(Updated) House Dems who promise to vote No to benefit cuts like Chained CPI
Chained CPI is a benefit cut and it’s very unpopular. These House Democrats promise to stop it.
Weekend thoughts on Working Class Heroes (with music)
A Working Class Hero is something to be. A One-Percent Hero is someone to flee.
Obama’s benefit-cuts budget takes more from seniors than from wealthy
The Rich vs the Rest, Obama edition. His benefit cuts hurt retirees 3x more than his tax hikes hurt the rich.
Chained CPI is not just bait; Obama actually “prefers” it
Barack “Grand Cuts” Obama is eager for chained CPI and benefit cuts. Will his hubris be his undoing?
Obama economic adviser: Using the sequester to cut benefits was “part of the DNA from the start”
Obama insider email reveals: Sequester was designed from the start as a way to cut benefits.
Obama: Social Security & Medicare cuts are “very much (back) on the table”
He’s playing hardball with us, folks, about cuts to Social Security. Can we not at least return the favor?
How Obama used Biden to undercut Reid on fiscal cliff deal (plus a framing story)
Which Obama is more real, the one you want to exist, or the one who gives your stuff away? Your choice on that.
What a call to courage sounds like: Woody Guthrie’s “Union Maid”
Woodie Guthrie says stand strong and together. (Psst, there’s more than one kind of union…)
(Updated) Congress’ schedule & House GOP vote count for Boehner-Obama fiscal cliff deal
Feel like making some calls to Repubicans to sink the Boehner-Obama deal? Here are some useful phone numbers.
A good progressive counter-offer to Boehner: Lower the Medicare age
Seven progressive ways to raise the money Obama claims to want to raise.



