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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/52314.html

House Republicans are planning to cut roughly $1 trillion over 10 years from Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor and disabled, as part of their fiscal 2012 budget, which they will unveil early next month, according to several GOP sources. Though Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has yet to lock in his final numbers, he made clear to POLITICO in February that he intends to target Medicaid and Medicare for savings. While Medicaid is easiest to win consensus on, Medicare is the biggest debt driver. It’s not yet clear how much Ryan hopes to cut from Medicare, and he and GOP leaders have been reluctant to discuss their plans for the other entitlement behemoth: Social Security. But they’ve made clear that they don’t consider Social Security to be as pressing an issue as Medicare and Medicaid.
yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyay REPUBLICANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are they purposefully looking to lose in 2012?
is that sposed to trickle up to the rich and corps?
or thin the herd even smaller
Millions on medicare/aid??? noo not anymore, they  erm found jobs...as statistics

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Surely those programs can be targeted for cuts now that we have Obamacare, right? We really don't need three government plans, do we?

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Are they purposefully looking to lose in 2012?

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ORIGINAL: isoladyboss

Lots of social programs could have been funded with the $550,000,000 Obama spent bombing Libya.

Its really hard to credibly fault the GOP for cuts when Obama maintains wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throws money at Muslim Insurgents in Libya. Obama has chosen to piss away huge sums of money on the wars he continues to prosecute.

Obama has exposed the fiction that the GOP is more evil than the Democrats.

The DNC can't run on an anti-war platform, can't run on opposition to Wall Street bailouts, can't run on opposition to Insurance bailouts, can't run on opposition to Auto maker bailouts, can't run on closing Guantanamo, can't run on real employment figures, can't credibly run on the erosion of civil liberties (Obama renewed the Patriot Act), can't run against "no child left behind", the deficit just seems to be climbing, Obamacare penalties will be revving up soon as well.

Obama can't run on "change", he can't blame the "Decider".

Obama is stuck with a record that looks a lot like his predecessors only with more Socialism and Insurance industry entitlements (buy the Insurer's product or face IRS penalties).

The DNC has very few options left to them and all are non-starters except among their hard core base.

The DNC is forced to try to use fear of the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. Anti abortionists are a good fall back but its not nearly enough.

The DNC tries to cook the books on unemployment. Since benefits run out for the long term unemployed those folks stop applying. The way unemployment figures are tracked now excludes a large sector of unemployed citizens.

This will be an "anyone but Obama" election in 2012. The Democrats are going to get "shellacked" unless the GOP self destructs.

The elections of 2010 were a reaction to Obama's bad policy and he looks even more incompetent now.

Jimmy Carter was a brilliant leader compared to Obama.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

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ORIGINAL: isoladyboss

Lots of social programs could have been funded with the $550,000,000 Obama spent bombing Libya.

Its really hard to credibly fault the GOP for cuts when Obama maintains wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throws money at Muslim Insurgents in Libya. Obama has chosen to piss away huge sums of money on the wars he continues to prosecute.

Obama has exposed the fiction that the GOP is more evil than the Democrats.

The DNC can't run on an anti-war platform, can't run on opposition to Wall Street bailouts, can't run on opposition to Insurance bailouts, can't run on opposition to Auto maker bailouts, can't run on closing Guantanamo, can't run on real employment figures, can't credibly run on the erosion of civil liberties (Obama renewed the Patriot Act), can't run against "no child left behind", the deficit just seems to be climbing, Obamacare penalties will be revving up soon as well.

Obama can't run on "change", he can't blame the "Decider".

Obama is stuck with a record that looks a lot like his predecessors only with more Socialism and Insurance industry entitlements (buy the Insurer's product or face IRS penalties).

The DNC has very few options left to them and all are non-starters except among their hard core base.

The DNC is forced to try to use fear of the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. Anti abortionists are a good fall back but its not nearly enough.

The DNC tries to cook the books on unemployment. Since benefits run out for the long term unemployed those folks stop applying. The way unemployment figures are tracked now excludes a large sector of unemployed citizens.

This will be an "anyone but Obama" election in 2012. The Democrats are going to get "shellacked" unless the GOP self destructs.

The elections of 2010 were a reaction to Obama's bad policy and he looks even more incompetent now.

Jimmy Carter was a brilliant leader compared to Obama.

1.   Lots of social programs and infrastructure could have been funded with the more than trillion dollars spent on Iraq by Bush et al.

2.  The house controls the money, they could defund them today, this is a dishonest as they come argument (remembering that you have expertise in the war powers resolution).

3.  It is not a matter of lesser of two very evils.

4.  Nor can the right of any shade.

5.  I don't think that's gonna be a problem, looking at the current republican miasmas across this country and capital.

6.  Nobody is going to look as bad as W. Nobody.

7.  I was unaware they were casting about for options, I think they are very happy at this time with the slaughter about to befall you guys.

8. Nobody, and I mean nobody is afraid of Palin.  Nobody, and I mean nobody is afraid of 3 baggers in the government.

9.  The book cooking is less than under Bush.

10. The GOP is self-destructing, pick up a newspaper, give it a read.

11. And what competence has been demonstrated by some other individual or party machinery that should rock him back on his heels?

12.  Now, if more people would have listened to him, we wouldn't be in any of these fixes. 

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

What slaughter are you referring to? The "shellacking" of 2010 really happened and the GOP put up some god awful people who actually took Congressional seats.

That was the same guys (and roughly) same number that came in  Ws last couple years,that were tossed,  it's a short cycle in the middle of the aisles in the house, and if there is not some substantial shit gonna happen, the new influx of republican clowns is out the fuckin door, and a newer influx of democratic clowns comes in, until somebody gets this shit fixed, or we auger it in altogether.

Then it will be ALL new clowns top to bottom, who, though no different than before, will have different names other than clown, or democrat or republican.   

Anyway, these fucksticks are sitting around like deer caught in the headlights, frozen, going, Jesus Christ!!??!! WE Did this shit??!! This is bad!! How the fuck could we ever get out of this. 

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Obama may see re-election even with actual unemployment figures hovering in the low double digits.

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can't run on real employment figures

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The DNC tries to cook the books on unemployment. Since benefits run out for the long term unemployed those folks stop applying. The way unemployment figures are tracked now excludes a large sector of unemployed citizens.