Posted on 08/30/2010 8:51:51 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The big strategy for Democrats in the midterms is to run against George W. Bush, even though he hasn’t been President for almost two years. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid hope to use a little misdirection away from their failed economic policies by claiming that Bush policies were so bad that Democrats couldn’t fix them. However, the centerpiece of Bush’s economic policies were the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts that will expire at the end of the year, and now Democrats want to extend at least some of them, and perhaps all of them, in order to keep from making the economic stagnation into a depression.
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Simple, just rebrand them as something else like “Hope and Change Fairness rates”.
they don’t have to worry about it as Barry is ideologically incapable of signing-off on it anyhow
It will be funny as heck watching you try to explain to your blue collar voter base in 2012 why you raised their taxes an average of $2000+ per family.
Good luck, Democrats!
You are certainly going to need it.
I have a question.
You really really really can’t see that it is Obama and you yourselves, the Democrats, who are causing all the trouble? You really can’t see that by piling on tens of thousands of pages of rules and regulations, that this is the reason why you have ruined the economy of America in just 18 months?
Every time we turn around your glorious leader is threatening us, insulting us, running us down, running to the UN and asking them to control us, taxing us, defrauding us. Since you have never owned a business in your life, or even worked in one, you seem to have no concept of what this can do to businessmen who are the heart and the core of the nation.
They won’t do it. It would be like Dracula chugging Holy Water.
Democrats have got themselves in a huge trap here. They assumed the economy would recover and they could let the taxes go up. Now they are in a pickel, if taxes go up it could kill democrats in 2012 and kill the myth that Clinton saved the economy. If they delay the tax increases their base will be livid, absolutely livid. They want that money for ‘jobs’.
I been pondering this for a while. Suppose Obama says that he will sign an extension of ‘tax cuts to the rich’ in return for the lower income tax cuts? So that way he can tell his base that Republicans held tax cuts hostage and he was against it.
Republicans need to block anything during lame duck session, even tax cuts.
Good grief. They probably at this point have a better shot at winning an election if they abandon Obama and embrace Bush.
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