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I was talking to a physician today about the major cuts to public health programs mandated by Obama’s 2011 deal with the Republicans.   Has the “mainstream” news media already made those cuts disappear down the memory hole?   At this point, … Continue reading →

The sight of the President now partnering with Republican senators over back-room dinners to plan the way earned-benefit programs will be cut is just too revolting. He is so obsessed that he’s entirely lost any vision into what the cost will … Continue reading →

— Or something like that. Here we go again: Superficially Republicans and Obama are at loggerheads, but basically they are  working in tandem.  The sequester that they jointly negotiated in 2011 is traumatizing a country already in the throes of … Continue reading →

What’s  truly startling about Sperling’s email communication with Woodward is the degree to which the Obama administration was (and is, as we all know) committed to cutting so-called “entitlements.”  To which, I might add, we, the working people of this country, might well believe we’re … Continue reading →

I’d like to make one thing perfectly clear: I am GLAD that the President isn’t sending a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf, whatever his motivation or stated motivation. I’m glad we’ve retreated a half step from the perpetual … Continue reading →

I really want to barf when I get broadcasted emails from the President’s office, asking my support for his “balanced” plan to replace the sequester by inflicting huge cuts to social programs, including Social Security.  And his deception is aided and … Continue reading →

“Put deed and song where they belong,” Wagner’s great master singer instructs the aspirant Walther.  However — The perils, or rather the trade-offs that result when opera singers are cast by celebrity and physical attributes rather than vocal appropriateness are evident … Continue reading →

I want to talk about the deep, emphatic collective denial about what was going on in this country that has been practiced by most of the middle class over the past twenty years, coming on the heels of the retreat … Continue reading →

Lauren McCauley at Common Dreams reports on Flip the Debt, a new group confronting the enormously wealthy tax dodgers who insist that the poor,  the middle class,  and the elderly subsidize them. Listen to what one Flip the Debt protester … Continue reading →

And the euphemistic double talk that both Obama and his surrogates keep practicing is almost on the GOP level.  Viz,  Jay Carney today. According to Carney, Obama is brokering: “as part of that deal, a technical change in the so-called … Continue reading →