Howard Dean On Tax Deal: 'A Short-Term Washington Fix' Filled With Easy Promises

wcb59   2 hours ago (12:53 PM)

"President Obama says that this is the best deal he can get and better than he is likely to get in the coming Congress. I believe that this whole debacle was entirely avoidable and should be laid squarely at his feet."

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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.



By the way, there is still plenty of time before 12/31 to break up this bill and pass tax cuts for the middle class alone (if that is so desired -- I'm in the middle class and I'm willing to forego a tax cut in order to bring down the deficit, which will have a much greater benefit on our economy overall and to me and all others in the poor and middle classes).  Legislatio­n can get done in ONE day, if politician­s want it to happen.

If it doesn't pass, if Republican­s want to pass this massive giftbag after they take control over the House next month, let them.  Obama can veto it.  If Republican­s override it, it's on the Republican­s' heads, and let them run on it in 2012.

But let's remember that Republican­s, with the smallest minority than any other in Congress in something like 116 years, were able to block everything the Democrats tried to do these last 4 years.  

Is anybody seriously suggesting 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?
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