July 30, 2010
— LauraW Desperation Never Reeked So Sweetly
Steny talks tough to defend Americans from those wicked tax lovin' Republicans:
“We have no intention of allowing the Republican tax increase — that their policies would lead to — to go into effect for working Americans. Period,” he said. “We’re going to act and make sure that the Republican phase out and increase in taxes does not end as they provided for in the laws they passed.”
Catch that, puddin' slurping rethuglikkkan scum? Your evil plan to increase taxes will not succeed as long as Steny 'Fiscal Hawk' Hoyer is standing in your way.
Yes, they really think you are this stupid.
UPDATE FROM COMMENTS:
53 I think NOW would be a good time to remind people that the ONLY reason those tax cuts are sunsetting is because Democrats filibustered making them permanent in the first place.Republicans had to pass the tax cuts through reconciliation as a budget measure which means that they had to sunset per the rules of reconciliation because Democrats refused to even make them IN THE FIRST PLACE.
So yeah, let's TALK about the sunsetting of those tax cuts. I, for one, WELCOME, the discussion.
Posted by: Jim B at July 30, 2010 11:49 AM (6pO2h)
Also, Steny Hoyer, just last month:
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that tax increases will eventually be necessary to address the nation's mounting debt, [emph. me, -ed.] raising a difficult election-year issue as Democrats fight retain control of Congress.
In the shorter term, Hoyer raised the possibility that Congress will only temporarily extend middle-class tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year. He pointedly suggested that making them permanent would be too costly.
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Holy Diagram that sentence, Batman.
Posted by: lorien1973 at July 30, 2010 07:28 AM (IhQuA)
Posted by: nickless at July 30, 2010 07:29 AM (MMC8r)
Next year the Democrats will be telling us how they're gonna repeal the Republican's Health Care Reform bill.
Posted by: Boner McSteele at July 30, 2010 07:29 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: joncelli at July 30, 2010 07:31 AM (RD7QR)
Voted NO on making the Bush tax cuts permanent. (Apr 2002)
Voted NO on Tax cut package of $958 B over 10 years. (May 2001)
Posted by: lorien1973 at July 30, 2010 07:31 AM (IhQuA)
Posted by: dum blond at July 30, 2010 07:32 AM (gbCNS)
Posted by: pep at July 30, 2010 07:33 AM (YXmuI)
Posted by: polynikes at July 30, 2010 07:35 AM (UMZ1R)
Must be getting old/forgetful. I could have sworn it was the Dims that insisted on an expiration date for the Bush Tax Cuts. Earlier this year, I guess I falsely remembered, the Dims were claiming that letting the tax cuts expire would not be a tax increase.
OK. Pass the Aricept.
Posted by: MDr at July 30, 2010 07:35 AM (ucq49)
Desperation. Pure and simple.
The lies, can you feel 'em.
For years the democrats have railed against the evil "Bush tax cuts".
The same Bush across the board rate cuts that helped boost the economy.
What killed the economy? Fannie and Freddie and Chris Dodd and Barney Frank and the Clinton policies that came to fruition.
Now the democrats are desperate to raise taxes. As we know, the democrats eat, shit, fuck and wet dream about raising taxes. They already have with ObamaCare, which is a huge tax increase. Making sure the Bush tax cuts expire was/is their first order of business.
They will do it, but now the democrats know they have to layer a huge load of lies on top.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at July 30, 2010 07:35 AM (0fzsA)
But what were you saying just a month ago? That making the Bush tax cuts would be...
Hoyer: Permanent middle class tax cuts too costly
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 30, 2010 07:37 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: brian at July 30, 2010 07:37 AM (y05cf)
So cutting taxes years ago was just an evil plot to raise them now?
Heh! Later in the same article they want to still raise taxes on the 'wealthy:'
<blockquote>According to the Associated Press, Senate Finance Committee Democrats proposed last week to allow the Bush tax cuts for the “wealthy to expire next year while permanently extending the middle-class tax cuts.” </blockquote>
Wait, wait, WAIT.
I thought that whole thing was just all tax cuts for the wealthy?? That's what they said when Bush cut taxes in the first place.
It must be so nice to be Democrat, and be able to rewrite history at will with no one in the press calling you on it.
Posted by: lauraw at July 30, 2010 07:38 AM (quCmU)
Call it the Hail Mary With No Shame maneuver.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 30, 2010 07:38 AM (NvFZs)
Posted by: GarandFan at July 30, 2010 07:39 AM (XaWFq)
Posted by: Sharkman at July 30, 2010 07:39 AM (Zj8fM)
And I swear to you that we will not allow the evil Rethuglicans to carry forward with their plan. We will ensure that the chocolate ration for all working class Americans is increased from 12 to 10 grams.
Posted by: Rep Hoyer (D-the face cage) at July 30, 2010 07:39 AM (R2fpr)
Posted by: steevy at July 30, 2010 07:40 AM (xDFPB)
Also: Boooooooooooosh!
Posted by: Farmer Steny at July 30, 2010 07:40 AM (z4es9)
Jebus, Beck just said that the wait time for an appointment to renounce your American citizenship in Great Britain is 2012! I "scroogled" it and got a whole page of results. Beck said millionaires have told him they know if they want to have anything left after Zero they need to get their money into a bank in Singapore or India. Sounds like some are opting for Canada. If you check any of the Scroogle.org (they don't track your queries like G-o-o-g-l-e does) results, they say that renunciation of citizenship is a prime indication of a fascist state.
Posted by: RushBabe at July 30, 2010 07:40 AM (a3Z62)
They tried. They didn't have the votes.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 30, 2010 07:41 AM (p05LM)
Hoyer must by now have his head so far up his ass that ke can taste Barney Fwank's prostate.
The Dems' thing about the "Contract on America" (saw it via one of Breitbart's sites) is proof positive that the Dems are just about running out of shit to shit their pants with.
Note to Andy Sullivan: no, my referring to shit and mens' asses is not an invitation for you to call me.
