Tommy Thompson: “Who better than me… to do away with Medicaid and Medicare?”
Unlike the James E. O’Keefe edited videos, that distorted the truth, Republicans like Tommy Thompson are getting caught with their own words, unedited. They’re afraid of speaking like this in public...
View ArticleThese Democratic senators won’t say No to Social Security cuts
Let’s start simple. I have two modest goals for the Grand Bargain Lame Duck dogfight: No benefits cuts to the safety net — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. No extension of the Bush–Obama Tax Cuts,...
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Feingold: “Sneak attack coming” on Medicare, Social Security
Strategizing around the lame duck trainwreck just got more interesting. As you know, there’s an effort among progressives and Senator Sanders to organize Democrats in the Senate to oppose any safety...
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Which members of Congress oppose cuts to Social Security, Medicare
This is an update to our previous post about the Grand Bargain and how to stop it. A couple of items: 1. The “whip count” page — the page that shows which senators and House members support No Cuts —...
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Leaked deal memo for last year’s Grand Bargain: “Obama willing to go quite far”
Is it too early to bitch about the Grand Bargain Trainwreck Obama has planned for us? Hope not. Here’s the ultimate Beltway insider, Bob Woodward, on Meet The Press with David Gregory. It seems that...
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(Updated) Blue Dog–ish Steny Hoyer (#2 Dem in House) wants benefit cuts. What...
Update 1: Technically, Hoyer’s not a Blue Dog, he just acts like one, so I fixed some text to reflect this. Update 2: Here it is, the petition to push hard on Hoyer. Click to make the call, via PCCC...
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Obama offers Chained CPI (plus master list of “benefit cuts”)
UPDATE: And Obama has offered up Chained CPI — cuts to Social Security benefits — to Boehner, according to a number of news sources. Here’s the Washington Post: President Barack Obama has agreed to...
View ArticleHow Obama used Biden to undercut Reid on fiscal cliff deal (plus a framing...
There’s an important piece of original research by Noam Scheiber, who has been doing excellent work on this subject. According to Scheiber, because Obama turned to Biden to close out his deal with...
View ArticleThe Democratic turncoats behind the “Fix the Debt” attack on Medicare &...
Most left-side commenters paint “Fix the Debt” — the well-funded campaign to scare Americans into believing the debt is not only going to destroy us all, but that massive cuts to Medicare, Social...
View Article127 corporations that want to “Fix the Debt” by gutting your retirement
The CEOs of the following corporations don’t think they have enough money — perhaps because they don’t have it all. So they got together a little group called “Fix the Debt” to cobble up some more. The...
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ACTION ALERT: Which Democrats to call to head off a bad sequester deal
UPDATES: I’m now told that Gloria Negrete McLeod (CA-35), a non-CPC member and a freshman House member, has not signed the Grayson-Takano letter after all. All information about signers to that letter...
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Republicans won’t take Obama’s “yes” for an answer on sequester
They’re at it again. No matter what President Obama offers in the sequester negotiations, the Republicans won’t take “yes” for an answer. And that’s excellent news for us. To recap: We’re now in the...
View ArticleAlan Grayson: Social Security cuts will prompt civil disobedience
I don’t think the Bigs (and the congressional faces who do their bidding) understand the amount of rejection in the country for benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Benefit cuts to...
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How Obama’s budget threatens Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid
In the wake of the news that, this coming Wednesday, a Democratic president will make the rollback of social insurance a key aspect of his budget policy, I feel a reminder is in order. The headline...
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Bill introduced to begin rollback of high Medicare drug prices
Just a short news item, since I just saw this (and in fact, it just occurred). Henry Waxman and Jay Rockefeller have introduced companion bills in the House and Senate that begin the process of rolling...
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Keith Ellison: “I don’t care what party you’re in. I’m in the Social Security...
Is Dem resistance to Neoliberal Leadership spreading in Congress? Here’s Keith Ellison and Elizabeth Warren on Social Security benefit cuts. Listen; it sure sounds like it. On May 8 the House...
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Obama loses key support for cutting Social Security, Medicare in “Grand Bargain”
A Quick Hits post on benefit cuts: I alluded to this news earlier, but wanted to bring it to you directly. President Obama may have just lost his battle to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid...
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Virginia GOP allegedly bribed Dem. Sen. Puckett to block Medicaid expansion
Republicans in Virginia have allegedly bribed Democratic state Sen. Phil Puckett to resign in exchange for lucrative, prestigious jobs for him and his daughter, and handing the GOP the state Senate....
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Texas illegally cuts Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid reimbursements
Yesterday, Buzzfeed reported that Texas is citing the discredited sting videos released by the Center for Medical Progress as a reason to deny Planned Parenthood the Medicaid reimbursements that they...
View ArticleThese Democratic senators won’t say No to Social Security cuts
Let’s start simple. I have two modest goals for the Grand Bargain Lame Duck dogfight: No benefits cuts to the safety net — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. No extension of the Bush–Obama Tax Cuts,...
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