If there’s one thing Republicans love, it’s diversity: diversity of ways to obstruct legislation. A letter was sent to Harry Reid this morning and signed by all 42 Senate Republicans letting him know that he won’t be able to pass any legislation until he lets them extend the Bush tax cuts for really rich people. This is the only thing that matters to them, and will probably be the only thing they are willing to pass in the next couple of years, because they have a cool strategy that makes politics easy for them and makes sure they don’t have to work too hard. Oh, “economy,” “jobs.” Now that they said those two words, can they have their tax cuts?
“[W]e write to inform you that we will not agree to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to any legislative item until the Senate has acted to fund the government and we have prevented the tax increase that is currently awaiting all American taxpayers,” the letter reads. “With little time left in this Congressional session, legislative scheduling should be focused on these critical priorities. While there are other items that might ultimately be worthy of the Senate’s attention, we cannot agree to prioritize any matters above the critical issues of funding the government and preventing a job-killing tax hike.”
Ronald Reagan once said tax cuts for rich people was a good idea. Ergo, tax cuts for rich people is the necessary and only way to fix an economy and unemployment. [TPM]
{ 176 comments }
So much for compromise.
Obama caves on tax cuts for the wealthy and Republicans will agree to put national security ahead of political gain and ratify START.
That's the compromise.
Does anyone really believe the Rethugs would ever hold up their end of even such an extortionate "compromise"?
And how is this different from what the Republican Senators have been doing for the last two years?
Or the last hundred years?
They have put it in writing?
I have a pitchfork, but no torches. Let's all meet at the Senate and show them how effectively we can work together.
fucking douchenozzle asshat cocksucking bag of dicks….
bag of dicks who should all die horrible, protracted, painful deaths
Translation: your money or your life.
"I'm thinkin', I'm thinkin.."
Republican reply: "I'm thinking". Apologies to the late great Jack Benny.
You know how in a typical bank robbery, a down-on-his-luck guy, driven to extreme measures, steals money from those who have too much and is eventually thrown in jail?
This is the exact opposite.
So, very much like normal banking, then?
Instead of not invoking cloture until they get their tax cuts, I really wish these 42 ass-hookahs would hold their breath until they get their way. This way, not only will the tax cuts expire, but they will too, the fucking brats.
It would have been more intellectually honest had the Republicans slipped a note under the front door of the White House, written with letters cut from the pages of Forbes:
"GIVE US THE MONEYS OR THE CUNTREY DIES"
Oh, for fuck's sake. Fine, how about a 2-year extension on the over-$250K bracket, and a year's extension of emergency unemployment hobo beans? That way, neither the filthy rich nor the unemployed will be living on the streets for Xmas.
This is what I think will happen. But it's a particularly
"caving" sort of compromise, if you ask me.
No, no. The Dems should offer an extension on tax cuts for everyone making less than one million dollars a year. That will force those shitheels to stand up in public and defend Tax Breaks for Millionaires.
Along with this, the Democrats should borrow Nancy Pelosi's balls and force the Republicans to filibuster old school. (I would just add to that, line up some brawny Senates pages to sit on a gagged Blanche Lincoln and beat Ben Nelson to a jelly.)
Yes, but that would actually be bold and wise and make sense.
not sure I agree with that logic, if'n you make OVER $250K a year and yer NOT a millionaire, well then yer just a fuckin' moron who deserves to be taxed a LOT more (and someone makin' over $1 MILLION a year is an asshole who deserves to be taxed at 70% or whatever the fuck it was when Ike was Prez!)
Fuck that shit. Let all of the tax breaks expire – I'll absorb that $30 a month hit if it means someone making $250K has to pay their fair share.
OK -it's not their fair share but at least it gets them a little closer to a fair share.
This is exactly what I'd like to happen. Even seems like the 'fairest' solution.
But of course this will spin up the Corporate-Citizen Pundit Trumpet Machine to a nonstop ear-splitting "TAX INCREASE" wail, causing all the U.S. American Teevee Message Receptacles (people/consumers) to eventually resonate at the same horrible frequency, overpowering all further attempts at rational thinking.
Cue enraged unemployed Teabagger response in 3…2…1…1…1…1…
Never.
Only if it turns out that Mitch McConnell is really half Kenyan.
No enraged unemployed Teabaggers since most of them seem to be on Social Security.
