If there's only going to be only ONE Dem on TV, why couldn't it have been Nancy?

[Enrique]

there's a million Republicans out there, just unapologetically pounding away at their radical RW philosophy.

Why can't we take an equally clear position? Boehner took tax increases off the table today, why can't we take Medicare cuts off the table?

Here's Nancy a couple of weeks ago:

Pelosi: Dems shouldn’t take GOP’s bait on Medicare

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x646740

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On a conference call with bloggers, Nancy Pelosi urged Dems to fashion their response to Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposals on the Democratic Party’s successful defeat of Social Security privatization, and made a critical point: Dems succeeded in 2005 because they did not take the GOP’s bait by offering their own plan to “fix” Social Security.

Pelosi — who is widely viewed as the person most responsible for ensuring that Dems drew a hard line against Bush’s privatization proposals — said that so doing would have persuaded people that there must have been something wrong with Social Security that needed fixing. She suggested that Dems should keep that message in mind as they prepare to do battle over Ryan’s Medicare proposals.

“We got criticized for it, but it was the most important thing,” Pelosi said. “We couldn’t have our own proposal on Social Security because it would confuse the public.”

Pelosi said that so doing would have meant Dems were “conceding there must be some big problem.” She characterized the Dem message at the time as follows: “We have a proposal on the table: It’s called `Social Security.’ The President has something on the table: It’s called `privatization.’”

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Here's our ONE representative this morning, rejecting that advice:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/nikki-haley-we-do-not-want-a-massachusetts-health-care-plan-in-south-carolina.php

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Durbin: 'Democrats Are Prepared To Talk About The Future Of Major Entitlement Programs'

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that Democrats could work on compromises for Medicare and Social Security: "Democrats are prepared to talk about the future of major entitlement programs, reform that is not going to deny the basic protections, which we put in the programs, but acknowledges the fact that we have serious economic problems ahead of us if we don't have some reform in both Medicare and Social Security."

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[Fridays Child]

1. This is why I can't watch the Sunday shows.

Fuck Durbin.