Mon, 01/05/2009 - 9:23am — admin_lambert
“Republicans, by and large, think tax relief is a great way to get money to people immediately,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said yesterday on ABC’s “This Week.”
They're never going to give up their talking points, are they? Though the heavens fall. And never mind the policy -- or that apparently, Obama's package is sucking up to insane people, since it's going to be 40% tax cuts, which provide less stimulus than spending. But here's the insane part:
To a Republican, "immediate" means "at some point after April 15."
How insane is that?
NOTE Hey, let's pretend I'm a bank! Can I have some money NOW NOW NOW NOW?
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instead of a tax break...
how about $500 federal "gift card" that can only be used for new purchases of American made goods?
Obama is selling the country down the river with this "tax cut" proposal -- it sort of made sense to do something like this in 2010, when the Bush tax cuts expire (i.e. Obama could claim credit for a middle class tax cut while not increasing the deficit because it would just replace the expired Bush tax cut). But doing it now is completely irresponsible.
Insanity is about right
That is, doing failed policy the same way over and over and over again expecting a different result. But, this fits perfectly with his bi-partisan mantra. Speaking of that mantra, Pelosi and Reid said "bi-partisan" so many times during their press conference that I thought maybe one of their bi-partisan buttons got stuck, or something. Pelosi even went on to use the word "bicameral" to describe the process because it was so close to bi-partisan. I shit you not.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Bi-partisan?
Or just curious?
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi