Rick Santorum invoked chains last summer to warned Iowa voters that health care reform would lull citizens into government dependency. “They will put you in chains called ‘Obamacare,’ and you will never break away,” Santorum said.

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/romney-biden-obama-chains.php

I've been tweeting and posting Santorum's remark like crazy. It really pisses me off that Joe Biden's comment is such a big deal to some. What he said was true. Deregulation will lead to economic slavery. I really think THAT's why the GOP is so incensed over Biden's comment. He told the truth! The GOP hates regulations.

http://hg.scimth.net/2012/05/15/gop-assault-economy-continues/

Every guess I've rolled around in my head just feels like a ridiculous stretch.

Even MHP was calling it a gaffe on her show yesterday but no one comes right out and says what Biden's chains comment supposedly was alluding to.

"I get *why* the RW's doing it and the MSMcomplicity but *what* are they suggesting Biden was saying?"

...it's race baiting, which is why they're distorting it and taking it out of context.

Gaffe = anything the GOP/media shills can take out of context and distort.

I mean, by that definition, the President's comment "build that" comment is a gaffe.

This is total made up bullshit.

you can against the wall and hope some of it sticks."
Anyone that thinks this is a distraction, has the attention span of a goldfish.

"Just following their decided strategy of "throw all the shit"

...inability to just call bullshit what it is, Republicans will continue this practice.

Really unbelievable.

they had to try tack back to appear "unbiased" (even if it means using RW talking points).

... they just want them out of the voting booth and into the back of the bus.

Rush Limbo came out with his "Barack the Magic Negro" song, and when Herman Cain called us "brainwashed and closed-minded" for mostly voting Democratic.
I think Republicans should be among the last people to accuse somebody else of being racist.

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I caught part of the Santorum interview where he says the Obama campaign is:

1) Divisive and Hateful

2) Stealing from Medicare

3) Using the Race Card to attack Wall Street

Analysis: Santorum is making these claims because these are the Obama campaign's strong points.

1) People of color support Obama

2) Medicare is a Democratic program

3) Glass-Steagall was a Democratic idea

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1) Divisive and Hateful?

Political campaigns have always been contentious.

The Mormon church has a long history of discrimination of both blacks and gays. In the 1970s, Mitt Romney was a bishop in the Mormon church. Mormon church doctrine describes the church as being led by a prophet. For 130 years (1848-1978), the Mormon Church taught that all blacks were cursed and were not allowed to become full members or to hold positions of power. The NAACP filed a federal lawsuit in 1974 challenging this practice, and soon thereafter the LDS church prophet announced a reversal of policy via revelation.

In 2009, urged on by the church, Mormons reportedly donated $20 million to pass Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage.

2) Stealing from Medicare?

As well as being a Progressive Democrat, FDR was one of the most popular presidents ever. He also gave us Social Security; a very popular program. Another very popular program, Medicare, was given to us by a Democratic president, LBJ.

Glenn Beck, a Conservative, constantly attacks Progressives and social programs claiming they stand against God.

Republicans have opposed Social Security and Medicare from the start. They have tried to chip away at and privatize these programs for years. In fact, Ronald Reagan set a precedent for borrowing enormous amounts of monies from the Social Security trust fund and never paying it back. Republicans also use words like "entitlements" and "socialism" to describe and thus deride these programs.

If tax cuts for the wealthy create jobs, why did Bush hand Obama an economy in free fall after stealing from Social Security to (among other things) give a tax cut to the wealthy?

3) ..."Unchain" Wall Street?

Two Democrats sponsored the Glass-Steagall Act, which had protected consumers from financial calamity since the aftermath of the Great Depression by providing a crucial firewall between banks and investment firms:

Sen. Carter Glass (D, Virginia) a former Secretary of the Treasury
Rep. Henry B. Steagall (D, Alabama) Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency

Three Republicans sponsored the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed portions of the Glass–Steagall Act:

Sen. Phil Gramm (R, Texas)
Rep. Jim Leach (R, Iowa)
Rep. Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (R, Virginia)

Deregulation gave us Enron (2001) and a Global Recession (2008). Stock brokers and banks coordinated their efforts to use a business model built entirely on the premise they can make more money speculating on commodities contracts than they can by actually producing a product at fair market value. Central to their strategy of turning tangible assets into speculative commodities is removing government oversight of trading practices and exploiting market deficiencies to allow the manipulation of prices and supply.

NOTE: If you don't remember, ENRON manufactured rolling blackouts on the West Coast so people wouldn't complain when their energy rates spiked upwards while ENRON traded energy stock on Wall Street.

Thanks, great breakdown! Would be a great OP

Summary of Party Affiliation on Medicare Vote:

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SENATE: YEA NAY NOT VOTING
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Dems: 57 - 07 - 04

Reps: 13 - 17 - 02

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HOUSE: YEA NAY NOT VOTING
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Dems: 237 - 48 - 08

Reps: 070 - 68 - 02

Source: http://www.ssa.gov/history/law.html

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NOTE: If Republicans are *REALLY* trying to save Medicare, why are they so afraid to discuss RomneyCare and why have they voted 33 times (and wasted millions of dollars) to repeal the affordable Care Act, AKA ObamaCare; which originated from RomneyCare.

PS: With the advent of the Tea Party crowd, the GOP has become so ideologically rigid and extreme they've had to describe Obama as extreme also to bring a sense of balance to their arguments and make it all seem reasonable.