A Democrat (our President) proposes to cut Medicare and Medicaid: (puking on computer)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/us/politics/obama-plan-to-cut-deficit-will-trim-spending.html

Is “Revice” a word we should know?

Hey, I was going to ask that.
Hi, RevBev.
And, are the links for number 1 and 3 supposed to be the same?

Good morning, everyone. I think that’s supposed to be “revive” (and the two links obviously shouldn’t be the same).

You’uns (a term my Aunt Wilma in NE Ohio used) are sure up and attem early this morning.

I understand today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. ARRR, mateys.

Ahoy, Molly.

More like Gulliver’s Travels where all of the learned men travel around the world living in a land up in the clouds (e.g. far from grounded in reality).

Feds are thinking raising prices will stimulate the economy. Certainly the purchase of some pointy farm implements!

Do we really think there’ll be a show down between Obama and Boehner?

The things your Facebook friends post…

Foo Fighters Drown Out Westboro Baptist Church Protesters

Interesting website. Justice Through Music.

And I want this poster:
Paul Krugman is tired of trying to reason with you people

Nope. Prolly another Obama compromise.

I hope The Krug Man got a good laugh and a solid burst of serotonin from that photo, cause I sure did. Thanks.

Y’all have a good day!

No just big talk from our Prez. then he will do as he always does. Sorry I missed Caturday I couldn’t find it. SD gave me a link to his home page so I hope to make it next week.

Good morning everyone.

Hey there. Yes, there’s always next week.
Why does the president even bother making plans that he will not follow through on? How can he imagine that anyone will take him seriously?
(shaking head)

The O-bots will take him seriously this is all about re-election and nothing else. What a tool.

You too, TomThumb!

That’s a given isn’t it?

Like the sun rises!

Avast ye swabs, shiver me timbers, walk the plank ye scurvy dog, arrrrgh

Mornin’, BT, pups

More of the same in the Village I see.

Hey, demi! How’s the healing going?

(don’t faint at seeing me in the early a.m. I couldn’t sleep, so gave up and got out of bed around 5:00)

Some things never change eh?

At the risk of stating the obvious — or something that has been written over and over — Barry wants to separate himself from Catfood II, while doing everything in his power to direct (behind the scenes) Catfood II, on cuts to SS and whatever else they come up with.

The argument will be that he was a victim again. Powerless.

I’m feeling much better, thanks.
Early to bed and early to rise works for me. We’re all different, tho.

Chris Hayes had a great quip on his new show this weekend which I wish I’d jotted down at the time. Something akin to: rich people pay fox people to tell middle class people to hate poor people.

You wonder how people vested in division and hate can look themselves in the mirror in the morning.

rich people pay fox people to tell middle class people to hate poor people.

and poor people to hate government.

That is why I say I rather have a real Republican than a fake one if were going to have a R in office. I rather someone face me when they shove the knife in, instead of in the back when I am not looking.

You wonder how people vested in division and hate can look themselves in the mirror in the morning.

They have very fancy mirrors.

Or…. There’s also “Mirror, mirror one the wall, who’s the fairest of them all.”

x2

Like most Democrats, I do.

Poor thing…not exactly what you want in Pres….

The Barry Bullshit Express has left the station.

Re: The TX Miracle….I think it is pretty amazing how much Perry is being followed and called out on his mis-facts…..Someone is really watching.

Sign up for the OFA unicorn giveaway, didja?

Glad to hear it. Wish I were one of those early – early folks.
Actually think I’m sleepy enough now to go back to bed.

It would be nice to think one of the resumes I sent off this weekend would prompt the phone to ring, but I’m not staying awake on the off chance. At least I’ve done a few things in the wee hours.

He wants to campaign on “saving” SS, Medicare, and Medicaid — while signalling to Ds in Congress to gut them. It’s called the Public Option switcheroo.

If you click on the MyFDL link in the top blue bar (not at the top of your window, the one next to “Home”) you bring up a list of MyFDL diaries, newest first. Caturday goes up around noon or early afternoon, and should appear near the top of the list. Or look up SouthernDragon (search window top right of most FDL pages) and click on Diaries.

I’m there until 11pm eastern so you can drop in any time during the day and we’ll be playin’ with the tigers.

Thanks I must have not been on the home page when I clicked on MYFDL cause when I did there was nothing. I even did a search for Caturday and only prior ones came up. SD linked me to his home page so I should be there next Sunday night. Thanks for your help. I am still learning your system here. I am old ya know.

I saw all those pictures posted. So cute and adorable. I wanted to be a vet and work with animals but I couldn’t bear to have to put them to sleep so I decided on retail. Bad choice I must say.

I’m 68. I iz old too.

