[Nachum]

Run away! Run away! (from the record)

[Nachum]

“When You’re Holding a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail.”, Bryan Glover,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfH46DTAkxo

[DB]

Why?

They’ve said over and over gain that taxing the rich is good economic policy. That they know how to spend the rich’s money more affectively and fairly than the rich do. Therefore the worse things get the more the need to tax the “rich”. Its for the children...

[Freddd]

They are not the ‘Bush tax cuts’, they are America’s tax cuts.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”But a growing cadre of Democrats - alarmed by evidence that the recovery is losing steam and fearful of wounding conservative Democrats in a tough election year - are advocating a plan that would permanently extend tax cuts benefiting the middle class while renewing breaks for the wealthy through 2011, senior Democratic aides said. That idea has long appealed to some conservative Democrats in both chambers, who argue that Congress should not raise anyone’s taxes until the economy is more stable. But Democrats said it has gained momentum since economist Mark Zandi, a key adviser to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), adopted that view during a presentation at a Democratic issues conference in California in mid-August “

This would be such a huge reversal of democrat economic talking points that the Republicans could use it to extend them permanently. The liberal base would be demoralized, they see this as critical to raise those taxes. I think Obama may look for an out on this too for 2012,

Republicans need to block ANYTHING during lame duck, even tax cuts. Tax cuts can be passed retroactively in January with the new congress.

[catnipman]

What’s amazing about this article is that the Rats are essentially admitting that they’ve known all along that Keynesian spending does not stimulate economic growth and that tax cuts do, and that they’ve deliberately and knowingly taken actions that they knew would harm the economy and failed to take actions that they knew would help the economy.