You are going to hear that Obama created the fiscal cliff so he is solely responsible.

[Kablooie]

You are going to hear that a lot.

That's why the Teafucks think they can get away with this.
They expect it all to be pinned on Obama and they will get off scott free.

I just heard this from that Ayn Paul thing that sits in the house.

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Well, at least it makes for thrilling political theater.
I just wish the tickets weren't so expensive.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. Very few will believe this bullshit.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. Yeah, Ryan tried that on the sequester during the campaign

Didn't end so well for Ryan.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

3. It won't work. And Ayn Paul will be a one term senator

What a stupid fuck he is.

[liberal N proud]

4. The teabaggers and the GOP have the media

So they will manage to make it Obama's fault.

The President needs to interrupt the Rose Bowel tomorrow and talk to the nation stating his case.

This is a national emergency!

[woo me with science]

5. The fiscal cliff was a bipartisan fabrication.

Republicans and corporate Democrats, including Obama, colluded on this Shock Doctrine scam last spring. They deliberately orchestrated it to use Social Security as a hostage to pass an austerity deal and to garner praise for the participants when the contrived axe of SS benefits did not fall...this time.

The important point here is that they rigged the game to ensure that the country accepted a policy that they would never have voted for...austerity for the masses...and they made sure that it was in the package no matter the outcome.

At a certain point we need to acknowledge that we have a systemic problem of corporate money, power, and influence that drives policy in Washington at the expense of the rest of us, and that problem does not exist *only* in the Republican Party anymore.

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Nothing will change until Americans look clearly at how the game is rigged from the start in every single negotiation, how the possible options are artificially narrowed from the start, and how every negotiation moves us rightward. Every. Single. One.