It’s one week until Obama’s budget drops, and I strongly urge you to call your senators. Tell them you want no part of the Grand Bargain. The reason you need to call them is that the Senate will pass a bipartisan bill and get a vote on the House floor, and we want to stop it. Please call today:
Dave Johnson at Seeing the Forest:
Here is how the DC game works:
– One side proposes to kill everyone in Kentucky and Tennessee. 15% of the public supports this (0% in Kentucky or Tennessee.)
– The other side thinks children should have enough food so they can grow up strong. (85% of the public supports this.)
– A Grand Bargain is reached in which they agree to kill everyone in Tennessee and spare the people in Kentucky, and children will get half as much food as they need.
The DC pundits will say that since everyone is angry at this, it must be the right solution because “both sides” only got part of what they want.
Call the corporate media too. They’re the ones who spread the propaganda (lies) that the Congress wants the public to react too. Like Social Security is going broke. Or the rich are the job creators. Or my favorite, “Iran is going to kill us all with a nuclear bomb!”
You’re a week off the “news” cycle. “NORTH KOREA’S GONNA KILL US WITH A NUCLEAR BOMB!!!!” (and ahem, Keystone, cough CCPI, cough, cough).