Turd Way attempts another pre-emptive stike.

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EXCLUSIVE -- Poll by centrist Dem group shows Obama voters support entitlement reform -- Carrie Budoff Brown: “ Third Way poll of 800 Obama voters set for release Tuesday found that efforts to fix Medicare and Social Security enjoy broader support than liberals suggest. … The poll … attempts to speak to center-left lawmakers who may be sympathetic to the rising calls from liberals to not compromise. Unions and other progressive groups have pointed to surveys showing that Democrats don’t want lawmakers to touch entitlements, don’t view the debt and deficit as a top priority, and don’t favor Obama working with Republicans. Actually, they want all three, concluded the survey by Peter Brodnitz of the Benenson Strategy Group, which does Obama’s polling.

http://www.politico.com/playbook/

Fuck off and die.

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1. The 5th Column in the Democratic Party

False-Flag Pols.They get on the ballot where it's easier to win as a Dem than a Rethug. Slimy Buggers, all.

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3. Do you know any Democratic officeholder who is not Third Way,

New Democrat, DLC?

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2. We know for a fact that their polling methods are flawed.

I will work against the election of ANY Democrat that supports cuts or compromises social security, medicare or medicaid in any way.

I don't like Republicans whether or not they have an R or a D next to their name.

This is not about compromise. The President already spent four years compromising with the Rs.

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4. I don't think he compromised. Obama has said that he a New Democrat and he has behaved like one.

On that issue, there has been no discrepancy between his words and his actions. I think it's past time that we believe him.

As far as ACA, he did pretty much what he wanted.

The only Republican who even feigned an interest in the bill was Susan Collins; and it passed without her vote--or the vote of any Republican--anyway.

He renewed the Patriot Act.

The very first budget he sent to Congress cut fuel subsidies for the poor.

As far as compromising on taxes for the rich, I think the only Republicans who influenced his thinking on that were the Republicans he hired to advise him, starting with little Timmeh Geithner.

Like every good Republican, TG is of the view that you never raise taxes on anyone during a recession. In December 2010, when we got the Obama tax increases, Democrats still controlled both Houses of Congress. Not only that, but, if Obama had wished, he could have done away with the Bush tax increases on the rich as soon as he took office, citing the extreme state of the economy at that time and the fact that he had campaigned on it and been elected by a healthy popular and electoral vote.

And, once the Republicans got control of the House, he focused on things he could control without them, like doubling down on Bushco terrorism fighting, including the assassination of Bin Laden and drone killings.