I want to extend my congratulations to Congresswoman-elect Kathy Hochul for her victory in New York’s 26th Congressional District,” the president said in a statement. “Kathy and I both believe that we need to create jobs, grow our economy, and reduce the deficit in order to outcompete other nations and win the future. Kathy has shown, through her victory and throughout her career, that she will fight for the families and businesses in western New York, and I look forward to working with her when she gets to Washington.So, what's here? We have:
- Cutting the deficit (shafting the poor and middle class)
- Outcompeting other nations (no support for labor or worker rights)
- Winning the future (Tripe so meaningless that Newt Gingrich came up with the term over a decade ago).
- Any meaningful mention of ordinary Americans.
- Any mention of the social safety net.
- Any mention of Medicare.
- Any mention of Medicare.
- Any mention of Medicare.
Note that while this is going on, Joe Biden, negotiating for the Democrats, has not taken Medicare off the table:
Vice President Joe Biden set a goal of at least $1 trillion in budget cuts from negotiations with congressional leaders on the federal debt as talks turned to Medicare, a contentious issue that risks replicating a partisan divide on Capitol Hill.(emphasis mine)
Democrats in the meeting yesterday ruled out concessions on Medicare without Republican agreement to raise tax revenue, a step the party’s leaders so far have rejected, according to someone familiar with the talks who spoke on condition of anonymity. Biden underscored the issue in remarks to reporters afterward.
So the deal is, so long as they can get some token tax increases from Republicans, probably directed at labor unions and single mothers, they can agree to cut Medicare.
This does not bode well for 2012.
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For the n-th time, Mr. Saroff: it is not cluelessness. The guy is not on your side - he is one of them.
ReplyDeleteDude, I've been saying this since late 2007.
ReplyDeleteI understand that he will not act in the best interest of most of us because he is completely captured by the elites.
What I find incomprehensible is that in this case, he is clearly acting against his own self interest, which is to get a 2nd term.
He has no self-interest that is independent of the interests of his team in the same way that a foot does not have interests that are independent of those of the organism.
ReplyDeleteI don't buy that he's some sort of Homo Gestaltus.
ReplyDeleteIn some way, either by temprament or intellect (my money is on the former, because his backbone is like overcooked spaghetti) he sees this as a "good" for him.