Road to Hell is Pavé w/Good Intentions: Obama still pushing Chained CPI

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Thursday April 18, 2013 · 1:46 AM PDT

2013/04/18 · 01:46

President Obama went to dinner last night with a bunch of Democratic Senators and revived his horrible plan to cut Social Security. On the menu was pavé of halibut and bullshit.

Senate Democrats discussed a proposal to use a new formula to calculate Social Security benefits at a two-hour dinner with President Obama at the Jefferson Hotel Wednesday evening...The lawmaker said Obama discussed his controversial proposal to use the chained consumer price index to calculate cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits but the issue did not dominate the conversation. - The Hill, 4/17/13

This is what the President does after gun control got defeated in the Senate? He revives cutting Social Security? I don't know what to say. Törnqvist schmörnqvist? I want things to be better for retirees and the disabled, not worse. Can somebody send me to chef school so I find out what heck pavé is? Or you can sign my petition to ask the White House to use CPI-E.

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Pavé is...

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Pavé is...

a fancy word for filet

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an NHL star from the Czech Republic

4 votes

cod-based asphalt

4 votes

a puree of some sort

2 votes

none of the above / tell me in comments

2 votes

Hell No! Growing up Grand Bargainy: The 1980s

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Friday April 12, 2013 · 10:00 AM PDT

2013/04/12 · 10:00

I came of age in the time of the Grand Bargain!

Millennial childrens can scarcely imagine how grand and bargainy it was in the 1980s. We were such uncompromising compromisers! Chrysler built the K-car which combined the style of Frank Sinatra with the grace of John Deere. George Steinbrenner combined the hiring of Billy Martin with the firing of Billy Martin...three times! Warner Communications combined the music with the television. The Reagan administration combined the secret sale of arms to Iran with the secret funding of right wing guerrillas in Central America with the lying about it to Congress. Are you nostalgic yet? There was something in the air during this time. Call it dreamagination. Call it lead. In the eighties, our bold leaders were able to remake the world into a new, different, often less good world.

So what does this have to do with Grand Bargains? Join me below and I'll tell ya!

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 7:18 AM PDT

2008/08/29 · 07:18

If Palin is McCain's VP pick this should be part of the discussion.

Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- TransCanada Corp., the nation's largest pipeline company, won approval from Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to build a $27 billion pipeline to carry natural gas from the Arctic to U.S. markets.

Palin on Aug. 27 signed a bill authorizing the state to award Calgary-based TransCanada a license to build the 1,715- mile (2,744-kilometer) link from Prudhoe Bay to the Alberta Hub in Canada, according to a statement. The license will be granted in 90 days.

That's great news. For Canada. Why did Gov. Palin choose a Canadian company for a $26 billion dollar infrastructure project? More on the flip...

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Wednesday May 28, 2008 · 11:10 PM PDT

2008/05/28 · 23:10

I'm tired of these through-the-looking-glass argument from the Clintons. It's the second time on a national stage that I've been told the equivalent of "who are you going to believe, me or your lyin' eyes?" and I don't like it one bit. Rather than rant and throw shoes at the TV I'm just going to ask...

If caucuses don't matter why on earth did the Senator from New York spend 74 days in Iowa since the 2004 election and never once make this argument in front of Iowans?

All of Hillary Clinton's Iowa visits are chronicled by the excellent GWU Democracy in Action project. 74 days in Iowa and never does Hillary Clinton argue that caucuses shouldn't count and now she can't say it enough. What does that record say about Sen. Clinton's character? 74 days, not a peep.

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Friday April 04, 2008 · 5:05 PM PDT

2008/04/04 · 17:05

When Harry Truman left office in 1953 his sole income was his Army pension of $112.56 per month. To make money Truman wrote a memoir, sold off some family farm property and would have been content to live out his days in Independence, Missouri on the proceeds of these transactions and his army check. Congress, perhaps a bit embarrassed by his austerity, passed the Former Presidents Act in 1958 providing past presidents (at this point just Truman and Hoover) a pension of $25,000 per year.

In a recent C-Span feature on presidential librararies Brian Lamb aired an interesting clip of former President Truman speaking about the post-presidency and profit. Transcript of Truman video below.

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Friday February 22, 2008 · 2:18 AM PST

2008/02/22 · 02:18

BREAKING NEWS! (more from AFP, BBC, and McClatchy)

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's military said on Friday it had launched a cross-border land offensive backed by fighter jets into northern Iraq on Thursday evening to hunt down Kurdish PKK guerrillas.

Turkish television reported, without citing sources, that 10,000 troops had entered Iraqi territory. NTV said troops had moved 10 km (6 miles) inside Iraq.

