I am so tired of a Party that simply does not know how to fight. The Bush Taxcut bill is a Republican bill. The Republicans if a new bill is not signed would be the ones raising taxes because of the inept bill they wrote. If the Republicans fail to pass the President’s bill cutting taxes after the Republican Tax increase occurs then they can make great commercials on that.
Why do we not see commercials about the Republican bill that raised taxes after 10 years. Why are we not seeing commercials that show Republican holding the middleclass hostage. You must wonder how many Democrats are really corporatists on the take. America better wake up.
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Senate Democrats are looking to punt the tax-cut debate past the November elections, facing pushback on voting from Democrats facing election in 2010, senior Democratic aides say. The party will gather this afternoon for a caucus-wide meeting to set the pre-election agenda, but it appears increasingly unlikely that it will include the much-hyped tax-cut vote.
The White House has been pushing hard for such a vote, circulating polling showing that a majority of Americans, including wide margins of independents, support extending the middle-class tax cuts. Ultimately, though, Democrats up for election feared an assault from the GOP that the party was raising taxes on "small businesses," even though a vanishingly small portion of those who would face a tax hike are real small businesses. But, in an age of 30-second commercials, it only takes one to stare into the camera and lament the effect of the tax change on hiring.
Two members of Democratic leadership — Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) — are facing tight races, as are Sens. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).
A Feingold aide said that his boss isn’t afraid of the vote. "Senator Feingold has informed Majority Leader Reid directly that he would prefer to vote on extending the expiring tax cuts before the elections and that he is ready and willing to vote whenever leadership decides to have that vote," he said. "Senator Feingold has made his position clear – he supports extending the middle class tax cuts and he thinks we should find a way to pay for them. But he opposes extending tax cuts just for the wealthiest Americans, which would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit and do little to help the economy."
Democrats, instead of focusing on tax cuts, said the aides, will address legislation to limit corporate spending in the election process, expand job creation and close loopholes for companies that ship jobs offshore.
The Democratic decision was foreseeable. Indeed, on September 8th, when the Senate had yet to return from the summer break, HuffPost Hill predicted: "SPOILER ALERT: This tax cut stuff will not be dealt with before the election, unless ‘dealt with’ is understood as a few weeks of bickering before it’s punted."
