Will all due respect Mr. Axelrod, I'm not so certain that the Republicans are going to blink on the Tax Cuts for the rich, and with our own Blue Dogs barking at the moon, in favor of retaining these tax cuts for the the rich, such as Joe (ass hat) Lieberman, it ain't over until the 'fat lady sings.'
What I find most suspect is the 'timing' involved on three very important reports (and the expiration of the tax cuts for the rich). All three of these issues, are not going to be available till after the November elections, and that speaks volumes to me. The question is, why?
The Cat Food Commission report in due out on December 1, 2010, The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) (aka, the Fake Pecora Commission) report is due out on December 15th, and the Bush Tax Cuts are due to expire on December 31st, 2010.
'December' is the ultimate month for the ultimate 'news dumps' that has historically been used by our so called 'loyal public servants' to drop a turd in the punch bowl, when Americans are in the midst of the most stressful time of the year 'the Holidays.' And it is not like, these various commissions have not had plenty of time, to make their various recommendations to the President and to Congress. The expiration of the Bush Tax cuts, has been on the back burner for months now, and it is being kicked down the road, to coincide with these other 'commission reports' that are of vital interests to all Americans.
There is no reason, that all three of these issues, could not have been addressed and dealt with prior to the upcoming elections. No reason whatsoever, except to give our own party, the Democrats political cover, before the 'shit finally hits the fan.'
Axelrod said he agrees with the assessment offered by Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Sunday that it would take the specter of the Bush tax cuts expiring across the board (as they will do on December 31, 2010) to nudge a few moderate Republicans to buckle.
"Yeah. I think they will blink when their constituents tell them enough is enough, let's move on a tax cut for 98 percent of the American people, in fact 100 percent, everyone will get it up to $250,000 dollars," Axelrod told the Huffington Post. "They just want to give a special premium to millionaires and billionaires and we can't afford the $700 billion to do that."
Acknowledging that a vote isn't coming before Election Day, Axelrod's outlook for the tax cut debate suggests that both he and congressional Democrats are prepping for high-stakes, high drama political brinksmanship during the lame duck session. To date, the White House has refused to budge from its position that extending the rates for the rich would be wasteful and bust the federal budget. Not a single Republican lawmaker, meanwhile, has stated his or her willingness to vote for the president's package -- setting up a situation in which both sides end up working a small number of moderate Republicans in hopes that they either change or stay the course respectively.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Meanwhile, we get the 'insane fake Tea Party Republicans' like Rand Paul, telling the 'low information - we want our country back' voters that, 'we must not punish the rich'....sorry, laugh my ass here. It was the 'rich' that paid billions to lobbyist and 'tanked our entire economy' through Wall Street, and then got paid off for doing so. TARP, the originally $ 700 billion (has turned into trillions) and now, those 'poor little rich people, want another $ 700 billion.
You can't punish rich people. You end up punishing the people who work for them, or you punish the people who they buy things from. It makes no sense to soak the rich."
Thanks Rand, but you are a fucking idiot, and no one is buying that dribble except the stupid and the racists, and of course, those that want 'their country back...the Ozzie and Harriet bullshit America.
Meanwhile, we have this:
On CNN's 'State of the Union' on Sunday, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) predicted that Congress would permanently reinstate the tax cuts for middle class Americans while temporarily extending the cuts for wealthy Americans for one or two years.
A CNN/Opinion Research poll released last month found that just over half the country agrees with the plan. According to the survey, 51 percent say the tax breaks should remain instated for families making less than $250,000 each year, but not for households bringing in more than that income amount. By contrast, 31 percent favor allowing the cuts to continue for all taxpayers, regardless of annual earnings.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Cat Food Commission) has been meeting in secret for the past 6 months. That should have been plenty of time, for these well paid, 'public servants' (cough cough) to make their various recommendations.
Why the wait until after the elections, to dump it all on the tax payers, in the middle of the Holidays? Don't you wonder that? I do.
Here is a statement by another 'taxpayer' that gets exactly why, we are paying this 'Commission' money, to do what they always set out to do:
Obama’s Cat Food Commission, Alan Greenspan, and the Dancing Grannies for Medicare
Posted on August 9, 2010 by James Ridgeway
President Obama’s Deficit Commission is all smoke and mirrors. Its members are making a big show of laboring over "painful" choices and considering all options in their quest to bring down the deficit. But inside the Beltway everyone knows what’s going to happen: The commission will reduce the deficit on the backs of the old and the poor, through cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Some opponents have taken to calling it the Cat Food Commission, since that’s what it’s victims will be forced to eat once the commission gets done slashing away at their modest entitlements.
http://www.barrypopik.com/...
