The Democrats are Pavlov's dogs

[phantom power]

...remember, these deficit fetishists are always wrong about everything:

August 28, 1996

CHICAGO - Sen. Bob Kerrey smells an odor coming from the Republican and Democratic stands on entitlements.

"It's one of the cruelest things we do, when we say, Republicans or Democrats, `Oh, we can wait and reform Social Security later,' " the Nebraska Democrat said.

Mr. Kerrey says that without reform, entitlements will claim 100 percent of the Treasury in 2012.

"This is not caused by liberals, not caused by conservatives, but by a simple demographic fact," Mr. Kerrey warned at a meeting of the Democratic Leadership Council.

"We [will have] converted the federal government into an ATM machine."

Yes, that is a Democrats saying that. And there are plenty of them today who believe the same nonsense. At some point I have no doubt that the GOP will wear them down and train them to reflexively give in rather than undergo repeated crises. They are Pavlov's dogs. And Pavlov wants some of that social security money for his portfolio.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/they-will-never-quit.html

[RBInMaine]

1. It's from 1996. The DLC doesn't exist anymore. Enough of your TeaLeft Dem-bashing. It STINKS !

[HereSince1628]

2. If only their thinking didn't carry forward anymore...

You can dye the rear end of a zebra to hide it's stripes, but it doesn't make it think like a hard working donkey.

It's that donkey-thought that seems to be critically endangered.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Digby under the bus?

Award wining liberal progresive bloger




http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/2014-hillman-prize-opinion-and-analysis-journalism

She is telling us to be vigilant

[madokie]

4. I worry too