{"id":3530,"date":"2010-12-04T00:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T08:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2010-12-04T00:31:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T08:31:28","slug":"republicans-oppose-their-own-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/04\/republicans-oppose-their-own-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Oppose Their Own Base"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is certainly well known that the Republican insistence on adding $700 billion to the deficit to secure a bonus tax break for millionaires and billionaires opposes public opinion by a wide margin.  But a new poll shows that even their own base opposes them in this.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"4poll\"A <\/font><\/font>CBS News poll released last night<\/font><\/a> finds that 53 percent of Americans want the Bush-era tax cuts \u201cextended only for households earning less than $250,000 per year,\u201d a position that was <\/font>advanced by a House vote yesterday<\/font><\/a>. Another 14 percent want to expire all of the Bush tax cuts. Taken together, two-thirds of Americans (67 percent) want to end the Bush tax cuts for the rich. One interesting statistic from the survey indicates that the GOP\u2019s push for giving the richest 2 percent an additional tax cut is <\/font>not even supported by its own base<\/font><\/a><\/font>:<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Only ten percent of Democrats and one in four independents back the GOP proposal to extend the tax cuts for all. <\/font>Even among Republicans, support for extending all the cuts is less than half at 46 percent.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Keith Olbermann puts this in perspective in an interview with former Reagan Budget Director, David Stockman.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the bottom line.  The Republican Party does not even represent Republicans.  They govern excliusively for the benefit of criminal corporations and the  richest 1%.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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