Posted by: Ira at July 30, 2010 07:42 AM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 30, 2010 07:42 AM (oIp16)
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at July 30, 2010 07:43 AM (olRjO)
Posted by: Steny Hoyer at July 30, 2010 07:44 AM (+39HX)
Posted by: polynikes at July 30, 2010 07:45 AM (2mIrh)
Posted by: Jim in San Diego
This. This colors everything that Republicans do or say. This prism has been the catalyst for I dunno know how many knockdown drag-out fights here. It effects elections and executive decision making at every level. Mt fear is that it is promoting decay, that will be cumulative.
Posted by: Rep Hoyer (D-the face cage) at July 30, 2010 07:45 AM (R2fpr)
Posted by: Schwalbe at July 30, 2010 07:45 AM (UU0OF)
Posted by: McLovin at July 30, 2010 07:46 AM (j0IcY)
Well, I have no shame.
Posted by: Steny Hoyer
The 'D' after your name clued us in.
Posted by: Blue Hen at July 30, 2010 07:46 AM (R2fpr)
Hoyer is proof positive that Democrats are "reality challenged".
Posted by: Mel Gibson at July 30, 2010 07:46 AM (OtQXp)
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 30, 2010 07:47 AM (vVQq7)
Posted by: Pete Burns at July 30, 2010 07:47 AM (17bwz)
But what were you saying just a month ago? That making the Bush tax cuts would be...
Hoyer: Permanent middle class tax cuts too costly
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta
Oho. Update time.
The truth, it's inconvenient.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at July 30, 2010 07:47 AM (0fzsA)
Posted by: Ira at July 30, 2010 07:47 AM (bJm7W)
Holy Diagram that sentence, Batman.
When they figure out the talking points, they don't figure out the grammar at the same time.
Besides, they aren't trying to persuade anymore, they're just telling the troops that "all is well" and the troops will believe the sweet, sweet lies. I don't think this one will even be picked up by the trolls though.
It is really astounding how unburdened liberals are with any sense of propriety.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 30, 2010 07:48 AM (PDN1L)
"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth."
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at July 30, 2010 07:48 AM (0q2P7)
It's a shame about C.S. Lewis. It really sucks to accidentally leave something needed on the curb on trash day.
Posted by: MikeO at July 30, 2010 07:49 AM (lBmZl)
Bush cut taxes. Democrats want to raise them.
Hey Steny - We dare you to expend the Bush tax cuts. All. of. Them.
Come on Steny, you snake-oil salesman liar - extend the Bush tax cuts. NOW you asshole.
Be a man, you liar.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at July 30, 2010 07:49 AM (0fzsA)
Republicans had to pass the tax cuts through reconciliation as a budget measure which means that they had to sunset per the rules of reconciliation because Democrats refused to even make them IN THE FIRST PLACE.
So yeah, let's TALK about the sunsetting of those tax cuts. I, for one, WELCOME, the discussion.
Posted by: Jim B at July 30, 2010 07:49 AM (6pO2h)
Translation.
Honey, you're the one who farted in the bed, because you fed me those beans, that I asked for.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at July 30, 2010 07:49 AM (0q2P7)
28 Posted by: RushBabe at July 30, 2010 11:40 AM (a3Z62)
Kinda makes that whole "just the top 2%" ring a little hollow.
I mean if they are only going to tax the top 2% and if the top 2% isn't here...
well, you do the math.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 30, 2010 07:50 AM (r1h5M)
I think NOW would be a good time to remind people that the ONLY reason those tax cuts are sunsetting is because Democrats filibustered making them permanent in the first place.
Bingo.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at July 30, 2010 07:50 AM (0fzsA)
The lies have become so outrageous I just can't believe they can say them with a straight face anymore.
I guess he has to blame it on the Republicans though in this opening salvo that is actually against Obama. This is the war that Stewart Varney spoke of between the congressional Democrats and the communist in the WH.
Posted by: Vic at July 30, 2010 07:50 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at July 30, 2010 07:51 AM (ERJIu)
And for 52% of the population voters, they are right.
FIFY (actually, you are probably right as it stood, too).
Posted by: Roger at July 30, 2010 07:51 AM (tAwhy)
Posted by: MJ at July 30, 2010 07:51 AM (BKOsZ)
Root for casualties.
Posted by: MikeO at July 30, 2010 07:52 AM (lBmZl)
Posted by: Future Steny Hoyer at July 30, 2010 07:52 AM (vVQq7)
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 30, 2010 11:42 AM (oIp16)
No shit!
Posted by: Bonnie Prince Barack at July 30, 2010 07:52 AM (VuLos)
Posted by: Mr. Dave at July 30, 2010 07:52 AM (pcJe3)
The RNC should put together numbers showing all those people who got the "Bush tax cuts" just how much ADDITIONAL taxes they would have paid between now and then if the Democrats had their way and NO tax cuts were made in the first place.
Reminding even those in the lowest tax brackets just how much additional money Democrats TRIED to take out of their pockets over the last decade or so would be DEVASTATING to Democrats.
Can we talk about the Bush tax cuts more please? Please? I really, really wanna!!!!!
Posted by: Jim B at July 30, 2010 07:52 AM (6pO2h)
Posted by: mr pink at July 30, 2010 07:52 AM (LhoRf)
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at July 30, 2010 07:53 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: Steny Hoyer (D-Ouche) at July 30, 2010 07:53 AM (TFt+A)
Ve haff no intention of allowing these nasty things to happen to the Polish people that their leaders voted for by allowing us to successfully invade and conquer them!
Posted by: Adolph 'Steny' Hitler, (D-Bavaria) at July 30, 2010 07:54 AM (ERJIu)
Posted by: Dave in Texas at July 30, 2010 07:54 AM (WvXvd)
Of course they're that stupid. 78% of Jews voted for a Moslem idiot who's a big fanboy of the people who want to kill them and their children.
Top that for stupid motherfuckers.
Posted by: TexasJew at July 30, 2010 07:54 AM (o7kZZ)
Republicans have been asking to extend the tax cuts ever since Obama was elected. Democrats said no. Now they're accusing the Republicans of increasing taxes. That's some impressive revisionism.
