So, we have met the Rockefeller Republicans and they are us.

[Safetykitten]

So pretending that Obama will not cut programs like SS and Medicare may help you sleep at night, but I for one am not believing it. It will happen. As sure as the sun rises.

When he does, he will be the leader of the New Rockefeller Democratic Party.

[leftstreet]

1. GOP could have a bazillion year majority if they campaigned against this

But they won't.

Both parties want these cuts

[Safetykitten]

2. Seriously, if the republicans said tomorrow that they will cut EVERYTHING except SS and Medicare...

that not one penny will be cut, we would have republican rule till the end of time.

[leftstreet]

3. Yep

Very bizarre

[Safetykitten]

4. Odd is it not? Just that promise would keep us in power for years. So simple, so right to do...

yet beyond our grasp.

[ingac70]

7. The thing is, Repukes have already said they want to cut those things.

And it has never been a secret they wanted to do away with them entirely.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. Actually, the "Rockefeller Republicans" weren't too bad

For example, it could be said that Winthrop Rockefeller, the first Republican governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction (1967-71), was an improvement over his predecessor, Orville "Little Rock Central High Crisis" Faubus.

Nelson Rockefeller was a relatively progressive governor of New York and supported much of the New Deal.

Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois was instrumental in getting Republican votes to support the Civil Rights Act.

[pnwmom]

6. Rockefeller was considered a liberal Republican, in the days

when there were liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats (also called Dixiecrats).

So that's not the slur you think it is.

[WinkyDink]

8. Rockefeller would never have stooped to this cruelty.