McCarthy is right: the votes weren't there. If they were not there with huge Democrat majorities, they sure aren't going to be there now.
I'm glad he put it to Candy Crowley. She still needs to get with "let's move!" and "my plate." Clearly "shared sacrifice" hasn't left her without a meal.
“The thing that burns me is if those tax hikes on $200K+ were so critical why didn’t Obama do it when he had a filibuster proof senate and a house majority of his own party?”
So they could now try to place all the blame on those “evil Tea Party extremists pushing for ‘austerity’ instead of demanding a sense of ‘shared responsibility’ in order to sabotage the vibrant ‘recovery’ and bring down the first black president because of racism, and to help their ‘billionaire and millionaire fat cat oil buddies”. Something like that.
I’ve felt for a long time that we are dealing with a new breed of Democrat here. The old idiots (Michael Dukakis, etc.) at least were honest about wanting to raise taxes. I think taxes with this new crop is more about demagoguery, and less about raising actual revenues (they print all the money they want anyways).