"The underlying House and Senate Democratic federal budget plans for 2009, though non-binding, drew blasts from Republicans for allowing some or all of Bush's tax cuts to die in about three years." (3/14/2008)
"MR. GREGORY: Let's talk about tax cuts. About a third of his package is made up of tax cuts. Republicans want more. Specifically there's a question about the Bush tax cuts which, of course, expire next year. Does the president want to actually repeal those tax cuts this calendar year?
DR. SUMMERS: I don't think there's any question they have to be repealed. The country can't afford them for the long run." (1/25/2009)
Posted by: geoff at July 30, 2010 07:54 AM (zGLZj)
"Yes, they really think you are this stupid."
Well this kind of crap works on the people who vote for them, so I can't really blame them for hoping it will work on normal people too. They could tell their followers that 2+2=5 and many of them would fall for it.
But yeah, they are desperate.
Democrats: Positive proof that 50% of the population is of below average intelligence.
Posted by: Lee Reynolds at July 30, 2010 07:55 AM (/gY4D)
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 30, 2010 11:42 AM (oIp16)
No shit!
Posted by: Bonnie Prince Barack at July 30, 2010 11:52 AM (VuLos)
Don't you just love my dreamy husband?
Posted by: Patricia Ewing Obama at July 30, 2010 07:55 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: John Galt at July 30, 2010 07:55 AM (F/4zf)
Posted by: dagny at July 30, 2010 07:56 AM (brSmE)
Posted by: Penfold at July 30, 2010 07:56 AM (1PeEC)
Posted by: Osama 'Steny' Laden, (D-Tora Bora) at July 30, 2010 07:56 AM (ERJIu)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 30, 2010 07:58 AM (2g2ex)
Posted by: Mr. Dave at July 30, 2010 07:58 AM (pcJe3)
Posted by: Howard Johnson at July 30, 2010 07:59 AM (ERJIu)
Posted by: Fiscal logic at July 30, 2010 07:59 AM (DHNp4)
Next year the Democrats will be telling us how they're gonna repeal the Republican's Health Care Reform bill.
Actually, I don't care if they do that. I just want Obamacare killed by any means possible as soon as possible.
As for the "republican tax increase," to me, that doesn't not sound illogical.
/yeah, I can do crazy @ss double negatives like a Dem...
Posted by: shibumi at July 30, 2010 08:00 AM (OKZrE)
The democrats are sinking so they know they have to roll out the bullshit and lies in order to fool as many stupids as possible.
Democrat ad campaign:
Proof of bullshit peddling found here.
Got reality? Hope. Nope.
We gonna cut taxes for the middle class! Really.
Democrats hate lowing taxes, so they will promise middle class tax cuts, but I doubt they will deliver. It's too late anyway. The democrats already raised our taxes via PelosiCare.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at July 30, 2010 08:00 AM (0fzsA)
Posted by: Penfold at July 30, 2010 11:56 AM (1PeEC)
That was an above-the-fold story in the New York Times. It was all over the MSM.
No, wait, I saw it on this blog.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 30, 2010 08:00 AM (PDN1L)
The official sponsors of the 21st century.
I'm thinking I liked the 20th better.
Posted by: DarkLordOfTheIntarWebs at July 30, 2010 08:00 AM (IkEhE)
Posted by: Phil at July 30, 2010 08:01 AM (UrWDV)
Next year the Democrats will be telling us how they're gonna repeal the Republican's Health Care Reform bill.
Gawd, no kidding.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at July 30, 2010 08:01 AM (0fzsA)
Posted by: Fiscal logic
You never really do. You just have to brace yourself and hope that they tire fast.
Posted by: The chicken at July 30, 2010 08:01 AM (R2fpr)
14 Must be getting old/forgetful. I could have sworn it was the Dims that insisted on an expiration date for the Bush Tax Cuts.
----------------
That's how I remember it, too.
Posted by: Anachronda at July 30, 2010 08:03 AM (3K4hn)
11. When your position can't be substantiated by logic or facts, divert the issue to another topic that defames or attacks your opposition's credibility. It is good if there is little justification to do so, and even better if your spin is full of falsehoods and logical gaps. If you are guilty of something, defend yourself by saying your opponent is guilty of the same crime, even if it there is no truth in the accusation.
Posted by: drfredc at July 30, 2010 08:03 AM (Qw60D)
Posted by: MJ at July 30, 2010 08:03 AM (BKOsZ)
How you like me know, bitches? Now make me a sammich! No, make me a buffet. You owe me.
Posted by: Joe Wilson at July 30, 2010 08:03 AM (swuwV)
Posted by: joncelli at July 30, 2010 08:04 AM (RD7QR)
If a war breaks out in Korea can we call it the Democratic 60 year war?
Posted by: Ben at July 30, 2010 08:04 AM (wuv1c)
“We have no intention of allowing the Republican tax increase — that their policies would lead to — to go into effect for working Americans. Period,” he said. “We’re going to act and make sure that the Republican phase out and increase in taxes does not end as they provided for in the laws they passed.”
Holy crap. Statements like this should be avoided. You could lose all credibility saying things like this. I know the belly of the Beast, and even he couldn't stomach this!
Posted by: Baghdad Bob (former Iraqi Press Secretary) at July 30, 2010 08:04 AM (R2fpr)
wow,
I found myself reading this and i sat here for several seconds with my mouth hanging open .
how unlady-like.
what do you want to bet, the next few weeks we will have this said to us over and over again by axelroving turds.
Posted by: willow at July 30, 2010 08:04 AM (SbsTp)
Posted by: polynikes at July 30, 2010 11:45 AM (2mIrh)
That's what I thought, but further reading says these folks might be the most patriotic because they can be the ones to try to "fix" the US from the outside. Another document says that for 10 years after citizenship renunciation you must still pay US taxes! A while ago, I heard that Rangel (!) got through some kind of wacky legislation regarding folks permanently leaving the country as far as freezing their assets. Also, if you look at it from the viewpoint of big money movers and shakers, when and if this Obama mess ends, they'll be the ones who can return and capitalize business start-ups.
Posted by: RushBabe at July 30, 2010 08:05 AM (a3Z62)
wow,
I found myself reading this and i sat here for several seconds with my mouth hanging open .
how unlady-like.
what do you want to bet, the next few weeks we will have this said to us over and over again by axelroving turds.
