by rdan The Baucus-Snowe bill S.3101 Medicare reform in the Senate is up for a vote. This aspect of the Social Security programs has not been discussed in depth here,…

…Street likes, so it gets the support of Baucus and other Dems-in-name-only. 2) The Obama Administration has accepted the idea of “revenue neutral corporate tax reform” but Hatch wants broad…

…those corporations can hobnob with Congress and let them know the items on their wish lists without much intervention from the unknowing public. This is why the Baucus-Hatch “base broadening…

…of Baucus and a subset of the Committee. Whereupon Leader Reid simply took all those materials and sent a “Leader’s Mark” to the Floor, using an existing House Revenue Bill…

…how it would be funded without adding to the deficit. In contrast Obama claimed Obamacare would work without a mandate, got elected, and let Baucus add a mandate. Honesty is…

…agenda out of Congress. This is similar to 2009-10 and Obamacare when centrist Dems like Baucus and Lieberman slow-walked it nearly to death. It is also similar to what happened…

…Obama had to deal with Ben Nelson, Lieberman, Baucus, Conrad, Specter, Landrieux, Lambert Lincoln, Pryor, McCaskill, Bill Nelson (moderate to conservadem) *and* Byrd, Levin, Feinstein, Jeffords, who were dedicated to…

…them.) 2.Obama’s proposed chained-CPI cut would typically reduce benefits for 3 percent, and by as much as 6 percent for some recipients. 3.The White House’s decision to label this cut…

…also added the final two sentences. The post is a followup to a post from earlier Friday. I’ve also created an additional label: mainstream-journalism gimmickry. I’ve left the original rather…

…and since then, models have proliferated, transforming the name “Smith and Wesson .38” into a generic label for a particular style of gun, even clones that aren’t made by Smith…