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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:56 AM Dec 2012

Paul Krugman- Instant Backstabbing: The real reason Obama should never change/cut SS and medicare

Paul Krugman- Well, that was quick. For some time it has been obvious to anyone paying attention what the true GOP budget strategy was: demand that Obama make proposals for entitlement cuts, and then

they’ll just pronounce themselves unsatisfied with whatever he comes up with, and are indeed very likely to campaign in 2014 attacking him for whatever cuts take place.

But it turns out that they didn’t even wait for any actual budget deal. Here’s Marco Rubio yesterday (via Ezra Klein):


The first part is, of course, simply a lie: numerous reports tell us that McConnell did in fact make precisely that demand. And let’s remember this when Rubio makes his run for the White House: we already know that he’s an unprincipled liar. But anyway, you see how it will go — and why the whole notion of settling matters fiscal with a Grand Bargain was always crazy. You can’t make big deals with a totally untrustworthy negotiating partner.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/instant-backstabbing/

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Paul Krugman- Instant Backstabbing: The real reason Obama should never change/cut SS and medicare (Original Post) n2doc Dec 2012 OP
Sometimes I feel like I'm living in an alternative reality MannyGoldstein Dec 2012 #1
Krugman really is from Trantor Fumesucker Dec 2012 #2
Both sides want their hands on the SS money so bad they can taste it... senseandsensibility Dec 2012 #3
 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
1. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in an alternative reality
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 12:25 PM
Dec 2012

then I read Tom Tomorrow and I'm sure of it.

There is so much crazy and evil on both sides. Wow.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
2. Krugman really is from Trantor
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 12:31 PM
Dec 2012

He can read writing that's written in flaming letters ten miles tall when nobody else in the M$M can even see it.

senseandsensibility

(16,713 posts)
3. Both sides want their hands on the SS money so bad they can taste it...
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 01:12 PM
Dec 2012

but neither wants the blame. So are Dems so stupid that they will find a way to cut SS and get all the blame? Scary.

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