Posted by: willow
No, I don't think that any of us will be saying that you're not lady-like over the next few weeks.
Posted by: Blue Hen at July 30, 2010 08:06 AM (R2fpr)
Posted by: B. J. Clinton, DNC '92 at July 30, 2010 08:06 AM (w9BEi)
I live in a sane part of MD (Frederick County) that was seriously considering breaking off and becoming a new state. Western MD is as conservative as Oklahoma.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 30, 2010 08:08 AM (yQWNf)
oh and the stupidity of the people that will actually believe Hoyer is equally as amazing.
Posted by: Timbo at July 30, 2010 08:08 AM (ph9vn)
*reaches for mute button on remote*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 30, 2010 08:09 AM (UOM48)
And in other news:
Former U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Chairman Mary Frances Berry:
"Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having oneÂ’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness."
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 30, 2010 08:09 AM (oIp16)
Don't forget Baltimore.
Posted by: MikeO at July 30, 2010 12:01 PM (lBmZl)
And Annapolis. Except for the Naval Academy, it's filled with pretentious yuppie-douchebag liberal types. Not that there aren't pretentious douchebags of another sort at the Naval Academy.
Posted by: shillelagh at July 30, 2010 08:13 AM (Oz4Bj)
Posted by: joncelli at July 30, 2010 08:13 AM (RD7QR)
*reaches for mute button on remote*
Proper (cardiologist approved!) response:
CHANGE CHANNEL IMMEDIATELY!
Posted by: shibumi at July 30, 2010 08:13 AM (OKZrE)
Blue Hen, i stink at writing and posting.
blushing.
Posted by: willow
But there are always other pursuits. Take for example the position in which you found yourself. Better yet, let one of us take that position........
Welcome to the Moron Nation. Come for the smart military pron. Stay for whatever presents itself.
Posted by: Blue Hen at July 30, 2010 08:14 AM (R2fpr)
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 30, 2010 08:15 AM (oIp16)
Posted by: RushBabe at July 30, 2010 08:16 AM (a3Z62)
This line of bullshit is being swallowed up the democrat base.
There's no way this ends well for any of us.
Posted by: Dang Straights at July 30, 2010 08:16 AM (fx8sm)
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 30, 2010 12:09 PM (oIp16)
They should be ashamed of dividing the country like this.
how useful turning citizen angainst citizen. bastids.
Posted by: willow at July 30, 2010 08:16 AM (SbsTp)
I was wondering what that pervasive smell was -- kind of like a jar of dead snakes. I realize now it's desperation so extreme that it drives Democrats to delusion and madness. I'm in San Diego, and it blew here all the way from D.C.
I want to torment these people. Unmolested, they will quietly retire and live well off our money. It's fair and reasonable to torpedo their quiet lives. Any ideas?
Posted by: Wm T Sherman at July 30, 2010 08:17 AM (w41GQ)
Posted by: Donna at July 30, 2010 08:18 AM (A77nn)
Those of you clinging to the idea that their are distinctions between R and D philosophies are idiots. They changed the rules years ago. Here is that lost memo.
This is no longer a government for the people nor by the people. This is us against you. We win, you lose. We don't care about your solutions or opinions, so stfu and send in your taxes. Paying us is patriotic. Your banter about politics is interesting but not useful. We will then take your money, give it to bankers and sympathetic voters. We couldn't care less what you want. It's what we want that matters.
Capiche?
Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at July 30, 2010 08:19 AM (Q8oid)
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at July 30, 2010 08:19 AM (ERJIu)
They should be ashamed of dividing the country like this. How useful; turning citizen angainst citizen. bastids.
Posted by: willow at July 30, 2010 12:16 PM (SbsTp)
We are all "cowards" now.
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 30, 2010 08:19 AM (oIp16)
That is some weapons grade fucknuttery right there. You'd have to be dumber than a sack of dicks to believe something like that.
In other words, this is gonna work on the Dem base.
Posted by: gator at July 30, 2010 08:20 AM (aOKEC)
Posted by: MJ at July 30, 2010 08:21 AM (BKOsZ)
Capiche?
Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Just banks eh? Not unions? Not other aspects of the financial world? Not other types of business? Not various extra-national bodies? Just a diatribe against the banks.
Posted by: Blue Hen at July 30, 2010 08:22 AM (R2fpr)
Posted by: Laura Castellano at July 30, 2010 08:23 AM (fuw6p)
Former U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Chairman Mary Frances Berry:
"Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having oneÂ’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness."Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 30, 2010 12:09 PM (oIp16)
Wow...that's just right out there, huh? Unbelievable....
Posted by: Tami at July 30, 2010 08:24 AM (VuLos)
I want to torment these people. Unmolested, they will quietly retire and live well off our money. It's fair and reasonable to torpedo their quiet lives. Any ideas?
Posted by: Wm T Sherman at July 30, 2010 12:17 PM (w41GQ)
My fantasies involve seizing all their assets and returning them to the US Treasury while they wear orange jumpsuits and slowdance with Bubba or Big Betty. Their kids' assets would be confiscated as well as anyone connected with looting the treasury -- I'm looking at you Stern, Trumpka, Axlerod, members of the PPO (Partisan Political Operatives, Rush's name for the "old media.")
Posted by: RushBabe at July 30, 2010 08:24 AM (a3Z62)
The Dems (Hoyer) is referring to the expiring Bush tax cuts and how letting the Bush tax cuts expire would be essentially a Republican tax increase.
What I don't understand is this; I thought that Bush was to blame for everything.
Are we now to believe that Bush, when he cut taxes, was a genius and the only hope now to save Obama's failed economy.
Pardon me while my head spins off my shoulders.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 30, 2010 08:24 AM (r1h5M)
I'm guessing America is finally waking up to the scam. The meteoric slide from grace as indicted by polling trends certainly suggests it.