"The Turkish Armed Forces, which attach great importance to Iraq's territorial integrity and stability, will return home in the shortest time possible after its goals have been achieved," the General Staff said in a statement posted on its Web site.

The military's General Staff said the cross-border offensive was launched at 7 p.m. (12:00 p.m. EST) on Thursday.

A senior U.S. official said the land incursion was "not the greatest news".

Use this as an Open Turkey/Iraq thread. Any thoughts?

Kumbaya, GOP frames, and taking the Netroots bowling

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Monday January 07, 2008 · 4:41 AM PST

2008/01/07 · 04:41

On frames...

For 99% of America 'frames' involve either bowling and pictures of your kids.

'Framing' is something carpenters do when building a new house.

Stipulating that I think George Lakoff is preaching "Liberal Propaganda for Dummies", there is no bigger GOP-"frame" than saying Democrats are "Kumbaya" singers.

Time.com, 10/22/06 (10 days before the election):

Example: the Republican ad deemed "too hot" for TV--a spoof depicting a clownish Madeleine Albright singing Kumbaya with Islamic terrorists--that was "obtained" by the Drudge Report and shown via YouTube.

This is a rant...

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Favorite fighting style...

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Favorite fighting style...

Michael Corleone

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Tex Cobb

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other

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Sen. Clinton's ignorance of Congress, a history of 'present'

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Friday December 21, 2007 · 8:43 AM PST

2007/12/21 · 08:43

Sen. Chris Dodd's recent success in blocking legislation giving retroactive telecom immunity for warrantless surveillance was a real world example of how a detailed working knowledge of the legislative rules and procedures makes a leader more effective. It's not just officials who need to know the process, it's essential for citizens to be well informed as well for our system to work. As Thomas Jefferson said, "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government." I know I'm thankful for all the work the likes of Kagro X, Adam B, Christy Hardin Smith, Jeralyn Merritt, McJoan and Marcy Wheeler do on a regular basis educating people about the process.

Does Sen. Clinton promote understanding of our process when she says people who vote "present" are avoiding tough choices or is she just promoting ignorance of our system of government? No.

Is Sen. Clinton misrepresenting the meaning of a "present" vote in her campaign?

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Is Sen. Clinton misrepresenting the meaning of a "present" vote in her campaign?

aye

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nay

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present

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Obama beats Edwards by 13 points in Edwardsville

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Monday December 17, 2007 · 3:53 AM PST

2007/12/17 · 03:53

Obama crushes Edwards by 13 points in Edwardsville. Give it up Edwards E. McEdwardspants!

In 2004 when both Edwards and Obama were on the ballot in Edwardsville*, IL it was none other than Barack Obama who pulled down 64% of the vote to 51% of the vote for John Edwards**. Using my own polling methodology*** I've determined that even in a place that is named after John Edwards**** people still prefer Barack Obama. How much more evidence do you Edwards Cylons need to before you realize you're backing the wrong horse? Now on to victory Obamatons!

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Best place in America?

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Best place in America?

Edwardsville, IL

3 votes

Edwardsville, KS

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Edwardsville, PA

0 votes

Edwards, NY

3 votes

Edwards Township, NC

6 votes

Edwardsport, IN

0 votes

North Edwards, CA

0 votes

Edwards County, TX

1 vote

Edwards Township, MN

0 votes

Edwardsville, AL

0 votes

Port Edwards, WI

0 votes

New Orleans, LA (note to all Dems - CAT 5 levees..u promised)

6 votes

Edwardsburg, MI

2 votes

Honolulu, HI (birthplace of Barack Obama)

15 votes

Clinton, NY

5 votes

LA Times: 1 million dead civilians in Iraq since 2003

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Friday September 14, 2007 · 1:14 PM PDT

2007/09/14 · 13:14

LA Times, 9/14/07:

BAGHDAD -- ...a new survey suggested that the civilian death toll from the war could be more than 1 million.

The figure from ORB, a British polling agency that has conducted several surveys in Iraq, followed statements this week from the U.S. military defending itself against accusations it was trying to play down Iraqi deaths to make its strategy appear successful. [...]

ORB said it drew its conclusion from responses to the question about those living under one roof: "How many members of your household, if any, have died as a result of the conflict in Iraq since 2003?"

Based on Iraq's estimated number of households -- 4,050,597 -- it said the 1.2 million figure was reasonable.

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Reuters: Turkey launches 10,000 troop offensive into Iraq

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Obama beats Edwards by 13 points in Edwardsville

LA Times: 1 million dead civilians in Iraq since 2003

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