Progressive Group Vows to Withhold Support From Obama if Entitlements Cut
- Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:24pm by
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Is President Obama not liberal enough for progressives? If one CNN report is correct, that could in fact be the case. Hailed by MSNBC’s Ed Schultz as the “top progressive group in the country,” The Progressive Change Campaign Committee isn’t too keen on supporting President Obama in 2012 — that is if he decides to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
And according to CNN more than 160,000 of the 700,000 member PCCC have already pledged to withhold support for Obama’s 2012 campaign if he does in fact make such concessions.
The group, whose stated mission is to help “elect bold progressive candidates to federal office” doesn’t seem to think Obama fits into that category.
PCCC co-founder Adam Green theorized that if Obama doesn’t fulfill the requests of his supporters during debt negotiations, he may be more poised to run as an independent in 2012 instead of in the Democratic primary.
An overwhelming majority of Democratic voters oppose cutting Social Security to deal with debt, according to PCCC polling.
“If he’s running as a Democrat, antagonizing the base like that is a pretty bad strategy,” Green told CNN.
However, earlier Monday The Blaze reported House Speaker John Boehner stood his ground with Obama, maintaining that the government’s entitlement spending is “unsustainable.” If Speaker Boehner prevails and entitlements are cut, progressives’ disenchantment with the President could soon reach critical mass.
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Comments (115)
FANGS
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:27pmIt‘s not obama’s choice what to Cut. What exactally does this Progressive committee contribute to our Capitolist Christian Nation? What do they Produce. Of what Value is Progressive Committee To The United States? Republicans Are not going to raise the Debt Ceiling. Obama and the Democrats will just have to pick which Priorities will get Paid. Childrens Lunches or Abortions. Social Security or The Apollo Alliance. Medicade or Windmills. Title 19 or Teachers unions. Free bus passes for the poor or Bribes for Judges. Meals for the Poor or 79 more golf rounds. After school programs or School board payoffs. Our Military Family’s checks or Bailouts to Greese. Food stamps or oil rigs for Brazil.
Report Post »Bear
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:48pmHe would vote for anything Socialist or progressive if he had enough votes to get re-elected! What happened to this‘ I don’t care if I am a one term President Bull sHiTz’ ?? He has been in campaign mode for half a year now and those crap eating Libs aren’t going to pull their funds from him because they understand he is lying and they know he will do some real damage in his 2nd term when there is no re-election to worry about! What a bunch of Stupid,Liberal,Hippie Morons!
Report Post »leftcoastslut
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:12amthe one thing that has become more visible with these elected officials, thanks to glenn awakening us, is everything is about the re-election, damn the country. pubs, crats and indys, we have all learned how search the internet and what we are looking at is your vote. so damn the torpedos, vote your conscious and we will vote ours. good luck
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 10:27am”
Before you write that I‘ve violated someone’s rights, realize that all of
the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules. Before
you say that this would be “demeaning” and ruin their “self esteem,”
consider that it wasn‘t that long ago that taking someone else’s money for
doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self-esteem.
If we are expected to pay for other people’s mistakes we should at least
attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system
rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.
AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that
Report Post »is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will
voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t
welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.
JRook
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 11:11amOk here is a quick quiz for the group. If the SS and Medicare Trust funds are still solvent for years to come, how do either of these contribute to current deficits???
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:25pmPoor, poor, Barack. Trapped between doing the right (Conservative) thing and the wrong (Progressive) thing. I don’t envy him. Then again, I’d never envy any Collectivist.
Report Post »Bear
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:44pmIf your for real,,that’s Great stuff!
Report Post »leftcoastslut
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:54pmpoor, poor obama has already made his bed. imagine how uncomfortable it is
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:12amI Vow to Withhold Support for Bama’s re-election, No problem !!
Report Post »john koenig
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 2:42amObama has fallen into the same trap as Carter. Both sides hate his guts. He’s toast already.
Report Post »timej31
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:25pmBand them! Round them up! Jail them all they are enemies of the country. Elect someone that will!
Report Post »OklahomaBound
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:24pmI think they got the letters of this so-called progressive group wrong. We all know “progressives” are actually communist, the letters should read CCCP as they were for the old Soviet Union.
Report Post »MartyTr
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 2:18amThat is how cowardly they are, they won’t even admit who they are. A marxist I work for said something about his Canadian clothes one day. More like commie clothes. What a coward. They all know I am a Tea Partier, I’m not afraid to say it.
Report Post »One Man One Voice
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 6:49amRe-defining and re-labeling has been a tactic used by the progressive liberals to disguise their true intent for decades. It has reached new levels since Obama was elected. They are bait & switch artists. Always watch the other hand when dealing with these charlatans.
Report Post »SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:24pmMrs. Margaret Thatcher
I would much prefer to bring them down as soon as possible. I think they‘ve made the biggest financial mess that any government’s ever made in this country for a very long time, and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them. They then start to nationalise everything, and people just do not like more and more nationalisation, and they’re now trying to control everything by other means. They’re progressively reducing the choice available to ordinary people.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:20pmLiberals thrive on BLACKMAIL. Obama is getting a taste of his own medicine. No honor among crooks.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:18pmProgressives are unsustainable!