I don't think teabaggers are able to connect the dots about these things. When they lose their jobs, they're the types that you read about–the ones that murder their two grade-school kids, and their wife, and then kill themselves. Or they go into the office and blow everyone away.
Deficits mattered right up to Nov. 4 2010. Never saw that coming.
“[W]e write to inform you that we will not agree to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to any legislative item until the Senate has acted to fund the government and we have prevented the tax increase that is currently awaiting all American taxpayers."
The chickenshits that are the Democrats ought to post this quote on every billboard they can buy and they should be out beating down the doors of every lame voter they can find to send the word….these dicks (Repugs) don't want to govern, they just want to fuck people over! I don't understand how any sane person wouldn't be furious that these fucks don't want to do anything until they help out their rich friends – oh well so much for the GOP being the party of fiscal responsibility….Jesus this shit makes me not even want to try and be funny…fuckers!
http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
Please let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire in December. The GOP may claim to obstruct every bit of legislation all they want. Let us face facts, they are going to do that anyway. Let us move forward without them and with the dignity of our convictions.
PS: TRUCKNUTZ4PEACE!
Also Buttsecks.
Fucking hypocrites. Even with my H.S. diploma I can figure out that letting the tax cuts expire will help to FUND THE GOVERNMENT.
Ass holes also.
but, but, but didn't ya know, 'deficits don't matter!' ~ Big Dick Cheney (R-asshole)
Meanwhile our company struggles to get by and will probably have to implement some austerity measures of our own over the holidays.
Once again, I can't summon the snark to make funny. I just want them to show them what real "cuts" are. I hear the guillotine is very good at making cuts.
LET THEN EAT CAKE! (with razor blades, now there's some cuts I'd like to see)
I has a confuse — exactly how many filthy rich people are out of work right now? None? Then screw the rich and pass the unemployment extension for those who need it.
One more note to the Democrats – let all the stupid tax cuts expire and then let nothing get done for the next two years and use that dumb ass letter against them every step of the way. I can't understand how the President and leadership can't just say "we won't negotiate with terrorists (or assholes)" and walk away. Tell the American people repeatedly that the Republicans won't do shit and just beat it into our thick skulls over and over and over….maybe we will figure it out…not.
I can't understand how the President and leadership can't just say "we won't negotiate with terrorists (or assholes)" and walk away.
Is all I'm saying. A million p points to you.
Is all I'm saying. A million p points to you.
Then eleventymillion more p points. Since they've clearly shown their hand, I'm going to start repeating that line that should be the Democrat's response to the Republican strategy – we don't negotiate with terrorist.
"Nuts!" is not in Harry Reid's dictionary, sadly.
Because people will still blame the Dems and Obama because they're in "power". Plus, you know, for all their faults, Dems do want to actually do shit.
Agreed. But it ain't gonna happen now. Let all the cuts expire. The last time the country was fiscally sound was under the Clinton tax structure. Its not the best time to be doing it but if we take our lumps now, we'll be better in the future. Although we'll still be lumpy.
I say let ALL the Bush tax cuts expire and I'll KEEP my Obummer tax cut of $200+ on my bi-weekly paycheck, thank you very much (since the teatards don't BELIEVE that Barry cut taxes anyway then just take 'em away from those assholes too and we're back in the black in not time at all!)
It's like Karl Rove had everything figured out in 2001 when they put in the tax-cut sunset clause. Why does everything work out the Republican way? I swear, they lost the election deliberately in 2008 so as not to be blamed for the economy.
I don't know if there's anything the Dems can hold over their heads in January. What am I saying? Dems don't have the spine to hold anything up bigger than their own heads.
Tax cut was enacted by reconciliation, sunset is mandatory in such cases.
But, but, isn't that what everyone was so pissed about when they were trying to pass health care – reconciliation?
(Oh right, it's only bad if the democrats are doing it.)
I quit holding up my head in November anyway.
I usually wait till I get home to start drinking, but in honor of this post and the last one, I'm headed for Don Pedro's for a #2 plate and two (2) top shelf grande margaritas. Take me away, Don Julio!!
Stay thirsty, my friend.
Its noon somewhere, specifically, here on the east coast. For me, its Xanax time!
I can't function if I don't know what my tax liability is going to be next year. So I'm with you, a three martini lunch.
