Monday, February 16, 2009
Congress / Hannan / Politics Corker & Alexander Vote for All Tax-Cut "Stimulus"
Posted by Caleb Hannan on Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander were two of the 38 Senators to vote for a Republican-sponsored stimulus substitute. The plan: Nothing but tax cuts, especially for the wealthy. A.K.A. The same trickle-down B.S. that's been peddled since the days of Reagan.
Pretty sweet if you're Albert Haynesworth. Not so much if you're working the counter at Mapco.
The bill got stomped. But you can't fault our boys for tryin'!
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Obama’s stealing the census from Congress has suddenly awakened and enraged the Republicans. Maybe this will arouse them as well to challenge Obama for stealing the Presidency itself. They surely know he is not an Article 2 “natural born citizen” (which is more than merely being a 14th Amendment “citizen”) by virtue of either Obama’s birth to a dad of Kenyan/British citizenship or birth in Kenya itself — as manifested by his unwillingness to supply his long form birth certificate now under seal.
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Since Bush's $1.2 trillion in tax cuts failed to stimulate the economy, why are they opposed to spending far less than that on capital investment at home? Surely they aren't that stupid. Since the Republican Party failed to come up with a viable alternative to the Obama plan, maybe they felt obliged to support this "tax cut" plan forged in an alternate reality where the only problem with the American economy is that the rich are taxed too much.
As if we hadn't already learned those lessons over the past eight years. What an embarrassment.
