{"id":188513,"date":"2010-09-13T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/13\/snatching-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory-2\/"},"modified":"2010-09-13T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T23:56:00","slug":"snatching-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/13\/snatching-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SNATCHING DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Democrats, Again<\/span><\/span>, of course.<\/p>\n

After Boehner’s surprise statement, it looks like the Obama White House is trying to take advantage of this<\/a>, and paint the Republicans with the “Daddy Warbucks” brush and splinter the Republican caucus, which is good, but a aide for the House leadership just said that the house will not vote on the tax cuts<\/a>, which is significant because the Constitution says that tax bills have to start with the house.<\/p>\n

My guess is that this is someone Steny Hoyer’s office, who is attempting to suck up to the Blue Dog types, who are trying to insist on tax cuts for the big donors.<\/p>\n

And on the Senate, we have the preening sociopath narcissists Ben Nelson<\/a> says that he might<\/span> support a filibuster, while Mr. “That contemptible rat-f%$# who isn’t<\/span> with us on everything but the war” Joe Lieberman<\/a> both saying that he will<\/span> support a filibuster.<\/p>\n

What is good politics and<\/span> good policy right now is for Barack Obama to say that he will veto any bill that grants tax breaks to people making more than a $\u00bc million.<\/p>\n

It would be useful to show that Obama can draw a line in the sand, because at this point, no one believes that he can<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Democrats, Again, of course. After Boehner’s surprise statement, it looks like the Obama White House is trying to take advantage of this, and paint the Republicans with the “Daddy Warbucks” brush and splinter the Republican caucus, which is good, but a aide for the House leadership just said that the house will not vote …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,969,1020,982,983,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-evil","category-legislation","category-stupid","category-taxes","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188513"}],"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=188513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}