Well, that was worth doing.
Nothin' to do and no where to go-o-oh
I wanna be sedated
I picked a bad day to quit drinking.
I see what you did! Because any day you decide to quit is, by definition a bad day! Clever, lowaltflier. Very clever…
I, for one, weep at the thought that people who make 5 times as much as the average american family might have to forgo a trip to Barbados. You fucking savages! Don't you understand?
We're punishing people just because they had the good fortune to be born into wealthy families! When will the discrimination against the rich stop?
Give me $6 million and I'll answer your question…
If only it were possible for someone, a persuasive speech-maker perhaps, someone with the type of communication and narrative skills that would propel him or her to high office, to explain to the American people over some kind mass communication device that they are being royally screwed by the Republicans who are clearly working in the best interest of billionaires and not those of millions of working people. Perhaps they could hire Sarah Palin to do the job?
Looks like he only had one good speech in him.
"YOU LIE!" That was in the middle of a persuasive speech, wasn't it? Never forget!
It's hard to have a persuasive speech when half the country is too busy sticking fingers in their ears and shouting "He's a MUSLIN!" to hear you.
It's hard to make pretty speeches about policy when your side is too busy hiding behind their desks, the other side is busy debating on just how much of a Communist you are, and the press is debating how well his tie worked while delivering his message
FUCKING WIN!
Honestly, why aren't liberal groups running commercials, either nationally, or in select markets, to at least pretend to show they are putting up a fight?
Has there been a president in recent years who totally ruled the congress (for a minute) to push through such massive legislation (i.e. stimulus, health care) but then COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY lost control of the message and narrative to the opposition party?
The narrative of the ARRA and HCR were co-opted before they even passed the legislature. And Obama is either unwilling or unable to do anything but to try and appeal to the reason of an unreasonable opposition party.
I hate to sa it, but he totally sucks at protecting his narrative/message.
My snarky comment generator is currently blocked up by my rage, so I'll just have to settle for "oh my god, fuck these selfish, lying, greedy bastards. Fuck 'em right in the ear!"
The only thing worse is that the average American will actually look at the people who blocked their unemployment benefit extension and their Obama-plan tax cut as their heroes.
So business as usual..
I really wish Republicans would explain, in terms a DUMBOCRAP like me could understand, why the current tax rates will be such a boon to our country, when it's these tax rates that led to the enormous deficit that's caused half, if not more than half, of our problems in the first place.
Ronald Reagan, trickle-down, supply side, deficits don't matter, job-creators, wealth creation, Jeesh, you Dumbocrats just don't get it.
It's Obama's fault.
Now do you understand?
Because, that's why.
BECAUSE!
Look at the millions of jobs that were created in the last eight years by those tax cuts.
Fuck those people. Fuck every single fucking one of them.
Is that you, Tiny Tim?
God fuck us, every one! Thanks, republitards.
We all know the Dems will cave and let the tax cuts go on forever and get nothing for it but a 6 month extension on Unemployment comp and when it runs out, will have nothing elseto give away.
God forbid they would actually fillibuster and interrupt Republithug phone book readers with, "Give us the middle class tax cuts and unemployment comp", alternating with "Don't bankrupt this nation further by giving billionaires another 1 million a year in tax benefits."
Even Pelosi doesn't have that kind of balls and there's damn sure no lazy, Democratic, fatalist senators willing to stick around for days sleeping on cots, in case of a quorum call.
But it would be awesome for CSPAN ratings.
Don't be silly!
They won't manage to get an unemployment extension!
I'm thinking 2 weeks at half benefits tops. And the unemployed will have to go back to shinning the rich peoples shoes and working in coal mines beginning at 12 years of age. Also, the next congress will bring back the rule of jus primae noctis formalizing the fact that we're all being fucked by our lizard overlords.
Word
Harry, do it for C-SPAN!
Ah yes, the no compromise, draw the line in the sand, it’s all black white, my way or the highway approach to government that essentially means “I’ve tried thinking before but it’s too hard.”
Nothing but a bunch of ditto heads.
Fund the government… with tax-cuts.
What they mean is — one step closer to a consumption tax/national sales tax.
Regressiveness!
What they mean is: "Fuck it, just hand China the keys and walk away."
