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.
Oh, the weather outside is frightful but the tax talk is so delightful. But since we’ve no place to go, let the snow job go on in the Congress…” Or something like that.
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.
No matter what we do, we seem intent – at least lately, with the rare exception – on voting ourselves right smack into a deep hole. Quit digging, already, ‘Murka! What are you thinking?
We will as Americans take the opportunity tomorrow to perform the most sacred ritual of our storied existence: we will exercise the right to cast our ballots – in secret – against our own best interests!
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.
Maybe we should take a time out from our “mad as hell and won’t take it anymore” moment to remember how good things really were when the Republicans were kicked out of office in 2006 and 2008 because they’d made such a mess of the country.
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It is Le Quatorze Juillet and Americans are storming the metaphorical Bastille! At least, according to yesterday’s ABC-Washington Post opinion survey: 58 percent of you think the President sucks. 68 percent of you think Democrats suck. 72 percent of you think Republicans suck. 150 percent of you think BP sucks. 80 percent of Ohioans...
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