Besides, all those jobless, funemployed, or soon to be who might be discussing racism are surely discussing their life crisis, too. Guess which carries more weight in spite of the political spin? They'll be seeing November from their cardboard boxes.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 30, 2010 08:25 AM (swuwV)
Posted by: Nighhawk at July 30, 2010 12:21 PM (OtQXp)
Ask for the MK V model. Higher capacity.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 30, 2010 08:26 AM (r1h5M)
Pardon me while my head spins off my shoulders.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 30, 2010 12:24 PM (r1h5M)
That shit's a bitch...just sayin'
Posted by: Linda Blair at July 30, 2010 08:26 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: Donna at July 30, 2010 12:18 PM (A77nn)
Ooops. That's it. Thanks. For some reason I have it stuck in my head that Steny is a crook of the highest order. Imagine that.
Posted by: RushBabe at July 30, 2010 08:26 AM (a3Z62)
Posted by: Laura Castellano
I hope that your observation holds generally. I've often thought that people voted for a fad, or 'moment' (first African/Mongrel/Clean/Articulate American). President Pokemon is the manifestation of a fad. If this holds tru, then that moment has passed, and with it, sufficient support to keep him in place. That fact that Dems are already refusing to campaign with him lends credence to this.
Posted by: Blue Hen at July 30, 2010 08:26 AM (R2fpr)
Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at July 30, 2010 08:27 AM (HaYO4)
That shit's a bitch...just sayin'
Posted by: Linda Blair at July 30, 2010 12:26 PM (YVZlY)
Wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the green vomit.Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 30, 2010 08:28 AM (r1h5M)
Tami.
mindblowing isn't it. He is outright admitting the whole racism charges are lies ,(tool to scare and divide) why We knew this, they are so full of themselves for getting one over on the american people for decades, they no longer even hide their shameful behavior and causing hate among fellow americans.
Shame on them, Shame!
Posted by: willow at July 30, 2010 08:29 AM (SbsTp)
Yes. Secretly replace the fine coffee they normally serve with decaffeinated Folgers Crystals.
Posted by: Chris Farley at July 30, 2010 08:30 AM (17bwz)
Posted by: Laura Castellano at July 30, 2010 08:31 AM (fuw6p)
Posted by: Paladin at July 30, 2010 08:32 AM (AfORa)
Don't raise taxes -- cut spending!
That's too difficult a concept to sell to thieving, self-absorbed politicians in the Age of Osama Obama, I know.
BTW -- the Traitor-in-Chief is speaking to the auto workers at Chrysler right now. If I had a dollar (hell, a penny!) for every lie that arrogant asshole has spouted in this speech, I could spend the rest of my life in Monte Carlo (and no, I don't mean the Chevy).
I'm too angry to say any more. Switching to the Cartoon Channel.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 30, 2010 08:32 AM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: Pet Rock at July 30, 2010 08:33 AM (ERJIu)
I have a wonderful piece on a bank that Obama bailed out in Illinois and a plan to reap billions funneled through it. Why do you think the greatest contributors to politicians are banks? Why do you think politicians gave a trillion dollars of your money away to save them?
It's as simple as money. Money is power. People covet wealth and power, above all else. They prove it, time and time again.
So while us idiots discuss politics, they laugh as they find new ways to steal your money. And disguise them as tax cuts on the "wealthy" or cap and trade, or health care bills, or cash for clunkers which was simply a way to increase fractional reserve requirements for listing banks.
It's always been about money and power. Since the dawn of time. This politics thing, second rate.
Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at July 30, 2010 08:34 AM (Q8oid)
I saved these two thousand jobs, for the bargain basement price of around $800 billion.
Gather 'round, there's plenty of room to bow and worship. Not too close, you racist Bible-squeezer! Security! Security!
Posted by: JugEars McToonces at July 30, 2010 08:34 AM (aOKEC)
I think you missed this from our esteemed colleague, Steny, earlier. To wit:
Did we ever tell you that we have no shame?
Well, we have no shame.
Posted by: Progressives and Democrats and the MFM (BIRM), Oh My at July 30, 2010 08:35 AM (swuwV)
Posted by: Pet Rock
No, but you did make the number two spot. Congratulations Mr. Vice President Biteme.
Or does he qualify as the chia politician?
Posted by: Blue Hen at July 30, 2010 08:36 AM (R2fpr)
“We have no intention of allowing the Republican tax increase — that their policies would lead to — to go into effect for working Americans. Period,” he said. “We’re going to act and make sure that the Republican phase out and increase in taxes does not end as they provided for in the laws they passed.”
I'm sorry, but I have to admire the sheer chutzpah. It's phenomenal. This isn't a kid who killed his parents and begged mercy from the court for being an orphan. This is a kid who killed his parents and then insisted that they are just faking being dead. "They're just resting."
Unreal. Impressively so.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 30, 2010 08:36 AM (5TNVe)
Surely you understand that cutting spending is not effective in buying votes.
Posted by: JugEars McToonces at July 30, 2010 08:37 AM (aOKEC)
Posted by: Journolist at July 30, 2010 08:39 AM (8EEyy)
I can only ask if Representative Hoyer also pulled out Caesar's will, showing what the stabbed man had planned to donate to the Roman citizenry?
Basically, in a nutshell, we have yet another example that while the Republicans may (and do) have their problem children when it comes to thinking of themselves as some elect class of guardians, they will never come close to matching Democrats in their outright brazeness in believing that it is acceptable to win not just by mangling the truth, but to do so knowing that they are 1.) caught in the act and 2.) relying on a one-party media to make it work anyway.
A Republican may appeal to your prejudices to get your vote. A Democrat will create them for you out of whole cloth.
Posted by: Horatius at July 30, 2010 08:39 AM (6Ke6U)
Posted by: brian at July 30, 2010 08:39 AM (y05cf)
Posted by: shillelagh at July 30, 2010 08:39 AM (Oz4Bj)
President Pokemon is the manifestation of a fad.
Do what I do: Whenever a lefty stranger is compelled to share his views with you, steer the conversation to telling him that the increased registration for the 2008 elections has helped a lot with catching criminals. I imply that I'm working on a project for an unspecified law-enforcement agency that cross-checks voter logs at the polls against outstanding warrants to make it easier to round-up crooks on election day.
I often eat at the bar when I'm on business travel, and it floors me how almost uniformly moonbatty the bartenders are in chain restaurants.