Fortunately, I got my stepmother's Chinese-English dictionary when she passed four years ago (really, four years, already?); the book is from when she spent a year in Beijing teaching the American History curriculum for a high-school year-abroad programme in intensive Chinese. (Coincidentally, she was there 2001-02, & on 9/11, the Chinese Secret Police stopped at her apartment, to make sure she was alright. Supposedly.) So, I should be good, to start.
I hate the VAT when I go to England. The Rs would love it–most regressive tax they can think of. It's hard to live around a bunch of ignorant okies who buy Rush O'Beck's and Palin's crap, hook, line and sinker. And pay for it, over and over. "Bend over. You're going to love this," and they do.
Even better: people's TANF/food-stamps will not stretch as far, with the increased levy on purchases.
Another Win in Life — has POLITICO made this a thing, yet, for plutocrats (unironically, of course)? — for the GOP.
Plus, with the poor eating less, they'll lose weight. Then, the GOP can take credit for doing more for American wellness than that Communist Black Panther Elitist Michelle Obama.
As an
contra manureentrepreneur with a wee engineering firm I just haz to have my tax break or I'll have to layoff the whole staff. Oh wait, the tax break don't impact me 'cause we kept folks on the payroll in these less than bountiful timez and so I'm not in that bracket.Mmmm, how duz, or in my case woulda, keeping the high end tax bread encourage(d) me to keep employees? I see no cause-effect here, no action-reaction. That sorta thing gives an engineer a sad.
Now maybe if Congress gives me, and other bidness owners, a tax break specifically keyed to job creation that might help to encourage hiring, but just a high income tax break? Nah, that's horsepuckey of the first order steaming and covered with flies.
Same w/my outfit — we might share a NAICS or two. We hire when we foresee work for the employees, not because we got a tax break. A tax break for me would be nice, but it wouldn't generate any fucken jobs.
541300, 541380 particularly as they apply to rust and ruin.
You’re so sexy when you NIACS. We’re 541320, -330, and -620. Do you VOSB much?
We'll we enjoy the Vulgar SSpirt o Blogging here at the Wonketeeria. If you mean the vet thing, yeah that sometimes helps as does our being a HUBZone, since our office is in the ghetto and we hirez folks from the 'hood. I'm melanin-impaired, so no trifecta. You guys got the 320, eh? My niece is a licensed landscrape artichoke.
I'm a small business person (tiny B and B) and the tax cuts won't harm me in any way. Having a few more jobs so people can afford to get away for the weekend would, however. (My rates are very low, should anyone care to contact me offline. Oh, wait. We can't do that here. (Thank god and the wisdom of Ken Layne. Even in hard times, I'm not sure a bunch of potty-mouthed losers lying by the pool and getting drunk would be great for my reputation.)
Yeah, best not to (invite us over to) shit where you eat.
But DBB, your place sounds like a great neutral site for a nationwide Wonketeer convention!
Oklahoma could not handle so much awesomeness.
Thank God you came to your senses there at the end. Thought you might be goin' Commie on us.
Proving again that Rush Limbaugh is the head of the GOP and their mantra remains "Obama must fail." To hell with the U.S. and its people. Such patriots.
How does the public buy this? The GOP basically says "we're gonna shoot this dog if you don't buy our magazine," and this is perceived as a strategic coup of some time? Fine, let them shoot the fucking dog. Schedule votes on things that are necessary and that the people want, and let them vote them all down, make them shoot the dog again and again, let them keep fucking that chicken. Stupidest fucking thing they ever did was the government shutdown under Gingrich, let them do it again, fuck them.
Amen. From your lips to Harry Reid's ears.
The worst thing that happened during the government shut down by Gingrich was a little action in the anteroom of the oval office with a pudgy bimbo named Monica .
Seriously, people, this worth writing your congresscritters about. Got a Dem senator? Write "Call those assholes' bluff."
Got a Rep senator? Write "We don't give a shit about tax cuts for the rich, so STFU and do your fucking job, asshole!"
http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to...
Thanks LCCM…message sent to Ms. Murray.
I just saw Sen Stabenow (D-Mich) on CSPAN holding up a big sign that said "After 10 years of Bush tax cuts WHERE ARE THE JOBS?" Her presentation was simple and elegant. Then the "I'm a doctor for twenty five years so suck me forever" republican senator from Wyoming stood up and voiced an objection of some sorts, just because the sign made him have a sad.
