“The Bush tax cuts are sunsetting by design, due to legislation that almost the entire Republican leadership supported,” one senior House Dem leadership aide says. “President Obama and the Democrats want to implement the `Obama tax cuts for the middle class.’ It provides a nice contrast between what the current administration is proposing and what Republicans did in the past.”
“We’re kicking it around,” adds one senior Senate Democratic aide.
You should have been “kicking it around” in January of 2009. Or earlier. What the fuck do you think a legislative majority is for?
This is why they fail.
Honestly, nobody deserves to lose as much as this lot does. Just completely beyond belief.
Maybe they should take a meeting on it and form an exploratory commission to establish the Blue Ribbon Panel of 2012 sometime in early December. Nothing but time, after all.
(h/t The Plum Line)
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