Anglachel discusses the Catfood Commission’s “disingenuous calls for sacrifice.”
The general criticism of the class bias in how the commission weighted the sacrifices (most for the little people, few for the monied elite) has been done by other commenters, so I’d like to focus on the last, rather amazing sentence in the above quote. The work of the New Deal is delivering value and providing economic security almost a century after it was done. It is an investment that continues to pay out.
Consider that at least 30 of those 80 years have occurred while a political party explicitly opposed to the New Deal has been in power, and that it has been under fire from that same faction since the early 1960s, more than half its life. We’re talking some institutional resilience. When a program provides material benefits to large portions of the population with little overhead and minimal intrusiveness, it’s going to be a winner. This is deep strength of Social Security and Medicare – they deliver. [There’s also the incredible infrastructure investments of the WPA that continue to deliver, but those are less easy to identify as a personal benefit.]
This is why the attacks on them have failed thus far. Main Street can see the benefit these programs deliver. Main Street in this case is not just families, but also small business. Cost efficiencies for business is also a reason why these programs persist. How many small business owners can provide a retiree pension or medical insurance system with the cost efficiency as SS and Medicare, for example? People also see that these New Deal programs are about the only thing still delivering to them in the face of 35 years of continual and deliberate economic degradation
If you want to win over those “low-information” bitter clingy racist types that keep “voting against their interests,” try offering them concrete benefits, like universal health care. That means talking the talk AND walking the walk.
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other”. – Matthew 6:24
The Democrats cannot simultaneously represent Joe Moneybags and Joe Bagodonuts. Those “low-information” bitter clingy racist types may not be as smart as the geniuses in the Creative Class, but they know shit from Shinola.
Good policy is good politics. So what have the Democrats done for us them lately?
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The Confluence 
Remember Bush the Lesser’s plans for Social Security?
The Democrat minority sat back and said,”Go ahead, but you will own it”.
No republican wanted to take the heat alone so they backed off.
Now it will be a bi-partisan effort to gut the safety nets of Social Security and Medicaid, thanks to Obunko.
We are so boned.
Once again I will say what Nancy Pelosi didn’t say, when she was in power and capable of stopping the Cat Food Commission; Social Security and Medicare are NOT a welfare program, it is a Retirement (Social Security) and Medicare (Health Care) Programs ,that are paid by the EMPLOYEE and His/Her EMPLOYER! Anyone that is planning on taking money from the program AGAIN (they have robbed the account in the past) should OWN THEIR ROBBERY! Those that want to implement cuts, reduce benefits and even eliminate it as most Republicans (along with Obama) want to do, should be ready to face a Pitch Fork of Outraged workers and they should be kicked out of office.
That is why she should never be given a position of power again. The House Dems need a clean sweep of the leadership positions and all new faces installed.
But they will continue to reward failure.
Thanks for this … it bust me up just now.
Off Topic: I just got attacked by a wild Yorkie.
Mercifully, they are usually pretty small. I have a Welsh Corgi sleeping by my foot. I hope she doesn’t get any ideas.
A wild Yorkie? Are you OK?
Is that anything like a feral chihuahua?
I believe they are – but with less shivering.
LOL!
I’m fine … it’s this crazy game he wants to play when he eats. I’m supposed to pretend to take his food away and he’s supposed to pretend to want to kill me.
If I don’t play, he hits me until I do.
Someday I will film it.
I have a Yorkie too.
We have variations of that “game” at our house.
Cool! We don’t know where it came from — but he really loves it. Must be something to do with their personalities.
Even though he’s bossy, I love him.
I think yorkies like routine and expect you to do the same things at the same times every day. At least my yorkie is like that.
(nodding) I agree. We can almost tell time with him.
I refuse to feed my pets first thing when I get up in the morning because I am sure that Izzy would start forcing me out of bed earlier every day. If she didn’t wake me up, the cat surely would!
My youngest kitty does dermabrasion on my nose until I feed her in the AM. She actually managed to draw blood with her sandpaper tongue one morning and I went around for a week with a reminder to not let her get too hungry.
LOL, they are terrifying. My gigantic yellow labrador cowered in the presence of his yorkie “cousin”. (my brother and SIL’s dog)
I take my yorkiepoo in the woods and when she runs too far we joke thatshe went to join the pack of wild yorkiepoos…
If you want to win over those “low-information” bitter clingy racist types that keep “voting against their interests,”…
LOL, yes, but step one is to stop calling them names! I know this is hard for the current crop of Dems to understand, but when you call people stupid, racist, etc, they tend to not like you. If you make them feel like crap about themselves, they start organizing against you.
I was using ironic font
I’ve heard that satire and irony are the very last things humans develop and understanding of and so e people never really get it.
Hey, I’ve come to your thread to check on your fragile emotional state. Did I hurt your feelings or make you feel like your point of view is not important? Maybe I should attend some sensitivity classes.
