that if he offers it, the Republicans will reject it.

Remember, they have also rejected their own ideas when offered by Obama.

[Skittles]

8. WHY does he offer it?

it is DISGUSTING

[alfredo]

10. Repetition drives the message home.

[Dragonfli]

13. I guess he thinks scaring old people is a fun strategy

Also he would appear to think that conflating SS with a budget it is not a part of is a good way to teach that if you squint real hard and use Enron accounting, money owed to a trust fund is really money owed BY a trust fund? I think some here even believe that now due to all his "teaching" efforts.

[bvar22]

9. If he keeps pushing the Rent Money into the pot,

...sooner or later, it won't come back.
Even Booby Fischer lost at Chess occasionally,
and once our Social Security is GONE,
it is GONE forever.
There will be nothing left except the excuses.





You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.
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[alfredo]

11. There will be enough poison pills (revenue) to keep anything from getting done.

[bvar22]

12. Your faith is difficult to fathom...

...when set against the backdrop of the 30 year persistent, ongoing destruction of the American Working Class.

...but even you must admit that the once inviolate 3rd Rail (Touch It and You DIE) had been reduced to just another chip in the Big Game that WILL be pushed into the pot in every future Budget negotiation until....
And you're OK with that?


Remember the good old days, when even Conservative Republicans respected Social Security?

[alfredo]

14. SS legislation will not be proposed as a standalone, there will always be some revenue

included. That revenue is a deal breaker for the Republicans. The Senate budget is DOA in the house because it contains revenue and stimulus. The budget could include the total dismantling of SS, but as long as there is one cent of increased revenue, the Reps will vote against it.

Republicans fear a primary challenge, and the quickest way to get a challenger is to compromise on anything. Even McConnell is being pushed to the right because he accepted a compromise on fiscal cliff. There is talk of the Teabaggers challenging him in 2014.


As much as they bow before the mighty Saint Ronny, they ignore his more centrist stands. They worship the myth.

[WillyT]

6. K & R !!!

[zbdent]

7. Where are all the customers who were demanding such things?

You'd know them by their 'bagger bumper stickers ...