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Imagine a MoveOn That Doesn't Answer to Democrats<br>
By davidswanson - Posted on 02 July 2011<br>
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On Friday I read in the New York Times that President Obama would be
happy to cut $200 billion out of Medicare in order to inflict pain
on his Democratic base, part of an imagined tradeoff in which the
two parties inflict pain on their imagined bases in order to reduce
the deficit without imposing sensible taxes on billionaires or
shrinking military spending to sane levels. Also on Friday I got an
Email from True Majority asking me to celebrate Obama's defense of
Medicare.<br>
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We've progressed from "I feel your pain" to "I inflict your pain,"
and we're being told to like it.<br>
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"President Obama: If you stand up to the Republican hostage-takers
and protect Medicare," it says on MoveOn.org's website, "we will
have your back." Or, of course, even if you don't do that, President
Obama, even if the whole idea of it is based on myths about who is
on whose side, MoveOn and most other online groups that don't have
the back of the Republican Party will have yours. That's the way
this game works. Except that it hasn't been working...<br>
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Full article at
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://warisacrime.org/content/imagine-moveon-doesnt-answer-democrats"><http://warisacrime.org/content/imagine-moveon-doesnt-answer-democrats></a>./<br>
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On 7/6/11 12:47 PM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:<br>
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> <br>
> Fyi -- Media Matters shows are all archived -- see 'way below
for<br>
> more. --Jenifer<br>
> <br>
> --- On *Tue, 7/5/11, Melisse Trentz
/<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mtfaye@YAHOO.COM"><mtfaye@YAHOO.COM></a>/* wrote:<br>
> <br>
> MEDIA MATTERS WITH BOB McCHESNEY<br>
> <br>
> THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM Eli Pariser is an online organizer and<br>
> disorganizer, the former Executive Director of MoveOn (and
now the<br>
> board president), a co-founder of Avaaz.org, and as of May
2011 the<br>
> author of The Filter Bubble. <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.thefilterbubble.com">www.thefilterbubble.com</a><br>
> ...<br>
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