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House Democrats Vote to Oppose Tax Cut Plan in Current Form

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Posted by armyguy 2010-12-09 13:07|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Sh*t---Meet Messkit.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-12-09 13:49|| 2010-12-09 13:49|| Front Page Top

#2 What could possibly motivate this vote by them?

Now the Repubs can pass a standalone tax cut extension and get Obama to look like the bad guy when he vetoes it and the economy tanks further.

Now the Repubs, once poised to take the fire for not extending unemployment benefits, can honestly say it wasn't them who shot that extension down.

What, precisely, is the upside for the Dems to do what they did?

Posted by no mo uro 2010-12-09 14:24|| 2010-12-09 14:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Irrational ideological purity.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-12-09 14:30|| 2010-12-09 14:30|| Front Page Top

#4 My guess is that they're trying to bluff for a better deal...armyguy has it right...tough to bluff when you're not holdin' trump and you're being dealt out for the next hand...or in this case the entire game next year

Posted by Warthog 2010-12-09 14:45|| 2010-12-09 14:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Does present a problem for GOP tho. Assuming an honest GOPer who believes retaining the tax cuts are critical, does s/he let them die rather than give into Dem wishlist - Amnesty, etc. etc. Or stand on principle and refuse, costing the country another few hundred thousand jobs? Dems probably think this is clever politics, but they've cut their own throats. Regardless of outcome, the Dem Party has made itself anathema. Many moderates, myself included, will be working to guarantee that in 5 years, it'll be a fringe cult ala CPW (Communist Worker's Party).

Posted by Mercutio 2010-12-09 15:31|| 2010-12-09 15:31|| Front Page Top

#6 "in 5 years, it'll be a fringe cult ala CPW (Communist Worker's Party)"

Mercutio, isn't that what the Dems are already (except for the fringe part - so far)?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-12-09 15:36|| 2010-12-09 15:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Latest Gallup poll last week said nearly 40% of those surveyed still call themselves Democrats - when it's down to < 3.5%. I'll back off.

These thieves have been on the wrong side of every issue since slavery. Enuf.

Posted by Hupeting Clunk3616 2010-12-09 15:45|| 2010-12-09 15:45|| Front Page Top

#8 > These thieves have been on the wrong side of every issue since slavery.

What do you think Marxism is? It's another form of slavery. It even emerged as Slavery was being abolished.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-12-09 18:23|| 2010-12-09 18:23|| Front Page Top

#9 I've always seen socialism and Marxism as a form of feudalism, actually. You are chained to a country (piece of land) and so dependent on the government (lord) that you can never move and have to work that area for all generations.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-12-09 21:49|| 2010-12-09 21:49|| Front Page Top

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