"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." --Groucho Marx (attributed)
On Apr 10, 2013, at 5:19 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Doug writes:
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>> I keep being surprised by the continual surprised. He's been talking about
>> this sort of thing for years. Just this morning, I watched his brief talk
> at the
>> opening of the Hamilton Project (a Bowles-Simpson-Rubin-Altman thingy
>> hosted at Brookings) - that from 2006, before he even had to think about
>> compromising with Republicans in Congress. These are his principles. He's
>> not Paul Ryan, but he and Ryan need each other, even if Ryan doesn't know
>> that.
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> THESE ARE HIS PRINCIPLES! Any other explanation is actual connivance with
> the forces of Austerity.
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> All the other posts in this thread seem pure lunacy to me. Doug says it
> _all_ here. How can we expect masses of liberals to catch on when
> self-labeled radicals mutter about political minutiae, with no recognition
> of the point Doug makes.
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> And it's happening throughout the capitalist world: The Liberal Parties in
> the lead in crushing the last fragments of Social Democracy.
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> It will get worse and worse. Only mass struggles on a scale never
> approached before can, perhaps, stop it.
>
> Please. No more nuanced analysis of Obama's tactics, motives, etc.
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> Carrol
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