It’s been a rough day.
I sprained my ankle stepping on a crack in my driveway and I was taking the Coors cure but then I ate too much pollo verde for dinner so I had to lie down and recuperate.
I’m ready for another six-pack of medicine now.
Awwww. How is your ankle? Do you need boo-boo kisses?
No, but a ride to the liquor store would be nice.
Why not home delivery?
Okay, pick me up a lottery ticket too.
Did you break your mother’s back?
Naw, she only strained it a little carrying me in the house.
I’m on my third can of Yuengling Lager so grocery shopping is out for today. Don’t want to end up an invalid like myiq. When you get to my age you don’t bounce back.
Let it go, will ya?
Healing is a process, not an event. We’ll let you know when the pain goes away.
I’m liberal and independent and I have a message for these new (Obama)Dems: Suck it.
Great article by Jonathan Last in the Weekly Standard. Every now and again, they publish something true.
American Narcissus
The vanity of Obama
Anybody who’s capable of saying “I face this challenge with profound humility”…. Anybody who believes anybody who’s capable of saying “I face this challenge with profound humility”…
Just one of those things that, if it’s true, you don’t have to say.
Right.
I can’t help but think about the gulf whenever I hear that bit about “the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal.”
Someone here the other day dubbed him “Barack Hubris Obama.” It sure fits.
And that was just the beginning, it (he) got worse from there.
Duh. We figured this out a long time ago on The Confluence.
His narcissism, that is.
Care for the sick? Jobs for the jobless? Ending a war?
Still waitin’.
I bet Obumbles post-presidency memoirs will read the same….
Asshat.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101113/ap_on_re_us/us_bush_book_tour
Ooooooh
When Obama spoke about the oceans, that was the moment when the “Obamanometer” exceeded its limit and was rushed for a recalibration to accept higher limits.
I want to suggest a ‘When did you know?’ post. When did you know Obumbles was full of shit? Mine was after the race speech in Philly. He said a whole lot of stuff that had nothing to do with anyone but himself. It was then that my eyes really opened to the true asshatism of Obumbles.
Asshat
Hillary 2012
I never listened to his speeches. To this day, I’ve only caught segments when someone posts them from youtube. I knew when he was a türd. When Clyburn, Jackson and others pulled the race card so Obama could win the SC primary, I knew Obama was the lowest of the lowest when he allowed the twisting of the “fairy tale” as a racist remark.
Amen to that. I listened early on to try and see for myself where the party was going. Did we finally have a dynamic black politician that could overcome the black panther stereotype and appeal to both sides? The blatant mysogyny and lack of experience wasn’t evident for me til after that speech. After that, his voice took on a Bush quality. Just like Bush, I can’t stand listening to it.
Asshat.
Hillary 2012
Until IA, I never took Obama’s campaign seriously, but after his IA win, I looked into his accomplishments. I knew then that the man was an empty suit.
Can’t stand his voice neither!
I knew he was full of sh!t when he told Hillary she was “likable enough” at that debate. Everything after that (including the great race speech of 2008) just reconfirmed it for me.
When he started praising Reagan. I mean, by that time, I already disliked him, but I might still have voted for him in GE (like I held my nose for Kerry in 2004). Reagan was the deal breaker. It informed me about everything he’s doing now – cat food commission, Romneycare, Jane Crow E.O. and other “shocking” developments (to some).
As to when I knew? One of these two months:
Feb 2007:
He blew off the first presidential candidate forum in Carson City for a fundraiser in L.A. He was literally flying over us while the forum was going on (returning to the east coast – so it’s not as though he couldn’t have made time for us…everyone else was there, including Hillary).
OR
March 2007.
He showed up for the Health Care Forum in Las Vegas and had no plan at all, except to say that he would get a bunch of people together to “come to consensus.” He didn’t even have any framework for what he’d like to see in the plan.
The Donnie McClurkin concert.
Obama, underestimated the task, and overestimated himself.
The story repeats, again and again.
Has he had a successful trip yet? The first summit in England — bust. The Olympics trip — bust. India & Korea — bust.
Why doesn’t he just stay the f*ck home — he can still get nothing done & not cost the taxpayers $$.
At least when he’s out of the country, he isn’t actively scewing up at home. I’m all fo sending him to Asia – it’s the return trip that I oppose.
Cannonfire posted:
Okay, I’ll stay tuned.
Thanks for the tip. Ms. Vandal, eh?
Guess the inbetweener gig didn’t work out.
‘Soul-searching’ Obama aides: Democrats’ midterm election losses a wake-up call
More at the link, but below is a comment I lifted from the WP story:
I don’t usually listen to dribble, I just wipe it off my chin.
This Morning Sneeze is spraying on Rahm Emmanuel
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/the-morning-sneeze-nicer-emmanuel/