Report Post »nightmar
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:13pmwow, that is shocking. you mean the welfare state will revolt, that is very strange. i cannot even imagine that.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 4:57amI say let those commies revolt. I cannot wait.
Report Post »Tear Em Up
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:11pmThis administration wants the same thing every first term president wants….an second term. Let’s see to it that there is no second term…
http://traffic.libsyn.com/mikeleeandterrymartin/Number_72_July_9th_2011.mp3
Report Post »MartyTr
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 2:19amYep, as soon as we get a worthy candidate we will get to work. I can’ wait.
Report Post »hud
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 9:56amThe worthy candidate is anybody but the bummer
Report Post »the wireworker
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:58pmProgressives
Report Post »Can’t
Comprehend
Capitalism
ConsiderThis
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:09pmWhat Obama could do if he thinks the populace will support his need to swell the debt is give the people an accounting of what revenue has come in and where it’s gone.
Report Post »the wireworker
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:17pmthe most transparent prez ever ‘sarcasm’
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:20amYep and I NEVER got a check from a POOR person
NO BO in 2012
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:55pmIt doesn’t matter who does or does not support Obama. He will NEVER leave “office”! Do any of you really believe when he loses the election he’ll just step down with dignity? NO HE WILL NOT! There will be riots in the streets of the big cities causing him, Obama, to declare Marshal Law. This will, in effect, make him the dictator of the former United States of America. For Pete’s sake America, WAKE THE FLAP UP! There is no way to change the current situation, short of an armed revolution. We’ve been asleep at the wheel for too long. They’ve gotten a huge foothold and will not be turned aside with the mear vote by The People. We’ve toasted our own bread way beyond what we prefer. (and NO that’s not a racists comment. Just an anology) If any of you think just by casting your ballot, it‘s going to change what’s killing America, you’re all sadly mistaken. Prepare, Prepare, Prepare for the holacost to come. (sorry if my spelling and grammer is wrong. This crap pee’s me off!)
Report Post »the wireworker
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:15pmthe thought of there not even being an election in 2012 has crossed my mind several times
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:02amOf course you mean voluntarily leave from office.
Report Post »tbl10
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:10amI feel your frustration, I have to agree with you. This plan was officially set in motion back on Sept 11 1991 when George Bush Sr. announced to the world about the NEW WORLD ORDER. They have been engineering the destruction of the United States for a long time. I am afraid that we have passed the point of no return. Homeland Security and Fema are just waiting for the go orders from Obama and all that do not comply to the regime will be sent to the internment camps that have been set up in this country. The elite of this world are all Luciferians and will start World War 3 and fulfill the final prophesy of the Bible. God Bless all of his children and keep them safe during the chaos that will soon begin.
For all you Liberal retards that will blast me go ahead I don’t care. I know how this ends for both me and you. I pray the Lord opens your hearts and minds before its too late for you.
Report Post »rienheart
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:15amMy thoughts exactly, He will try the same thing the Pres. in Honduras tried, but got resoundly thrown out, as Obama will be. no matter if he declares Marshal law or not. There will be Blood. Be ready.
Report Post »rickroland
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:17amNot gonna happen. Wouldn’t be prudent.
If you believe that the majority of the military (those leading and those following) would just blindly follow such orders, you would be quite surprised, I am certain.
You see, even U.S. military swear to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
So there will be an election, President False Hopes and No Change will be a former president and life will go on with drastic cuts being made to out-of-control Federal government spending, dismantling of the Federal Reserve and many other beneficial things.
Report Post »ampatriot
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:28amoh lord thats been my thoughts for over a year now, like he doesnt care so much because its all taken care of attitude about him….thats how they work.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 5:07amI agree with RickRoland
Report Post »If you think that the majority of the rank and file soldiers in this country will blindly follow a commie order from Obama to crack our heads you are sadly mistaken. I am almost tempted to say that the folks here stating that baloney are attempting to brainwash the citizens into assuming that all is lost and it is futile to resist. Hitler did the same thing to his people. It is called propaganda. Don’t buy it you guys. Obama will be a one term president. Period.
siewerdenhassen
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 3:21pmI would like to say I believe your opinion is very close to the truth. I have lost all faith in our governance a this point. I would like the chance to speak with you more deeply if you are interested. I don’t plan to stay too in touch with the whole networking on the blaze because it is not social networking and it is just my news source. If you are interested in speaking with me here are links to my other social networks.
Report Post »http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001987797138#!/profile.php?id=100000655289037
http://connect.freedomworks.org/node/59146
I do believe our system is far too corrupt to continue the path that it is on and I do not believe election will get us away from these power hungry mongers that seem to be finding their way in, There needs to be an investigation of our system and there needs to also be a reconstruct led by the people…. if you ask me.
rufuscharles
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:50pmPlease, this is another progressive campaign ploy! Fein outrage and threaten to withhold support for a president who isn’t progressive enough for them!? Yeah. What they going to do, vote for Bachmann?
