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midnight armadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:44 AM Original message |
Anyone want to put odds on the Bush tax cuts being made permanent in 2013? |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:45 AM Response to Original message |
1. (Your vote: -1) |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:49 AM Response to Original message |
2. Yes, they WILL expire December 31, 2012. Obama will NOT extend them. n/t |
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LonePirate (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:49 AM Response to Original message |
3. It is foolish to think the Rs will not push their extension at the very least. Obama will cave again |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 07:05 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Obama has no problem letting them all expire then ... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:53 AM Response to Original message |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 06:07 AM Response to Original message |
5. Even if the Republicans in the House vote to extend them, the Democrats in the Senate will not. |
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Cosmocat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 07:03 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. The timing of it makes it VERY much a campaign issue ... |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:05 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. No, it's over and done with. The Republicans agreed with the President in 2010 to those terms. |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:07 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. The Republicans can beat a dead horse if they want, but they can't make it drink. |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 09:09 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. A horse is a horse, of course of course, but we're not talking about an ordinary horse, . . |
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Cosmocat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 10:06 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Seriously? |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 06:16 AM Response to Original message |
6. I'm not a betting person |
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bornskeptic (951 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 07:16 AM Response to Original message |
9. The chance that they'll be made permanent is zero. |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
10. During elections, I think he will be forced to say "no extention, period." |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 07:45 AM Response to Original message |
11. 2 to i that they do expire. |
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