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firedupdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 08:16 AM
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Let’s Demagogue The Deficit Commission Now, What A Great Plan!
Edited on Mon Aug-30-10 08:17 AM by firedupdem
http://extremeliberal.wordpress.com/


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Nobody really thought Alan Simpson could top his video appearance with Alex Lawson where he talked about “the lesser people” on Social Security. But once again, President Obama’s hand-picked Co-Chair of the Catfood Commission tasked with “tweaking” Social Security has proven us all wrong.

That’s from the one and only queen of hate, Jane Hamsher and notice how Alan Simpson is “tasked with ‘tweaking’ SS”. Really, that’s his job on the commission, huh? Very subtle and typical of Hamsher’s tactics. Somehow, she’s assigned roles to certain people on the commission and if you look at the title of her post, which I won’t link to…no fucking way…you see what her goal is in her snarky, misleading bullshit post. “Obama Appointed Deficit Commission Co-Chair Alan Simpson: Social Security Is Like “A Milk Cow With 310 Million Tits”. Man, she had to work her ass off to get all that propaganda right in the title of her post. She just had to make a direct connection between Alan Simpson’s comments and President Obama. Nothing too subtle there, I guess. From what I can tell the whole basis for the virus in their brains is that people have said that Social Security is on the table. That’s it, it’s on the table.

President Obama is not stupid, unlike many of his critics. There is no way in hell that he is going to mess with Social Security, people who are saying he will are out of their fucking minds. The most he would possibly do is minor tweaks and probably to make it better. He is a progressive, whether the haters will ever believe it or not. That’s where the demagoguing comes in. These haters are preying on people’s emotions with a completely made up idea, sounds a lot like a “death panel” technique to me. You wonder why I have such disdain for those people? They are getting their panties all in a bunch about something that hasn’t happened and never will happen, but that clearly is not their goal with the latest attack.

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it is to weaken him, hurt him and in the process they are hurting the entire progressive agenda. What really pisses me off is that if they succeed in damaging Obama, like it appears they are, the result is going to be Republicans in charge. And if we thought we were fucked with the Bush administration, just wait till the new Republican Party takes over. It will take the concept of “fucked” to a whole new level. And I’m going to be in those motherfuckers faces reminding them that they are responsible for it.
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 09:23 AM
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1. Amen to "Extreme Liberal". nt
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 11:14 AM
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2. Hey firedupdem! Thank you for this from
ExtremeLiberal..I should write him a thank you. He's writing what I'm thinking.

Bless his Extreme Liberal heart for exposing the queen of hate and demagoguery.

<snip from your article>

"So “President Obama has stacked his new 18-member commission”, really. I went to the executive order that created the commission and learned that this is how the 18 members were selected.

(a) six members appointed by the President, not more than four of whom shall be from the same political party;
(b) three members selected by the Majority Leader of the Senate, all of whom shall be current Members of the Senate;
(c) three members selected by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, all of whom shall be current Members of the House of Representatives;
(d) three members selected by the Minority Leader of the Senate, all of whom shall be current Members of the Senate; and
(e) three members selected by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, all of whom shall be current Members of the House of Representatives.

Ut oh, the truth is the president didn’t “stack” anything, he appointed 6 members of the commission, 4 of them democrats. It looks like they set up the commission to include both parties and both houses of congress. Sounds pretty bi-partisan to me which probably pisses off those firebaggers who demonize anyone who doesn’t think exactly like them or doesn’t hate Obama. We are Obamabots, you know, or apologists."
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jaxx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-10 10:23 AM
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5. I need to borrow your facts please.
Some uninformed persons are once again saying Obama stacked the commission.

Thanks Cha, I'll give you credit. ;-)
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 12:41 PM
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7. No, give the the credit to firedupdem and
ExtremeLiberal! :fistbump:
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Number23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 08:12 PM
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3. "President Obama is not stupid, unlike many of his critics."
'Nuff said. :thumbsup:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 09:06 PM
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4. We're talkin'
nutshell!
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 03:14 AM
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6. I learn so much here, like how the Commissioners were actually chosen. Facts are amazing things
aren't they?

Hekate
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 12:43 PM
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8. You mean like talking about Cat Food instead
of reality? But, that wouldn't fatten professionalleftists' coffers. Oh darn.
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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 01:58 PM
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9. Dang... Cha the light bulb just went off.. I had no idea what he was
talking about when he said the professional left.. the medias and bloggers who are making buckaroos.. the fog clears..
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Political Tiger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 02:09 PM
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10. Extreme Liberal: "sounds a lot like a “death panel” technique to me"
Yeah, me too!

When Sarah Palin uses hate propaganda like "death panels," the so-called "left" calls her all kinds on names (rightfully so)

BUT....

When Jane Hamster uses hate propaganda like "cat-food commission," the so-called "left" laments her with praise and admiration!

Bunch of fucking hypocrites!
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Political Tiger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 03:26 PM
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11. I posted this in GD and I know you're not gonna believe this,
but they are having a fit! Oh the outrage! The anger! Heads exploding! Drama! Must.Have.Drama.!
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firedupdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 07:12 PM
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12. I believe you! Any and everything Obama must be met with hate.
OT- Hope you are feeling better. :hug:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 08:41 PM
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13. Let me guess... they got busy
demagoguing!
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