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Strange bedfellows

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Friday, December 10, 2010 9:42 AM

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Friday, December 10, 2010 9:45 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Some of my efforts to post come out weird...only the last half of the actual thread appears. And sometimes when I go back and make an edit, the changes don't come through. Anyone else?

Anyway, following is the actual thread

Seems many on the right are just as pissed about Obama's "tax deal", but for some of the same reasons:
Quote:

Leaders of the Tea Party Patriots group are asking each of their members to call five members of Congress urging them to vote against the proposal.

"The Deal" or 'The Tax Deal' as it is becoming known around the country between President Obama and Congressional Leadership is problematic. This is a deal that needs to be opposed," says the group on its website.

"I am very upset. It is a direct breach of the Republican pledge not to add to the deficit," the Tea Party Patriots' National Coordinator Mark Meckler told CNN.

"You have Republicans coming out of the gate breaching the pledge they made not to add to the deficit," Meckler also said.

Republican leaders countered they are not in charge of the House yet and have vowed there will be more fiscal control once the GOP takes control next month.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/10/anger-at-tax-cut-propo
sal-makes-strange-bedfellows/#more-139239


Hey, Tea Party: Welcome to the big time; if you thought the Repubs would stand by their “ethics”, boy were you naïve!

GOP: “Trust us; we can’t tell you how, but we’ll fix everything”. Uhh, to quote your guy, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...you can’t fool me twice”.
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Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, vowed earlier this week to filibuster the tax cut bill to prevent a vote on the Senate floor. He said those who ran from the right in the election said they would not vote for anything that increased the deficit. This does. It raises taxes, it raises the death tax," he told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday.
Uh, only the death tax...?
Quote:

Club For Growth, a fiscally conservative group that promotes limited government, declared this week its opposition to the tax cut compromise.

"This is bad policy, bad politics, and a bad deal for the American people," Chris Chocola, president of the group, told CNN. "The plan would resurrect the Death Tax, grow government, blow a hole in the deficit with unpaid-for spending, and do so without providing the permanent relief and security our economy needs to finally start hiring and growing again."

Uh, same question...?

Then again, some are pissed for different reasons:
Quote:

All of the activists are happy there is at least a short-term extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, but they would like to see them be made permanent.
Something about “unclear on the concept”...no surprise there..
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Tennessee Tea Party activist Mark Skoda called the proposal a practical and pragmatic compromise. While he shared the concern about the growth it will cause in the deficit, he said it was a necessary step.
Gee, he sounds just like Obama!

Meanwhile:
Quote:

Senate Democrats failed Thursday to win a procedural vote to open debate on a bill that would provide medical benefits and compensation for emergency workers who were first on the scene of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The motion for cloture, or to begin debate, needed 60 votes to pass due to a Republican filibuster, but fell short at 57-42 in favor.

What ever happened to majority rule, dammit? And hey, it makes perfect sense, just like with unemployment, to extend tax cuts to the richest but deny any help for others. Hey, let’s support our (troops/vets/9-11 responders)! You betcha!

What a bunch of How the hell can ANYONE support these fuckers??

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Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
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Friday, December 10, 2010 9:47 AM

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Friday, December 10, 2010 9:55 AM

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Tried four times, went back and tried again...second one came through, but there's no "delete", so I'm stuck with double posts...

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