Repeat, Repeat, Repeat

Via Paddy in the comments:

GOP Votes Against Biggest Middle-Class Tax Cut In History

Repeat, repeat, repeat. Why are the Republicans against tax cuts for the middle class?

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  • trustno1

    Definitely. Republicans wanted corporate tax cuts, but wouldn’t favor them for the individual.(rinse, lather, repeat.)

  • trustno1

    erm. Lather, rinse, repeat.(Steps away from the keyboard until coffee is done.)

  • eve

    brilliant — I hope we hear on TV a LOT now and see it in ads and from the TV talkers in 2010.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    What’s sickening is that even after they initially got a bump in tax cuts they requested, they voted no anyway. I want to hear one Republican tell me what they DID want instead of things they DIDN’T want in this bill. But I’m sure all you’ll get are “tax cuts only.”

    And I’m tired of hearing wingnuts complain that there wasn’t time to read the bill, that it was written behind closed doors. Are you telling me that Senators and Congressmen don’t have enough interns or staff to take the 400 or so pages that were amended and break it down into 40 page sections to get through it in an hour? Instead they wasted their time on the news outlets crying and moaning about the “spending” in a stimulus bill in stead of reading the fucking thing. Studying mice? A Pelosi trip to Europe? Stop wasting time making shit up and start using your time constructively and do some fucking work. Sorry, I’m not going to take the “no time to read” crap as an excuse.

    Circling the drain.

  • danann

    Sometimes I go to Fox to see what they are saying: Hannity with Huckabee carrying on about Obama “not telling the truth” are catching on with the rednecks in my community calling him a “good liar” This so concerns me that the airwaves push those obscure ideas backed by..nothing, and the ignorant scoop it up. People that watch Fox dont read. And they know it. So evident here in Arizona, where along with swatches of Idaho, Nevada, Utah, where they think they are part of Texas.I go to Bob Cesca for the comfort that there is sanity in our country.

  • steve b

    unfortunately (I still don’t know why) the D’s are absolutely horrible at messaging.The R’s don’t give a single vote in the House for the recovery bill and the corporatist media chants that Obama is not being bipartisan. Fortunately, most are not buying it, as Morning Joe said earlier this week, “perhaps we don’t know what we’re talking about” as 68% of those polled agreed with Obama. Jamison Foser has a good piece at MediaMatters that sums it up.

  • Jeff

    There’s also billions in there for assistance to military families. So every House republican voted against military families. Why do they hate our soldiers so much? Another commercial.

  • SillyGit

    Jeff suggests another ad.Here is another:The Republicans voted against the largest public education grant history. Why do they hate our children’s education?

  • SillyGit

    should have been ‘grant in history’must finish coffee.Ann Coulter is a faux merkin.

  • danann

    Education is dangerous to the Right wing. They prefer to keep their constituency ignorant, so as better to tell them their version of whats going on. They dont want us corrupting their limited views. Look what happens when they send their kids to college: They start doubting that Creationism-crap. besides they arent really for tax cuts, not for the middle-class. Just for their corperate buddies.

  • The Colonel

    This Rethug bitching about deficit spending is total bull$#it. If this were a $790 Billion dollar tax cut for the top 1% or a $790 Billion dollar military spending bill, they would be standing in line to vote for this thing.They don’t care about the deficit, they’re pissed because the money isn’t primarily going to their fat cat supporters.

  • Lyle

    George Bush wasn’t joking at the Al Smith dinner in 2000 when he said the elite, haves and have mores, were his base. He could have also joked that the Republican Party would continue transfering wealth to the elite for as long as voters were afraid of the world and thought abortion policy was more important than their own financial self-interest.

  • Rojer Ramjet

    Oh, pleeeez. Every time President Bush proposed tax cuts the Dems and assorted Communists cried about our nation’s ‘crumbling infrastructure’, and ‘how are we going to pay for this (illegal) war’, and on and on.When McCain proposed a gas tax holiday last Spring, same thing…London Bridges (and the sky) gonna fall down!Yes, the Comrades have a point. Close down all the companies and let the government just print money and hand out MRE’s to everybody. Business, jobs, investment…really overrated anyway-who needs the greedy SOBs. We can get money from anywhere.From what I’ve seen of the ‘stimulus package’ (which isn’t much-so much for those 5 days of national debate) the tax ‘cuts’ are really just smoke and mirrors.RINOs would vote against tax cuts, REAL Republicans wouldn’t…unless the alternative was to reach in and pull them out of a spittoon.