Halloween Post: Zombie Cat Food Commission Edition

As a reminder this week, we are still.....

And it's Halloween time and there are neoliberal bankrupt zombie commissions and ideas! This Catfood Commission just won't stay dead and Nancy Pelosi is talking about resurrecting it. It started out with Kent Conrad and Judd Gregg in 2008 with an event at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Their purpose was to cut, loot, and perhaps privatize Social Security of course as Republicans and third way DLC Democrats have tried to do for many years. In 2009 Conrad and Gregg tried to get their so called entitlement reforms fast tracked into the recovery package President Obama and Congress passed even writing an Op Ed in the Washington Post in support of such measures. Conrad and Gregg started threatening against voting to raise the debt ceiling if  their commission wasn't raised from the dead.

To form a séance for it these zombies attached it to the debt ceiling/Pay-Go bill in January of 2010. However good prevailed  the amendment failed and there was no commission once again. But not for long, for President Obama vowed in his SOTU speech after that to create it by executive order with Executive Order 13531 which he did; the Simpson Bowles Commission chaired by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles. These dark lords tried to reign over the commission but their proposals failed to garner the 14 votes necessary for their proposals. The Commission died and so these zombies put forth their own proposals which was a white paper and that went nowhere too but not without a promise from the political elite that their ideas would not be forgotten and would be forever floated particularly with the Grand Bargain in the fake fiscal cliff debate coming up after the election in 2013.

But this did not start with Conrad and Gregg or even Simpson and Bowles. It started with a Wall St. billionaire Investment Banker whom started a foundation to destroy Social Security and Medicare in the name of zombie fiscal responsibility; thy name is Peter G. Peterson. He got former President Bill Clinton to facilitate a pre-Catfood Commission in 1993 called the Kerrey Danforth Commission headed by Democratic Senators Bob Kerrey and John Danforth. Peter G. Peterson was a member of that Commission. So as you can see Peterson has had Democrats as well as Republicanism under his spell for awhile and today he has the ear of President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

The debt ceiling debacle which led to the Super Congress, the sequester, and the Grand Bargain set to bring forth the so called fiscal cliff after the 2012 election has Peter G. Peterson's influenced and fingerprints all over it. Oh the spell he has all politicians under as they set forth to plunder our Social Safety net.

He spent a billion dollars of his own money over the years to spread the fact-less zombie insanity in the media that there is a 20 trillion super sub prime crisis by Social Security(irrelevant to deficit economics but he doesn't know that or does and doesn't care) and Medicare. Truly scary propaganda putting an unruly spell on the electorate.

And like donkeys herded like sheep, Democratic voters either buy into this or make excuses for it because the President is involved in some way. As economist James Galbraith says, those numbers represent the strangest balance sheets I've ever seen, all liabilities and no assets. However try breaking the spell during election season where you will find little rhyme or reason when it comes to the real issues of the day.

The kind of herd mentality present among Democratic partisan is truly terrifying and they are being controlled by the dark overlord Peter G. Peterson and the zombies in his service Kent Conrad and Judd Gregg as well as all mainstream corporate news stations that run his propaganda like CNN. Die Zombie Commission  Die! Go back to the hell from whence you came! The dark treasonous horde controlled by the name Peterson! Don't ever come back again!

Happy Halloween!