COWARDLY Senate Dems LET BUSH STRANGLE Social Security.... WITHOUT PUTTING UP A FIGHT !! A betrayal of historic proportions.
Don't believe it?
Don't believe that the Senate Democrats would BETRAY Social Security to the wolves of Bush-GOP, even though it has HUGE favorability numbers in America?
Don't believe it... think instead that Josh Marshall is being hysterical when he writes "Social Security to be PHASED OUT in 2007"?
--------------------------------------------
As we here at C-dems.blgspt.com have been saying since February at the very latest, THE FIX IS IN, and the Democratic Leadership IS DESPERATELY SEEKING WAYS TO SNATCH DEFEAT from the jaws of victory this November...
.... they are seeking TO LOOSE THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS for the third time in a row.
"HOW could that be?" one might ask, with Hillary Clinton sitting on a $44 million warchest, and other Senate Dems racking up million-dollar campaign kitties?
Well, to begin with, everyone in the world knows that the "war on terra" is (sort of like global warming) just now heating up, and it is almost inevitable that some major attack will take place in the future, as portrayed by such Hollywood films as "The Sum of All Fears" and "the Peacemaker," or even a far more mundane repeat of the 2001 anthrax terror attacks PIGGYBACKING on the 9-11 attacks, except this time with dozens of letters sent to dozens of targets nationwide, shutting down the US postal system overnight. And, like John Kerry in 2004, the Democrats DON'T WANT TO HAVE ANY PIECE of that pie... LET the LOONIES on the Radical Right milk such a terror attack as "proof" that THEY are PROTECTING US, rather than risk giving the Right-Wing loonies the opportunity to say that such an attack occurred on a Democratic watch.
Come to think of it, this theme was, and is, the foundation of George W. Bush's reign over the past 5 years... portray his ABJECT INCOMPETENCE before 9-11, and his ABJECT LIES, NEGLIGENCE, and CORRUPTION SINCE 9-11... as virtues!
Democrats simply don't have the will or (political) FIREPOWER to CONFRONT the ENTIRE media NARRATIVE that the Right-Wing Repubs have created over these years, and they (the 'Dems') are FAR MORE COMFORTABLE in their Senate office cubbyholes and Georgetown campaign-donor cocktail parties, cozying up to the SAME BIG DONORS who underwrite the Bush-Republican reign of misrule.
(When Rick Santorum goes down to his well deserved defeat in Pennsylvania this November, HILLARY will take the mantle as Big-Pharmaceutical's NUMBER ONE CAMPAIGN $$ RECIPIENT.)
THAT is the GENERAL TEMPLATE... like JOHN KERRY in 2004, Democrats will WORK HARD... at calling their donors asking for money, BUT when it comes to crafting a FIGHTING media message, the Dems will/ARE looking just like John Kerry, STANDING THERE as PRECIOUS TIME runs out of the hourglass.
WHERE is the FIGHTING Democrat message, "BUSH LIED ABOUT al Qaida connections to Saddam's Iraq!"?
WHERE is the Democrat's FIGHTING message, "KARL ROVE LIED TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC when he told the New York Times that he had NO KNOWLEDGE of Valerie Plame's status as an undercover CIA operative!" (Much less that he was instrumental in the White House operation to "out" Plame as a means of intimidating and smearing her whistleblowing husband.)
WHERE is the Democrat's FIGHTING message "ENRON was George W. Bush's NUMBER ONE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTOR through ALL of George Bush's election campaigns to 2004, and not only did Mr. Bush ENABLE Enron to EXTORT California rate-payers, but Mr. Bush snatched Enron Executive Thomas White from the company AT THE HEIGHT of Enron's collapse... to make Mr. White the Secretary of the Army!
WHERE is the Democrat's FIGHTING message, "George W. Bush took taxpayer's money for FEMA, and turned it into a CORRUPT, USELESS AGENCY... an agency that STILL has THOUSANDS OF ACRES of New Orleans UNDER ROTTING, STINKING GARBAGE HEAPS!"