Let me give you an example, of how long these kinds of 'Commissions' have worked in the past, so that you might get the gist of what I am talking about in terms of 'timing' and why the hell, this is all taking so long, and being specifically times, until after the November elections.
Note: I am not a conspiracy theory person, as a matter of fact, I have taken a great deal of time, to find and research, facts and evidence, so the point of this particular example, is to show you, why it dose not make any sense what so ever, the for Cat Food Commission, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), forcing of the vote on the Bush Tax Cuts for the top 1 percent who know hold 90 percent of our nations wealth, should have all been given a deadline of no longer than 6 months, to come up with a 'vote' and their findings.
Here is my example: (BTW, this is not the debate of topic of this diary. If you want to make it that, I will assume, that you are either evading the point of this diary, or that you are not up the the intellectual point I am making...about timing and commissions, and why this is taking so fucking long, when the issues are very clear form Americans, or you just want to trash my point). This is simply an indicator of the time element involved in regards to these three issues I have brought forth in this diary.
Crime History: Warren Commission concluded Oswald was sole JFK gunman
By: Scott McCabe
Examiner Staff Writer
September 24, 2010
On this day, Sept. 27, in 1964, the Warren Commission released its report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole gunman in the assassination of President Kennedy.
The commission presented President Johnson its 888-page report 45 years ago, more than 10 months after Kennedy's death. The commission was named after Chief Justice Earl Warren, who headed the group established by Johnson.
The commission faced much criticism for the methods it used to investigate Kennedy's death: It barred the public from attending almost all of its hearings, and the full commission was present during the testimony of only one of 94 witnesses.
The report's findings remain in dispute to this day.
In addition to the published 26 volumes of evidence, the released files of the Warren Commission include over 50,000 pages of numbered documents, internal memorandum, transcripts of Executive Sessions, and more. The testimony and files of the Commission serve as an important base of evidence in any understanding of the events in Dallas.
-Scott McCabe
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...
My point being this: It took the Warren Commission 10 months, to give the American people perhaps, one of the most extensive investigations in this history of our nation, that included one of the most earth shaking and moving events in our nation, yet here we are, moving now into 8 months, for the Cat Food Commission, the same for the 'Fake Pecora Commission'.........more on the timing of this:
The first meeting of the Commission took place in Washington on September 17, 2009, and consisted of opening remarks by Commissioners.
Their report is due out, after December 15th. This is a full 15 months of deliberations. Shit, it took the Warren Commission 10 months to deal with the most horrifying thing to happen in the last century.
Do you understand the point of this diary? Thanks if you do, and if you want 'to go there' and make it about CT shit, then you must be a very very low information voter.
Just so you know, the taxpayers have thus far paid the the 'Fake Pecora Commission, $8 million dollars, but that's not enough is it, because it is never enough...get a smell of the 'book deal and perhaps film rights' coming up for these 'loyal public servants' who are supposedly on 'the side of the Middle Class'...
On Aug. 3, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a presidential body, announced that it had chosen Little, Brown and Co. to publish its final report about the meltdown -- an anticipated and authoritative account pieced together by well-known journalist Matt Cooper. It did not mention, however, that the deal had unusual terms for the publication of a public document, including an agreement by Little, Brown to pay an advance to the government and the stipulation that a portion of the proceeds from sales be paid into U.S. Treasury coffers. The commission's chairman, Phil Angelides, said the details of the deal will be divulged once the contract with Little, Brown is finalized. Government commissions hooking up with commercial publishers to boost distribution is nothing new. The Warren Commission Report, the Starr Report and the 9/11 Commission Report all did exactly that. But this time the process is raising questions about whether a public report about the exploitation of the commodities market isn't itself being overly commodified. The commission retained literary agents, who will likely receive a percentage of the deal for their efforts, and then auctioned off the manuscript to publishers.
"The government usually does not ask for royalties on public domain documents," said Drake McFeely, president of W.W. Norton, which published the 9/11 Commission Report. This transaction appears to be modeled on the moneymaking kind, McFeely noted: "The FCIC deal was handled very much like a traditional book deal."
The bidding for the report is all the more remarkable considering that downloading such information is no longer so arduous. The book and e-book will hit shelves simultaneously with the report's release in a free and downloadable form on government Web sites on Dec. 15. 'Intangible' benefits. Thomas, the commission's vice chairman, didn't see the deal in dollars and cents but instead noted the value of "intangibles," such as the commission's comfort level with the publisher.
