Barack Obama is gutting the core principles of the Democratic party --

[defendandprotect]

Barack Obama is gutting the core principles of the Democratic party

The president's attacks on America's social safety net are destroying the soul of the Democratic party's platform

EXCERPTS ONLY --

This week, even as GOP leaders offered schemes to raise the debt ceiling with no cuts, the White House expressed support for the Senate's so-called "gang of six" plan that includes substantial cuts in those programmes.

Therein lies one of the most enduring attributes of Obama's legacy: in many crucial areas, he has done more to subvert and weaken the left's political agenda than a GOP president could have dreamed of achieving. So potent, so overarching, are tribal loyalties in American politics that partisans will support, or at least tolerate, any and all policies their party's leader endorses – even if those policies are ones they long claimed to loathe.

This dynamic has repeatedly emerged in numerous contexts. Obama has continued Bush/Cheney terrorism policies – once viciously denounced by Democrats – of indefinite detention, renditions, secret prisons by proxy, and sweeping secrecy doctrines.

And now he is devoting all of his presidential power to cutting the entitlement programmes that have been the defining hallmark of the Democratic party since Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. The silence from progressive partisans is defeaning – and depressing, though sadly predictable.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jul/21/barack-obama-social-security-cuts



Obama seems to be begging the GOP for the opportunity to destroy Social Security

and Medicare --

[Renew Deal]

1. Dems have the majority in the Senate. Let them vote against it.

[jtown1123]

25. It will be very hard for them to defy the President & take responsibility for a default

he painted his own party into a corner.

[vi5]

2. Boy it's a good thing I saved that crow from a week or so back....

Man, remember when Obama had totally pwnd the GOP and how McConnell had caved and all of us who doubted him were suckers who needed to eat a big heaping portion of crow for being wrong?

Yeah, I wasn't very hungry then and I figured I'd save my crow for later.

I wonder if all those classy types on these here pages who were yammering on about the crow that all the Obama haters/doubters needed to eat will be out of the woodwork over the next couple of weeks.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. People posted pictures of dead crows on plates

and not one of them has the integrity to admit their utter and total vapidity and the snark they wallow in. Not one of them.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. I remember that

It looks like Obama's grand hyper-dimensional chess move turned out to be a dud.

[sharp_stick]

12. Perhaps everyone should wait

to serve the crow until a bill is actually produced?

If I had a dime for every prediction I see on DU that turned out to be dud followed by silence I wouldn't have to worry about SS.

[dbonds]

14. If you wait till it is done then it is too late.

The only time to effect any change by raising holy hell is during the process. The choices left afterward are even more dramatic.

[defendandprotect]

21. It's already more than three years too late -- !!! CHECKMATE!!

We've been captured -- !!

[dbonds]

29. Yeah. But it is either raise hell or leave the US...

And I can't afford the latter at the moment.

[defendandprotect]

34. I understdand ... but don't think it would matter if you could ....

they're taking everyone down together --

this looks like part II of WWII/fascism -- but this time they're taking us

all down together --

no one left standing to save anyone else -- !!

[_ed_]

24. That's what people like you said about Healthcare Reform

And we got a big shit sandwich.

[dbonds]

13. Same ones now telling you this is a good deal.

[defendandprotect]

16. Actually, they know it's long been over, but they will keep trying ... !!!

[leftstreet]

3. Clinton finished gutting the impoverished class, Obama's gutting the middle class

Reagan was the last Republican who could get away with any of this

strange times

[defendandprotect]

17. Our government was bought out decades ago... it has been dismantled over that time ...

but people were too busy to believe those who were trying to warn them!!

Reagan didn't just appear -- it took the assassination of JFK which also took

our people's government to get to that point -- !!

[Lorien]

30. Very true. nt

[ProSense]

5. Here

my response to Greenwald.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. More blue links that link to other blue links which link to even more blue links

*sigh*

[sharp_stick]

9. Links tough or something? n/t

[Cali_Democrat]

11. No

It's just repetitive.

I see the same shit posted again and again and again.

[Autumn]

15. If you use ignore, DU becomes a very pleasant place

I finally have a person on it and it's nice.

[defendandprotect]

18. Try "Ignore" --

[Lorien]

31. Heheh, it looks like yesterday's version of the entity known as

"Prosense" got a pink slip; back to it's scheduled blue linkies programming!

[_ed_]

26. I hope you're well-paid to spread this constant propaganda

.

[sharp_stick]

8. Please quote the bill Obama signed

gutting SS and Medicare?

[defendandprotect]

19. I suppose you'll also be waiting for the last glacier to fall ... ?

Takes total denial of Obama's record to still be trying to alibi for him --

And if Obama is the candidate in 2012, he may have 4 more years to continue

to try to destroy SS and Medicare -- !!


Yippee!!!



It's over --


:nuke:

[_ed_]

27. So we should wait unitl after it's all over to comment?

What is your point? He's been signaling things for weeks? Should we just go on vacation and see what results?

[Lorien]

32. You've forgotten the public option and Bush tax cut talks so soon?

Those who don't learn from history...

[damntexdem]

10. But will they?

So, do I just not vote for Obama; or do I kiss the entire Party goodbye? Time will tell.

[defendandprotect]

20. Whatever you do, stay connected with liberals -- it's a huge voting bloc ....

and we should act and move together --

lots of discussion needed on what to do -- !!!

Is there anything left of the Dem Party after 20 years of Koch Bros DLC

having infiltrated it -- ???

[Why Syzygy]

22. Your thread

is doing much better than the one I posted in GDP. No takers over there.

[Me.]

23. God...What A Damning Article

And sadly true

[blindpig]

28. I think that an incorrect assumption.

Sadly, the New Deal is not a core issue for the Democratic Party, it was an expedient for saving Capitalism. With the decline of unionism(entirely engineered) and the fall of the Soviet Union it is seemingly no longer required by our rulers and thus that anomaly is being retired. This is naught but a return to business as usual.

[glinda]

33. I suggest the progressives take him golfing.

[in_cog_ni_to]

35. Holy Crap! Did you read THIS:

<snip>
But in 2009, clear signs emerged that President Obama was eager to achieve what his right-predecessor could not: cut social security. Before he was even inaugurated, Obama echoed the right's manipulative rhetorical tactic: that (along with Medicare) the programme was in crisis and producing "red ink as far as the eye can see." President-elect Obama thus vowed that these crown jewels of his party since the New Deal would be, as Politico reported, a "central part" of his efforts to reduce the deficit.

The next month, his top economic adviser, the Wall Street-friendly Larry Summers, also vowed specific benefit cuts to Time magazine. He then stacked his "deficit commission" with long-time advocates of social security cuts.<snip>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jul/21/barack-obama-social-security-cuts