WHERE is the Democrat's FIGHTING message, "WE AMERICANS DEMAND TO KNOW THAT OUR VOTES ARE COUNTED SQUARELY, and agree with Ronald Reagan that we should be able to VERIFY that those votes HAVE been counted CORRECTLY!"?
-----------------------------------------
As usual, every time we start writing here at C-dems.blgspt.com, it becomes a long litany and enumeration of Democratic BETRAYALS, the Senate and DLC Dems PRETENDING NOT TO NOTICE the MAJOR ISSUES that SHOULD be ON EVERY AMERICAN's tongues this September.
JUST TO CONFIRM THAT THE FIX IS IN, there are our Senate Democrat PATTING JOE LIEBERMAN on the back.... "THANKS, JOE, for helping George W. Bush steal the election of 2000 by your tepid, don't-even-renounce-your-senate-campaign while running for Vice President campaign."
http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=88A8D095-E0C3-F08F-957D230E6FE09BDA
Will the American people turn out in large numbers and hand political power to the Democratic Party THAT IS TRYING NOT to fight for or publicize the TRUE ISSUES of 2004... even including the CAN'T LOOSE issues of SAVING SOCIAL SECURITY and FUNDING VETERAN's rehab for $2.7 billion (the Murray Amendment)?
Probably not... Karl Rove still has 7 weeks, and MILLIONS upon MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of corporate-cash dollars on tap, not to mention the mighty power of the ENTIRE US MILITARY, HOMELAND SECURITY, and national-security/intel, to overlook the NEXT terror scare, due in just a week or two or three now.
Which reminds us, HELL, the COWERING Dems CAN'T EVEN PUBLICIZE the Bush administration's DISMAL "D' and "F" **FAILING GRADES** re implementing the 9-11 commission recommendations to prevent FUTURE terror attacks!
Not happy with GIVING George W. Bush FREE REIGN to IGNORE the threat BEFORE 9-11, or LIE about the non-existant Iraq 'threat' (US "intel" actually presented artist's DRAWINGS of alleged Iraqi mobile bio labs... as "PROOF" of an Iraqi WMD program!); or going along with the "NO PROBLEM HERE!" vacation of George Bush in 2005 or as Hurrican Katrina swirled in the GUlf of Mexico, THE SENATE and DLC DEMs are yet again HELPING George W. Bush **IGNORE** (this time) the recommendations of the 9-11 Commission Final Report!
AS WE'VE SAID, THE FIX IS IN.. the Senate Dems. club is ALL BEHIND TURNCOAT JOE and his Bush-GOP paymasters.
Final Report of US 9-11 Commission
["D" and "F" grades for reforms to prevent future attacks]
http://www.9-11pdp.org/press/2005-12-05_report.pdf
"US Given FAILING GRADES by 9-11 Panel"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/05/AR2005120500097.html
("The federal government received failing and mediocre grades yesterday from the former Sept. 11 commission, whose members said in a final report that the Bush administration and Congress have balked at enacting numerous reforms that could save American lives and prevent another terrorist attack on U.S. soil..." WashPost 6 Dec. 2005)
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<< Speaker Nancy Pelosi....
"THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN," snaps the president of the United States, leaning across his desk in his airborne office. He had been saying that he hoped to revisit Social Security reform next year, when he "will be able to drain the politics out of the issue," and I rudely interrupted by noting the polls predicting Ms. Pelosi's ascension. >>
[Sounds awfully like Rep. Peter King saying on the White House back lawn in the late afternoon of election day 2004, "It's all over but the counting, and we've got that uder control."]
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Social Security to be Phased Out in 2007 [!!!!!]
By Josh Marshall
9 Sept. 2006
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/sep/09/social_security_to_be_phased_out_in_2007
Still don't believe Social Security is on the ballot this November?
