Wouldn’t be funny if the House really voted to strip out of the bill the estate tax silliness? That would, of course, alter the bill and require it to go back to the Senate. This would send the entirety of Washington into apoplexy. The senate would freak out. The president would freak out.
Sure, politics is the art of compromise but this would imply a give-and-take, not just take-and-take-and-block-and-whirl-and-triangulate-and the hell with the best interests of our people.
Republicans and some Democrats are willing to let hungry people get even hungrier through this glorious holiday season to stand on the principle that millionaires and billionaires should continue to pay less in taxes.
The Congress doesn’t have to do anything on the tax cuts. They could just let them expire. That would be a do-nothing Congress with some actual benefit to the nation. It would be President Bush & the Congress of 2001 & 2003 who raised taxes on January 1, 2011.
Bless its heart, the U.S. Congress has never been immune from some crazy stuff, nor members. History is replete with voters sending to the Congress some…er…um…interesting representatives.
Really? The big ad of the 2010 season begins with the disclaimer, “I am not a witch”? We haven’t seen that kind of political ad since the Salem City Council elections in 1692.
Republicans will spend their week defending the helpless rich people against these Cretin Socialist Kenyan Zoroastrians who think, for some unknown reason, the rich should pay their fair share in taxes.
What, exactly, is with the extremist right wing in this country and all the talk of animals and shootin’ guns and teeth-barin’ metaphors?
Let’s look this up in Politics for Dummies. Yep, there it is…page 174: “A good political strategy is ALWAYS taking up for major multinational corporations who are responsible for the worst environmental and social disaster in the history of the United States.”
Holy Crap! What’re you people thinkin’? Death threats, spittin’ at members of Congress, callin’ ‘em horrible names, throwin’ money at Parkinson’s patients…and that’s just in my family!
