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DallasNE

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11. Half Of A Grand Bargain Is No Bargain At All

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 12:09 PM

Oct 2013

That is not negotiation, that is blackmail and will take the country over the cliff once again. This proposal is dead on arrival and stands in the way of any kind of compromise. Because the clock is ticking the media needs to get all over this but the hard work of reporting will never happen as long as there is a computer glitch to chase down instead.

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Republicans Demand Social Security And Medicare Cuts, Is It Reported? [View all] xchrom Oct 2013 OP

It's not news when it's Republicans. Puzzledtraveller Oct 2013 #1

KICKING GRAND MOM under the fucking bus is going to be the last straw bigdarryl Oct 2013 #2

We MUST, absolutely MUST run and elect true progressives in 2014. pangaia Oct 2013 #3

+8,749 Scuba Oct 2013 #5

ayup, the backlash built steam after Vietnam '75, in four parts that Reagan harmonized: MisterP Oct 2013 #12

The goal is to get the GOP to be explicit and say what they really want ... what kinds of cuts. JoePhilly Oct 2013 #4

If SS and Medicare get cut newfie11 Oct 2013 #6

YOU added $3 to $6 trillion to the deficit with your f*cking Iraq invasion... KansDem Oct 2013 #7

leverage Chaco Dundee Oct 2013 #8

I have to wonder what the Democrats have for bargaining chips hfojvt Oct 2013 #9

They can have Social Security and Medicare Cuts with Everyone's Support... tecelote Oct 2013 #10

Half Of A Grand Bargain Is No Bargain At All DallasNE Oct 2013 #11