In an interview published today in The Wall Street Journal (sub.req.), President Bush told editorial page editor Paul Gigot that next year he plans on partially phasing out Social Security and replacing it with private accounts, and that he thinks he can do it as long as the Republicans retain control of Congress, which he thinks they will.
Here's the beginning of Gigot's piece on his interview aboard Air Force One ...
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi?
"That's not going to happen," snaps the president of the United States, leaning across his desk in his airborne office. He had been saying that he hoped to revisit Social Security reform next year, when he "will be able to drain the politics out of the issue," and I rudely interrupted by noting the polls predicting Ms. Pelosi's ascension.
"I just don't believe it," the president insists. "I believe the Republicans will end up being -- running the House and the Senate. And the reason why I believe it is because when our candidates go out and talk about the strength of this economy, people will say their tax cuts worked, their plan worked. . . . And secondly, that this is a group of people that understand the stakes of the world in which we live and are willing to help this unity government in Iraq succeed for the sake of our children and grandchildren, and that we are steadfast in our belief in the capacity of liberty to bring peace."
Love or loathe President George W. Bush, you can't say he lacks the courage of his convictions. Down in the polls, with the American people in a sour mood over Iraq, Mr. Bush isn't changing his policy or hunkering down in the Oval Office. Instead he's doubling down, investing whatever scarce political capital he has to frame the November contest as a choice over the economy and taxes and especially over his prosecution of the war on terror.
He won't stop talking about it. Privatizing Social Security has always been Bush's central domestic policy goal. And he knows 2007 is his last and best chance so long as Republicans hold control of Congress.
It's also no accident he raises the issue in an interview with conservative columnist Gigot. The White House doesn't want to broadcast his interest in phasing out Social Security. But they very much do want to create what amounts to a paper trail so that after a potential Republican victory they can argue that they contested the election on the basis of privatization and their win gives them a mandate.
That is exactly what's happening here.
Every Democratic candidate for congressional office this year who doesn't do everything they can to force his or her opponent to give a clear answer on whether or not they support Social Security phase out doesn't deserve to be in Congress.
It's as simple as that.
If you care about saving Socia
Don't believe that the Senate Democrats would BETRAY Social Security to the wolves of Bush-GOP, even though it has HUGE favorability numbers in America?
Don't believe it... think instead that Josh Marshall is being hysterical when he writes "Social Security to be PHASED OUT in 2007"?
--------------------------------------------
As we here at C-dems.blgspt.com have been saying since February at the very latest, THE FIX IS IN, and the Democratic Leadership IS DESPERATELY SEEKING WAYS TO SNATCH DEFEAT from the jaws of victory this November...
.... they are seeking TO LOOSE THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS for the third time in a row.
"HOW could that be?" one might ask, with Hillary Clinton sitting on a $44 million warchest, and other Senate Dems racking up million-dollar campaign kitties?
Well, to begin with, everyone in the world knows that the "war on terra" is (sort of like global warming) just now heating up, and it is almost inevitable that some major attack will take place in the future, as portrayed by such Hollywood films as "The Sum of All Fears" and "the Peacemaker," or even a far more mundane repeat of the 2001 anthrax terror attacks PIGGYBACKING on the 9-11 attacks, except this time with dozens of letters sent to dozens of targets nationwide, shutting down the US postal system overnight. And, like John Kerry in 2004, the Democrats DON'T WANT TO HAVE ANY PIECE of that pie... LET the LOONIES on the Radical Right milk such a terror attack as "proof" that THEY are PROTECTING US, rather than risk giving the Right-Wing loonies the opportunity to say that such an attack occurred on a Democratic watch.
Come to think of it, this theme was, and is, the foundation of George W. Bush's reign over the past 5 years... portray his ABJECT INCOMPETENCE before 9-11, and his ABJECT LIES, NEGLIGENCE, and CORRUPTION SINCE 9-11... as virtues!
