{"id":3541,"date":"2010-12-05T01:25:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T09:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2010-12-05T01:25:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T09:25:56","slug":"we-all-knew-this-was-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/05\/we-all-knew-this-was-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"We All Knew This Was Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will not pretend outrage at yesterday\u2019s votes in the Senate on tax cuts.  We all knew that the Republicans would defeat both proposals through misuse of the filibuster, the same way they have obstructed the  majority of legislation to come before the Senate in the last four years.  However, the outrage I feel at the members of my own party, who betrayed the voters who elected them and goose-stepped with the Republicans is no pretense.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"5paid\"<\/a>…The Democratic plans — to renew low tax rates for individuals with income up to $200,000 and for those making up to $1 million — failed in procedural votes, as Republicans said low tax rates for the wealthiest should also be extended.<\/p>\n

No Republicans backed the Democratic proposals, and a few Democrats voted against them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s rare Senate votes were the latest skirmish in the battle over the tax cuts, which expire at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Obama and other Democratic leaders want to extend only the cuts for low- and middle-income Americans, contending the tax breaks for the wealthy would add too much to the yawning U.S. budget deficit.<\/p>\n

Republicans, who dismissed Saturday’s vote as a political stunt because the measures had been expected to fail, argue that raising taxes for the rich is a mistake that would cost jobs because wealthy Americans provide employment.<\/p>\n

"Those provisions should have passed," Obama told reporters. "I continue to believe that it makes no sense to hold tax cuts for the middle class hostage to permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans — especially when those high-income tax cuts would cost an additional $700 billion that we don’t have and would add to our deficit."<\/p>\n

He said negotiators needed to "redouble" their efforts to ensure middle-class Americans did not face higher taxes on January 1.<\/p>\n

A White House official said Obama told Democratic congressional leaders on Saturday he was open to compromise but would oppose even a temporary extension if it did not include an extension of benefits for the unemployed and extension of other tax cuts that benefit middle-class families<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

CONSENSUS WITHIN DAYS?<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in between the votes, said he hoped to come to a consensus on the tax issue by the middle of next week<\/strong> but was not specific. He said he wanted the Senate to adjourn by December 17\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here are the scum who voted against America or did not vote.  Bear in mind that. in a cloture motion, not voting is just a cowardly way to vote no without having the cojones to go on the record.<\/font><\/p>\n

This was the measure similar to what the House passed.<\/font><\/p>\n

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NAYs —36<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Alexander (R-TN)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Barrasso (R-WY)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Bennett (R-UT)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Bond (R-MO)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Brown (R-MA)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Brownback (R-KS)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Coburn (R-OK)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Cochran (R-MS)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Collins (R-ME)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Corker (R-TN)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Crapo (R-ID)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

DeMint (R-SC)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Ensign (R-NV)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Enzi (R-WY)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Feingold (D-WI)<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Graham (R-SC)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Grassley (R-IA)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Hatch (R-UT)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Johanns (R-NE)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Kirk (R-IL)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Kyl (R-AZ)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

LeMieux (R-FL)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Lieberman (ID-CT)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Lugar (R-IN)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Manchin (D-WV)<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

McCain (R-AZ)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

McConnell (R-KY)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Murkowski (R-AK)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Nelson (D-NE)<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Risch (R-ID)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Roberts (R-KS)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Shelby (R-AL)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Snowe (R-ME)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Thune (R-SD)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Webb (D-VA)<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Wicker (R-MS)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

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Burr (R-NC)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Chambliss (R-GA)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Cornyn (R-TX)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n

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Gregg (R-NH)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Hutchison (R-TX)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Inhofe (R-OK)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Isakson (R-GA)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n

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Sessions (R-AL)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Voinovich (R-OH)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

This the measure that extended the cuts to people with incomes nup to $1 million.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Bond (R-MO)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Brown (R-MA)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Cochran (R-MS)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Collins (R-ME)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Corker (R-TN)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Crapo (R-ID)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

DeMint (R-SC)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Durbin (D-IL)<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Ensign (R-NV)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Graham (R-SC)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Hatch (R-UT)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Kirk (R-IL)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Kyl (R-AZ)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Shelby (R-AL)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Snowe (R-ME)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Thune (R-SD)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Voinovich (R-OH)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Wicker (R-MS)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

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Not Voting – 10<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n

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Burr (R-NC)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Chambliss (R-GA)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Cornyn (R-TX)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n

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Gregg (R-NH)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Hutchison (R-TX)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Inhofe (R-OK)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Isakson (R-GA)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n

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Vitter (R-LA)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

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I smell a big cave-in coming, and I have to admit that there is a position to be made for trading tax cuts for the rich for an extension of unemployment benefits, because of the pain to working families such a deal would avert.  What I am about to say may seem heartless, because of that pain.<\/font><\/p>\n

Do you remember why we do not give in to terrorist demands?  rIf we do, it encourages the terrorists to continue with more crimes against us.  Well I have long said that Al Dubya if a far greater threat to America than Al Qaeda ever was.  Republicans have consistently proven me right about that.  If Democrats allow to give in to this Republican terrorism, we are just encouraging them to continue the terror against America.  With empathy for those it will hurt, I say stand fast.  Do NOT give in.  The hardest hit if the tax cuts for the poor and middle classes do not pass are the poorest taxpayers, as the lowest rate will increase 50% from 10% to 15%.  I fall in that bracket, so I shall share the pain of doing the right thing.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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