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Enthusiast

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17. If what you say is true why

Tue Jan 21, 2014, 10:22 AM

Jan 2014

did the President create the Catfood Commission®? Many of us feel that the President was ideologically committed to Chained CPI and such before any negotiating table.

You seem to be saying the big losses for Democrats in 2010 were the result of being too far left.

That claim couldn't be more incorrect. The big losses were the result of no public option which had a huge favorability polling and extending the tax cuts for billionaires and millionaires. There was no voter enthusiasm after these failures by the President.

No public option and extending the Bush tax cuts were the move to the right. And that is why we failed in 2010.

The people didn't show up to vote for Obama in 2008 because they imagined him to be far right, like Bush. They flocked to the polls because they thought he was liberal, possibly even a socialist as the Republicans claimed during the campaign.

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GOP Have Been Throwing Tax Cuts at Billionaires for Decades, While Squeezing the Working Class [View all] xchrom Jan 2014 OP

Under George W, the GOP Gave tax cuts to the Ultra Rich, and then truedelphi Jan 2014 #1

Seems like they all have embraced trickle down Enthusiast Jan 2014 #4

"We the people" only benefit when it does not effect their RKP5637 Jan 2014 #9

It was an attempt at negotiation jeff47 Jan 2014 #15

If what you say is true why Enthusiast Jan 2014 #17

He created it because of the 2010 losses. jeff47 Jan 2014 #22

I do not agree. Enthusiast Jan 2014 #23

Whether you agree or not doesn't particularly matter. jeff47 Jan 2014 #25

Your claim that Obama created the catfood commission/shifted to the right because left voters didn't El_Johns Jan 2014 #28

The creation of the commission does not coincide with Obama embracing austerity jeff47 Jan 2014 #30

I direct you to your post 22, in which you claim O. created the CC because of elections losses on El_Johns Jan 2014 #31

OMG!!!!! I USED THE WRONG WORD!!!!!!! jeff47 Jan 2014 #32

Won't cop to it. OK. El_Johns Jan 2014 #33

Edited while you were replying. jeff47 Jan 2014 #34

I'll let the public judge. I'm done here. El_Johns Jan 2014 #35

So, your errors are just fine. jeff47 Jan 2014 #36

You shouldn't, since the commission was created before the elections, months before. El_Johns Jan 2014 #29

I grow weary Enthusiast Jan 2014 #38

I hear ya. I imagine weariness is the desired reaction. El_Johns Jan 2014 #39

Oh, that has to be part of the objective. Enthusiast Jan 2014 #40

This message was self-deleted by its author Enthusiast Jan 2014 #37

Exactly! When it comes to big $$$$$ often R=D=I, but often RKP5637 Jan 2014 #6

Where We Are Today - How We Got Here - Who Sold Us Out cantbeserious Jan 2014 #2

+1 xchrom Jan 2014 #3

Kicked and recommended a whole bunch.....nt Enthusiast Jan 2014 #5

Progressivity of the income tax was eliminated for high incomes under Reagan... JHB Jan 2014 #7

+1 xchrom Jan 2014 #8

Those are fantastic graphs. Where did you find them? The rise and fall of the middle class pampango Jan 2014 #13

I didn't find them, I made them JHB Jan 2014 #24

Thank you for providing us with that information. Enthusiast Jan 2014 #19

Trickle down hasn't worked yet, but just needs a few more decades, kinda like the Cuban embargo. Scuba Jan 2014 #10

Yeah, that's the ticket! Enthusiast Jan 2014 #20

The Democratic Party was complicit. Warren Stupidity Jan 2014 #11

3 decades actually - it may have started before TBF Jan 2014 #12

k/r marmar Jan 2014 #14

Stop consuming. Barack_America Jan 2014 #16

And they continue to push for more by arguing for a "simplified" tax code. bullwinkle428 Jan 2014 #18

Funny how every time the tax code gets "simplified"... JHB Jan 2014 #26

Both parties actually. nt Demo_Chris Jan 2014 #21

kick JHB Jan 2014 #27