Idiot Senate Republicans Botching Tax Cut

Rush Limbaugh ^ | April 29, 2003 | Rush Limbaugh

[TLBSHOW]

Idiot Senate Republicans Botching Tax Cut

April 29, 2003

Why did President Bush and all of us work so hard to win back our legitimate majority in the upper house of Congress last year, if our GOP senators aren't going to fight for us? Why did we get out and vote if they're going to cave on an issue as important as reducing the one-in-three days the average American works as a slave to the government taxman? Listen for my shot at an answer to this income tax relief quagmire in the audio link below.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) somehow forgot to inform Speaker of the House Denny Hastert (R-IL) that the allegedly GOP-controlled Senate had caved on tax relief. Bush wanted $726 billion in tax relief, but Frist went along with these so-called moderate Republicans for a $350 billion cut. Now, in Democratic lingo, any amount you propose for something below the highest figure is a "cut." So the Republican Senate has just decided to cut your tax relief - raise your taxes - by $376 billion! That's over $1,000 per American.

Why do these Republican senators - as they did in 2000 by sharing power only to get screwed by the Jeffords/Daschle flip - care more about getting along with the guys on the other isle than serving their constituents? The original conventional wisdom predicted the president getting the entire $726 billion tax relief package for America. Senator Grassley (R-IO) was confident. But then the moderate Republicans in the Senate led by Olympia Snowe (R-ME), George Voinovich (R-OH) and Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) decided to go AWOL.

Now we have to "target" Snowe and Voinovich for conversion on tax cuts! If you need convincing on the fact that tax cuts spur economic growth, you're not a Republican. Meanwhile Congressman Bill Thomas (R-CA), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is threatening to ditch all of this and come up with his own program. He wants to play hardball because he's mad at the Bush administration over some perceived slight. This is sheer political idiocy - especially when we have a president with a 75% approval rating. We trusted him on the war; he was right and the other guys were wrong. Trust him on this, too.

[sackofcatfood]

An important lesson for every Freeper: When it comes to voting for a RINO, or voting for a Democrat, VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRAT!

It doesn't do any good to make a Republican government if you don't first make good Republicans.

[annyokie]

only to get screwed by the Jeffords/Daschle flip - care more about getting along with the guys on the other isle than serving their constituents? The original conventional wisdom predicted the president getting the entire $726 billion tax relief package for America. Senator Grassley (R-IO) was confident. But then the moderate Republicans in the Senate led by Olympia Snowe (R-ME), George Voinovich (R-OH) and Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) decided to go AWOL.

Now we have to "target" Snowe and Voinovich for conversion on tax cuts! If you need convincing on the fact that tax cuts spur economic growth, you're not a Republican. Meanwhile Congressman Bill Thomas (R-CA), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is threatening to ditch all of this and come up with his own program. He wants to play hardball because he's mad at the Bush administration over some perceived slight. This is sheer political idiocy


Well done, Todd.

[bgierhart]

Extreme Diddo's to Rush. Really makes you think about the Dem's in sheeps clothing.

[KantianBurke]

A better policy is to vote RINO ONLY when the district is more liberal than conservative. NR had an article which said it much better than I about how much Connie Morella sucked but conservatives should vote for her due to her district's liberalism but why voting for a Issakson in GA was plain dumb.

[cynicom]

That stupid Lott, the wussie needs to go. Time to elect a SML with fire in his belly. One that knows how to grease thru the legislation with a republican majority.

[votelife]

I don't understand why conservatives can't accept what you just wrote...ie insisting on a hardcore conservative in NYC will only get you a liberal elected. Take a Rudy, and you won't get a liberal...Flame away freepers.

[listenhillary]

That stupid Lott, the wussie needs to go. Time to elect a SML with fire in his belly.

There there!! Put down the keyboard and nobody will get hurt. Put it down and back away from the computer.

[kcordell]

That stupid Lott, the wussie needs to go. Time to elect a SML with fire in his belly.

Let's get rid of the other SML Bill Frist too. /sarcasm

[cynicom]

Well, they told me that if Frist was made SML, that the Senate would snap to attention and that bills would flood thru, same as with the judge nominations.

Well, nothing has been done, so it has to be Lotts fault.

[kcordell]

Well, nothing has been done, so it has to be Lotts fault.

I gotcha. Makes perfect sense. Darn him!

[Moonman62]

Most likely this tax cut fiasco is going according to the administrations's plan. The president's record on tax cuts is poor in terms of economic stimulus going back to his days as Texas governor. Tax cuts are being used solely to score political points with the base. And there's much more to economic stimulus than tax cuts as Reagan showed.

[lilylangtree]

Snowe, Voinovich, and Chaffee do not deserve to be called Republicans. They're RATS holding an "R" behind their name.

[putupon]

Let's get rid of the other SML Bill Frist too.

No, you have it all wrong. Elected Snowe to SML too and we can have troika of useless idiots.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[eternity]

Saw Voinovich on Meet the Press this past Sunday. He defended his 350 billion and no more tax cut. Must say he made sense since we are no longer running a surplus. Heck a real weasal democrat in his place would indeed be asking for a tax increase right now.

[Anarchist]

In New England, Chaffee and Snow are as conservative as you can get and still have a chance of being elected. Remember, this is an area of the country in which Republicans never, ever, mention their party affiliation.

It makes me sick to have to say it, but with them we have a cowardly Republican majority. Without them we have a powerless, conservative minority.

[joesbucks]

Have to agree with your comments.

[TLBSHOW]

What a deal!