Apparently tax cuts for the middle class are chicken crap, according to the heir apparent speaker John Boehner. Okkkayyyy.
One of my most serious pet peeves with the Democrats is their ability to drop the ball and allow the Republicans to define their rhetoric. Today the House votes to extend middle class tax cuts created during the Bush administration, in accordance with what President Obama campaigned for. The tax cuts would expire for anyone making more than $250,000.
As I sat up in the night listening to all the days events, suddenly this tax cut vote had turned into democrats voting for a tax increase because the Republicans would never pass it. STOP! That isn’t what happened. The Democrats voted to extend the tax cuts for those making less than $250,000. Nothing more. Nothing less. Any spin is just that, spin.
If Republicans fail to get on board with extending tax cuts for 98% of the American people, then it is they who are going to have the problem. At least half of Congress are millionaires. It should be perfectly obvious that the Republicans are playing to their country club buddies who hand over the big checks. If the Republicans had the stones, they would jump on board with this or …they could have compromised and probably gotten the ceiling changed to $500,000 or even a million dollars. Or, they could go in after the first of the year and propose new legislation to include their sort of rich buddies.
Hopefully the middle class will not forget that they are going to be sold out for 30 pieces of silver. Where are the jobs that are supposed to be created? We have had the Bush tax cuts for a long time. Where are the jobs? The jobs excuse is what is chicken crap, Mr. Speaker. I see Congress circling the wagons for their rich cronies and spewing rhetoric.
If your taxes go up after January 1 and you are in the middle class, send a big thank you note with a chicken on it to the Republican Congress because that is who you can thank. And its time for the Democrats to stop letting the Republicans define who and what they are about. Democrats, stones time!!
