So the Bush tax cuts passed with a 51-50 vote

and should expire in a few days. Would someone explain tome why it will now take sixty votes for the Senate to pass a bill so that the first $250,000 is tax free?

When did the constitution change? Why have Democrats allowed the minority RETHUGS to fuck up the Senate.

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but the other one was facilitated by Dick the war criminal.

See, now the reconciliation process is the Worst Thing in the World, worse than cancer, terrorists, or terrorists with cancer. Combined. I'm sure you're astonished that a group of millionaires, pardon me, multi-millionaires aren't anxious to begin paying a little more of their fair share than they have been. They've gotten a cut-rate ride for 10 years and they're really accustomed to it. So, the multimillionaires who dominate Congress, along with their buddy multi-millionaires who report on their doings, have all decided together that they should continue to get their pass. The opinion of the other 297 million people in the country doesn't matter for diddly-squat. In fact, now that it comes to it, quite a number of folks seem to be sucking up social security benefits, and even though that has nothing to do with the federal deficit, maybe it's time Grandma and Grandpa Jesgettinby started paying a little more to support this society that has benefited a handful of people so wonderfully.

have given up on the Dems, and, to a lesser extent, democracy.

But looks like the House is finally in agreement on something.

HR 1313

'til Paul shows up, I guess.


215 & 156 vs. 0 right now...

Fuck them too.

And they had to use the Sunset Clause and cook the numbers in order to use reconciliation.

These are permanent tax cuts and therefore not able to be passed through reconciliation.

One was 51-50

n/t

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The Senate really blows.

1. They were first passed as part of Rconciliation, which only requires a simple majority.

2. Today's Republicans abuse the filibuster, and are not letting anything pass on a simple majority.

the filibuster. I'm sick of this crap.

Gr.

Since the middle class tax would be permanent, and would impact the deficit, they can not use reconciliation. To qualify for reconciliation they would need to create cuts to equal the impact on the deficit for every year. It simply is not possible to do that because the middle class tax cut would be permanent.

By limiting the original Bush Tax Cuts to 2012, they could pretend that there would be no impact on the deficit using fantasy economics.