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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]1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)36. What is a "Gish Gallop"? ...
At any rate ... It has been noted that you have completely failed to even attempt rebut the "gish gallop."
At double any rate ...
Lets keep it simple:
Yes ... simple.
*For most of my life, Social Security and the New Deal has been the Corner Stone of the modern Democratic Party.
THIS, and LBJ's Great Society are the reasons I joined The Democratic Party
THIS, and LBJ's Great Society are the reasons I joined The Democratic Party
Social Security and the New Deal remain the Corner Stones of the modern Democratic Party. In case you hadn't noticed ... SS and the New Deal legislation still exist, unchanged.
*Until 2008, Social Security has enjoyed the protection of being the Untouchable "3rd Rail of Politics".
Touch it...and you DIE!
That has kept our Social Security safe from Republican meddling.
Touch it...and you DIE!
That has kept our Social Security safe from Republican meddling.
No ... what kept/keeps SS safe from republican meddling has been/is the significant segment of the republican base and the entire Democratic Party membership (as well as, "liberals/progressives" that would revolt if SS were touched. Funny how the gop recognizes this; but, "liberals/progressives" do not. (reference the gop's response to Greg Walden, NRCC Chair, comments regarding the CCPI and the gop's senior base's response to GWB's attempt to privatize SS)
*The Obama Administration has set the precedent of reducing Social Security from The Untouchable 3rd Rail of Politics,
to just another chip on the table
that will be In Play in every future Budget Negotiation in the future
until it is GONE (or "Privatized", which is the same thing).
to just another chip on the table
that will be In Play in every future Budget Negotiation in the future
until it is GONE (or "Privatized", which is the same thing).
It has always been a "chip on the table"; but never a chip that'll get played.
*Since 2008, The Democratic Party Leadership has assisted in falsely connecting Social Security to The Deficit Crisis .
*This damage to the New Deal and Social Security is irreversible.
ONLY a "Democrat" could do those things.
*This damage to the New Deal and Social Security is irreversible.
ONLY a "Democrat" could do those things.
And what is that irreversible damage that has been done ... other than having "liberals/progressives" howling at shadows?
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Channeling Monty Python: The "Grand Bargain" Is Not Quite Dead Yet... Just For This Year... [View all]
WillyT
Feb 2014
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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
