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Carol Shea-Porter Blasts the Catfood Co-Chairs

by: Dean Barker

Wed Nov 10, 2010 at 17:24:49 PM EST
If only the President showed this kind of leadership and moral clarity (via email release):
"The draft proposal by the co-chairs of the Fiscal Commission is just unfair.  The burden is overwhelmingly placed on middle class and low-income families, as well as our nation's seniors.  I sincerely hope that major changes are made before any final recommendation is released." 
 
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Speaker Pelosi: (0.00 / 0)
Our nation is facing two challenges: the need to create jobs and address our budget deficit. Any viable proposal from the President's Fiscal Commission  must strengthen our economy, but it must do so in a fair way, focusing on how we can effectively promote economic growth.

This proposal is simply unacceptable. Any final proposal from the Commission should do what is right for our children and grandchildren's economic security as well as for our nation's fiscal security, and it must do what is right for our seniors, who are counting on the bedrock promises of Social Security and Medicare. And it must strengthen America's middle class families-under siege for the last decade, and unable to withstand further encroachment on their economic security.

http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p...

birch, finch, beech

She lost me at "two challenges" (4.00 / 4)
I know, everyone is a critic, but enough of the blah, blah, blah.

It looks like we are stuck with a minority leader who has unfavorable ratings rivaling those of Bush at his low point, but, can we at least get a simple declarative sentence or two?   Like, "The co-chairmen should go back to the drawing board and figure out a way to reduce the deficit without assaulting seniors and the middle class. They paid enough for the transgressions of Wall Street without the United States government kicking them in the teeth, too."



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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I should be clear (0.00 / 0)
I'm talking about Pelosi. I thought CSP was very good. It is just unfair.  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
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I Might (0.00 / 0)
argue with you some about Pelosi's performance, Kathy, but I agree with you that the time for nuance is long past.  The Dems need to get some sound bites of their own, and the leadership's insistence on making working Americans and retirees shoulder more and more of the load is just rife with possibilities.  I like your proposal above!

A liberal listens to a conservative and says "You may have a couple of points there.  Let's try to compromise.

A leftist listens to a conservative and says "Your ideas are ridiculous.  Shut up and listen."

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Pelosi (0.00 / 0)
I think Pelosi is an effective legislator - she muscled health care reform through when a lot of people gave it up for lost. She is not an effective voice outside the legislature.  In 2006 and 2008, the effective comparative ads were by Democrats saying, "John Doe voted with George Bush 90% of the time'. This year it was, "Jane Doe voted with Nancy Pelosi 90% of the time". She has become, fairly or unfairly, the poster child for big deficits and bloated government.

Well, I do have a caveat - she has not been effective in this leadership structure fight. This battle between Clyburn and Hoyer never should have happened. She should have had all the leadership in a room right after the election figuring out who was going to do what.  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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They are supposed to get (4.00 / 1)
14 of the 18 members to vote for this in order for it to be voted on by Congress.  My understanding is that this draft is not agreed to by anywhere near 14 members.  This is the draft of the two chairmen.  Why they were appointed I do not know, unless it was political judo, making sure that nothing came out of the exercise, so Obama could say he tried, but see, they can't agree.  
By the end of the day today and every other day it seems, I have been assaulted by so much sheer nonsense I am exhausted.  
Run Carol Run (4.00 / 7)
2012 election is only 23 1/2 months away, and CSP is our best hope. . . .

Of course, a Giunta indictment could accelerate that calendar.  

Empire (0.00 / 0)
Americans have opted for Empire.  As such, we must live with the ramifications of this folly.  That means Dickinsonian poverty.

---SWL

Defending Emily (4.00 / 3)
I think you mean Dickensian poverty.
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If I were on the Commission (4.00 / 4)
I might be puzzled that the co-chairs went public with a draft before asking the Commission itself to vote on it.

Actually, I might be royally ticked off.

royally ticked off? (0.00 / 0)
What part of torRy don't you understand?  

Annie 2012!
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