Well, after all, he was forced to try to read and interpret it.
Why don't they all have those? And why isn't that the mantra of the Dems as they let the Republithugs filibuster to their hearts' content. (Note to Paulette troll: notice how the apostrophe is added at the end of "hearts' to indicate it's a plural possessive that ends in a "s" . You're welcome, dickwad.
We just finished 10 years of tax cuts for the rich. How did that work out? The filthy rich are richer than ever, we have 25% unemployment, the entire economy is shot to hell and today another 2 million families were told to go begging at the local megachurch.
What we need is a hopey changey liberal president who can rally the people to change Washington, in other words, we're fucked.
I say call their bluff. Let the republicans hold up the nation's business. Then everyday have every democratic politician and left leaning activist plaster the airwaves and news outlets with the following message:
The republicans who put us in this economic mess, want to hold up the nation's business including CREATING JOBS to get to give the ULTRA RICH tax breaks they do not need. Republicans said they heard you and that JOBS were their priority, but do not listen to their WORDS, look at what they DO. The #1 PRIORITY of the Republicans and teabaggers is to give money away to THE ULTRA RICH.
Is THIS what you asked for when you gave them a second chance?
Sigh. It is more likely Dems will just squeek and give in to them.
And the funny part is that this was made possible by voters in some of the poorest districts/states in the country. Rand Paul comes to mind. So do the three or four new R reps in Ohio, at least two from Appalachia.
How did this happen? Well, poor folks figured, at least he has a truck and he ain't a darkie.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is, screw poor people. They deserve it.
Unemployment rates are better when you factor education. For those who have a BA, the unemployment rate is only 4.7. It is even better if you have an advanced degree. With a High School diploma and maybe some college, they unemployment rate is 10.9%. If you don't graduate High School, then it is 15% unemployment.
The teaparty movement falls into, at best, High School diploma earners, so it is laughable that they would vote against government involvement when federal grants and loans are the only way they and their children will be able to lift themselves up via education and not be in a dismal unemployment outlook. That is okay, because more job opportunities for us uppity, arugula eating, college educated elites.
If they want a world out of Dickens or out of Grapes of Wrath where they have to sell their bodies for a place at the garbage can fire, then let them. Let them see what soul sucking poverty gets them while the ultrarich get a tax cut they would not miss if it wasn't renewed.
Or, take it a step further, don't extend the tax cuts. Then for the next two years the Dems initiate legislation that Repubs wanted but can't support because their only goal is to go against Barry.
Unfortunately, Hopey's idea of bold and forthright action was to freeze federal employees wages. We need FDR & we got Carter. And I am sad to say that.
Most of those Repubicans voted for the Bush cuts with the expiration dates. Are they flip-flopping now? Extra credit question: How have the Bush tax cuts improved the economy in the past 8 years? Be specific & show your work.
Losers getting unemployment comp have kept getting extensions, until now. That's about the only thing I can think that 8 years of making rich fucks happy has done for us. Those hobo beans don't buy themselves, you know.
Tax cuts for the rich are very important for jobs. For republican congressman jobs. They lose theirs if their secret supporters don't get to keep all their money.
…for Republicans "tax cuts" are the political equivalent to "walking it off" for a little league football coach!
-"Hey coach I'm bleeding"
-"My back is broken!"
-"I can't feel legs!"
-"The bone is showing!
Remedy = "walk it off son"
Or perhaps "tax cuts" are GOP Robitussin.
I have to give it to the Republicans they are fucking men of will. Turtle man, The smoking orange, new popgun cantor are a bunch of Kaiser Soze'es. They never break they keep the party members in line. No wonder they dont respect the other side of the aisle they see a bunch of scared ninnies who squabble amongst themselves. They know all they have to do is wait the dems out. They know they can pick off one of the herd at any given time plus the lieberman they keep in their back pocket. Dem members fear no executive or party retribution so they do whatever they want and weaken Obama's agenda any chance they get. Obama can never use his pimphand because when he walks into the room he isn't sure even there is anyone behind him to get his back. so fucking sad
Who's the closet-Commie who sent in Vanilla Chai?
Not to worry, as it wasn't purchased by the teabagger. It's part of the "complimentary" beverage service offered to airline cattle.
