saying they will vote against middle class tax cuts if that is their only option. boehner today refused, when asked by talking points memo, to say if he would block the proposal, one vote on middle class tax cuts, one on tax cuts for the rich. i don t want to get into a bunch of hypotheticals he said, just minutes after hypothesizing what nancy pelosi should do. she ought to pledge that there be an honest up or down vote on stopping all of the coming tax hikes. anything less than that is unacceptable. if the speaker allows an up or down vote i m confident that the american people will not see increases in their taxes. instead, the speaker said she does not support even a temporary extension of the bush tax cuts on household income over a quarter million. a handful of democrats want to cut the taxes for the rich including jim matheson of utah. he told the plumb line blog about majority opposition sigs saying, quote, i don t know that it applies in my district which
bad idea to be raising taxes on anybody in the middle of a recession. the plumb line blog found a half dozen polls show just the opposite. most americans support at least letting the bush tax cuts for the rich expire. pugh research, 57%. national journal 56%, gallup 59%. cnn 69%. cbs 56%. newsweek 52%. we asked senator mcconnell s office today to supply a single poll showing majority support for extending bush s tax cuts for the rich. no reply. grover norquist told the hill they would fall into a trap if they blocked obama s middle class tax cuts. former speaker night gingrich asking the question. why would you vote against the tax cut for millions of americans just before the election, so the liberal democrats could attack you. even before mr. boehner some republicans showed signs they don t know how to proceed. if democrats make them choose tax cuts for 98% of america or tax cuts for no one.
most americans think it s a bad idea to be raising taxes on anybody in the middle of a recession. the plumb line blog found a half dozen polls show just the opposite. most americans support at least letting the bush tax cuts for the rich expire. pugh research, 57%. national journal 56%, gallup 59%. cnn 69%. cbs 56%. newsweek 52%. we asked senator mcconnell s office today to supply a single poll showing majority support for extending bush s tax cuts for the rich. no reply. grover norquist told the hill they would fall into a trap if they blocked obama s middle class tax cuts. former speaker night gingrich asking the question. why would you vote against the tax cut for millions of americans just before the election, so the liberal democrats could attack you. even before mr. boehner some republicans showed signs they don t know how to proceed. if democrats make them choose tax cuts for 98% of america or
sergeant at the plumb line blog that they will use the byrd rule to try to bleed the reconciliation fix to death and ensure it never passes. but today, the author of the rule, senator robert byrd, endorsed the democrats plan to use a majority vote to finish the health care bill. in a letter to west virginia newspaper, senator byrd wrote that a limited bill structured to adjust some of the elements of the already passed senate bill may be consistent with the budget act and appropriately considered under reconciliation. in an op-ed for politico.com weiner asked why it is not being called for a vote. yesterday at the white house, president obama told progressive
in the best, most honest way, not politically or thee at cli motivated at all. this week has, i believe, also it s much bigger politically than barack obama or sarah palin, how they reacted or did not react. i think also america is awakened. even though the verdict is in and political hate speech had nothing to do with this killing, america has still awakened. i m seeing things large and small, whether it s a host at msnbc or the president of fox news or last night on twitter, which i must say, i stopped going on because the vitriol. i stopped reading the comments and instead used it as a ticker. i saw rich lowery who runs national review and forgive me for forgetting his name, the