Democrats simply don't have the will or (political) FIREPOWER to CONFRONT the ENTIRE media NARRATIVE that the Right-Wing Repubs have created over these years, and they (the 'Dems') are FAR MORE COMFORTABLE in their Senate office cubbyholes and Georgetown campaign-donor cocktail parties, cozying up to the SAME BIG DONORS who underwrite the Bush-Republican reign of misrule.
(When Rick Santorum goes down to his well deserved defeat in Pennsylvania this November, HILLARY will take the mantle as Big-Pharmaceutical's NUMBER ONE CAMPAIGN $$ RECIPIENT.)
THAT is the GENERAL TEMPLATE... like JOHN KERRY in 2004, Democrats will WORK HARD... at calling their donors asking for money, BUT when it comes to crafting a FIGHTING media message, the Dems will/ARE looking just like John Kerry, STANDING THERE as PRECIOUS TIME runs out of the hourglass.
WHERE is the FIGHTING Democrat message, "BUSH LIED ABOUT al Qaida connections to Saddam's Iraq!"?
WHERE is the Democrat's FIGHTING message, "KARL ROVE LIED TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC when he told the New York Times that he had NO KNOWLEDGE of Valerie Plame's status as an undercover CIA operative!" (Much less that he was instrumental in the White House operation to "out" Plame as a means of intimidating and smearing her whistleblowing husband.)
WHERE is the Democrat's FIGHTING message "ENRON was George W. Bush's NUMBER ONE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTOR through ALL of George Bush's election campaigns to 2004, and not only did Mr. Bush ENABLE Enron to EXTORT California rate-payers, but Mr. Bush snatched Enron Executive Thomas White from the company AT THE HEIGHT of Enron's collapse... to make Mr. White the Secretary of the Army!
WHERE is the Democrat's FIGHTING message, "George W. Bush took taxpayer's money for FEMA, and turned it into a CORRUPT, USELESS AGENCY... an agency that STILL has THOUSANDS OF ACRES of New Orleans UNDER ROTTING, STINKING GARBAGE HEAPS!"
WHERE is the Democrat's FIGHTING message, "WE AMERICANS DEMAND TO KNOW THAT OUR VOTES ARE COUNTED SQUARELY, and agree with Ronald Reagan that we should be able to VERIFY that those votes HAVE been counted CORRECTLY!"?
-----------------------------------------
As usual, every time we start writing here at C-dems.blgspt.com, it becomes a long litany and enumeration of Democratic BETRAYALS, the Senate and DLC Dems PRETENDING NOT TO NOTICE the MAJOR ISSUES that SHOULD be ON EVERY AMERICAN's tongues this September.
JUST TO CONFIRM THAT THE FIX IS IN, there are our Senate Democrat PATTING JOE LIEBERMAN on the back.... "THANKS, JOE, for helping George W. Bush steal the election of 2000 by your tepid, don't-even-renounce-your-senate-campaign while running for Vice President campaign."
http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=88A8D095-E0C3-F08F-957D230E6FE09BDA
Will the American people turn out in large numbers and hand political power to the Democratic Party THAT IS TRYING NOT to fight for or publicize the TRUE ISSUES of 2004... even including the CAN'T LOOSE issues of SAVING SOCIAL SECURITY and FUNDING VETERAN's rehab for $2.7 billion (the Murray Amendment)?
Probably not... Karl Rove still has 7 weeks, and MILLIONS upon MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of corporate-cash dollars on tap, not to mention the mighty power of the ENTIRE US MILITARY, HOMELAND SECURITY, and national-security/intel, to overlook the NEXT terror scare, due in just a week or two or three now.
Which reminds us, HELL, the COWERING Dems CAN'T EVEN PUBLICIZE the Bush administration's DISMAL "D' and "F" **FAILING GRADES** re implementing the 9-11 commission recommendations to prevent FUTURE terror attacks!