Wouldn't it be nice if the Democrats could just grow some balls and make the GOP actually filibuster for the next two weeks straight? Keep bringing up unemployment and tax cuts for the middle class for votes, and keep forcing the GOP to block those votes.
Or just say "Fine, you don't want to play, lets all go home," and blame the GOP for the tax increases.
But, instead, we will probably get the Democrats rolling over, giving the GOP everything they want, and not getting anything in return. Fuck, what I would give for someone with some balls in the Senate leadership.
Wouldn't it be nice if the Democrats could just grow some balls and make the GOP actually filibuster for the next two weeks straight?
————–I thought that Obama was going to bring in unity and change? I thought he would unite the great divide? Seems that Obama only does well if it is for leftists, period. Not blue dogs, not centrists, not real liberals like Pat Cadell. Only what you leftists want will work…Really, how is it working in EU? IT ISNT.
Leftist policies are a FAIL.
You all want it only your way, and the GOP only want it their way, so there has been no 'change' and very little give here on the demoRAT side.
YA'ALL put in a terrible prez. And you know what? You know it.
You do realize that you are not one of the elite or rich that will benefit from the Bush Tax Cuts just because you're white, right? And yes, I know I'm making a lot of assumptions. I don't care. I bet I'm right.
Don't bother replying, because I simply do not care what you think.
I do wish we had just gone the teatard route, really. Let Detroit utterly collapse. Let banks fall into ruin. Let the dollar become totally worthless. Let unemployment rise to 30 or 40 percent. Let people die of starvation in the streets. Let cities burn to ashes from riots. Let angry mobs storm McMansions and kill entire families. Let teatards try to defend themselves with one or two handguns, as though that would somehow protect them against crowds of hundreds trampling them under foot. They think they somehow define "America," and it would be a delicious shock for them to see how wrong they are. There would be uprisings the likes of which would make Sherman's March to the Sea look like a cookout at grandpa's house.
pauletteanne, we are still waiting for you to explain to us how Hitler nationalized health care in Germany six years before he was born (in Austria).
"Leftist policies are a FAIL."
Yeah, talk about FAIL – those poor starving Scandinavians are sure turning into the Third World, huh? Not to mention the huge riots & famine in South America now that they've gone socialist – those Augusto Pinochet "MISS ME YET?" billboards are a big hit down there!
"very little give here on the demoRAT side"
Very little give? How about Obama unilaterally GIVING away single-payer before HCR even got going, then neutering the public option he "supported" to try to get (nonexistant) GOP support? Or GIVING BushCo criminals & CIA torturers an automatic unofficial amnesty in 2008?
Yeah, Obama's so "terrible" that after a total economic meltdown the markets turned around in two years instead of ten or twenty, nuclear disarmament is back on the global agenda for the first time since the 80s, & the rest of the world no longer giggles uncontrollably whenever the US is mentioned.
A+++++++ WOULD REFUTE AGAIN
The Bible says "let the women keep silent in the church for they are not permitted to speak." So shut the fuck up.
Agreed. What we need now is LBJ when he was the Senate leader. Let the tax cuts expire for everyone. By the time, the next Congress comes in and they get around to maybe passing something that may or may not reach Obama's desk, the working class in this country may finally figure out that they were getting the snotty end of the fuck stick for the last 10 years.
And so the endless robbery for the rich begins again. I wonder how much longer they think they can get away with this before us libruhls start to exercise our Second Amendment remedies?
It's too late for that. We don't have any guns and the Teabaggers have already emptied the shops. I have a souvenir baseball bat from a Mariner game. I think I could outrun a scooter and club the fat fuck on it pretty easily. And I'm a (newly) svelte Size 8.
Are baseball bats and tire irons covered under the Second Amendment?
If one man with a gun faces a hundred people armed with bats and knives, I think I know which side is going to win.
Did you ever think that maybe the Star Wars movies were biased? Maybe Darth Vader hosted award shows and Palpatine was beloved for his wit and generosity. What we saw on the screen was the two of them getting necessarily old school on some extremists who blew shit up all the time for reasons that were never clear to most of the people in the Empire.
Too much cartoonish evil from the GOP this morning.
That's worth more than just "p".
The Republican Advent calendar contains a new outrage behind every fucking door. Can't wait for tomorrow's soul-reaming.
Obama and the Dems could easily swat this bullshit down, but then their Xmas would suck in the same way as those little people who are getting cut off from their unemployment benefits.