What a joke!”. Their entire intent is to help Obama win over “Independants” who they know, just as this administration knows, they need for re-election. To make him look more “centrist” is the only way they can do that and they know it. They know that Obama is the most progressive/marxist president we have had in decades and they will support him until the day there is no money left to be doled out.
Report Post »bigdawg
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:22pmSpot on! Look for more of this kabuki theater. The “brown shirts” at the unions are saying the same things. It’s all a lie and right out of the handbook. “Tell us again, Mr. President, how you want to reduce the deficit now, not later… and how it’s time to fix Medicare to keep it solvent.” Munch, munch. “We’re eating it up Mr. President! You’ve got us fooled…” Moron.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:42pmThat day is already here!
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:48pmThere might end up being 4 tickets of the ballot in 2012
Report Post »ericthebarbaric
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:48pmSo is Ed Schultz free from his Laura Ingraham “whore” comment? Of course he is. They are the ultimate hypocrites these leftists. I freely puke upon their women and children.
Report Post »BigPaulie
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:43pmThis is an important moment. What’s it gonna be? We all know if Obama is re-elected that he will turn even more left and be even WORSE than he has already has been (which is hard to imagine). Isn’t worth the risk, lets just bury this disaster now. The scandals are mounting too.
Report Post »101
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:40pmProgressives fear losing their food stamps and welfare checks
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:28pmit appears that the progressives have forgotten that the conservatives grow the food. You won’t see one of them getting their hands dirty.
Report Post »Anton Phibes
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:38pmTell them to join the club…almost everybody else has pulled their support from Obama. I hear tell he’s going out campaigning soon. Not for the White House, but for his new job as a Circus attraction: The marquee to read “Obama:The jackass that walks like a man (but still talks like a jackass)”
Report Post »raspberrytea
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:37pmThey will support him. Who else have they got.
Report Post »GadsdenPatriot
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:35pmPat yourselves on the backs folks. This glorious gridlock is due to all of you who voted conservative on November 2, 2010. Only 558 days left til we serve the main course.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:29pmAgree! Keep up the good work!
TEA!
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 5:11amGeez, 558 more days? Man, that is a lot of days.
Report Post »lcam67
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:33pmOnly 160k out of the 700k. Let’s hope all of them hold their vote. They are just like a spoiled child wanting that candy bar at the checkout line.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:33pmProgressive Group Vows to Withhold Support From Obama if Entitlements Cut
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Yeah right
GadsdenPatriot
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:48pmCheez it may be a bluff but knowing how the far left works I’d consider it a threat. When they tire of their demigods they have a habit of sending them up to allah.
Report Post »GadsdenPatriot
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:54pmCorrection, down to allah.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:32pmWho will they support if not Barry??
The Republican? Never
The Communist Party Candidate? Barry’s the Man
The Progressive Party Candidate?? Barry’s the Man
The Socialist Party Candidate?? Barry’s the Man
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:32pmI’m all for keeping entitlements too — provided the Progressive Change Campaign Committee pays for them. These clowns still think BO has a money stash somewhere. (sigh)
Report Post »So
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:30pmOh please. The money is drying up. What are you going to pay these entitlements with? Moaning and griping about the well being dry isn’t getting us anywhere. Want to print some more money?
That will really help.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:41pmObama is like a kid with the parents check book and credit card .. until taken away he will spend and spend. Time for some adults to teach these progressive a lesson in finance.
TEA!
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 5:22amI know. I read a post from a guy that was waiting in the grocery line at a supermarket. He had a beef flank steak in his hand because that was all he could afford. There was a welfare queen in front of him, talking on a cell phone, pushing a basket full of T-bones, ribs, sausage, eggs etc. She whipped out some kind of govt welfare card, processed the “purchase” and proceeded out the door to her Cadillac Escalade. Now, if that does not make you sick, you are not human. That is where a lot of the money taken out of your checks goes folks. Take a stand.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:29pmBoehner better not cave to the Communists
Report Post »nannyatnannydotgov
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:35pmThat’s right!
Report Post »rox
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:39pmBoehner better not cave.
Report Post »PeterThePainter
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:46pmAnd if you believe the sponsered media blitz…Fox included…were just supposed to accept their final 11th hour deal maker on Aug. 3rd. ***** is a patsy, placed there by the elites. With weeping eyes. Nobody seems to be watching California…Brown…uh we have 33 million people. Brown loves the union pensions and is giving them increases, while the State is Bankrupt.
Report Post »Goodgriefgeezlouise
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:47pmThey all have their hands out for the dough…Cut ‘em off!
Report Post »Goodgriefgeezlouise
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:49pmNext thing if the money dries up?..Staged violence and disruption..Don’t be fooled..These folks are just a speck on the landscape..We the people will be heard!
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