3rdnlng Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 "Make sure reality matches our message." That's real leadership, right there. They're men of their word. Just doing what they said they would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nanker Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 The floggings will continue until morale improves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 From Bill Keller at the New York Times ........................Hmmmmm. Obama’s Fault By Bill keller Our feckless leaders may be incapable of passing a budget, but, boy, can they pass the buck. The White House spent last week in full campaign hysteria, blitzing online followers with the message that heartless Republicans are prepared to transform America into “Les Misérables” in order to protect “millionaires and billionaires, oil companies, vacation homes, and private jet owners.” Republicans retort that the budget-cutting Doomsday device called sequester was actually invented by the White House. In fact, the conceptual paternity of sequester was bipartisan. Both sides agreed that Congress should set in motion an automatic deficit-cutting scheme so draconian that it would force a divided Washington to come together around some sane compromise. The scandal is that Washington is so incapable of adult behavior that it can do the right thing only if it is staring down the barrel of a shotgun — and, it turns out, not even then. {snip} His next act was to launch a bipartisan commission to grapple with those “unpleasant decisions” promised on Inauguration Day. In December 2010 the commission, led by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, delivered its list of spending cuts and revenue increases, plus the entitlement reforms necessary to fortify Medicare and Social Security for the surge of baby-boom retirees. The Simpson-Bowles agenda was imperfect, and had plenty to offend ideologues of the left and right, which meant that it was the very manifestation of what Obama likes to call “a balanced approach.” So did he seize it as an opportunity for serious debate about our fiscal mess? No, he abandoned it. Instead, he built a re-election campaign that was long on making the wealthiest pay more in taxes, short on spending discipline, and firmly hands-off on the problem of entitlements. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/opinion/keller-obamas-fault.html?hp&_r=1& . How did that get published in the DNC Times? Is Karl Rove holding editors at gunpoint? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 How did that get published in the DNC Times? Is Karl Rove holding editors at gunpoint? Keller's a pretty straight shooter. And this must be the monthly "See, we're unbiased! Really!" op-ed that the NYT executives approve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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