Even if we avoid default and the dollar rebounds- what of the value of the Democratic Party?

[Poll_Blind]

Heading into an election year, the Democratic President cuts a deal with the Repukes behind Congressional leadership's back to put Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid cuts/changes on the table.

Best-case scenario, we strike a deal with the Republicans and avoid default. Bolstered by a Euro on life support, the dollar rebounds and more sharply than expected. Is the value of the stock of the Democratic Party going to be better off or worse off now that the mask is off and all of America knows that one of the prime planks for protection, the "Big 3" of Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid are "on the table"?

On the senate floor today, I Republican was jeering the senator from Minnesota (I believe that's where they were from) about tossing Social Security to the wolves. Get used to that. Even if we avoid having to make those changes/cuts to the "Big 3"...somehow...even if we can avoid that, we've already tipped our hand, the President has already gone on TV and presented the unthinkable for a Democratic President in a matter-of-fact tone.

How's that investment going to be paying off?

And how about big-time, big-money Democratic Party donors like Soros? You think they like this shit any more than me, or my House Rep. (who signed a petition along with 69 other House Democrats, demanding the President keep his hands off the "Big 3") or my Senator (who just tweeted today about being stonewalled by the Obama DOJ on illegal domestic surveillance of US citizens using cell phones/GPS) do? Oh wait, the phone's ringing.

"Hello? Oh, you don't say. Oh!"

George Soros: Obama "Has Lost Control" Of America's Economic Agenda

PB

[dkf]

1. Well they are going to have to explain why this needs to be done.

Anyone who can read a chart will know something has to give.

[LonePirate]

2. The best thing for the Democratic Party would be for Obama to confess he is actually a Republican.

Then we could run a true Democrat that represents Democratic values. I have had it with our Capitulator in Chief.

[kath]

4. Yep - he should confess he's a Repub and give the LBJ speech -"I shall not seek, and I will not

accept..."
I've totally had it with him as well.

[Poll_Blind]

7. 2012 election season is going to be weirder than a Dutch nightmare.

PB

[Autumn]

3. If that's how it plays out, then I would think that

we lost our asses on that investment.

[Poll_Blind]

6. I'm worried we already did! To see that puke on the Senate floor already...

..hanging the millstone of not protecting Social Security around the neck of one of ours was a bad scene. The guy, high forehead, curly blonde/brown hair was speechless for a sec until he gathered his wits enough to fall back on the administration-provided bromide of "strengthening" Social Security. It was a fucked thing to see.

PB

[Tatiana]

8. In the House as well. It sickened me to see Drier and other House Republicans screaming that

Democrats were the ones whose bill cut $500 billion dollars from Medicare.

I can just see the ads now. And Van Hollen nor any of the other Dems had any viable response to that assertion other than (as you pointed out) the administration's talking point of "strengthening" Medicare.

It's like the trojan horse. They've sabotaged us from within.

I'm literally sick to my stomach over what the Democratic Party has become. We've literally walked away from our core values espoused by FDR, JFK, LBJ and others.

We've literally dismantled hallmarks of those administrations... the New Deal and the space program are just a few examples.

[Poll_Blind]

9. 2012 is going to be a year filled with pictures of Repukes holding hands with old people.

They're already out of the gates on this one...

:puke:

PB

[mzmolly]

5. It's what we make it. Stronger or weaker? You

decide.

[Safetykitten]

10. Ok...stay with me...A giant asteroid is heading towards earth. Democrats promise

to get very tough with it. We can say the republicans are sending a guide ray to help it.

Other than that I got nothing.

[McCamy Taylor]

11. He lost me at "The Tea Parties are decent and hard working." Did he miss when they mocked

people in wheelchairs during the health care debates? Did he miss the racist posters? In my part of the world, "decent" folks aren't spiteful or mean like that. Soros must be hanging around a bad crowd.

[xchrom]

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