"If you went with the tangibles, we had several opportunities to choose quality publishers who were interested in the product," said Thomas, noting that the deal came down to relationships. "And we felt very comfortable with them. If you have the luxury to choose between several, it winds up coming down to intangibles." Thomas's fellow commission leader pointed to the multimedia opportunities that Little, Brown offered. "We are looking at a book as well as an enhanced e-version that will link to the documents and video," Angelides said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
If this does not completely 'disgust' you, then you don't get the message. These assholes, did not even 'try' to help the Middle Class, and neither are our own Democrats:
So what should the FCIC spend their time doing. Look where other people aren't. The credit rating agencies were a good idea. Not enough people are looking at them. Although, I think Buffett was a distraction and didn't yield that much new info, at least not publicly. Why haven't they called Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide? Mortgage brokers were where the fraud hit the streets. Finding out how they went unregulated, or got around regulation, would be key to figuring out how to regulate home lending. How about calling up the heads of CDO trading at every other bank? Goldman wasn't the only bank pitching synthetic CDOs. There are still a lot of issues that have been barely touched, and Phil, baby, its June, there ain't that much time left.
Read more: http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time....
Instead, they are making 'book deals, and film deals' after 15 months of doing nothing and getting paid for it.
So when today, I read, that President Obama told all the young voters, that they could not 'sit out the election' well, spare me that, ok?
It is now between the disappointed and disgusted in America. The disappointed is why we will these major opportunities, the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich, are being ignored, why, the Cat Food Commission has become, like a CIA part of the Clintonistas, Neo Con Liberals, and why the FCIC is the biggest joke on our own party.
Good luck getting that past the new young voters..
Back in 2008, a lot of young people got involved in my campaign because they... generally felt that we needed to bring about fundamental changes in how we operate," said Obama. "And this is all before the financial crisis. And I think lot of people felt our campaign gave them a vehicle to get engaged and involved in shaping this country over the long term.
"I've been having all these fights with Republicans to make progress on a whole bunch of these issues. And during that time, naturally, some of the excitement and enthusiasm started to drain away because people felt like, gosh, were reading about the constant arguments in Washington and things haven't changed as much as we would have liked or as quickly as we would have liked -- even though the health care bill got passed, financial regulatory bill got passed, and we brought an end to our combat mission in Iraq. Still it seems as if a lot of the old politics is still operating in Washington." Still, in a reflection of Democratic anxiety heading into the midterm vote, the president urged students to remember that change is "really hard in this country." The sluggish pace of progress was not an excuse for political apathy he insisted, but rather an invitation for heightened involvement.
"You can't sit it out," said Obama. "You can't suddenly just check in once every ten years or so on an exciting presidential election and then not pay attention during big midterm elections where we have a real big choice between Democrats and Republicans.... That is a big choice. That has big consequences. So even though this may not be as exciting as a presidential election it is going to make a huge difference in terms of whether we are going to be able to move our agenda forward over the next couple years."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Check in every ten years? Give me a break President Obama, ok? Stop acting like you did not have a choice. You did.
We sent you to the White House, to restore the public trust for the Middle Class, and look what we have now.
Democrats, moving as quickly as they can away from the continuation of the Bush Tax Cuts.........the Fake Pecora Commission, getting ready to make a 'book deal and perhaps a movie' and of course the Cat Food Commission, all to be delivered at our door............
On Christmas Eve.
Thanks, but no thanks. I got the message. The problem is, is that it is all too little and too late, and now, you expect, all of us to step up the the plate..
When you refused to.
I will vote 'disappointed' instead of 'disgusted' but at least, I know the facts, and who is making money off of those that have lost their jobs, their homes, their savings, and are living in tent cities, while Judges are getting away with ignoring, the illegal foreclosures in this nation (unlike Congressman Alan Grayson and Elizabeth Warren)....but stop acting like the timing of these three essential votes in our party did not matter...President Obama, they did...and all that you and the Democrats did, was kick them down the road...
and the real question is this: Who made money off of those deals?
I'll hold my nose, but I will not hold my heart, and there is no reason, what so ever, why these various issues, should have waited this long, is there?
Some may call it 'political savvy'...I do not, and will not, having studied and researched, what each of these 'Commissions' have done, and why the Democrats, did not force the vote for ending, yet another $ 700 billion to those that already got paid off, for their fraud.
Thanks as always.