2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumKent Conrad ready to give the farm away on fiscal Cliff
FUCKER!!! here we go again with Corporate Democrats leading in negotiations.I have a bad felling Obama is ready to CAVE just to get a fucking deal http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/26/1173928/-Kent-Conrad-ready-to-give-away-the-farm-on-the-fiscal-cliff#comments
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Conrad is gone in another 6 days.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)He and Judd Gregg tried to start the Commission, but Congress said "No thanks!". They tried again, and Congress said "No way!". Then, once it was dead, Obama picked it up and said "Hey! Great idea!" and appointed the two single greatest haters of Social Security on our planet to run the thing.
It was at that moment that I knew were were destined for big trouble.
DFW
(54,408 posts)I don't think Heidi Heitkamp will be quite as beholden to rigid budget ideology as Conrad was.