I just dont get it...
The American people are facing the largest tax increase in history and Harry Reid is running around trying to get some amnesty bill passed for illegal immigrants.
Now, I can understand that the lame duck democrats simply dont care... They are on the way out and have nothing to lose.
However... Because of the Democrats procrastination everyone receiving a weekly or bi-montly paycheck of significant size is going to see tens if not hundreds more dollars taken out of their checks in early January. This will be a HUGE psychological shock to the workers out there. It will make the tax increases real...
This only leaves an opening for the Republicans to come in after January and pass retroactive tax cuts. It will make them look good and if the Democrats try to block it they will look like the obstructionists.
I cannot figure out the reason the Democrats would allow themselves to get into this position.
At the rate they are going Palin could win in a landslide in 2012.
First off, I suppose you and all of your friends make $250k and more per person, since that is the threshold put out by the Obama administration. I keep hearing Republicans of all financial spectrums acting as if the world was coming to an end. Let's go back in history 10 years ago, when the Republicans had the majority in Congress. They employed the exact same strategy that they chided the Democrats for even considering, and that was to vote on a bill under budgetary procedure, meaning the Democrats could not debate the bill, only a simple majority was needed to pass it. Since it was passed under a budgetary session, the law could only take effect for 10 years. The Republicans reasoned that if you give the rich a tax break, they would create more jobs.... The same rich people who had off shore bank accounts that they forgot to declare, or the ones running pyramid schemes, or exercising their new financial might in insider trading...
Let us fast forward to today.... The tax break is fixing to expire. It was only going to last 10 years, everyone knew that back when it was passed. Today, the Republicans are spinning the expiration of their hastily voted on bill as a tax increase, when in reality, it is simply an expiration of their tax holiday. The tax break of ten years has cost the U.S. Government 800 billion dollars of revenue over the last ten years, at a time when Bush was running up a historic national debt by waging two wars. President Bush, a fiscal conservative (chuckle), ran up more national debts than all previous presidents combined, even Ronald Reagan, another Republican, who had held that record previously. You do realize that more than two thirds of our unpaid debt was charged up under Ronald Reagan and George Bush don't you?
Why is it that everytime a Republican president leaves office with a huge spending history, the Republicans suddenly want to get conservative? After spending untold billions to fund two wars abroad and the black ops associated with the FBI and the CIA, exporting torture and kidnapping in the name of Democracy, now is the time to save, even though both wars are ongoing and we are no safer here at home. Now because a black democrat is in office, we are suddenly supposed to stop spending altogether? How convenient for the "conservative" party. The only time they are conservative, is when their opponent is in the whitehouse.
And you have the audacity to call roughly half of this country's citizens clueless and stupid? That is a rather childish and uneducated statement. Funny how short the memory is of our elephant friends.... they recall only what suits them....
And now they want to further obstruct Obama's presidency and sit on a nuclear treaty? They are playing with fire and our international relationships. The "conservative" neo-cons want more than 80 billion to upgrade our nuclear weapons. The want to spend another 80 billion per year by extending the tax break to all, and yet they obstruct bills providing extended unemployment benefits or tax cuts for hiring small businesses.... Who do the Republicans really represent? Large corporations and the rich and influential, that is who.
The pathetic party is the Republicans..... you know, the ones that campaigned on the economy, and as soon as they won, began to focus on how to ensure only one term for Obama and how to repeal the health care bill or craft legislation that diverts funds from it. Meanwhile, voters watch, fresh from the polls, as they realize that once again, the republican party was full of shit and has deceived them, yet again.... Jobs and the economy are the last things on their mind. They only see 2012 and ways to embarass our President.
And if you think Sarah Palin could win in a landslide, I have to question your intellect and wisdom....
