{"id":188455,"date":"2010-09-23T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/23\/cowardly-conservadems-cause-tax-cut-catastrophe\/"},"modified":"2010-09-23T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T23:07:00","slug":"cowardly-conservadems-cause-tax-cut-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/23\/cowardly-conservadems-cause-tax-cut-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowardly Conservadems Cause Tax Cut Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object height=\"244\" width=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CAV0XrbEwNc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CAV0XrbEwNc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"244\" width=\"390\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">What Cee Lo Green Said (NSFW)<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>So, put a fork in it, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/09\/23\/senate.tax.cuts\/index.html\">Democrats won&#8217;t be voting on middle class tax cuts, because the conservadems are unwilling to support the idea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Obama wanted a vote on his proposed extension of some of the tax cuts before lawmakers returned to the campaign trail for the November 2 elections, in part to reinforce Democratic support for pocketbook issues.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic strategists have been divided over whether it&#8217;s politically beneficial to push for a vote on the tax cuts now, citing their candidates from conservative states in tough re-election battles who would have to defend the resulting increase in the tax rate on wealthy Americans to previous levels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, voting on this would have put the Republicans on the defensive, by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">forcing them to vote against middle class tax cuts<\/span>, the the conservadem\/Blue Dog types are so terrified of Republicans that they are shooting themselves in the foot.<\/p>\n<p>Bad policy and bad politics.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, I&#8217;m for letting it <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">all<\/span> expire, and then <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">increasing<\/span> taxes on the very rich (94% sounds good), but still it is remarkably how Dems can pull defeat from the jaws of victory.<\/p>\n<p>Take it away Cee Lo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Cee Lo Green Said (NSFW) So, put a fork in it, the Democrats won&#8217;t be voting on middle class tax cuts, because the conservadems are unwilling to support the idea: Obama wanted a vote on his proposed extension of some of the tax cuts before lawmakers returned to the campaign trail for the November &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1000,1020,982,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-elections","category-legislation","category-stupid","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}