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In reply to the discussion: Channeling Monty Python: The "Grand Bargain" Is Not Quite Dead Yet... Just For This Year... [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)5. Third Way Surreal: President seeks credit for election-year pause in his own hostage-taking.
He's *temporarily* removing, during an election year, the ax *he* suspends over our heads repeatedly as a tool to continue implementing vicious Third Way austerity.
'It will remain on the table."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=733502
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=733502
You can't make this shit up.
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Channeling Monty Python: The "Grand Bargain" Is Not Quite Dead Yet... Just For This Year... [View all]
WillyT
Feb 2014
OP
Third Way Surreal: President seeks credit for election-year pause in his own hostage-taking.
woo me with science
Feb 2014
#5
Thank you. You laugh or you cry, but it's actually revolting and deeply, deeply unfunny
woo me with science
Feb 2014
#15
+10000, and we see the same manipulative corporate game shaping up with Net Neutrality, too.
woo me with science
Feb 2014
#23
and perhaps more importantly it solidifies the framing of "SS is a deficit issue"
MisterP
Feb 2014
#14
Makes one think about the Third Way/New Democrats and how they got here...
woo me with science
Feb 2014
#27