The concert, entitled the This Land is Your Land concert, is being held, according to Pink Martini,

"with the purpose of providing a thinking person's guide to the Occupy Wall Street/Occupy Portland movements."

President Obama supports passage of House GOP legislation that would eliminate a tax compliance rule affecting big government contractors and pay for it by limiting Medicaid eligibility, the White House announced Tuesday. link

First the 3 three Chamber of Commerce approved trade deals (aka send jobs to N. Korea, support tax loopholes and union killing governments) and now letting contractors avoid paying taxes to be paid for by kicking more people off of Medicaid. Boy, Obama is on a roll getting his real agenda through Congress.

What are these two things?  Well, the first would eliminate the requirement that the government withhold 3% of the cost of privately-contracted projects - permanently, not as a tax holiday.  But it has to be paid for, so how does the GOP propose to do that?  With another Obama-endorsed plan to limit Medicaid eligibility for seniors who also receive Social Security benefits.

This is crazy, right?  Give a tax break to contractors, and pay for it by making seniors include all of their SS benefits, not just the taxable portion, to determine their eligibility for Medicaid - the more income one reports, the fewer who will be eligible.

Here's what's crazier: Obama has endorsed this bill:

The repeal of the withholding requirement in H.R. 674 would reduce a burden on government contractors who otherwise comply with their tax obligations, particularly small businesses. As evidenced in the President's proposed American Jobs Act, released September 12, 2011, the Administration has supported alleviating this burden, which was originally enacted into law on May 17, 2006.

And

The Administration supports passage of H.R. 2576, which would change the calculation of modified adjusted gross income, as defined in section 1401 of the Affordable Care Act, to include both taxable and non-taxable Social Security benefits. Beginning in 2014, this income definition will be used to determine financial eligibility for Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and for premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions available through Affordable Insurance Exchanges. The Administration looks forward to working with the House to ensure the bill achieves the intended result.

Or...maybe not so crazy, since these were part of the Obama bill, he supported them, so, why should be not support them now?

The repeal of the withholding requirement also has bipartisan support - the question is, will Democrats go along with paying for it by throwing more poor, old people off the Medicaid rolls?  

Our objective is to "raise the capacity of our partners" and we will know success if Kony is captured (display in an Uganda meat market is apparently not required) as well as that US forces can encourage defections from the LRA, reduce attacks and professionalize  local forces. It is estimated that there are 150 to 200 core LRA fighters.