I'm dieing to know where Murray stands

[pscot]

in these budget talks. If the Democrats cave on the Bush tax cut, again, it means Murray is with them, not us. Any Democrat who votes to keep those cuts alive is owned by the 1 percenters.

[mcgarry50]

1. social security

i have called her office several times in the last week and they say they don't know where she stands, i think she would cave. i reminded them that SS is not a problem and why is it that when wallstreet commits fraud that they get away scott free by calling it an accounting error? just look at MF global.

[eridani]

2. She has steadfastly refused to talk to constituents about the Super Committee

Looks like it failed, but the attacks on Social Security are far from over.

[suffragette]

3. Murray on supercommittee: I was willing to 'put some blood on the table'

Was looking myself and saw this:

http://www.seattlepi.com/default/article/Murray-on-supercommittee-I-was-willing-to-put-2281182.php

And, after years of rote Democratic defenses of Social Security and Medicare, Murray acknowledged that changes must be made in the great social programs of the New Deal and Great Society. She offered up cuts to entitlement programs before the talks failed.

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Murray argued that there was "give" on the part of supercommittee Democrats. She noted criticism from liberal websites. And Murray made a sharply critical reference to what she called the "don't touch ours" theme of TV ads aired by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).

"I went into this and had to put some blood on the table," Murray said. "It was hard for me to do this. The issue for our side was, 'If we do this, we had to have some revenue on the table.' They just wanted to take the entitlement cuts and walk away from the table."

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"It is not whether these changes will be made," she said. "It is who will make the changes and what values will be applied. We need to reach a point where we do what is necessary, in a way that will impact everybody a little bit."




It looks like it doesn't bode well to me.