I do hope that our party keeps standing strong for NOT extending the Bush tax cuts

Ken Burch

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Wed Sep-22-10 11:25 PM
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I do hope that our party keeps standing strong for NOT extending the Bush tax cuts

because, if they DID extend them, this party would no longer be a separate party from the 'pugs.

Dems could never do anything progressive again if they caved on that one.

just sayin'.

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Wed Sep-22-10 11:31 PM
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1. He has no option

and the repubs know it...he'll just have to let them all sunset...in January they can come back and propose tax breaks for the middle class and let the repubs vote against that...

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HuckleB

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Wed Sep-22-10 11:33 PM
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2. I agree that the party must stand strong, but...

... to say that it would not be separate party ignores the near party-line votes that have occurred the past 20 months.

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Ken Burch

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Wed Sep-22-10 11:39 PM
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4. If the cuts were left in place, none of that would matter in the future

When you're cutting the budget, that can only be done in a right-wing way.

There won't be any divisions on anything else that still matters. With that levels of cuts, all environmental programs would be ended anyway, labor laws wouldn't be enforces anymore, and no programs for the poor would be left.

There's be nothing left of the New Deal if the Bush Tax Cuts stayed in place, and nothing Dems could do that would benefit Democratic constituencies. History would be over.

We can only hope that they stand strong now.

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Motown_Johnny

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Wed Sep-22-10 11:37 PM
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3. I see no way to get 60 votes in the Senate to extend Bush anything

They can either vote for a tax cut bill that extends them for non-millionaires (a win for us) or they can let them all sunset (a loss for them) and then come back and do it all again in a few months after the deadline has passed on 1/1/11. All this does is give us another round in which we can win, although it comes after the election.

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