This may not be a diary, but Lawrence O'Donnell just called out a CBPP press release that you all really need to have a look at:
Holy hell....
This is what we are up against.
"House Speaker John Boehner’s new budget proposal would require deep cuts in the years immediately ahead in Social Security and Medicare benefits for current retirees, the repeal of health reform’s coverage expansions, or wholesale evisceration of basic assistance programs for vulnerable Americans. The plan is, thus, tantamount to a form of 'class warfare.' If enacted, it could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history. This may sound hyperbolic, but it is not. The mathematics are inexorable."
I know many folks here are dug in in their determination not to go out of their way in any effort to help POTUS in 2012 beyond their individual votes. I disagree, but at least maybe we can agree that we need the friggin' House back before the Tea Party burns the Country to the ground.
No matter where you stand on POTUS, PLEASE work to get these freshmen out.