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What comes after “Fool me twice, shame on me”?

Friday, April 5, 2013

Well, Obama is doing it for at least the third time in his presidency, though I’m sure I’m missing quite a few: proposing as an opening gambit a position that he should accept only as a last resort in any negotiation. Actually, what he’s now proposing, cuts to Social Security and Medicare, should be off […]

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Obama blinks again

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

In the past I’ve observed that, politics being a dirty game. When one has one’s opponent on the ground, the thing to do is stomp on his head, especially in this political clime, and especially if you are a Democrat, since you know that you’d get even worse treatment if you were down. Obama had […]

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Means testing social security

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Today’s Boston Globe has a somewhat misleading article today about means testing Social Security. It states fairly explicitly that both candidates favor means testing, but that’s not borne out by the article. Obama, it states, prefers to raise taxes on the rich, which is not “means testing”. “Means testing” refers to restricting eligibility to a […]

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Media lies on social security

Monday, April 23, 2012

One of the reasons I started this blog was to combat, in my own small way, the Bush attack on social security. I educated myself on the issue quite a bit. Back then, it looked like Bush was going to succeed in privatizing the system, with help from folks like Lieberman and little resistance from […]

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If only the Democrats would talk like this

Monday, November 21, 2011

Poor Wolfie can’t get his head around this. A liberal who refuses to be cowed into embracing compromise (defined as giving Republicans everything they want) for its own sake.     You have to wonder if Wolf is really as ignorant as he sounds, or if he just plays an ignoramus on television.

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Newt goes for the grail

Monday, November 21, 2011

When I started this blog, it was partly in reaction to George Bush’s (remember him?) move to privatize Social Security. That effort failed, despite the initial reaction from “serious” Democrats like Lieberman that they must immediately compromise by caving. The party’s collective spine was stiffened by a lot of grassroots pushback. But, as I pointed […]

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Glad I didn’t join

Friday, June 17, 2011

I am, I confess, chronologically eligible to join AARP, though I haven’t done so. I hold grudges, and I haven’t forgiven them for their position on the drug benefit and Medicare Advantage. Plus, I can’t face up to being old. Anyway, my obstinacy may be vindicated, if it’s true that AARP’s about to announce a […]

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