And there goes the election...
HOW the living hell did the GOP get everything they wanted a few years ago with a much smaller majority? WHY can't our leaders get thier act together?
I said in an earlier diary that this would have been SOOOOO simple: TWO TWO tax cuts packages.
Call the first: Obama's Middle Class Tax Cut (for those making under $250,000)
Call the second: Bush's Upper Class Tax Cut Extension (for those mkaing over $250,000)
We don't do the second without the first. No one takes anything hostage and BOTH get a fair vote.
The middle class wins. Democrats win. EVEN the conservadems balking could have won with that. Only the GOP would lose doing it that way.
But our spineless leaders caved. again and again and again and again.
Being GOP-lite NEVER works. I expect this spinlessness from Harry Reid, but et tu, Nancy?? REALLY??
I had diaried this earlier and was eviscerated by a few Kossacks that I was too early. THERE was no way that Pelosi and Reid wouldn't tackle this gift handed to them by the GOP. Quit screaming the sky is falling.
But I never underestimate the cowardice of a Dem leader in the face of a wingnut.
COULD you imagine? The GOP FILLIBUSTERING the middle class tax cut, the way they tried to fillibuster unemployment benefits? Unlike that time, Reid could have made them actually FOR THE FIRST TIME really fillibuster...stand all night and read the phonebook. WHAT press would that have had! GOP demanding to add $700 BILLION to the deficit to give $100,000 tax break to multi-millionaires or no relief for middle class!
This was a SURE VICTORY for the Dems, and in the words of Jon Stewart, we F&&%CKed it up again. And not only that, we made it a victory for the GOP! FAUXNews is having a field day. Earlier they ran front page headline: Expiring Tax Cuts Hit Americans at Every Income Level.
U want to know why Dems are demoralized? THIS right here.
We could have exposed the GOP for what they truly are. We could have gotten the tax cut for the majority and dropped the one for the uber-wealthy. We probably could have saved several seats.
We worked our assess off to get a majority that neither party will see again, and spineless dems throw it all away in the face of the all-powerful minority conservatives. I swear that we could have 99 progressives in the Senate and Reid would bow and scrape to the 1 conservative. GIVE. ME. A. BREAK.