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Austerity Pep Squad:
Fergawdsakes:
Sen. Mark Warner is hoping to form a bipartisan, bicameral post-Gang of Six group to pressure the already bipartisan, bicameral supercommittee to “go big or go home,” his spokesman told POLITICO Thursday. [...]
Warner spokesman Kevin Hall said Thursday the idea is for the nascent group to serve as a cheerleadering corps for the 12-member supercommittee “to speak out to encourage the new supercommittee to ‘go big, or go home.’” Hall said Warner has not developed details of the new group, which he called a “very preliminary concept.”
Warner told the group Wednesday that “$2.2 trillion is not enough” deficit reduction and warned that any new plan will likely include both more taxes and higher fees for services like the Tricare military health care plan.
“The truth is that you will see some increase in some of the Tricare co-payments,” he said, according to the Virginian-Pilot. The cost of health care “is the fastest-growing part of the defense budget. … I know some of you don’t want to hear that … but everything has to be on the table.”
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Who, exactly, do the Democrats hope to have vote for them in the next election? For the moment, billionaires only get one vote.
Supposedly, the nation's corporate CEOs are all holding on to their huge profits because they are "uncertain" about the economy. But the real problem is that all these budget slashers are making average Americans uncertain, worried about whether or not they're going to have jobs and health care and social security. I think you can forgive people for feeling a little insecure when everyone in public life is calling for more sacrifice and "skin in the game" and constantly saying "everything's on the table." You'd be a fool not to hang on to every penny you have in a world that seems to be ever more dystopian.
They are making the wrong argument.
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Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2009—Gobble Gobble ... ROAR!:
Millions of us will be sitting down to enjoy a good meal and great company today, followed by gravy drenched sandwiches for the rest of the week. The centerpiece of the traditional Thanksgiving feast on many US tables will be a stuffed and roasted Meleagris gallopavo, better known as the domestic descendant of the American wild turkey. It's an appropriate choice. M. gallopavo was highly valued by Native Americans and is a true blue, red-blooded American meal. One founding father was so taken with it that he proposed the turkey as our national bird, instead of what he considered the less admirable Bald Eagle:
For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America ... a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on. -- Benjamin Franklin January 26, 1784
Birds have one of the most interesting evolutionary tales in all the animal kingdom. If it could be summed up in one word, that word might be ... dinosaur! It happens that early paleontologists were keen on the dino-bird relationship. But over the next few decades, as larger and less bird-like terrible lizards were unearthed, the dino-bird idea faded away. Now it's come roaring back and it's easy to see why. |
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