At this time, we need every Democrat to help President Obama stand strong and say giving the richest Americans tax cuts would add trillions to the deficit.
So why I am not surprised by Senator Bennet's latest need to weigh in on this subject - explicitly at odds with the President who campaigned for his re-election?
The Republicans are making one of their first priorities extending the Bush tax cuts - no matter how it balloons the already out of control deficit.
The Republican strategy ranges from 'permanent repeal' to asking for a 'two year extension'.
Both of these strategies will inevitably result in a permanent tax cut. While the Temporary extension sounds harmless enough, if the extension is granted, it will be even more difficult to do away with these cuts, creating a cycle of Politicians who 'punt' on this issue.
Read on and compare that Republican strategy with Senator Bennet's idea for 'compromise'
http://www.coloradoan.com/...
"What I have said on that is my priority is an extension of the middle-class tax cuts, that I would be willing to support a compromise that extended all the tax cuts for a year," Bennet said in an interview with the Coloradoan Tuesday after meeting with campaign supporters in Fort Collins.
"One of the reasons that I've said that is that I think it's very important for us to have a conversation about how we're going to pay for these tax cuts. And that is a conversation you may have noticed that really isn't being had right now," he said. "They're having a debate about which tax cuts to let go forward, but they're not actually discussing with the American people what they're prepared to cut to pay for it."
Um, Senator Bennet, you barely won by the closest margin in Colorado Senate history, most likely due primarily to the President's efforts to keep you in your seat.
How is this repaying his generosity?
With friends like these....
One more thing, the repealing of the Bush tax cuts are favored by a majority of Americans. Waiting to repeal them just makes the Democrats look spineless.
We have a President that needs support on this, not wavering Conservadems.