House Liberals Launch Organizing Drive Against Entitlements Cuts

Source: Washington Post

Posted at 04:55 PM ET, 07/08/2011
House liberals launch organizing drive against entitlements cuts
By Greg Sargent

House liberals are launching an organizing drive inside the Democatic caucus, in an effort to line up Democrats and get them to commit to opposing any final deficit deal that contains any cuts to entitlements benefits, according to a letter I’ve obtained.

The two co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus have sent the letter to Nancy Pelosi, pledging to stand behind her insistence that the final deal contain no benefits cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.

The letter will be used next week to gather signatures from House Dems, in an effort to maximize for Democrats by developing a unified front behind a refusal to support any cuts to those programs that reduce benefits or eligibility. The letter — which was sent my way by a source and is signed by Dem Reps Raul Grijalva and Keith Ellison — reads as follows:

We write in strong agreement with your unwavering defense of the Democratic programs that form the bedrock of America’s middle and working classes, and which are overwhelmingly popular.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/house-liberals-launch-organizing-drive-against-entitlements-cuts/2011/03/03/gIQAnDY63H_blog.html

Someone should write them a letter and let them know! If only they spent more time on the internet, they wouldn't be so clueless.

We should call them and tell them, it's no biggy!

Besides, it's really more of a little cut, not a slash. Nothing to get upset about. Serious people understand that.

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K&R

We'll see . . .

Pelosi said she wouldn't do it, there was some shuffling, and the next thing you know, she's at the podium and four interns are applauding.

We'll see.

I'm sure.

We'll get our austerity plan just like everyone else - only there's less of a net and way more holes here than in the typical EU country.

Ever trim a bonzai tree? Little bitty snips.

in Avatar: (oops, this one is real) and coming for an entitlement in your backyard.

It isn't even really a snip, it's more of a gentle brushing, like you do with ponies. Who doesn't like ponies?

Communists, that's who.

said we shouldn't expect to get them.

:kick: The party of Curry combs and ponies, you say?

Apostate! :spank: Spanking for you!

What's the point of conspicuous consumption if everyone can't see it? Besides, if I talk you into combing it for free, that's one less person on my payroll.

BTW, the beatings will continue until morale improves!

Even if they're not my own and I don't get paid. Just was part of the experience.

I never needed a crop to get the thing over the fence, so you can save your beating stick.

Geez.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1447220
weasel words

aware of the sneaky "adjustments"). He said some Senators "who might surprise you" are in agreement with him.

It would be extremely stupid to wait and find out what's going to happen or to complain about it until its a done deal.

Hopefully they will have enough votes to just vote it straight down there.

...that we're done with being sold down the river.

nope, I PAID for these "entitlements benefits".

Damn it, by calling them entitlements, it plays into the "we are taking from everyone else" to get what I paid into.

I ain't getting anything I didn't already pay for.