The Republicans, chained to a Tea Party wing that laughably compares itself to the founders, have demonstrated just one thing: how unpatriotic and incompetent single-minded zealots can be.
Obama offered Republicans chained CPI in exchange for providing more tax increases.
In recent weeks, John McCain's supporters have sought to lure at least 30,000 Democratic and independent voters to register as Republicans through chain e-mails, news conferences and phone banks.
Although the commission's proposals never were considered seriously by Congress wholesale, Obama offered Republican leaders the chained CPI as a compromise during fiscal cliff negotiations in December 2012.
I've lost count of the friends and neighbors, brought up in the 50's and 60's in solid working-class Irish or Italian homes with parents who were lifelong Democrats, who (as they made their way up the economic food chain) became Republicans.
It is not hard to see Republicans hanging the chained CPI around the president's neck, or even attacking him for it disingenuously as they did with Medicare in 2010.
(The Los Angeles consortium is expected to also include Andrew Cherng, founder of the Panda Express Chinese restaurant chain and a Republican).
John A. Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of the Gristedes grocery store chain and a Republican candidate for mayor, has been renting a full-floor apartment for 25 years on one of the most expensive stretches of the entire city, on 63rd Street, facing the park.
For the rest of the time, Perry pretty much sat there like a large boulder with good hair, while the remaining members of the gang attacked Herman Cain, the former fast-food chain president turned Republican front-runner, about his economic plan.
The Republican hopeful and former pizza chain CEO was interviewed by the conservative radio talk show host Neal Boortz, and was asked about what a head-to-head general election contest with President Obama might look like.
