{"id":185368,"date":"2011-07-19T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/19\/lucy-will-hold-the-football-this-time-really\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T23:02:00","slug":"lucy-will-hold-the-football-this-time-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/19\/lucy-will-hold-the-football-this-time-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Will Hold The Football This Time \u2026 Really"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “Gang of Six” in the Senate, it’s back<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The once moribund Senate \u201cGang of Six\u201d gained new life Tuesday after Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn unexpectedly rejoined the group and President Barack Obama praised a new effort to cut the debt by as much as $3.7 trillion over the next decade.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the White House Tuesday afternoon, Obama gave the Gang of Six a big boost, saying its proposals were \u201croughly\u201d in line with his negotiations during the stalled debt-ceiling talks. But he said there would need to be broader buy-in to the proposal and he said Congress needed to have \u201cfail-safe\u201d plan, being drafted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, to avert a default.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re now seeing a potential for a bipartisan consensus,\u201d Obama told reporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Obama is not just positive about this development, he is a “ferocious advocate” of capitulation masquerading as bipartisanship<\/a>:<\/p>\n

President Obama heaped praise on a deficit-reduction proposal produced by bipartisan group of senators known as the “Gang of Six,” calling it a “significant step” and arguing that members on both side of the aisle are beginning to coalesce around a balanced approach involving cuts to entitlements and tax increases.<\/p>\n

“We’re in the same playing field and my hope is that we start gathering everybody in the next couple of days” on an agreement, Obama told reporters in a brief appearance in the White House briefing room Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is just pathetic.<\/p>\n

In response to Republicans taking “a shellacking” because of their attempts to dismantle Medicare and Medicaid, Obama has signed on to a plan that calls for cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s quote of the day<\/a> shines a bit more light on this problem.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama’s fetish regarding “Responsibility without conviction,” is more than “weak”.  It is in fact profoundly irresponsible.<\/p>\n

Speaking as a parent, and someone who plays an adult on the internet, sometimes adults actually have to deal with children, and, “I’ll give you another ice cream if you stop \u2026\u2026\u2026 Well OK, you did not<\/b> stop, but here is your ice cream anyway,” is not responsible anything<\/b>.<\/p>\n

I think the idea that Barack Obama is the responsible adult in the room is a delusion, and one that is most firmly held by one one Barack Hussein Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “Gang of Six” in the Senate, it’s back: The once moribund Senate \u201cGang of Six\u201d gained new life Tuesday after Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn unexpectedly rejoined the group and President Barack Obama praised a new effort to cut the debt by as much as $3.7 trillion over the next decade. Speaking at the White …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1038,998,1020,982,983,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-budget","category-congress","category-legislation","category-stupid","category-taxes","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}