{"id":6496,"date":"2011-12-12T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T08:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/mcconnell-lies-again\/"},"modified":"2011-12-12T00:01:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T08:01:23","slug":"mcconnell-lies-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/mcconnell-lies-again\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Lies Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans want to raise YOUR taxes.&#160; They have played almost every dirty trick in the book to block extending the payroll tax extension for working Americans, while fighting tooth and nail for tax cuts for the 1% and criminal corporations.&#160; It is co obvious that Republicans are in thrall to the Koch brothers and their ilk that even the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, aka Fox, asked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to explain it!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left\" title=\"BoughtBitch\" alt=\"BoughtBitch\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BoughtBitch.gif\" width=\"261\" height=\"294\" \/>The number two Senate Republican, Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl (R), last week decried attempts by Senate Democrats and President Obama to pay for a payroll tax cut extension with a surtax on millionaires. Despite the fact that payroll tax cut extension would keep an extra $1,000 in the pockets of the average American family, and despite the fact that the millionaire surtax would hit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctj.org\/pdf\/surcharge.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">relatively few households<\/a>, Kyl said he could only support extending the tax cut for working Americans if it was accompanied by massive <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/12\/05\/382453\/kyl-could-support-a-middle-class-tax-cut-but-only-if-the-rich-get-a-massive-tax-break-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">tax cuts for the wealthy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) what he made of characterizations of the GOP as the party that defends millionaires, given that more than half of McConnell\u2019s caucus has repeatedly voted against a tax cut for the middle class. <strong>McConnell laughed at the assertion before saying the GOP is \u201cnot here to defend high-income people.\u201d As proof, McConnell told Wallace that the Republican plan took such drastic steps as to prevent millionaires from receiving unemployment benefits or food stamps<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QVvLhoCuCV0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;McConnell\u2019s assertions seem belied by the facts. Though he insists the payroll tax cut extension will pass, it was the GOP that opposed paying for it through a small surtax on the wealthiest Americans. <strong>It was the GOP that opposed any move to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans<\/strong> in efforts to reduce the deficit \u2014 leading to the <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/08\/05\/289861\/breaking-s-p-downgrades-u-s-credit-for-the-first-time-in-history-repeatedly-cites-gop-intrasigence-on-taxes\/\">first credit downgrade<\/a> in American history and ultimately dooming the super committee. It was his party that nearly shutdown the government in April over the same issue \u2014 <strong>even though the wealthiest Americans are paying historically low tax rates<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>And while McConnell claims the GOP plan \u201cgoes after\u201d millionaires \u201con the benefits side,\u201d <strong>it \u201cgoes after\u201d low- and middle-income Americans \u201con the benefits side\u201d even harder<\/strong>\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/12\/11\/387103\/mcconnell-gop-isnt-here-to-defend-high-income-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How absurd.&#160; Bought Bitch Mitch should explain just how many of the top 1% collect unemployment or receive food stamps.&#160; That is the hardship that he claims proves Republicans aren\u2019t defending high end people.&#160; I\u2019ll have a load of that for the front lawn!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans want to raise YOUR taxes.&#160; They have played almost every dirty trick in the book to block extending the payroll tax extension for working Americans, while fighting tooth and nail for tax cuts for the 1% and criminal corporations.&#160; It is co obvious that Republicans are in thrall to the Koch brothers and their <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/mcconnell-lies-again\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}