Obama signals he may allow rich to keep their tax breaks.
Is this some special negotiating strategy that I’m unfamiliar with? Admit willingness to compromise before negotiations even begin. What idiot came up with that idea?
This is one of the best issues for Democrats. Tax breaks for millionaires/billionaires, is a winning strategy. Even time the Republicans say “tax breaks for all;” repeat “tax breaks for all billionaires.” And repeat, and repeat, …
Keep it simple, the Republicans are giving tax breaks to their wealthy friends. Hammer them over the head with that slogan from every corner of the Democratic Party, from the Congress, from the White House, and from the pundits. The Presidency is also a political office and Obama has failed on this aspect.
This President has not been partisan enough. A person who is not partisan does not have strong principles. Maybe that’s the answer, Obama is too much of a pragmatist and lacks the principles that set great leaders apart.
H/T The RAWSTORY
-David Drumm (Nal)
FormerFederalNothing,
You’re preaching to the choir and I give you a heartfelt Alleluia!
I’m really tired of people pretending that the Democrats and Republicans aren’t two factions of the same business party. Obama’s recent change in policy isn’t a surprise — he’s dutifully serving those that put him in office by financing his campaign. They expect a return on investment, and they’re making sure they get it. Believing that Obama “compromise”d requires believing that Obama didn’t want to keep the tax breaks in the first place, which is false. People that think they know, somehow, that deep down in his heart Obama is a liberal friend of the common man and human rights and decency only need to look at his actions to shatter their delusions about him.
Swarthmore mom and Blouise,
Here’s a link to an interesting article Matt Taibbi wrote for Rolling Stone in 2007:
Mike Huckabee Is Not a Sane Man
Surging Mike Huckabee may talk about poverty and trade, but the wild-eyed Baptist goofball doesn’t believe he is evolved from primates. Does that even worry Republican voters?
(11/24/2007)
http://www.alternet.org/story/68057/mike_huckabee_is_not_a_sane_man/
The Republicans are ideally situated right now – they can pass any dipshit piece of leg they want in the house, claim all sorts of miracle cures for it (such as ‘tax cuts pay for themselves and create jobs”) knowing the the Senate & Obama will kill them. They will increase the deficit & slow the economy even more but pin it all on those evil liberals.
And Obama is only helping them out with this weak bargaining crap.
SwM,
Huckabee and Romney? Again?
Shoot … that means the Democrats will keep Obama on the ticket and we’ll have 4 more years of “Please Mr. Republican, can I use the potty now?”
Nobody is paying attention to the messages voters keep sending …
I strongly suspect Tootie runs a major corporation … probably one that needed bailing out
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/cnn-poll-obama-trails-mitt-and-huck-leads-gingrich-and-palin.php?ref=fpi Looks like Obama might not be around too long in any case. Looks like Palin is not so popular but a Baptist preacher could have what it takes. I don’t see the republicans nominating a Mormon even he is a billionaire.
Tootie
You’re not posting to a bunch of dim witted teabaggers here (sorry for the redundancy). These are intelligent people who don’t fall for that great lie made popular by Reagan and amped up to the max by GWB. Over the past 30 years we’ve been fed the deification of the business class. We’ve been told that as long as we keep their taxes low and don’t regulate them they will take care of hiring, health care, retirement and that by providing jobs, that will take care of the general welfare of their employees and strengthen our economy.
We’re living through the the hell of the abject failure of that economic and political philosophy. It’s a lie. It’s a failure of catastrophic proportions that is no longer theoretical or debatable. We saw what they do. They keep the money, hiring temporary employees to avoid paying benefits, don’t fund retirement plans, toss workers to the street asap and then ask the GOP for more tax breaks.
The top tax rate affects about 10,000 Americans. These include celebrities (rappers, movie stars), movie producers and directors, hedge fund operators, major corporate CEO’s. To suggest that allowing Bruce Willis to pay 36% vs 39% on income over $250K is either naivete’ or a continuation of the great Reagan lie.
From Steve M. THIS LIBERAL SAYS: JUST RENEW ALL THE DAMN BUSH TAX CUTS PERMANENTLY
But I don’t even want them to bother with temporary measures — they should just renew everything forever. Why make them temporary again? They’re currently temporary. But if Democrats wouldn’t repeal the tax cuts for the rich with a 77-seat majority in the House and a 19-seat majority in the Senate, and with the polls in their favor, and with a desperate need to do something popular in the weeks before a perilous set of midterm elections, then under what bloody circumstances would they ever repeal them?
So just make them permanent, Democrats. At least that way you spare yourself another moment, sometime in the future, when Republicans will demagogue you on this, and you’ll give in yet again.
Can’t click on the individual thread, so you’ll have to scroll down.
There are three other things they can cave on.
Joe Barton (R-TX) chair of the House Energy Committee, the one who apologized to BP, is holding hearings soon after getting back in the saddle.
Early in his plans are hearings on “the global warming hoax”.
Others will hold hearings on health care and social security repeal and or privatization.
http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2010/11/gop-vs-global-warming-hoax-health.html
http://gawker.com/5681079/obama-the-grinch-steals-christmas-in-tea-party-picture-book The tea party says Obama stole Christmas.
Somebody let Obama out without his minders again …
… and what everybody else, except Tootie, said
Caspar Milquetoast—“the man who speaks softly and gets hit with a big stick”
I posted essentially this same comment on a different thread late yesterday, but it far more relevant here. Since he’s stated he insists on maintain the rates for the middle class, ANY compromise means keeping the top earners rate the same as well. That will unquestionably balloon the debt and the deficit. Is that why the teabaggers helped bring the GOP in, to increase the debt to the benefit of the wealthiest? The Republicans must be laughing their tushes off at how they manipulated and used the mentally stunted teabaggers to do their bidding and the heavy campaigning work. Suckers!
Tootie,
“Productive jobs” aren’t created by the personal wealth of billionaires, or by their estates. And while we’re on the topic, why is it that the wealthy always need to be “encouraged” to do things while the poor need to be taught lessons about dependence on the government?
mespo,
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
I’d like to punish those who close factories and businesses in the US while creating productive jobs in foreign countries.
Better an army of sheep led by a lion, than an army of lions led by a sheep.
No idiot. Even the idiots (ooops I guess it was an idiot) realize that to punish those who create productive jobs is stupid.
“Is this some special negotiating strategy that I’m unfamiliar with? Admit willingness to compromise before negotiations even begin. What idiot came up with that idea?”
Says it all.Unbelievable,how many times does someone have to put their foot in your rear end before you realize that what you are doing or thinking ain’t working?