http://blogs.wsj.com/... Washington wire reported mid-day that Erskine Bowles will not accept a cabinet position with Obama's administration--Hurray!--but via the WTJ's free copy, Bowles was given a special, highly visible article in which he could boldly attempt to defend his recent undeniable support of a Tea Party Republican over a progressive Democratic candidate for Congress in New Hampshire.
“We’ve asked people to put politics aside and do what they think is right for the country and to pull together rather than apart,” Bowles said. Hypocrisy!
Were he and Romney classmates during their privileged upbringings?
The Bowles cat is now clearly out of the bag--bias exposed--and he can't put it back in unless we 99% let him or ignore him and his buddies, the Gang of Eight.
A feasting get-together is planned. Jumbo shrimp have been ordered to fly into Virginia for the ultimate retreat where Bowles and Alan Simpson will juice the new bipartisan Senate “Gang of Eight;" providing them, we are sure, with promises of golden streets and virgins if they simply follow the path, the way to coercively persuade others in DC and the public to accept their hidden greedy medicine.
Their latest tweak is to lower raising revenues to placate Republicans.
Only Bowles and Simpson have the 'political courage' to make the tough choices like cutting Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Snap, Education, and other safety-net programs, he claims in the article.
It's the American way for Wall Street and DC insiders. At first, if you don't succeed and the stakes are high, use money as your blunt instrument.
The clock is ticking as we spend our energy electing Democrats, "they are heading to Virginia’s Mount Vernon next week to meet with the Gang in an effort to hash out a major deficit and tax package." Who ordered this Lone Ranger and sidekick?
What Bowles did not say is telling. He did not tell us who anointed he and Alan Simpson kings of the U.S. economy nor at whose request he and his fellow comrades have launched a multi-million dollar propaganda campaign in support of their deficit reduction plans.
Oh, he's doing this for our honor because we don't have the guts to do so (missing the mental facilities implied).
Yes, we are all busy electing Democrats and re-electing the President, but we can not sit idly by and let the failed leaders of the expired Catfood commission and their Senate cronies plan to "Lame Duck and Fuck" the best of the New Deal and Democratic ideals.
For details, Please see
http://www.dailykos.com/... and read the many excellent comments of other Kos members.
Folks, their plan is of Wall Street, for Wall Street and by Wall Street.
We can stop this "Fix" if we move now.
Gang of Eight, hat tip, pistolSO
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Conrad and Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) made up the original Gang of Six. Sens. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) have bumped the Gang’s numbers up to eight.
As WE Won suggested, Bowles Simpson is from now on known as BS.