So, "All american taxpayers" are millionaires now? When did that happen?
I don't know what enrages me more: the fact that those asshats have the nerve to do this or the sure knowledge that the Dems will just roll over.
I'm going to propose a question, which I hope is based on an incorrect premiss. The "Bush Tax Cuts" expired for most of us in 2006. They were time limited but the highest tax bracket, 39%, was lowered in 2001 and set to expire in 2010. Ergo, the only "Bush Tax Cuts" that can be extended are for those in the 35% tax bracket. Now, the Democratic Congress in 2009 as part of the first of the 'stimulous bills' gave me a check for $250 and an $8 a week reduction in my federal taxes. That is due to expire on December 31, 2010. It wasn't part of the "Bush Tax Cuts." I get no "Bush Tax Cuts." Ergo, when John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and the other bandits say they want an expension of the "Bush Tax Cuts", are they going to extend the "Obama Tax Cuts"?
Just askin' 'cause I know an overwhelming number of stupid people (read republicans) who get absolutely no benefit from the "Bush Tax Cuts" but want them extended.
Meh – let them eat bread. Moldy, disgusting, totally groady bread covered in suppurating pustules of pestilent bacteria.
And don't forget, Unemployeds — you already got a stimulus check, according to WSJ: "While delays in the foreclosure process are costing bond holders and mortgage servicers, defaulting homeowners living in–or even renting out–their homes are getting a pretty tidy subsidy… That subsidy is worth about $2.6 billion a month, according to a WSJ analysis. That’s .25% of U.S. personal income, roughly equivalent to the benefit top earners receive from Bush-era tax breaks."
So man up and quit your damn whining!
Lucky fuckers. How do I get in on this foreclosure thing?
Don't fall for that old trick. It's much nicer here under the bridge.
I still consider it the worst of both worlds that we had a Republican win in 2010, but Harry Reid remains with us. Why doesn't he just legally change his name to "Charlie Brown," "Walter Mondale" or "Cincinnati Bengals?"
Oh, yeah. Harry "Belgium Welcomes All Invaders" Reid.
Hey, I like Walter Mondale.
There's many things to love about Walter Mondale (unlike the Bengals), but he's not the guy I'd choose to lead me into battle.
Can anyone splain to me how the Republicans are able to sell tax cuts for the rich to middle and lower income people for the past 30 years
Same premise that makes some Tea Tard take out a second mortgage on their home to buy lottery tickets, when the lotto gets over 100 million dollars.
The short version? "Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and Deference to Corporate Will is the only way to protect your wimmens from the darkies and your tiny peen from the wimmens and the fags."
Harry Reid and his 59 member caucus in the Senate have spent the past two years allowing the Republican minority to set the rules which meant obstructing everything that is even slightly progressive.
Since they haven't been forced to pay a price for their wrecking they realized they can go a step further and force passage of an odious bill as well as stop ones they don't like.
Never could have seen that coming–nice work guys.
Good grief. I generously offered to edit your rough drafts so you could at least do your worthless comments in correct grammar. And, as a matter of fact, it is working in the UK and Germany, where budget cuts are accompanied by tax increases.
You DO know that EU stands for European Union, don't you? Both of the above countries are in Europe. I'm offering that so you won't have to do wikipedia to find them. And you will note that the countries that are in the biggest trouble, Greece and Ireland, have very low tax revenues. Greece, because the tax laws aren't enforced. Ireland, because the corporate tax rate is the lowest in the EU.
Ireland, by the way, was the country whose economy candidate John McCain kept citing as the model of a "business friendly" country that we should emulate.
How's that whole "be like the Celtic Tiger" thing workin' out fer ya, McCain and minions?
I don't think our troll is going to have any idea of what you're talking about. If she knew about any of that stuff, and understood half of it, she wouldn't be parroting the same old "tax cuts create jobs" nonsense.
And let's not forget that Ireland's problems are not because of a runaway welfare state, but because their unregulated banking industry blew up real good.
Once again, unregulated capitalism always ends up screwing the poor.
Why can't Obama be more bipartisan?
I know! He should throw a bone to the Democrats once in a while.
Fuck it, let's pass the extension today and tomorrow start screaming "WHERE ARE THE JERBS YOU PROMISED?"
