Cenk Uygur: White House Circling the Wagons Around Alan Simpson

Alan Simpson should not resign
August 25, 2010 Former Republican U.S. Senator from Wyoming, Alan Simpson, is a co-chair of President Obama's recently formed Bipartisan commission tasked with producing ideas to reduce the government's long term Deficit. The other day he responded to a critic by asserting that the American People overuse Social Security claiming that the program is a milk cow with 310 million tits. While I disagree with Simpson's "analysis" I believe it would be counterproductive to force him to resign. ...

Who Cares If Alan Simpson Compared Payroll Taxes to a Cow?
Alan Simpson's gone done it again. The Republican co-chair of the president's Deficit commission found himself in hot water after he called Low-income Social Security beneficiaries "lesser people." Now he's rushed off an email to the Older Womens League national office that compares Social Security and America's entitlement system to "a milk cow with 310 million tits." Scandalous! Paul Krugman is in full off-with-his-head mode. The Huffington Post channels other hysteria. Let's take a look...

Alan Simpson apologizes for comparing Social Security to a cow; retains slot on WH commission
CASPER, WYO. — Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson has apologized for a recent e-mail comment in which he compared Social Security to "a milk cow with 310 million tits." Some critics want the former Wyoming senator removed from President Barack Obama's Bipartisan Deficit commission because of the comment. But a White House spokeswoman said Friday that Simpson will stay on the panel. "Alan Simpson has apologized and while we regret and do not condone his comments, we accept his Apology and he...

KY-Sen: Conway says Simpson has to go
Jack Conway, apparently aware that voters in Kentucky care about the viability of Social Security, just sent this, via e-mail: Louisville - U.S. Senate Candidate Jack Conway today called on Alan Simpson, former U.S. Senator from Wyoming and current co-chair of the Bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, to resign from the Budget and Fiscal panel after ill-informed and offensive remarks about Social Security and its future. Supporters can sign Conway's petition...

Alan Simpson: Social Security denialist, senior citizen hater
RJ Eskow gets the Alan Simpson 310 million tits controversy exactly right: Alan Simpson said he's sorry, but it's not enough. The calls for his Resignation will continue - and not because of "Political Correctness" or his use of the word "tit," as some of his apologists have suggested. They'll continue because he's uninformed about Social Security, ideologically biased, and temperamentally unfit for his position. They'll also continue because people rightly see his Deficit Commission as...

Stuff Alan Simpson Says
Karoli mentioned earlier Simpson's foul-mouthed tirade against a woman who had the temerity to challenge his attacks on Social Security in a Huffington Post blog Post. The thin-skinned Simpson ranted: "I've made some plenty smart cracks about people on Social Security who milk it to the last degree. You know 'em too...Weve reached a point now where its like a milk cow with 310 million tits! Call when you get honest work!" And this isn't the first tirade against someone who publicly...

Alan Simpson, Senator Guttermouth, Spews Again
the Times Simpson should have been turned out to pasture years ago, but instead he was give a teaching post at Harvard and Barack Obama made him co-chair of the President's Bipartisan commission on reducing the federal Deficits. Every savvy player in the Capital knows what the president has in mind--whack Social Security benefits to lure Republicans into a grand deal on raising taxes. As I have written more than once, when Washington talks up Bipartisan Compromise it usually means the people...

Tell Obama: It's time to fire Alan Simpson
Earlier this week former Senator Alan Simpson, the Republican co-chair of President Obama's Deficit commission, wrote a nasty missive to the Executive Director of the Older Women's League saying that Social Security is "like a milk cow with 310 million tits." While Simpson has offered an Apology in the face of a public outcry, this was simply the latest in a series of breathtakingly profane and intemperate remarks Mr. Simpson has made about Social Security and those who receive it. For example,...

Calls increase for Simpson's removal from deficit commission
A whole new slew of individuals and organizations have joined Paul Krugman, Sen. Bernie Sander, Rep. Peter Defazio, Rep. Raúl Grijalva , Rep. Jerrold Nadler , the National Council of Women's Organizations, National Organization of Women and Jack Conway in calling for Simpson to either resign or for President Obama to fire him from his position on the Deficit commission.

The problem with Alan Simpson is NOT Alan Simpson
The crazy uncle may not be an archetype in the Jungian sense, but he's certainly an American cultural archetype.  He lives in his own little world, but he's part of the family (a senior member, in fact) and he insists on inflicting his world on everyone else whenever he gets his chance.  The family tolerates him because he's family (and senior member, don't forget!), tries not to hurt his feelings (because it will only make him crazier and louder) and strives to redirect his...

Women's groups to Obama: Fire Simpson
Women's groups aren't backing down from their demand that President Obama fire former Wyoming senator Alan Simpson, a Republican, from his post as co-chairman of a Bipartisan fiscal commission . Prompting a week of outrage: Simpson's salty language in an e-mail to the head of OWL , which represents older women. In his e-mail to Ashley Carson, Simpson called Social Security "like a milk cow with 310 million tits!" The White House has been silent so far, prompting a conference call Tuesday with...