Posted by: MikeO at July 30, 2010 08:39 AM (lBmZl)
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Posted by: harleycowboy at July 30, 2010 08:40 AM (jm8nz)
Posted by: Steny Hoyer at July 30, 2010 08:44 AM (epBek)
I'm sorry, but I have to admire the sheer chutzpah. It's phenomenal. This isn't a kid who killed his parents and begged mercy from the court for being an orphan. This is a kid who killed his parents and then insisted that they are just faking being dead. "They're just resting."
More like the kid who killed his parents, got caught red-handed while chopping them to bits, then blamed his neighbor for the murder while also claiming that he was trying perform CPR.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at July 30, 2010 08:44 AM (JxMoP)
Posted by: HoyersRules at July 30, 2010 08:44 AM (+sBB4)
Posted by: tsj017 at July 30, 2010 08:44 AM (4YUWF)
Posted by: SGT Dan at July 30, 2010 08:45 AM (GgXZc)
Slower or faster,we are still going down the drain.
Dude, we have a mongrel President that's saving all our asses.
All our asses, indeed.
By the way, I sure hope the illegal aliens protesting in American streets get what they want.
Posted by: gator at July 30, 2010 08:45 AM (aOKEC)
Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 30, 2010 08:45 AM (SZy+Y)
As a bonus, if the MFM suddenly became honest, they could put Rush Limbaugh out of business. Surely that must tempt them.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 30, 2010 08:46 AM (eNxMU)
"So yeah, let's TALK about the sunsetting of those tax cuts. I, for one, WELCOME, the discussion."
Discussion? Facts? We'll be giving you the narrative and nothing but the narrative between now and November: deal with it.
Posted by: The JournoList MFM at July 30, 2010 08:47 AM (VrNoa)
You owe me on Acme Mk IV Mod 7 Bullshit Meter. This one just exploded.
No wonder! You ought to know better than to use a mark IV to analyze something a democratic congress bullshitter like Hoyer has to say, your lucky you weren't killed.
Get yourself the Mark 8 with the optional with the new PF attachment (politician filter). It automatically clamps the amplitude of the incoming bullshit signal so your meter doesn't blow up.
Also, it comes in a variety of designer colors. Also if you act now we'll throw in a free carrying case.
Posted by: W.E. Coyote - CEO, ACME Products at July 30, 2010 08:49 AM (e8T35)
Posted by: The Dark Lord at July 30, 2010 08:50 AM (gbCNS)
Posted by: McLovin at July 30, 2010 11:46 AM (j0IcY)
I think the number you're looking for is FiftyTwo Percent.
Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Pro Debate Squad, And Summoner Of Meteors. at July 30, 2010 08:50 AM (eCAn3)
More like the kid who killed his parents, got caught red-handed while chopping them to bits, then blamed his neighbor for the murder while also claiming that he was trying perform CPR.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at July 30, 2010 12:44 PM (JxMoP)
Much better. Thanks.
I wonder if this "Republican tax increase" perversion was on JournoList at some point? Of course, the dems have been getting away with claiming that the GOP had been in charge of everything up to 2009, even after the dems took the House and Senate and the purse strings of the US, so I guess this new tack is just an extension of a tried and true lie.
It is embarrassing, and extremely sad, to think about how future history books are going to accurately portray this generation of Americans as one of the worst and most pathetic in all of human history.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 30, 2010 08:52 AM (5TNVe)
Savior of all mankind on tv taking crediting for saving all mankind - hence the title.
Full campaign, I'm really just a regular ole' savior of the world going about my business saving the world, mode, taking credit for his hard work in making the sun come up this morning and for his ultimate self-sacrifice of missing golf to walk among the mere mortals of the world.
His campaign though has a tone of don't vote for those other asshole democrats because they deserve it. Vote for them because, if you vote for them, you vote for me. And we all love me, don't we?
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 30, 2010 08:52 AM (r1h5M)
Posted by: Baghdad Bob, President of the Hoyer Fan Club at July 30, 2010 08:53 AM (epBek)
He then went on to excoriate conservatives for taking over the nation's car companies and banks while throwing lavish parties for themselves and booking separate private jets for their pets.
I must admit this Hoyer guy makes some damn good points. I know I'll be voting Democrat this November.
Posted by: oh, Hi Mark at July 30, 2010 08:54 AM (LjYhY)
I am going to denounce all the luscious young interns who have raped me with their mouths.
But first they will blow me.
Posted by: Steny Hoyer at July 30, 2010 08:54 AM (epBek)
I thought Baghdad Bob should have gotten his own TV show after the war.
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 30, 2010 08:55 AM (bw+Qn)
I won't care so much about the current line of Democrat bullshit, so long as the f'in tax increases are actually blocked.
If the Dems vote for that and want to take credit, fine.
Posted by: looking closely at July 30, 2010 08:56 AM (6Q9g2)
Posted by: Serfer62 at July 30, 2010 08:57 AM (HLCnI)
I thought Baghdad Bob should have gotten his own TV show after the war.
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 30, 2010 12:55 PM (bw+Qn)
he did, the networks just changed his name to Robert Gibbels.
Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Pro Debate Squad, And Summoner Of Meteors. at July 30, 2010 08:57 AM (eCAn3)
Posted by: PigsFly at July 30, 2010 12:54 PM (+sBB4)
Lots of us have been saying that since the beginning.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 30, 2010 08:58 AM (5TNVe)
Proves to me the fuckwits who voted for Barky are too damned stupid and lazy to vote. Which is a good thing.
Ah, I love the smell of libtard idiocy on a Friday.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 30, 2010 08:59 AM (UOM48)
For that type of bullshit you gonna need the MK IX model, which is still in testing. Works fine, except for when Obama gives a speech....then the damn things flames out and ends up a smoldering pile of charred metal.
Posted by: Acme R and D Department at July 30, 2010 12:55 PM (OWjjx)
Unfortunately, that model relies on advanced alien technology as yet undiscovered. Plus it's cost prohibitive.
Just have to turn the damn thing off whenever any even mentions the word, "teleprompter!"
