Posted on 12/25/2010 7:45:25 AM PST by Son House
"OFF WITH THEIR WEALTH!!"
No they (the Democrats) haven’t (embraced Reagannomics.). This is to our (the Republicans) political benefit, but the Democrats control the fate of whether they succeed or fail, not the current minority party. If the Democrats passed at the beginning of the President’s term a $1 trillion dollar tax cut by simply cutting the corporate income tax rate, estate tax. Dividends tax, and capital gains tax to 0% permanently, there would have been nothing we could have done and the President would have been reelected in a landslide.
Yup.
I don’t know about embrace, more like dragged kicking and screaming if anything.
Sorry,
This ole boy don't buy it for one second. . . . .
Democrats have surrendered on the tax cut debate, and they’ve surrendered on the Afghanistan war debate, and on Gitmo, and on Renditions, and on Telecom Immunity, and on the Patriot Act.
In contrast, we would have *lost* on each of those issues had McCrazy beaten 0bama in 2008.
Bizarre.
0bama was a “blank slate” in 2008 who ran an ambiguous campaign of “hope and change” which let 0bama say anything to each special interest group.
It worked, but only because the entire news media let it work, and only then because McCrazy was such a poor alternative to 0bama.
2012 won’t have *any* of the above in play. 0bama’s gonna have to run on his record, won’t be able to get away with saying different things to different special interest groups, and his opponent won’t be such a pushover.
Faced with the above, if the Left abandons 0bama, then 0bama will run Right. He won’t cite Reagan (that’s simple misdirection)...he’ll cite Eisenhower.
Knowing the above, the Left might not abandon him.
Unemployment has to drop below 8% for Obama to have a chance of winning in 2012, as it will show failure in his stimulus programs.
Just like the democrats will try to take credit for Iraq, as surreal as that may seem for anyone that knows the track record of that party since 2004 and where Obama stood on this, they will attempt to “rebrand” the BUSH tax cuts and in a way Reaganonmics and make it their own.
Anything bad, make it the opponents, anything good, make it owns own.
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Tale4nt on loan from God BUMP
Democrats don’t have the confidence to back-up tax cuts for the rich are bad for the economy because there’s no evidence minus their rhetoric, how this gets by state run media is perplexing...
Blagojevich tried years ago, pushing for higher taxes on trucking companies, until a group of them met with him to remind him that their business was highly mobile and that if he raised their taxes, that they would simply move to a more friendly business state, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Kentucky, all border Illinois, (Michigan too but lets not go there).
Old Rod got the message and quietly dropped those plans.
Oh by the way, a couple of years back the rat legislature here in Illinois was pushing for an income tax raise from 3% to 4% and trying to tell people that "it's only a 1% increase", when in reality it would have been a 33 and 1/3% increase.
Politicians here think everybody in the state is stupid and I gotta admit, they are right about the huge majority of Chicago.
I’m enjoying my obama tax cuts already.
What a victory, the RINOS sold out on DADT. The price was too high. A Pyrrhic victory at best, that cost us the sole of a nation our last lifeline, the military. I find nothing to cheer about.
Well it’s those “well informed” voters of Chicago that scare me.
I live in Michigan City and listen to WLS...so I gets some good info.
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