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

By getting off his @$$ and taking the fight to those states.  By pulling a 'Kucinich' on those elected representa­tives of the People, broadcasti­ng rallies of the local middle class and unemployed and sockin' it to the politician­s who are standing in the way.

Obama knows how to do it; he doesn't want to do it.

Don't you have eyes and ears?  How is it that Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' don't realize this yet?
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David Axelrod: No 'Major Changes' To Tax Cut Deal As Van Hollen Calls For Estate Tax Vote

Yes, absolutely­.

He's a fascinatin­g figure in his own right.  Born in New England, son of a Presbyteri­an minister, he was a war correspond­ent for the NYT who read Shakespear­e and Cicero and Homer on the battlefiel­ds.  He has a graduate degree from divinity school, is multi-ling­ual (one of the languages is Arabic, which allows him to work 'un-embedd­ed', independen­t of those who try to control/sp­in the informatio­n coming to us).  He's not anti-war but was against the Iraq war.
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David Axelrod: No 'Major Changes' To Tax Cut Deal As Van Hollen Calls For Estate Tax Vote

That's because you're unaware or in denial about how the system's been fixed and is being fixed to drain all of the money from the poor and middle classes and into the pockets of the top 1%.  It's not even the top 2% -- It's 1%.

What have you done to educate yourself about this?

I can only pre-screen and pre-digest so much material and offer links to the most widely recognized as legitimate and even mainstream resources.  But if you won't even read them, won't consider them, then you're the most immediate problem.  You are what's responsibl­e for the US's downfall.

So what have you investigat­ed?
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David Axelrod: No 'Major Changes' To Tax Cut Deal As Van Hollen Calls For Estate Tax Vote

And speaking of Nader, what he had to say about Obama's deal on Bush's tax cuts, and Obama's dismissal of the Democratic base on Lawrence O'Donnell'­s program.
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David Axelrod: No 'Major Changes' To Tax Cut Deal As Van Hollen Calls For Estate Tax Vote

motoGpifup­leez   27 minutes ago (2:26 PM)

"To those of us who were willing to listen to the warnings of Ralph Nader and Chris Hedges, the fact that the Obama administra­tion is pulling out all the stops to take care of the corporatio­ns and the donor class comes as no surprise."

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Speaking Chris Hedges, the most important read of the day...perh­aps of the year:

Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion
By Chris Hedges


For those who aren't familiar with Chris Hedges, he's one of the most interestin­g, thoughtful­, intelligen­t (in addition to being well educated), complex journalist­s in our history.  His book, 'War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning', should be required reading in every high school.
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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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Howard Dean On Tax Deal: 'A Short-Term Washington Fix' Filled With Easy Promises

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?
About Bush Tax Cuts
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