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 30, 2010 09:00 AM (r1h5M)
Barky and his minions considering back door amnesty for illegals.
And this:
Possible murder charges pending against Julian Assbang. Goody.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 30, 2010 09:02 AM (UOM48)
For that type of bullshit you gonna need the MK IX model, which is still in testing. Works fine, except for when Obama gives a speech....then the damn things flames out and ends up a smoldering pile of charred metal.
Ahem.. gentleman, I thought we had this discussion once before. The Mark IX is not yet ready for field trials. For now the best technology available is still the Mark VIII with the PF attachment. Granted even the Mark VIII still won't stand up to a speech by the annointed one, but it's the best we've got.
Now I think you gentleman in R&D should be working on the "Now let me be perfectly clear" fix for the Mark IX so hopefully we'll be able to produce one that doesn't go up like a roman candle, rather than wasting your time posting on blogs and chasing hot russian spies.
Also, I would appreciate it if you people could finally get around to fixing that damn bug in the firing circuitry of our rockets. The fact that they only fire at the most inconvient time and always run out of fuel right over the edge of a huge cliff is getting quite annoying.
Posted by: W.E. Coyote - CEO, ACME Products at July 30, 2010 09:02 AM (e8T35)
This line of bullshit is being swallowed up the democrat base.
There's no way this ends well for any of us.
Let them wallow in their delusions.
Indeed, as in the end, there will be only chaos.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 30, 2010 09:02 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: PigsFly at July 30, 2010 12:54 PM (+sBB4)
Lots of us have been saying that since the beginning.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 30, 2010 12:58 PM (5TNVe)
Funny things those physics. Kind of like magic is a lot of ways.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 30, 2010 09:03 AM (r1h5M)
Possible murder charges pending against Julian Assbang. Goody.
Shitcanned by Eric Holder and his Department of Injustice in 5, 4, 3...
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at July 30, 2010 09:04 AM (e8T35)
Proves to me the fuckwits who voted for Barky are too damned stupid and lazy to vote. Which is a good thing.
Ah, I love the smell of libtard idiocy on a Friday.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 30, 2010 12:59 PM (UOM4
< Jane - best news I've heard in a long time. You feeling better?
Posted by: Journolist at July 30, 2010 09:04 AM (8EEyy)
I don't think a "theocracy" is anything remotely possible, but you know, if the Republicans were ever able (or more importantly, inclined, which they are not as a mass) to do so, it would still be done in the open, via a rule of law process. With Republicans, you would get a 'tyranny' via a process that could be reversed. Because that really is who they are.
A Democrat tyranny would come about over time as a ever-expanding set of people found themselves waking up one day and reading in the paper former allies saying something a lot like Hoyer just said...except about them this time...
In other words, a Democratic tyranny would come about via the continual process of people being 'airbrushed' over time from the conceptual picture of what is decent and what isn't....but an airbrushing by fiat, not a vote.
Posted by: Horatius at July 30, 2010 09:05 AM (6Ke6U)
So it wasn't the Norks? Who'd thunk it?
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 30, 2010 01:05 PM (9hSKh)
Dammit People! Listen to me, it was the Norks!
Posted by: Alex Jones at July 30, 2010 09:06 AM (YVZlY)
202 195 HotAir says Obama sunk the oil rig.
Posted by: PigsFly at July 30, 2010 12:54 PM (+sBB4)
Lots of us have been saying that since the beginning.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 30, 2010 12:58 PM (5TNVe)
So it's safe here now to posit those wacky conspiratorial thoughts?
'Cause I'm about to explode.
Posted by: dum blond at July 30, 2010 09:08 AM (gbCNS)
Mmm mm. I was thinkin', I'm gonna take me some of these taters home with me.
Posted by: Karl Childers at July 30, 2010 09:08 AM (17bwz)
Yeah, me neither.
Stop punching down, or something.
Posted by: Something Wicked Got Lost Trying to Come This Other Way at July 30, 2010 09:11 AM (IQBsP)
So the Coast Guard might have precipitated this, i.e. might've tipped it over? It figures. See, this is what I'm talking about.
Posted by: Hank Johnson, Tipologist at July 30, 2010 09:11 AM (swuwV)
Posted by: Patton at July 30, 2010 09:16 AM (bQoya)
202 195 HotAir says Obama sunk the oil rig.
Posted by: PigsFly at July 30, 2010 12:54 PM (+sBB4)
Lots of us have been saying that since the beginning.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 30, 2010 12:58 PM (5TNVe)
So it's safe here now to posit those wacky conspiratorial thoughts?
'Cause I'm about to explode.
Posted by: dum blond at July 30, 2010 01:08 PM (gbCNS)
why yes it is. just in time for The gvt. to get ahold of all the sites we visit, and comment on.
wonder why they are so interested?
of course they never mentioned their dismay that some of the people are listening to those we shouldn't, cause that's just wrong.
that's my tin foil hat moment.
Posted by: willow at July 30, 2010 09:18 AM (SbsTp)
More like the kid who killed his parents, got caught red-handed while chopping them to bits, then blamed his neighbor for the murder while also claiming that he was trying perform CPR.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at July 30, 2010 12:44 PMIf, that is, the "kid" has an unlimited budget and 535 people saying either he's the reincarnation of Jesus and above all blame, or that he's really an okay kid and we need to give him another chance so as not to upset anyone....
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 30, 2010 09:18 AM (Ulu3i)
Help me here.
For years all we heard was "tax cuts for the rich" and middle and lower income people got no cuts at all, only Bush's millionaire buddies. Now it's Repubs want to raise taxes on the poor and middle class by not extending tax cuts they claim never existed in the first place.
And my wife says scotch makes me incoherent. Yea, right.
Posted by: bigred at July 30, 2010 09:28 AM (uh7Ap)
that's my tin foil hat moment.
Just curious, does wearing one of those make the stuff Hoyer or Gibb's say sound any less ludicrous?
HotAir says Obama sunk the oil rig.
Not completely far fetched, actually. I'm sure Obama will demand a full investigation, by someone who can be trusted to get to the bottom of all of this and make sure we all know the truth about what happened here.
