If the GOP is experiencing anti-tax fatigue, the Club for Growth has a message for them: immediate balanced budget or else.
TPM Reader SR offers below one interpretation of the debt deal trial balloons floated over the past 18 hours. The gist of SR‘s argument is that Democrats are going through the motions of looking as reasonable and compromising as possible because they know no deal is possible and want to fortify their political position that the GOP is to blame for default and economic collapse. It’s a theory worth considering. I’m not convinced that’s what’s happening here, but I remain open to the possibility. As SR suggests, it’s a frightening possibility: Read More
AARP releases statement suggesting it’s prepared to go to war over any cuts to Social Security. (It defends Medicare, too, but it saves its big guns for Social Security.)
AARP is putting out the message that they’re 100% against cuts to Social Security and Medicare as part of a debt ceiling (hostage taking) negotiation.
Voters still failing to get on board with DC’s entitlement cut consensus, remain overwhelming against received wisdom.
Today’s White House meeting of congressional leaders and the President on a debt deal has wrapped up, and Obama is expected to appear in the White House briefing room shortly to make a statement. Watch live.
Speaking to the press after today’s debt ceiling talks wrapped up, President Obama ran through a list of principles on which the two sides agree — but not enough agreement to reach a deal yet. He called the talks “very constructive.” The congressional leadership will reconvene at the White House Sunday for another round of talks.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told her agitated caucus this morning that she was left in the dark about the plan to reportedly include Social Security cuts in a debt deal.
A very interesting counter-take on the question of the structural impediments hurting the Dems and favoring the GOP from TPM Reader JB. I partly agree with the take …
I read you piece today on the Democrats failure of the political aspect of politics this morning. I think you need to take a step back and look at the larger picture. Nate Silver’s piece today makes clear that the terms conservative and Republican are converging with everyone else favoring the Democrats. In this scenario, turnout composition explained the results in 2008 and 2010 more than population realignment.
White House says Obama hasn’t changed his position on Social Security, not quite as clear on what sort of cuts he’d accept.