What Do Obama, the "Gang of Six" and Paul Ryan Have in Common?

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.truth-out.org/what-do-obama-gang-six-and-paul-ryan-have-common/1311350379

What do Obama, the "Gang of Six" and House radical Teapublican, Paul Ryan, all have in common? They've all proposed a $4 trillion deficit reduction package. Does anyone think that is pure coincidence?

Obama's tactical move today, July 19, along with the Senate Gang of Six, is to hitch his (and the Gang's) proposed $4 trillion proposed cuts to the current negotiations simultaneously going on between Reid and McConnell in the Senate to immediately cut spending by $1 trillion to $2 trillion in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.

Obama's move shows clearly he does not want to take on deficit cutting piecemeal. He wants to get it all over at once and behind him before campaigning for 2012 begins in earnest. And he's willing to offer big cuts in spending to get it done now, before the 2012 election cycle gets seriously underway after this summer.

The likely outcome of this "rush to get it done" will be that the immediate, short-term $1 trillion to $2 trillion in spending cuts being worked out by Reid-McConnell will still pass, while the longer term $4 trillion now resurrected "grand deal" by Obama-Gang of Six will quickly follow. It may even be appended to the short-term package.

More at the link --

[emulatorloo]

1. "Obama's tactical move today, July 19" Today is July 23. A lot of things have happened since then.

Do you have any newer articles?

The "deals" the author talks about are dead on arrival.

Apparently what is going on now is Boehner, McConnell, Reid, and Pelosi are trying to hammer out a new plan. Boehner whined that he wanted to work only with the political leadership, I think he is scared of Obama.


At any rate, Boehner said something about coming up with something tomorrow, before the markets in Japan opened.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. They are all carbon-based life forms.

Although I'm not 100% sure about Ryan.

[Chan790]

3. Paul Ryan is...

the offspring of Satan and Milton Friedman's zombie. Pretty sure that makes him a sulfur-based life-form.

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. They're all Republicans?

At this point I think DU's decided that all the Democratic senators, except for Bernie Sanders, who's not a Democrat, are actually Republican. And that Obama is actually a Republican. And we know that Paul Ryan is a Republican.

So, yeah, I'm good with my answer.

[sudopod]

5. Poop is carbon based. nt

[Chan790]

6. nuh-uh.

When I was in catechism, Br. Ignatio told me that poop was concentrated evil and that's why he never shat. (I wish this story were not true. That Jesuit brother either lied or had the dirtiest most-stuffy colon in history...and I'm wagering on the second. He was a mean bastard.)

[sudopod]

7. XD XD XD XD XD

I honestly lol'd. That's pretty messed up!