Big news here is almost 9 straight hours of a good soaking rain. None for about a month prior.

In other news Leo Kottke still rocks.

Yeah but you have spunk.

No.

If my view is so out there as to be equated with a belief in unicorns, why isn’t there a primary challenger?

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Afghanistan: 1,775

US KIA Irak: 4,474

Iraki, Afghan and Pakistani casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M

US MBS 2011: 32,364 and counting

Fall Down or Fly

No war but class war

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things

Namaste

Never. Give. Up.

You wonder how people vested in division and hate can look themselves in the mirror in the morning.

They don’t have too, they can hire someone to scrutinize their appearance for them, everyday.

The Democrats can’t find anybody who isn’t a neoliberal and doesn’t believe in the unregulated market economic miracle.

TPTB haven’t found anyone with a better set of two faces to throw their cash behind. Simple economics.

No, it is because very few Democrats agree with you.

FUCK THAT!!! WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT!!!

Raising taxes on the rich who can afford it is in no way a “shared sacrifice” or in any wan comparable to cutting Medicare and Medicaid benefits for those needing them to live.

Who’s he trying to fool?

FUCK THAT MOTHERFUCKING MOTHERFUCKER!!!

That’s fine. The economy over the next 12 months will tell the tale. When your business goes belly up don’t blame the Leftists.

I forgot to say good morning, sorry.

Oldgold, and this is just my opinion based on my understanding, but I feel most Democrats are still stuck in the rut of believing that this is a Democratic vs Republican argument. It is the rich vs the rest of us.

It is the rich vs the rest of us.

Bottom line.

Amen to that.

Yes.

Some hard workin’ pups were up real early this Monday morning.

The R’s will make sure the economy tanks with help from the D’s. I guess I have grown weary of the D vs. R paradigm. If everyone would wiki search neo-liberal all would be crystal clear. sigh!

I am surprised that he is not going to propose and increase in the age limit for medicare. At least there is that.

At first, I thought this CBS News summary meant we won two out of three:

As a result, it includes no changes in Social Security and no increase in the Medicare eligibility age, which the president had been willing to accept this summer.

But then, just a few grafs later, there was this:

$580 billion in cuts in mandatory benefit programs, including $248 billion in Medicare and $72 billion in Medicaid and other health programs. Other mandatory benefit programs include farm subsidies.

Nobody seems to be in the mood to talk numbers this morning, but those am some ugly cuts. I know Dday & others have explained many ways to cut $25B per year out of Medicare provider payments (incl. negotiating Rx drug costs), without hurting actual medical care for actual patients, but can they cut Medicaid the same way, without reducing eligibility or health care?

Yes, blue. FDL, PCCC, other allies can immediately claim credit for stopping preznit from destroying the few remaining planks of the Democratic Party platform. Preznit fought stubbornly & selfishly to destroy Medicare & Social Security, to serve his oligarch owners. But we deliberately and systematically drove down his approval ratings and ratcheted up his negatives for nine months and hounded the hell out of Super-Congress freaks. (Grassroots rebellions sprang up in the GOP, also, so we can’t claim all the credit.)

We need to rinse and repeat.

Yep, but here’s Dr. Sam Vaknin, who describes just what kind of Narcissistic A-hole he is.

His Diagnosis of Obama’s personality and prognosis (for us):

http://www.larouchepac.com/node/19464

That could apply to Mitch Mc as well.

Put this comment up at EW’s on September 8th… It applies here just as well with regards to Mitch McConnell’s silence or rather, sin of omission.

We were watching a PBS Frontline special last night, The Nature of Evil and Religion. The content was challenging and brought a great deal of dialogue into our home. Our daughter-of-klynn then heard the debate response replayed as you note above.

She jumped right on how this debate moment could be added to the Frontline special. She asked many questions about eternity and how does God (for Christains) judge those in power. She asked, “If someone uses their power in multiple ways to deny an innocent person justice, is that not a systemic spiritual problem within that politician? If someone uses their power from a number of angles to kill an innocent person, does that fall into a state of unforgivable action because the first act of using political power would be forgiven but the other acts would be ‘cheap grace’? And if you then use your action of murder to further establish your political power (bragging about your execution rate) is that pretty much a full embrace of eternity in hell — if you are a Christain, which Perry claims to be? From the perspective of eternal opportunity would this not be a kind of a “had your chance and you muffed it,” spiritual moment for Perry? This is all the more reason to not listen to him or follow his lead. To cheer him is to embrace his walking further away from faith.”

“Perhaps the heat and fires in Texas are just a primer for Perry’s eternal destination,” she quipped while noting what is going on in Texas is very serious and that it would not be her choice as a leader of a state to cut fire department budgets by 75%…