Not happy with GIVING George W. Bush FREE REIGN to IGNORE the threat BEFORE 9-11, or LIE about the non-existant Iraq 'threat' (US "intel" actually presented artist's DRAWINGS of alleged Iraqi mobile bio labs... as "PROOF" of an Iraqi WMD program!); or going along with the "NO PROBLEM HERE!" vacation of George Bush in 2005 or as Hurrican Katrina swirled in the GUlf of Mexico, THE SENATE and DLC DEMs are yet again HELPING George W. Bush **IGNORE** (this time) the recommendations of the 9-11 Commission Final Report!
AS WE'VE SAID, THE FIX IS IN.. the Senate Dems. club is ALL BEHIND TURNCOAT JOE and his Bush-GOP paymasters.
Final Report of US 9-11 Commission
["D" and "F" grades for reforms to prevent future attacks]
http://www.9-11pdp.org/press/2005-12-05_report.pdf
"US Given FAILING GRADES by 9-11 Panel"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/05/AR2005120500097.html
("The federal government received failing and mediocre grades yesterday from the former Sept. 11 commission, whose members said in a final report that the Bush administration and Congress have balked at enacting numerous reforms that could save American lives and prevent another terrorist attack on U.S. soil..." WashPost 6 Dec. 2005)
--------------------------------------------------
<< Speaker Nancy Pelosi....
"THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN," snaps the president of the United States, leaning across his desk in his airborne office. He had been saying that he hoped to revisit Social Security reform next year, when he "will be able to drain the politics out of the issue," and I rudely interrupted by noting the polls predicting Ms. Pelosi's ascension. >>
[Sounds awfully like Rep. Peter King saying on the White House back lawn in the late afternoon of election day 2004, "It's all over but the counting, and we've got that uder control."]
===============================
Social Security to be Phased Out in 2007 [!!!!!]
By Josh Marshall
9 Sept. 2006
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/sep/09/social_security_to_be_phased_out_in_2007
Still don't believe Social Security is on the ballot this November?
In an interview published today in The Wall Street Journal (sub.req.), President Bush told editorial page editor Paul Gigot that next year he plans on partially phasing out Social Security and replacing it with private accounts, and that he thinks he can do it as long as the Republicans retain control of Congress, which he thinks they will.
Here's the beginning of Gigot's piece on his interview aboard Air Force One ...
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi?
"That's not going to happen," snaps the president of the United States, leaning across his desk in his airborne office. He had been saying that he hoped to revisit Social Security reform next year, when he "will be able to drain the politics out of the issue," and I rudely interrupted by noting the polls predicting Ms. Pelosi's ascension.
"I just don't believe it," the president insists. "I believe the Republicans will end up being -- running the House and the Senate. And the reason why I believe it is because when our candidates go out and talk about the strength of this economy, people will say their tax cuts worked, their plan worked. . . . And secondly, that this is a group of people that understand the stakes of the world in which we live and are willing to help this unity government in Iraq succeed for the sake of our children and grandchildren, and that we are steadfast in our belief in the capacity of liberty to bring peace."
Love or loathe President George W. Bush, you can't say he lacks the courage of his convictions. Down in the polls, with the American people in a sour mood over Iraq, Mr. Bush isn't changing his policy or hunkering down in the Oval Office. Instead he's doubling down, investing whatever scarce political capital he has to frame the November contest as a choice over the economy and taxes and especially over his prosecution of the war on terror.
He won't stop talking about it. Privatizing Social Security has always been Bush's central domestic policy goal. And he knows 2007 is his last and best chance so long as Republicans hold control of Congress.
It's also no accident he raises the issue in an interview with conservative columnist Gigot. The White House doesn't want to broadcast his interest in phasing out Social Security. But they very much do want to create what amounts to a paper trail so that after a potential Republican victory they can argue that they contested the election on the basis of privatization and their win gives them a mandate.
That is exactly what's happening here.
Every Democratic candidate for congressional office this year who doesn't do everything they can to force his or her opponent to give a clear answer on whether or not they support Social Security phase out doesn't deserve to be in Congress.
It's as simple as that.
If you care about saving Socia
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