$16 TRILLION to banksters - Bush's Tax Cuts extended - NOW we must CUT Medicaid/Medicare/SS

[nashville_brook]

...because why? it's all a phony crisis and this bogus deal Obama is pushing down our throats is going to put us into a generations-long Depression. Are we unable to see the DIRECT relation of these events? Our elected representatives are helping the banks fleece us clean.

This is OBAMA'S deal. This is HIS plan. Maybe sorta kinda someone might suggest revenue increases down the road...and he's calling a WIN, as if he got he what he wanted. Holy shite.


http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/obama-press-skeptical-house-senate-dem-leadership-on-big-deal-with-boehner.php

Obama Presses Dem Leaders to Accept Boehner's Big Deal With NO REVENUE INCREASES

A Congressional aide briefed on ongoing negotiations between House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama says the two principals may be nearing a "grand bargain" on to raise the debt limit which would contain large, set-in-stone spending cuts but only the possibility of future revenue increases.

"All cuts," the aide said. "Maybe revenues some time in the future."

The status of negotiations has Democratic aides on both sides of the Capitol nervous and unhappy. And the notion that the impasse over the debt limit may be nearing an end is sparking denials from both the White House and Boehner's office -- in part, perhaps, because neither side has buy-in from their parties on a consensus plan.

(SNIP)

However two aides and a third source, close to the principals confirmed that Obama has been emphatic with Democratic negotiators that his preference is to negotiate a big deal with Boehner and squeeze it through Congress.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/21/mcconnell-reid-debt-plan_n_905699.html?1311266740

http://www.americablog.com/2011/07/nyt-obama-and-boehner-starting-to-close.html

http://www.americablog.com/2011/07/tpm-obama-looking-at-deal-thats-all.html

[Octafish]

1. Kicked and Recced and Bookmarked!

Thank you, Nashville Brooke! The banksters may think they own the system, but they don't own the People. And they certainly don't own the Truth.

[girl gone mad]

2. k & r

[DirkGently]

3. All cuts," the aide said. "Maybe revenues some time in the future." Unforgiveable if "aide" is right

[nashville_brook]

8. i wonder how many Dems will mention Obama by name when they run against SS cuts in 2012

[nashville_brook]

10. looks like the WH is claiming this is "balanced" b/c sometime in the future there might be revenues

holy fucking shit.

[DirkGently]

11. Wow. Hope that's not the intent. Because no one would buy such bullshit. Or would they?

[bullwinkle428]

12. "Maybe sometime in the future" - kind of like the public option.

:mad: :mad:

[nashville_brook]

14. exactamundo. this is basically demanding that we go into Depression b4 getting revenues

[Dr Fate]

4. The Koch Brothers use the tax cut extensions Obama & DEMS awarded them to fund the Tea Party.

A perfect example of the brilliant "strategy" employed by our clear-eyed, adult centrists.

I expect more of it, not less.

[nashville_brook]

15. precisely...on both.

[truedelphi]

31. Sad but true.

And yet the DLC is funded by them too.

All reflects quite well on accuracy of the Harry F Sinclair/Dorothy Thompson conversation I have recorded in my journal, item number 2. (Sinclair is in some history books for his part in the Teapot Dome Scandal.

"The more things change, the more they remain the same."

[aquart]

5. No. They want us to pay for it all.

No deal. Default under a Dem president. A nightmare. But it will definitely be a SHARED sacrifice.

[nashville_brook]

22. you go after one measly dollar from a robber baron and they're at DEFCON 1

but define "shared sacrifice" as between you and your grandparents and your children, and somehow that's a-okay. it doesn't matter how loud we scream -- there's no one out there in DC to hear us.

[Lifelong Protester]

28. Yes, yes, and yes. I can't agree with you more.

I write, I call, and no one replies. NO ONE.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. If true, remember this in 2012. Sanders looks increasingly good

as a write-in.

[nashville_brook]

20. GOTV is going to be an uphill battle either way

[ProfessionalLeftist]

21. I am not lifting a finger for Obama's a$$

But I will support an actual Democrat/Progressive - GOTV efforts, etc.

[woo me with science]

7. K&R & bookmarked.

We are being assaulted in broad daylight by our Congress and our President and Wall Street.

[NCarolinawoman]

9. Obama continues to lead the Democratic Party over a cliff.

He's become an embarrassment.

:mad:

[nashville_brook]

13. not just humiliating -- devastating.

[davekriss]

16. Class theft, pure and simple (nt)

[nashville_brook]

18. it's a giant heist from the people who can least afford it.

fuck!

[jimmyflint]

17. I would like to say I'm surprised, sadly I'm not.

It seems at evey turn there is a bailout for the rich. Always an excuse to give more money to the rich, always an excuse not to give money to the poor. Fuck'em, fuck'em all.

[nashville_brook]

19. they're attacking us and our families, dollar by dollar - this is war

[Lorien]

23. K & R nt

[Stinky The Clown]

24. Maddening, innit?

[nashville_brook]

30. so much so, that i'm having trouble forming coherent sentences.

"Anger lock." I'll be getting over it with the right combination of caffeine and Bing energy drinks.

:evilgrin:

[slay]

25. K&R

it's just sickening - and sickening that Obama has allowed most of this to happen not just unchallenged, but as an active part of it!

[inna]

26. k&r; critically important post/message

[truedelphi]

27. Thank you for the OP.

k & R.

I'd say I am shocked, but I have ceased being amazed or shocked by the man.

[nashville_brook]

29. we're at a crisis point right now -- look for a Friday news dump

they'll be floating something for the Sunday talk shows today.

[grahamhgreen]

32. Kick

[young_at_heart]

33. Bush did this to our country---It was BUSH

Remember, everything was stable until he came along. He will go down in history as the least fiscally responsible president ever!

[truedelphi]

34. uh, the thing is, Obama was supposed to be the remedy to the actions of Bush.

But he has not been the remedy at all. He has been the Corporate Darling of all the following:

1) The Bankers and the Biggest Financial Players, for whom he allowed the Paulson/Bernanke/Geithner trillions in giveaways to go about unmentioned. And what you don't acknowledge, apparently you don't remedy.

When he starts mentioning the above mis-management of our Federal Reserve and our Treasury, then he can start scoring points about being a remedy.

2) He is clearly also the Darling of the MIC. His appointments of Gates, who is a shill for armament's budgets trillions of dollars above what our nation can afford - why did Obama make that appointment? Same with Hillary Clinton.

3) His alliance with Monsanto, through appointments of Mike Taylor and Valsick. The future famines of the American people are at hand. Fusarium-contaminated GM wheat, GM rice and GM corn- all of it altered through Monsanto's patented technology assure us that the fungal and mold contamination will go unabated into the future. It is already said that it is nigh impossible to obtain any organic rice or corn., And wheat is probably in the same situation. (Unless you grow your own.)

Of course, Michelle will easily be able to afford to feed the family amaranth and millet. but most of us can't afford amaranth any more. ($ 8 a pound.)

4) His alliance with Big Pharma and Big Insurers rather than with American people, as far as the Health Care "Reform" efforts.