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Tea Party zealots hold the public debate hostage
Chicago Tribune ^ | October 15, 2013 | Robert L. Borosage Reuters

Posted on 10/15/2013 2:27:44 PM PDT by mdittmar

This year's contrived budget crisis is headed to its climax, as the date for defaulting on the nation's debt approaches.

Washington's budget debates are dizzying and incomprehensible. But at stake is what kind of country we will have. House Republican Tea Party zealots, backed by well-funded right-wing lobbies, continue to manufacture budget crises. They want to alarm Americans into accepting cuts in basic security — in food stamps, and home heating, in Social Security or Medicare benefits — that would otherwise be utterly unacceptable.

Lost in the uproar is any reasoned discussion of the real strategies we need to make this economy work for working people. It is vital that the president and the Democrats in Congress end this macabre dance and make it clear to people just what the stakes actually are. The measure of any compromise deal is whether it will crush the hostage-takers.

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"zealots,crush the hostage-takers"

Well,I just think that's kinda mean spirited;)

1 posted on 10/15/2013 2:27:44 PM PDT by mdittmar
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2 posted on 10/15/2013 2:28:49 PM PDT by 11th_VA (I want a president who won't enforce tax laws ...)
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Every time we hear ‘tea party extremists’; they need to hear marxist/socialist/progressive extremists (take your pick). Every time.


3 posted on 10/15/2013 2:30:19 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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No, it is Obama and Democrats.


4 posted on 10/15/2013 2:30:21 PM PDT by mulligan
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Really they just got it all wrong. TPers do not want to reduce welfare, SS and Medicare. They want to abolish them as federal programs. The libs have every right to be afraid of the TP. It will end their reign of terror and slavery once and for all.


5 posted on 10/15/2013 2:31:55 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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They are really pushing the “hostage” meme.

I want a bumper sticker that says...

“YES, I support the Tea Party.
You got a problem with that?”


6 posted on 10/15/2013 2:32:44 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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7 posted on 10/15/2013 2:34:46 PM PDT by Zakeet (Democrats haven't destroyed your freedoms ... you can still visit them at the Smithsonian)
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If accepted, a short-term hike of the debt ceiling and funding of government would put all the pressure back on the president. President Barack Obama would be forced to enter into negotiations framed entirely by wrong-headed, right-wing assumptions: that deficit reduction is a "pressing problem;" that crucial security programs for Americans, including Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid have to be cut;

Sounds good to me...

8 posted on 10/15/2013 2:35:43 PM PDT by what's up
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Meanwhile, the commie/socialist/muzzies hold the Dem party hostage (although they seem to be enjoying it), but not a peep from the “news” media.....


9 posted on 10/15/2013 2:37:11 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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The problem is not the debt ceiling; the problem is the debt.

I am willing to bet that within ten minutes Freepers could come up with enough justifiable spending cuts that the budget would be balanced, rendering the "debt ceiling" question moot.

10 posted on 10/15/2013 2:40:05 PM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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Robert L. Borosage never met a communist he didn’t like. In the 1970’s & 1980’s he practically lived at the Soviet embassy, supported Swimmer Kennedy’s nuclear freeze, cheerled for the Sandinistas & Fidel Castro, called Ho Chi Minh his hero, worked with the CPUSA, you name it.

With the fall of the USSR, Borosage like many lefties steered his commie zeal into environmentalism, globalism, UN sovereignty, antinukes, PLO/PA, defund Israel, etc. He remains a proud Marxist to this day.

Tea Party are the `kulaks’ of today to this creep; a class enemy in need of reeducation or elimination.


11 posted on 10/15/2013 2:47:30 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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You’re welcome fag face.


12 posted on 10/15/2013 2:50:18 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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13 posted on 10/15/2013 2:50:51 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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The Chicago Way.
14 posted on 10/15/2013 2:51:07 PM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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You’re welcome, you marxist extremists...


15 posted on 10/15/2013 2:52:16 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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Robert L. Borosage is president of the Institute for America’s Future and co-director of its sister organization, the * Campaign for America’s Future.

* Campaign for America's Future (CAF) is an American political organization with a strongly left-leaning orientation.

16 posted on 10/15/2013 3:00:16 PM PDT by kcvl
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tea party extremists

This can resonate. TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY extremists are TIRED of parasites sucking their wealth and production dry. The Fedzilla has fed at the trough long enough; time to cut spending and kick the illegals out. There is NO MORE $$$$.

17 posted on 10/15/2013 3:00:29 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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Campaign for America’s Future was founded in July 1996 as “the strategy center for the progressive movement.”

Current Board of Directors

Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Drum Major Institute
Lara Bergthold, Act III Productions
Jeff Faux, Economic Policy Institute
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers
Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org
Hilary Shelton, NAACP Washington Bureau

Co-Directors of the Campaign for America’s Future

Roger Hickey, President

Robert L. Borosage, Secretary-Treasurer

Democratic Socialists of America connection

Of the founders listed above John Atlas, Paul Berman, Norman Birnbaum, Julian Bond, Mitchell Cohen, Richard Cloward, William Domhoff, Peter Dreier, Barbara Ehrenreich, Richard Flacks, Adam Hochschild, Michael Kazin, Charles Knight, Peter Laarman, Nelson Lichtenstein, Steve Max, Jay Mazur, Harold Meyerson, Lawrence Mishel, Frances Fox Piven, Frank Riessman, Richard Rorty, Sumner Rosen, Richard Rothstein, Theda Skocpol , Stanley Sheinbaum, Jack Sheinkman, John Sweeney, Michael Walzer, Roger Wilkins and William Julius Wilson, were confirmed members of Democratic Socialists of America or of one of its two predecessors
Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee or the New American Movement.

Institute for Policy Studies connection

Of the founders listed above, many have ties to the far left Institute for Policy Studies

Robert L. Borosage is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Policy Studies.


18 posted on 10/15/2013 3:02:49 PM PDT by kcvl
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Progessive bridge

Campaign for America’s Future leader Robert Borosage boasts of close relationship with top Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Dick Durbin.

“I’d say we are the bridge,” Borosage said. “We are attuned to the grassroots and in touch with the progressive leadership in Congress.”


19 posted on 10/15/2013 3:03:39 PM PDT by kcvl
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L@@K~! A parasite in the flesh...Start calling them what they are...


20 posted on 10/15/2013 3:07:44 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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