Le Freak, C’est Chic

[kpete]

Le Freak, C’est Chic

by John Cole

I know that I am contractually obligated as a blogger to immediately freak out about this:

OMG OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH! HE IS COMING FOR YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY! FOLLOW ME! FOLLOW ME TO FREEDOM!

I’m going outside now. I actually think I will wait until something happens before I join everyone else in the craziness.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/07/07/le-freak-cest-chic/

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from HUFFPO

The Obama administration is pushing back against a Wednesday night report that the president is prepared to offer cuts to Social Security as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling.

“The story overshoots the runway,” said a senior administration official. “The President said in the State of the Union that he wanted a bipartisan process to strengthen Social Security in a balanced way that preserves the promise of the program and doesn’t slash benefits.”

“While it is definitely not a driver of the deficit,” the official added, “it does need to be strengthened.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/07/social-security-cuts-debt_n_892070.html

[annabanana]

1. I'm with you. .(and the weather's fine). . . .n/t

[nc4bo]

2. Reckon it's a free country, he can do as he wishes. I'm not mad at him. nt

[SidDithers]

3. K&R for sensibility...

something in decidedly short supply around here this morning.

Sid

[closeupready]

4. Okay, good. 'Strengthened' means eliminating the cap and lowering the Retirement Age.

Good to know. :)

[onehandle]

5. Sorry, Mr. Cole. It's a million degrees outside.

Inside, it's the attack on Social Security. Outside it's the attack on the environment.

My money is on Social Security outliving the environment.

[hfojvt]

6. a disco reference - woo hoo!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqupk71a-O0

Once the water is over the damn, then it is too late to put the genie back in the bottle.

I gotta say that I don't like the way the White House pushed back on this. I don't want a bi-partisan process. I want somebody in the White House to fight for my partisan side and convince the public to push the other party in our direction. A bi-partisan process is likely to result in a pile of excrement, much like the bi-partisan tax proposal we got in late December of last year. It was bi-partisan because the supposed leader of the Democratic Party unconditionally surrendered to the other side and took a bunch of Senators with him.