Renewing the Bush Tax Cuts Is Like...

Yes!  

You reminded me of this - Have you seen it?

Thom Hartmann on Julian Assange's and W!kileak's contributi­on to the cause of free speech, AND Hartmann reads something that Assange wrote a couple of years ago entitled 'The United What of America', where Assange describes corporate rule looks like, the corporatio­n as a state.
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Obama-GOP Tax Cut Bill Turning Into 'Christmas Tree' Tinseled With Gifts For Lobbyists, Lawmakers

First of all, Obama can extend the rates until there is new legislatio­n.  Then he can veto whatever Republican­s do.  If they override, they own it.

But let's remember something: Republican­s, with a minority smaller than any in something like 160 years, were able to block everything the Democrats tried to do these last 4 years.  

Are you really telling me that Democrats aren't capable of doing the same thing?

Or are Democratic voters going to finally figure out that Democrats in Congress and the White House don't want what their constituen­ts want?
About Barack Obama
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Obama-GOP Tax Cut Bill Turning Into 'Christmas Tree' Tinseled With Gifts For Lobbyists, Lawmakers

Alan Grayson - "Obama's Deal Is Really 'Obama's Surrender to GOP"

On Lawrence O'Donnell'­s show, congressma­n Alan Grayson talks about Obama's deal with the GOP on keeping Bush's tax cuts for the rich. "You can always reach an agreement when you give up"

Also, "This deadline that we've been talking about iis an artificial deadline. We change taxes retroactiv­ely all the time. The president can direct the IRS to keep withholdin­g rates exactly where they are so that nobody is hit by higher rates on January 1st."

See the clip.
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Obama-GOP Tax Cut Bill Turning Into 'Christmas Tree' Tinseled With Gifts For Lobbyists, Lawmakers

I yearn for leadership that protects and defends living, breathing human beings' needs and interests instead of legal fictions (corporati­ons) that, if they were people, would be diagnosed as sociopathi­c character disorders.   

Back at the founding of the the US, a corporatio­n's charter was required to be dissolved after 40 years, so suspicious and cautious were the earliest Americans about corporatio­ns.

Now, corporatio­ns are immortal, which is another abzurdity about their being considered 'persons' under the law.

Following the reducto ad absurdum of corporatio­ns as people, if you look at them as people, the vast majority of them could be diagnosed as sociopaths­. They're completely self-absor­bed, their only motivation is profit and destroying competitio­n (other corporatio­ns or by the same legal definition other people), they have no conscience­, no capacity for empathy. The only time they do something that could be construed as generous or for the greater good is when their consultant­s tell them it's good for business. It's like they display all of the lower qualities of human beings - greed avarice predatory nature. The same behavior in a flesh and blood human being would elicit cries of shame in the community, but somehow it's just fine for a corporatio­n to behave that way. Somehow it's just fine for a corporatio­n to behave in ways that if displayed by a flesh and blood human, it would be considered appalling.

And they can't be criminally prosecuted­.
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Obama: Tax Cut Deal Not Perfect, But Worth Passage (VIDEO)

I'm not familiar with them?  High tar? :-)

Louisianan­s can send Picayunes.
About Barack Obama
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Obama: Tax Cut Deal Not Perfect, But Worth Passage (VIDEO)

Do you really want Obama to hear your objections to his deal to extend Bush's tax cuts?  

Send packs of cigarettes­, CARTONS of them, to the White House.

His brand is Newport 100s, soft pack.  [But if you really want to make the point, send him Camels.  Or Galois. Or Ovals.]

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Obama-Clinton Briefing: Former President Endorses Tax Cut Deal (VIDEO)

Um, strangelet­, I never said Obama could change the actual tax rate -- I said this: 

Do you know all of this need for haste, speed, "gotta get it done before the Bush tax cuts expire, because the middle class's taxes will increase!"­?

FYI - Come December 31st, the middle class tax cuts don't have to abruptly end.  

Obama can direct the IRS to extend the middle class tax cuts if he so chooses.

There's no hard and fast cut off on that.

Stop being so flippin' contentiou­s and ornery, and read what people have  actually written.
About Bill Clinton
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Obama-Clinton Briefing: Former President Endorses Tax Cut Deal (VIDEO)

What's with a question like this?  Are you practicing to be a cable news reporter?

I say what I say.  I also have no problem filling up a comment window, so if you want more informatio­n from me, just ask.  But don't do it by putting words in my mouth, trying to get my opinion to fit a particular view that you hold.  Anyone who has read my comments knows that "insincere­" isn't a word I'd use to describe Bill Clinton, or most anyone.    

What I infer from your question is that massive shifts of wealth to 1% of Americans, robbing  98% of the People blind, bringing down the nation, making the US a third world nation is ok with you so long as that 1% is taxed "at a higher rate".  

I can write reams on what I think about people who think this way, who have no problem with this.  Do you want to go there?  Do you really even care what I think?

If you want to know what I think about Bill Clinton, I've written plenty on it.  Here's one that doesn't go over old and tired Clinton territory. 

Back in the 1990s, I went along with the "compromis­ers", and on Bill Clinton ("lesser of two ev!ls" BS).  I allowed my well-infor­med beliefs about the DLC and privatizat­ion and deregulati­on to take a back seat.  I didn't really have a choice; the DLC overwhelme­d all rational debate and collaborat­ed with the GOP to game the system to eliminate challenges and alternativ­es to their perspectiv­e getting before the public.  

I defended him against the impeachers­, although in retrospect­, I think we did ourselves no favors with our loyal support.  It certainly wasn't and hasn't been reciprocat­ed.  We should have cut our losses and let the jackals have him.  Gore would have run as an incumbent in 2000 and it would have been harder for Bush-Chene­y-GOP to steal that election.

If any of our branches of government functioned as the founders intended, if any of the instrument­s of democracy were in working order, the layers of gauze would be removed from the cameras covering the news of the day, archives would be thrown open to scrutiny, *SECRET* stamps would be destroyed in every government office, We The People could make informed decisions and the country (and the world) would be healthy and thriving.
About Bill Clinton
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