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referring to,
I am sure I should know what it is but could someone help me out
doc03
(35,367 posts)SS and other programs.
so its back to going after the GOP dream of cuts to entitlement programs
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Although...wonder who is under that hood...Rove or Norquist?
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)...and we get a few token crumbs in return.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)It's the idea that you can get some kind of compromise on an essential issue that can fix Social Security between Democrats and Republicans.
In recent years it's become more a negative term. Again taking Social Security, when one side wants to strengthen and improve Social Security (Democrats/Liberals) and the other side wants to Destroy it (Republicans/Conservatives) what kind of grand bargain is really possible? "Well we'll maim social security, but we won't actually bury it." It often refers to the desires of some Democrats and a handful of Republicans to fix problems through Compromise which inevitably means giving up Democratic Values and Principals.
Bryant
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)gabeana
(3,166 posts)this is a really good link
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)and I'm glad they're stupid enough to think they can get it through this way, because he cannot negotiate on the debt ceiling. So I think if they push for it now they'll force him to say "No grand barngain" and may just accidentally kill any chance of it in the future. Kill it for effing good.
Wounded Bear
(58,709 posts)where they determined that the only way to 'fix' our economy was to cut SS/Medicare/Medicaid and double down on Military spending. (Not really true, there were some 'cuts' to the Pentagon, but not much.)
The backlash was pretty severe (look at the Catfood Commission meme, for one thing) so they renamed it the "Grand Bargain" to sound better. SSDN-same shit, different name.
chill_wind
(13,514 posts)in their agitating for a bargaining "fix" on social security. Further back than that, really.
DLC | The New Democrat | January 1, 1999
A Grand Bargain on Social Security
By Will Marshall
more here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1571153
and lots of direct references by them here:
http://www.thirdway.org/publications/609