Obama is a moderate.

[Hoosier]

You wouldn't believe how butt-hurt the left is about the tax-cuts for the rich being extended:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW3a7...eature=recentu

Although I guess the guys here that were/are on unemployment get another year extension.

The worst part, really, is the 2 years. Because that would put it when, right before an election. Yeah, someone is going to raise taxes before an election. The democrats are laughably bad.

H.

[BPTactical]

Although I guess the guys here that were/are on unemployment get another year extensio

H.

Let's look at the real "Meat and Potatoes" of this "Tax cut"
Taxes will see a "recess" for two years= reduced income to the Government for two years.
Unemployment is extended for another year= additional expenditures by the Government for a year.
Now maybe it is just me but it seems like they are going around the block to cross the street.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Make a bigger pie, instead of complaining and demand for a bigger slice of the pie!

[Elhuero]

liberals are hypocrites.

they mercilessly attacked bush his whole presidency, then suddenly when obama got elected it was all about "bipartisanship" and ending the bickering for the good of the country.

how convenient.

now, obama is acting in a bipartisan manner and they hate it and are attacking their own golden boy.

they will completely ignore all the noble values they espouse during election season when it suits their agenda.

they called bush a fascist, but these shitheads will gladly welcome american dictatorship when it comes.

[Hoosier]

liberals are hypocrites.

they mercilessly attacked bush his whole presidency, then suddenly when obama got elected it was all about "bipartisanship" and ending the bickering for the good of the country.

how convenient.

now, obama is acting in a bipartisan manner and they hate it and are attacking their own golden boy.

they will completely ignore all the noble values they espouse during election season when it suits their agenda.

they called bush a fascist, but these shitheads will gladly welcome american dictatorship when it comes.

I swear I've read this exact rant from a Leftie, where "obama" is replaced for "bush" and vice versa, along with "conservative" <=> "liberal" and "right" <=> "left" translations. It'd be really funny if it didn't make me so sad. If you get to the point where you think the opposition is cattle, there's little hope of reconcile.

H.

[JohnTRourke]

IT'S NOT A TAX CUT
When you keep things at the same rate they are currently at, that's not a cut!!!!!!!!!!!

The unemployment doesn't extend them another 13 months, it just keeps that welfare (and the extensions are welfare, the first 26 weeks are insurance) open for 13 months, so once you've run out that 99 weeks that's it.

[RobertB]

IT'S NOT A TAX CUT
When you keep things at the same rate they are currently at, that's not a cut!!!!!!!!!!!

The unemployment doesn't extend them another 13 months, it just keeps that welfare (and the extensions are welfare, the first 26 weeks are insurance) open for 13 months, so once you've run out that 99 weeks that's it.

I think extending a tax cut that was going to sunset IS still a cut, if only on future taxes, not present ones.

Still weasel words though, to be sure.

[Hoosier]

How about "The tax not-raising"

H.

[roberth]

I am reading in various places that businesses are getting clobbered with huge increases in unemployment insurance premiums.

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/12/08...less-benefits/

Obama is not a moderate but his decisions are being forced that way.

[ERNO]

Pres. Obama said on Tues.
"I've said before that I felt that the middle-class tax cut's were being held hostage to the high end tax cuts," Mr. Obama said. "I think it's tempting not to negotiate with hostage-taker's, unless the hostage gets harmed. Then people will question the wisdom of that strategy. In this case, the hostage was the American people, and I was not willing to see them get harmed."
That explanation was terrorist enough for me. And I call for Mitch McConnell, John Kyl and John Boehner to all go "jump in the lake."

Erno