WH Reporter: "DC is a big bag of suck that couldn't solve a rubik's cube if it were all one color"

[kpete]

Today's intrepid White House pool reporter, The Hill's Sam Youngman, on the state of the negotiations: "DC is a big bag of suck that couldn't solve a rubik's cube if it were all one color."

http://www.businessinsider.com/live-coverage-the-debt-ceiling-negotiations-2011-7#pm87

[babylonsister]

1. LOL! Yep, I'm coming to that conclusion myself. nt

[UrbScotty]

2. Obama is a voice of reason in a city of insanity.

I don't know how he does it.

[EFerrari]

14. Not in this last debacle he isn't

Cutting the best delivery system of health care we have and Social Security which has nothing to do with the deficit is not sanity.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

21. Harry Reid's WH-endorsed plan does not have any entitlement cuts.

[EFerrari]

24. But, his office was honest enough not to deny cuts

to discretionary spending (hello, Pell grants) that aren't itemized yet.

[Bodhi BloodWave]

22. i have not seen a single report where Obama or the WH has stated that they would

reduce the BENEFITS of the programs, only thing i've read about the benefits is that they are to be safeguarded and strengthened.

I have heard him comment about needing to eliminate waste and reducing costs tho.

So tell me this, what is insane about wanting to maintain or strengthen the benefits of a program while reducing the waste and cost of it?

[truedelphi]

23. What waste and what cost of what program?

MediCare was the most efficient program that has been run in this nation.

It has been managed for many decades for less than a five percent management charge.

Yes, there are fraudsters and there are hucksters. As with all programs. (Funny how we start harping about MediCare fraud, but not about the Seventy Billion dollars unaccounted for over in our War on Afghanistan. And some people fear much of this money has ended up in the hands of those we are purportedly fighting there!)

Some people here on DU are applauding the fact that according to Obama, MediCare cuts will occur in terms of payments to doctors, and not price increases to seniors. But as someone who spent most o f the nineties out there helping seniors - doctors doing gerontology were already abandoning their practices back then, due to the fact that they were being under paid.

As for Social Security, it is its own Fund. It has nothing to do with the Federal budget. Although pundits like Bill Maher and Blue Dog Dems are so excited about their neat little pie chart analyses of how MediCare and Social Security are a
whopping one third of the budget. But that is hog wash. Social Security is its own fund, it has a two point something TRILLION dollar surplus and it is doing just fine.

Now we need to keep Washington DC Power Players for getting their cling-y hands all over it!

[EFerrari]

25. If you've read any of the reporting over the last two weeks

you know that chained CPi for SS and means testing Medicare have indeed been discussed. Yes, that is insane.

[anamandujano]

18. Surely you jest.

On critical issues he is on board with the Pukes who are totally demented on a good day.

His positions are well documented. Can't 'splain it away.

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[WillyT]

3. Pretty Much...

:rofl:

:evilgrin:

:kick:

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Making it about "DC" on general is the next GOP play

This is all about the GOP. It invented this stupid crisis, and now through its intransigence will push it toward fruition. In order to absolve itself of blame, it is spreading the tendrils out to make this all about the "dysfunction of government." It's not about the dysfunction of government in general. It is about GOP dysfunction.

I would hope that your usual and predictable attacks on the Administration don't blind you to that basic fact.

[WCGreen]

11. Exactly!

[EFerrari]

15. Nope. Both sides have been equally dysfunctional

because instead of calling them out on their bullshit, the Democrats have proceeded as if it is real. At that point, they earn equity in the whole stupid mess.

[roguevalley]

5. I think I have a new hero. :-D

[pecwae]

12. As do I!

[chill_wind]

6. Colorfully put. And hard to disagree, n/t

[neverforget]

7. They just figured that out?

[handmade34]

8. and people know it...

still following twitter..

The New Deal...Republicans Have Controlled the House for 200 Days. They Have Created 0 Jobs and Proposed 0 Job Creation Bills.#FuckYouWashington

RippedlikejesusCrybabyspiderman#Fuckyouwashington and beware, there is a revolution afoot this country! Good hard working people are are fed the fuck up. And it's hot out.

inflectorCurtis Faith#FuckYouWashington for hiking college tuition 3 times faster than incomes while making sure college loans can't be discharged in bankruptcy.

1whoknuYou know who#fuckyouWashington for ignoring the People's budget - eliminates deficit, and creates $31 BL surplus in 10 yrs w/o cutting social programs

thegoodhumanDavidQIf you aren't following this hashtag #FuckYouWashington you are missing out. Yes it's symbolic- but it's nice to finally see outrage.

[midnight]

9. The rich want more cuts, and could care less about the deficit...

def·i·cit   
Show IPA
–noun
1.
the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.
2.
the amount by which expenditures or liabilities exceed income or assets.
3.
a lack or shortage; deficiency.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/deficit

[madrchsod]

10. i think he meant "big bag of shit" but that would`t make it to print

[starroute]

17. No, he meant suck -- see the Urban Dictionary

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=a%20big%20bag%20of%20suck

a big bag of suck

a phrase to express how much someone sucked at what they just attempted

Dude, you didnt even clear that gap, you ate shit! That was a big bag of suck!

[madrchsod]

26. thanks....

[rucky]

13. Mixed metaphor, but both seem to work. n/t

[FogerRox]

16. KnR, Smiling and laffin