Women's groups press Obama to fire Simpson
Source: The Hill Women's groups are slamming President Obama for not booting Alan Simpson from the White House fiscal commission. "The problem lurking behind all of this is President Obama," said Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), during a conference call Friday. "I find this deeply disturbing that he has not fired Alan Simpson." The calls on Obama to fire Simpson followed an e-mail the commission co-chairman sent to the head of the Older Women's League....

Angering A Key Constituency: Women Leaders Ask the President to Fire Alan Simpson
Four prominent leaders of women's organizations held a conference call today, accompanied by Rep. Raul Grijalva, to demand the Resignation of retired Sen. Alan Simpson as co-chair of the Deficit Commission. Their comments, together with a number of private conversations with women's leaders, indicate that Simpson and his Commission could be an even greater political liability among women voters than most observers initially suspected. Women represent a key constituency in every election. ...

Alan Simpson
"Alan did have a temper," says Lorna, sitting in the living room of the Cody, Wyo., home where Simpson and his brother, Peter, were raised. "One day he threw a rock at someone, and I knew that just wouldn't do. So I told him I'd have to close him in a room as a punishment when he couldn't control his temper." She pauses, and then smiles. "Then, when he was 12, he came to me one day and said, 'Mom, you're not going to have to do that anymoreI've learned to control my temper.' Arid he had,...

Alan "Milk Cow" Simpson In 2004 Lectured Liberals: "Keeping Making Fun ... Tearing People Up ... And You'll Never Make It."
Before White House Debt commission co-chair Alan Simpson became infamous for his insulting and condescending email to Social Security defender Ashley Carson , he was lecturing Liberals on civility. This week, Simpson ended his email to Carson saying "Call when you get honest work!", and referred to Carson as "people like you babble [who] babble into the vapors," But back in 2004, right after his Republican Party was victorious on Election Day, Simpson went on "Real Time With Bill Maher."...

My latest letter to President Obama/Alan Simpson must go edition
I’m back, sort of, though still buried in start of term nonsense,

Grayson, Progressive Groups Join Call to Fire Alan Simpson
The activity on the left to fire Alan Simpson from the Cat Food Commission is growing. Today, Rep. Alan Grayson joins the effort. From an email to supporters: Deficit Commission Republican Co-Chair Alan Simpson just called Social Security a “milk cow with 310 million tits.” Simpson seems to know a lot about farm animals. Which isn’t surprising, because only a swine would use such words to describe a program that we rely on to pay for food, medicine, and rent. Simpson is...

Milk Cow Blues: Why the Alan Simpson Flap Won't Go Away
Alan Simpson said he's sorry, but it's not enough. The calls for his Resignation will continue - and not because of "Political Correctness" or his use of the word "tit," has his apologists suggest. They'll continue because he's uninformed about Social Security, ideologically biased, and temperamentally unfit for his position. They'll also continue because people rightly see his Deficit Commission as stacked with people hostile to Social Security and intent on cutting it, despite the fact...

Nadler: Fire Alan Simpson from the Deficit Commission
graphic by Twolf Jerold Nadler joins fellow Democratic members of Congress calling on President Obama to fire Alan Simpson from the Catfood Commission. He just issued a statement: We cannot trust the integrity of any product or recommendations of the Commission as long as former Senator Simpson is the Chairman. His insulting and outrageous comments reveal his own mistaken belief that Social Security is a) in crisis, b) about to collapse, and c) contributes to the Deficit. None of this is...

IT'S ALWAYS OUTRAGEOUS WHEN A POLITICIAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH: Fake outrage over Alan Simpson's twist o...
IT’S ALWAYS OUTRAGEOUS WHEN A POLITICIAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH: Fake outrage over Alan Simpson’s twist on the phrase “sucking on the government tit.”

Alan Simpson Needs to Go
I was willing to give this whole Deficit Commission a fair hearing, but now that Alan Simpson has shown his ass to anyone paying attention, he just needs to go. It wasn't that it was sexist so much as it was stupid, selfish and mean, and an incredibly poor attempt to channel HL Mencken . Howie Klein says get rid of the whole thing now (Right after the spelling police visit, anyway). RJ Eskow has written such a great piece, I can't imagine saying much that would add anything, so I'll...

Hey, Mom, Alan Simpson thinks you should go out and get a job
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Alan Simpson Didn't Need to Apologize
You probably heard that Alan Simpson compared Social Security to "milk cow with 310 million teats" (some accounts have him using the word tits). Many idiots are offended . They range from the professional Victim crowd to Liberals who are cynically using it as an excuse to get a Deficit hawk off the Obama Deficit reduction commission. Reportedly , Simpson has apologized. He should have just told his critics to go f*ck themselves. The image of Special interest Groups (even ones with...

ALAN SIMPSON didn't need to apologize....
Alan Simpson didn’t need to apologize.

Former Senator Alan Simpson Rails on Tax Protest Group
Alan Simpson, FORMER SENATOR, R-WYO. : Well, no, I don’t, because I don’t know where the hell anything’s going to go. This country’s in a mess. They may not — and those people you named, Bernanke, Paul Volcker — Volcker, I have known a long time, wonderful guy. If all we’re going to do in the discussion of this critical issue is babble about taxes, then you just as well check in the shop, because those are flash words. I have dealt with flash words in my...