Stay tuned for:
Charlie Rangel, in Hellfighters II (The Duke Rolls Over in His Grave)
Posted by: W.E. Coyote - CEO, ACME Products at July 30, 2010 09:29 AM (e8T35)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at July 30, 2010 09:30 AM (e8T35)
Posted by: JEA at July 30, 2010 09:36 AM (2X4q0)
W.E Coyote,
wearing my tin foil hat has not been very efficient for me.
srsly. who'da thunk, we'd see a journolist, with admittance of lying to the public by 400 members.
.
Posted by: willow at July 30, 2010 09:39 AM (SbsTp)
Actually, what Ed "Pillsbury Doughboy" Morrissey said over at Tepid Air is "...if the government had any role in this...."
The rest was, as usual, parroting what other people had to say, though thankfully neither the "Generalissimo" or "The Boss Emeritus" apparently haven't weighed in on this. Yet.
The last time "Captain Ed" wrote a true declarative sentence, he was pimping his radio show or some tape he made at a conservative geekfest somewhere.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 30, 2010 09:43 AM (Ulu3i)
JEA, get back on your liberal page. you are not allowed to admit the economy is tanking. as to the rest. remember your first part of comment and what you've been hearing for last 2 years,
JEA said: What I'd really like to know is how the Republicans are planning on paying for these cuts if they're continued. I'm not buying the 'they'll pay for themselves' argument
and who's in power now ? and for last 3 1/2 years, isn't it Your Guyz job to figure it out?
whose cuts dems or reps,? we are the tax hikers now remember,
man o man
Posted by: willow at July 30, 2010 09:48 AM (SbsTp)
JEA, you "pay" for it just like in real life. If you take a pay cut or lose your job you don't run out and buy that new $50k Beemer or the 900k house. You don't spend money you don't have on "health care Reform" or give ACORN 8 billion for community organizing. In other words you don't piss it away on crap you can't afford.
I've seen three major tax cuts in my life. First Kennedy and the late 60's were good times. Reagan's tax cuts almost doubled the revenue to the treasury, but the dems pissed it away on crap we didn't need. Bush's cuts also raised revenues but guess who overspent it (hint: it wasn't Bush all by himself). Worry less about "paying for it and more where it goes.
Posted by: bigred at July 30, 2010 09:52 AM (uh7Ap)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 30, 2010 09:58 AM (i3AsK)
Posted by: bigred at July 30, 2010 10:02 AM (uh7Ap)
IIRC, that's when the Democrats repealed the evil Republican welfare state.
Posted by: RayJ at July 30, 2010 10:11 AM (//Bcg)
So it's safe here now to posit those wacky conspiratorial thoughts?
'Cause I'm about to explode.
Posted by: dum blond at July 30, 2010 01:08 PM (gbCNS)
I wasn't talking in terms of the adminstration having intentionally blown the rig, or anything, but that their rush to put out the fire (which could have been allowed to burn for some time) was what sunk the rig. It is, after all, the water poured on the rig that sealed its fate.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 30, 2010 10:16 AM (5TNVe)
Steny, that playbook you're reading from? Look inside the front cover.
It says ACME Publications, doesn't it.
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Posted by: Reiver at July 30, 2010 10:38 AM (rQ7j5)
You owe me on Acme Mk IV Mod 7 Bullshit Meter. This one just exploded.
You should have ordered the Goebells option which includes a logarithmic scale.
Posted by: Schwalbe at July 30, 2010 10:50 AM (UU0OF)
Now I think you gentleman in R&D should be working on the "Now let me be perfectly clear" fix for the Mark IX so hopefully we'll be able to produce one that doesn't go up like a roman candle, rather than wasting your time posting on blogs and chasing hot russian spies.
Posted by: W.E. Coyote - CEO, ACME Products at July 30, 2010 01:02 PM (e8T35)
I think if your R&D department would do an internet search for "electrical fuses" that would solve about 99% of your exploding device problems.
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Posted by: steevy at July 30, 2010 11:40 AM (xDFPB)
Natch! They waz da guys on da grassy knoll and da CIA had to off them, too! Da truf, I tell ya, da truf!
Posted by: Ollie Stone at July 30, 2010 11:43 AM (yRrAd)
Set sentence parsers on "WTF?"!
Posted by: Strunk & White at July 30, 2010 12:01 PM (yRrAd)
@19: "Hey asshole moderate Republicans,
see how your Democrat "friends" repay for voting with them?"
You seem to think that this is a bug. It's a feature.
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at July 30, 2010 12:04 PM (ySNz/)
They were temporary because the legislation passed as a reconciliation bill because the Senate could not get the 60 votes required for cloture under the normal process. A reconciliation bill can only impact revenues out to 10 years. So it HAD to expire after 10 years.
The Republicans tried many times to make the cuts permanent but they Senate Democrats wouldn't get on board. To frame this as somehow the Republicans increasing the tax is a lie. It is because rules dictate that reconciliation bills can only last for 10 years and the Democrats blocked the standard process.
Posted by: crosspatch at July 30, 2010 01:29 PM (ZbLJZ)
Posted by: Mr. Barky at July 30, 2010 02:05 PM (qwK3S)
Maybe it's nit-picking, but it bugs me to hear the MFM and the liberals push the "tax cuts" thing. It makes it sound somehow more reasonable for them to raise taxes because they'ye not, y'know, "raising taxes." They're just letting "tax cuts expire."
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More like the kid who killed his parents, got caught red-handed while chopping them to bits, then blamed his neighbor for the murder while also claiming that he was trying perform CPR.
Or trying to put them back together. "And you STOPPED me!"
Posted by: Golem14 at July 30, 2010 04:11 PM (2X8VA)
EVERY time I think the Democrat bastards can't get any lower, I look back and see they've been vigorously shoveling even deeper. I hold the Republicans in contempt for their cowardice and stupidity, but I absolutely loathe and despise the Democrats. Anyone who admits to being a Democrat is just despicable. They're the lowest form of human life. They make ghouls look good by comparison. They're so bad I believe I would rather have seen a military coup than the last two years of Obastard, Pelosi, Reid and their accomplices. None of them would know the truth if it came up and bit them.
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