So is Obama now not going to cut Social Security?

They're losing steak? That's harsh. But they still have potatoes, don't they?

@ 1, he never was. That was a bunch of hard-left hooey.

Anyway, the GOP is bearing out the results of a new poll that shows that a majority of Americans believe they are too extreme.

Erick Erickson, over on Red State:

As an aside, turns out the Mayan calendar wasn’t wrong. It was just their John Boehner horoscope.

Unfortunately, Erick is both telling the GOP it is their 'come to Jesus' moment to face reality, he is also doubling down on their relentless calls for cuts and austerity for all:

The fact is the GOP is going to get blamed so it might as well stick to its principles.

I dunno what to take away from his column, exactly.

The Teabaggers strike again. Are there any moderate Republicans left?

Boehner is impotent

@2, i was reluctant to correct that error.

@6 yes, but none of them hold any office of any significance. The teabagger purge is ongoing, but will take a while yet.

@8, understood. It's an error with unintended meaning.

Where you here when "Where's the beef?" became a political slogan?

I don't know if it's Boehner's collapse, the NRA's stunningly tone-deaf press conference, or maybe just the solstice, but it does seem like more light is in our future.

It's almost as if the Republicans don't understand that without ceding some of Bush's tax cuts, they lose ALL of Bush's tax cuts.

This includes the estate tax, whose current $5.1 million exemption drops to $1 million, and the tax rate on assets above that threshold jumps from 35% to 55%.

@4 - Yeah right, that must be why MoveOn, the well known hard left org, is tracking which senator made a statement regarding Obama's proposal to cut SS: https://pol.moveon.org/fiscal-showdown-w…

Not only you don't have the courage to defend Obama's proposal but you even deny it existed. If you really want to change the Dem party, it's clearly not the way to go about it.

I think Republicans are getting ready to tank Boehner as Speaker. Watch them out-crazy each other.

@15 - That would be awesome to watch happen.

@1 - Cato's talking points come from Occupy, which he also disdains.