Bush Gives Ground on Tax Cuts, Jobless Aid to Revive Bill

LA Times ^ | December 12, 2001 | JANET HOOK, TIMES STAFF WRITER

[SteamshipTime]

In a last-ditch effort to revive legislation to improve the economy, President Bush offered Tuesday to scale back his proposed cuts in corporate and individual taxes and beef up aid to the unemployed...

[SteamshipTime]

Read it and weep.

Seems to me the President's plate is full and the GOP leaders in the House should have made this their fight from the beginning. Guess they're too busy passing new laws and doling out transfer payments.

[Scholastic]

and gutting the constitution

[Dems_R_Losers]

Well, that would surely be contradicted by this report, which just came out an hour ago from CQ:

DASCHLE SAYS HE WILL ENTERTAIN ACCELERATED TAX CUTS

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, S.D., said today that Democrats would reconsider their opposition to further individual income tax rate cuts if Republicans agree to meet Democratic demands for displaced workers. "If, and only if, we can achieve that degree of success ... I would be willing to look at some of the Republican proposals that have been put forth," Daschle said. "We can't go nearly as far as the Republicans would like, but we're willing to at least make an effort." The movement came as negotiators reported further progress in their talks which are expected to resume later today. Leaving a morning meeting, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said negotiators were finally "down in the weeds" but that "we've got a lot of work ahead of us." Baucus said he expected negotiations to continue through the weekend with a final agreement reached in the last hours before Congress recesses for the year.

[what's up]

Who's the strategist behind these Democratic shuffles?

Betcha it's Hillary.

[RadicalRik]

That Senator Tomass Dasshole is in charge of Congress is clear.
That Beelzebubbette (Hitlery) has files or something seems logical.
That Bush will not use his clout or bully pulpit to force his agenda is clear.
After all the work that the House of Representatives did to give him what he wanted just to have him cave in to Dasshole and Democraps in the Senate is a crying shame.
If I were Dick Army, I would retire also to "spend more time with my family". Why not? It's not worth the time and effort anymore to bust one's rear for the President, then to have him bend over for Dasshole and the Dems. It's a waste of one's life.

We have a new liberal Democrap governor here in Virginia because of the economy situation I believe. If the liberal economic package is passed and not the conservative economic stimulus package, that will perhaps slow the economic recovery just long enough for the Democraps to regain the House of Representatives and gain in the Senate come November 2002.

[NeonKnight]

Dashole doesn't want a good economy, hence he doesn't want a stimulus package...of any kind. Bush is calling his bluff. Bush is giving in on several key areas of the package in order to prove this. When Dashole still refuses to bring the stimulus package to the floor...it will become obvious to all that the Democrats NEED a bad economy for the upcoming elections. But the economy will recover with or without the package.

[RadicalRik]

I pray Neon that you are 100 proof correct and I am 100 proof wrong.
There is a man of honor and integrity in office to favor your view and dim mine.

[Moonman62]

Well, that would surely be contradicted by this report, which just came out an hour ago from CQ:

The LA Times is obviously untrustworthy. I bet the Hildabeast is telling Daschle what to do no matter how bad it is for the country. I hope Daschle is totally defeated on this bill. He's been going around spreading the lie that any deficit whatsoever would be bad for the economy.