bush era tax rates/cuts but why did it take so long to get to this point? senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says enough of the political games. time to get serious. it s time to put the needs of the middle class americans above the needs of the liberal base that s demanding a show here in congress and that s all that this is. a show. so which party is the one playing political politics and putting on the show? our washington insiders join us right now with his perspective. david is ceo of blueline communications and we have gretchen hamill who is the executive director of public notice and former bush administration spokesperson. david do you not think the democratic party was playing games when at the came out and said let s vote for the middle class only and lower class only tax cuts? knowing they didn t have the votes in the senate. good morning, brian and merry christmas to you and everybody watching.
ticking towards the end of the year plus the lawmakers are both sides are figuring out what to do with this tax cut. no deal over the weekend although it does sound like we could have some sort of monte hall moment by mid week when they do come together. the republicans want to extend the tax cuts for everybody, democrats want to extend unemployment insurance past two years. i hope i m not going to get that bad door that used to get behind let s make a deal. what was that? or the cow, you know, the nice little milk maid next to him or something like that. they usually give you parting gifts from the home game. we don t have a fox & friends home game yet. we re not sure what s going to happen. let s listen to republican mitch mcconnell from kentucky and dick durbin from illinois as they face off on taxes. i think it s pretty clear now taxes are not going up on anybody in the middle of this recession. we re discussing how long we should maintain current tax rates
why wasn t that ad running then? i don t know who gretchen hamill is. she is probably lovely person. if she worked for president bush, that doesn t make her evil what it does mean if you are going to be head of a group that says stop the deficit spending, tell me why it is that you were in the administration that increased deficit spending by truck loads. they inherited a $240 billion surplus from president bill clinton. a surplus. when president bush left office, he left barack obama a $1.3 trillion deficit. someone tell me what happened, cause i don t understand. is it possible, jimmy, that the republicans are only interested in bankrupting america if they are doing it for the benefit of their special interests, but if somebody else has the audacity to bankrupt america for special interests who don t fund republicans, that that can t be tolerated? in order, you can only bankrupt
you re not welcome to your own facts it is not public money it is private money t is individual money t is corporate money. it could be labor money. it could be anybody s money. the problem is, we don t know who it is. why? because public notice is a tax-exempt organization that is allowed to hide its donors. that s why. i understand public notice is headed by a woman named gretchen hamill who worked at a j.c. watts office and more importantly deputy assistant u.s. trade representative under the bush administration. wasn t the bush administration the one that pulled off the giant multiunfunded medicare part d, perpetrated all sorts of tax loopholes and outsourcing encouragement and wasn t it the bush administration that facile dated the giant bank bailout with no strings attached whatsoever that have left trillions of dollars in toxic debt at the federal reserve? is that the same administration, same people? here s what i know.
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