HAHAHA, laughter makes the bile less bitter.
The Republithugs just write this shit and all our worthy editors have to do it transcribe it.
I fucking hate Republicans. Even I, the most peaceful person on earth, am almost able to imagination the sound of that bat cracking the heads of my two senators.
To be fair, I know one Republican who is pleasant when he isn't decrying the "liberal" government and media. He still lives with his parents (rent-free), has inherited their hand-me-down cars (for free), and spends all of the money he makes managing a game store to buy A/V equipment, movies, and games.
Then he rails about government handouts.
But as long as we keep politics out of the picture and stick to talking about games and movies and other banalities we get along fine.
What the hell is with Doktor Tom's new beard cup, anyway?
Withhold all paychecks to Congress, including staff.
Why u liberuls wantz start the class warfaring?
Fitzgerald: “The rich are not like us.”
Hemingway: “Yes, they have more money.”
Mitch McConnell: “And deserve even lots more money.”
if you would have told me in 2006 that by 2010, republicans in congress would be exponentially more mean-spirited, more disingenuous, more willfully ignorant, more nakedly bigoted, and more hateful, i probably have either laughed or headed to the nearest liquor store and bought a case of vodka to kill myself with the same evening.
Republican senators are just acting in the best interest of the people they work for.
Please Harry – Make them read the phone book.
Honest to god, they should be the first against the wall when the revolution comes, and I plan to be the one pointing them out. Changing my handle to "Saint-Just".
Suggestion one for Senator Reid: Say you'll preserve the tax cuts for anyone making less than a million bucks a year. Two: FORCE A REAL FILIBUSTER! Make the the Republicans stand up in public to defend, by name, tax cuts for millionaires.
Senate GOP Not Going To Let Anything Pass
UntilAfter Rich People Tax Cuts Passftfy
Sounds fair to me; have you seen the price of Caviar lately?
Geez and after Obama bought them lunch yesterday. Talk about date rape.
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that Republican pandering to rich people is going on in here!"
"Your campaign contribution, sir."
Don't you people understand? If rich people have low taxes, they'll invest the money to create jobs!
Wait….taxes are ALREADY at those rates and they're NOT investing the money to create jobs?
Ok, but….you see…LIBERAL LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMIE TERRORIST LIBERAL LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMIE TERRORIST LIBERAL LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMIE TERRORIST LIBERAL LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMIE TERRORIST LIBERAL LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMIE TERRORIST LIBERAL LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMIE TERRORIST LIBERAL LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMIE TERRORIST LIBERAL LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMIE TERRORIST LIBERAL LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMIE TERRORIST LIBERAL LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMIE TERRORIST LIBERAL LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMIE TERRORIST LIBERAL LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMIE SOCIALIST!
So, like I was say….If rich people have low taxes, they'll invest the money to create jobs!
All good? Good.
Congressional Dems need to engage this tactic as well.
It's simple… just say: we will not discuss anything until START is ratified, tax breaks for 98% of Americans are extended, and unemployment benefits are renewed. Let every American see exactly what the Republican priority is. I can tell you what it is not, and that is security or the general public.
Between the NIACSspeak and the LOLspeak, you have managed to make my head explode.
But at least you took my mind off the idiocy of this country's "leader"ship. Thanks.
We prefer “Shrub Engineer.” We were HUBZone until GAO was prodded into an audit by the 8(a)-tards, and forced SBA to change/enforce their own rules, and then, to our sorrow, we outgrew the size standard anyway.
I’m doing my best to make this post incomprehensible with acronyms so SecDef Gates won’t understand it.
WTF are you two going on about?
I understood none of this and yet found it awesome.
We try to be helpful ;=) Actually, we are being quite constrained regards DoD acronyms. Sometime a true star DoDer can cram a dozen alphabet soups into a single sentence. The DoD authors must have contests to see who can drop the most abbrvs and acronyms in a single paragraph. Something like writers do in who can write to worst first sentence/paragraph for a book. This can't happen by chance.
It's concrete poetry, or embedded acronyms. Don't try to understand, just let it wash over you. Would you know more if you were told that "BBPCT" stands for "blocking, bracing, packing, crating and tie-down"? Or that an 06 can be a colonel or a captain?
Didn't you get the memo. No more fucking acronyms! The brass can't keep track.
Comments on this entry are closed.