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Lame Duck Session starts today…I’m hoping they just let the Bush tax cuts...
..and by that I mean for everybody. I no longer believe that extending them would aid the middle class… they will just make the deficit worse. It certainly won’t help if we extend them to the wealthy…...
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Joe Conason quoted a group of millionaires supporting the end of the Bush Tax...
I appreciate these guys, and Joe Conason should be patted on the back for pointing them out. Here is their letter to President Obama: We are writing to urge you to stand firm against those who would...
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David Stockman, Reagan’s Budget Director, says GOP has abandoned fiscal...
This morning on Fareed Zakaria’s show: So, is there something we DON’T know? Related Articles David Stockman Hates The Bush Tax Cuts (247wallst.com) David Stockman’s prophecy of fiscal doom (salon.com)...
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From PERRspectives: Why in hell do we want to continue the Bush Tax Cuts?
Don’t you see what they have caused? Here are the 10 Epic Failures of the Bush Tax Cuts (each one will lead you to an overall definitive view): Dismal Economic Growth A Decade of Budget Deficits Red...
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Morning with the House of Representatives…
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain I’m having a morning of amusing television watching the House of Representatives on C-Span...
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Does anyone trust these guys?
The Bush Tax Cuts for Millionaires and Billionaires… will they get extended? This from FireDogLake today: clipped from fdlaction.firedoglake.com Michael Bennet gets caught in a moment of rare honesty...
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Quote for the Day – I agree with the Iowa Senator:
“I’m just hoping that the president sticks to what he said in Iowa during the campaign, and throughout the campaign, that he was drawing the line at $250,000.” - Tom Harken (D – Iowa) However, don’t...
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From The Hill: Collins says ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal must wait for tax...
Susan Collins (R - Maine) Here’s a piece of O’Brien’s article. The next time someone tells you that Susan Collins is a “liberal” Republican, have them read this… There’s more at TheHill.com: clipped...
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At this point, I think Obama has kissed Democrats goodbye…
As of this morning it seems that Obama is ready to deal with the Right… extend the Bush tax cuts for a couple of years in exchange for one year’s extension of Unemployment funding. The tax cut deal is...
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Does anyone remember what Obama SAID he was going to do?
… and what Boehner said as well? This is pathetic. I hope the rest of the Democrats show some guts and pull this down. Of course, that’s not likely to happen. Related Articles No We Can’t: One...
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A Quote for the Day … I picked this up from Taeggan Goddard’s blog:
“It has become a widely-noticed habit of yours to concede or to adopt both the Republican terms of policymaking and Republican policies and programs… For many of your 2008 voters, this will indeed be...
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No one deserves “Quote of the Day” recognition more than Bernie Sanders:
I watched a lot of the 8 1/2 hours that Bernie lectured the Senate in his epic “filibuster” on the proposed tax cut extension. Here is a really precise quote: “But it is not just a disastrous trade...
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Cartoon(s) of the Week – So where did the tax cut extension proposal come from?
Kevin Siers in the Charlotte Observer: So who ran the discussions on the tax cut extensions? - and - John Sherffius in the Boulder Daily Camera: Perhaps it was Mitch McConnell who influenced Obama… -...
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Renewing the Bush Tax Cuts Is Like…..
Renewing the Bush Tax Cuts Is Like: ” driving your car off the cliff, paying a tow truck twice the price of the car to haul it back up, then driving it back over because your brother-in-law’s cousin’s...
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Unusual Vote Watch in the Senate…
About an hour ago the Senate started moving forward the Tax Cuts and Unemployment Benefits bill (actually based on HR 4853) and, since they need to get 60 votes to pass it, this is being held open so...
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Watching the Senate stage an intelligence dump as they go through Tax Cut votes…
I don’t know if any of this stuff is really believable. I watched a gloomy couple of hours of debate this morning when the Republicans held off any changes in the Obama-McConnell Tax Cut extension,...
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From Andrew Leonard in this morning’s Salon:
clipped from www.salon.com Democrats concede: the tax cut deal passes Angry House members bow to the same political reality that forced Obama to bend the knee… Pelosi So this is what bipartisan...
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Looks like Obama got more today than anyone expected…
Both the Senate and the House (finally) passed the health bill for 9/11 first responders and it was sent to the White House for Obama‘s signature. The Senate was unanimous (after offices of Senator...
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Cartoon(s) of the Week – Old Year Ends, New Year Starts
Clay Bennett in the Chattanooga Times Free Press: We will soon see the results of extending the Bush Tax Cuts… -and - Joel Pett in USA Today: The new Republican House will try to undo the best products...
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Quote of the Day – Why I love Austan Goolsbee…
“Well, look, it pains me that we would even be talking about this. This is not a game. You know, the debt ceiling is not something to toy with. If we hit the debt ceiling, that’s essentially defaulting...
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