Riding in an elevator today in Broward County Florida the group I was with was startled by the recorded voice of Debbie Wasserman Schultz advising people to vote against proposed changes to Hollywood Firefighter’s pensions on Tuesday, coming over the elevator speaker phone.
While robocalls aren’t illegal, using state funded emergency systems are. Missuse of a 911 system, which elevator phones are hooked to is a crime.
Obama and liberals are saying they won. They didn’t It’s a win-win for the GOP on every level. Think not? Just look at the response from George Soro’s Think Progress.
“So in return for continuing the fiscally irresponsible and economically unsuccessful Bush tax policy, Democrats receive a desperately necessary extension of jobless benefits of the sort that used to be completely uncontroversial until this Congress came to town, as well as some helpful tax breaks for the working class that Republicans likely would have supported under any circumstance.”
Read through to the links in the comments. They’re coming apart in Progressive Land.
Over at National Review:
“President Obama has now moved into the second phase of capitulation. He has agreed to delay any tax increases, on anyone, for at least two years. The top marginal income-tax rate will stay at 35 percent; the dividend and capital-gains tax rates will stay at 15 percent. Over the next two years, the estate tax will be lower than it has been for almost any part of the last decade. The president has also agreed to an additional reduction in tax rates: Payroll taxes will also be temporarily reduced. And his own administration’s best policy proposal, allowing businesses to deduct the full cost of all investment expenses over the next two years, is also included in the deal.
What liberals got out of the deal was the extension of some of their favorite tax credits and, above all, a 13-month extension of federal subsidies for unemployment benefits — with no compensatory spending cuts. This stretches subsidies for the jobless out to three years. It’s far from our ideal policy, but the deal is still worth taking: If it won’t do much good for the economy, it will avert a serious blow to it.
It is possible that Republicans could have gotten an even better deal next year, since their numbers in Congress will increase in January. But that would have left them having to cut taxes retroactively and left households paying first higher and then lower taxes. Acting now reduces both uncertainty and volatility. Republicans can now spend the next two years advancing spending cuts and long-term tax reform.”
When the GOP takes control of congress in January the cutting of the budget will begin. A huge win.
I love watching lefties opine on how “patriotic” it is to pay MORE taxes. Kevin Drum commenting on Greg Mankiw writing in the Ny Times how he wouldn’t mind paying more taxes, but then he wouldn’t work so hard.
But Kevin spews into another lefty defense of why the Bush tax cuts are hurting the economy. They’re not. Out of control government spending is. But the pint he misses, like a lot of lefties. It’s our money. We would like to keep as much as possible of it. Thank you.
It’s a lesson that will lead to our victory in November when the majority of Americans will let lefties know just how much they believe in what I say.
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Yet congress voted itself a raise in the last two years.
“WASHINGTON — As if voters don’t have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through another year without an increase in their monthly benefits.
It would mark only the second year without an increase since automatic adjustments for inflation were adopted in 1975. The first year was this year.
“If you’re the ruling party, this is not the sort of thing you want to have happening two weeks before an election,” said Andrew Biggs, a former deputy commissioner at the Social Security Administration and now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.“It’s not the congressional Democrats’ fault, but that’s the way politics works,” Biggs said. “A lot of people will feel hostile about it.”
But it is the congressional democrats fault. Completely mismanaging the economy, bailing out banks and throwing billions down the toilet, there is simply no excuse to short change seniors and veterans.
See you gone in November. Change is coming.
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We’ll have to keep our eyes open on this. The only way for democrats to stop the bleeding in November is to cheat and they’re already starting.
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