GOP Senators Praise Obama’s Outreach On Grand Bargain
Source: TPM
Ordinarily the president would speak directly with leadership. But as the White House sees it, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have been unwilling to begin a discussion about averting the sequester in a balanced way. The two GOP leaders have repeatedly ruled out raising any new revenue. So Obama is searching for Republicans who are willing to engage.
As part of his outreach, Obama has invited a number of Republican senators to dinner on Wednesday night at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington. Those expected to attend, according to The Associated Press, are Sens. Graham, John McCain (AZ), Kelly Ayotte (NH), Roy Blunt (MO), Pat Toomey (PA), Rob Portman (OH), Bob Corker (TN) and Ron Johnson (WI).
Graham said the broad consensus is that the deficit must be reduced by cutting long-term entitlement spending and extracting revenues by reforming the tax code to eliminate deductions.
Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/obama-outreach-gop-senators-grand-bargain.php?ref=fpb
If these monsters are suddenly praising Obama, he must really be telling them what they want to hear.
And if he's telling them what they want to hear, he's willing to give them what they want.
Which means those of us dependent on Social Security and Medicare are going to be screwed. Because these monsters are NOT going to be satisfied with any action that doesn't screw us.
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msongs
(73,002 posts)MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)
nineteen50
(1,187 posts)Punishing the poor for the mistakes of the 1%.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Obama could pull a Clinton and force the Dems to sacrifice seniors. And then the Dems will get shellacked worse in 2014 than they did in 2010. Obama's weak defense of Social Security And Medicare caused that mess.
theaocp
(4,550 posts)We don't know what's going to happen, so why don't we wait to complain about this until it's too late? Jeez. Eat your damn peas.
GeorgeGist
(25,570 posts)whirled peas.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)Grand Poobahs approve of Grand Screw Job
Autumn
(48,715 posts)The fact that Lindsey Graham finds it “incredibly encouraging.” scares the shit out of me.
forestpath
(3,102 posts)since when have you ever believed a word Graham, or for that matter his cohort McCain have said? Now the Gop's words are facts to be believed? Over our President's?
Autumn
(48,715 posts)that was what he said. 
believe it or not, that doesn't enter into it. That was what he said, and the fact that that little fucker is encouraged bothers me.
Do you have a link where Obama says Lindsey Graham saying that he finds the conversation they had “incredibly encouraging.” is bullshit and he ( Graham) has no reason to be encouraged?
sheshe2
(95,530 posts)all I am saying, is why should we believe anything that they say. They are lying weasels, that will do and say anything to make this President fail. So why are we listening.
The OP said:
And if he's telling them what they want to hear, he's willing to give them what they want.
Which means those of us dependent on Social Security and Medicare are going to be screwed. Because these monsters are NOT going to be satisfied with any action that doesn't screw us.
So the OP is saying that the President is caving, giving up everything to the GOP and betraying all of America? I am a little confused.
Autumn
(48,715 posts)The article says Lindsey Graham found their conversations “incredibly encouraging.” That really bothers me, I have no idea what Obama is going to do. No one does, all we know is he has offered a superlative chained CPI . Anything that that little weasel fucker Graham finds encouraging, I'm going to find troubling. If he's happy, I'm not. I find nothing confusing about that.
sheshe2
(95,530 posts)And if he's telling them what they want to hear, he's willing to give them what they want.
Which means those of us dependent on Social Security and Medicare are going to be screwed. Because these monsters are NOT going to be satisfied with any action that doesn't screw us.
The quote is not from the article, I read it. The quote is from MP...
Sure sounds like a caving statement. IMHO.
Autumn
(48,715 posts)and that was what I commented on. The posted article. If you have a problem with what MP said, that's between you and her.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)a little ahead of schedule but it's become a practiced mode of lack of conversation on DU so I'm not all that surprised.
markpkessinger
(8,871 posts). . . But this is an issue of MAJOR importance, particiularly to those of us for whom Social Security/Medicare are not so many years away. Sorry you are unable to appreciate that fact.
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)If you don't like it, feel absolutely FREE to ignore me, block me, or whatever you need to do to be spared from my keeping my head out of the sand!
sheshe2
(95,530 posts)In 3...2...1...!
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)waiting for my hope and change to be inserted!
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)Obama will use plenty of folksy lube!
forestpath
(3,102 posts)I am disgusted beyond words.
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)is going to look like? FDR, many years ago, gave us The New Deal. I'm guessing that Obama is offering to weaken the social safety net, drain money from social security, medicare, likely programs like TANF, medicaid, food stamps. I'm sure the Republicans will agree to remove some tax loopholes, but I suspect that, overall, the grand bargain is going to favor the right and the 1% far more than the rest of us.
From The New Deal, to The Grand Bargain.... damn. If we still needed proof that Washington is not on our side, I think this is it. I wonder what the expense of the dinner will amount to? It's sad and ironic that we're paying these people (via tax dollars) to destroy our social safety net while living like royalty. I can't decide whether to be angry, depressed, or to just shrug and write it all off as politicians doing what politicians do best.
Pakid
(478 posts)when the nuts like what you have to say . I get the feeling that my wife and I had been plan on working until we drop dead At least that way we might avoid eating cat food and doing without health care. As it was I had planed on working until 70 so my SS would be at it max now if the GOP get it way retirement is something that will only happen when I am to sick to enjoy it. Thanks you useless pile of rich garbage for screwing so many of us over with the full help of the people who job it use to be to work for all of us!!! I believe that as of today there are two elected representatives who we can trust Bernie Sanders and Alan Grayson there might be a few more I missed if so sorry about that.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)the other five have their moments of lucidity. 
But the presence of those three teahadists is disconcerting, to say the least. 
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)
& Rec !!!
tecelote
(5,155 posts)How did they get "on the table"?
Taxes are supposed to be used to run the country.
We don't have an entitlement problem. We have a tax problem. Those that benefit the most don't want to pay their fair share of the taxes. Plain and simple.
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)because the Republican is even worse." Wall Street has us right where it wants us.
Autumn
(48,715 posts)and all bets are off.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)coupled with a ready and willing President, has GOT to be an absolute wet dream for the GOP. Will plans for the final assault on these programs be laid out, or simply finalized as the case may be, over dinner tonight?
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Worst possible outcome - the Repukes get everything they want while Boner and McTurtle get to save face. Tell me again who won the election? And what exactly did I get for voting for Obama (D)?