they are corrupt.

nalbar

Stop complaining, you cowards. It's not a tough sell:

"The Bush tax cuts have been one of the largest contributors to our deficit. While you folks here on Main Street have been hurting, the biggest bank CEO's and people on Wall Street have been getting these tax cuts and pocketing the money, without providing you with jobs."

Stand your fucking ground, whiners.

And I wonder how many people here donate money to their own state's senate and congressional candidates?

It's pay for play. The rich are paying, and getting what they pay for.

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

It's the frustration of thinking that money will ever not talk in DC.  So if that's the case, cutting off the source of that money by cutting taxes makes a lot of sense to ordinary people.

That's the "logic" of the people.  The "logic" of Congress is something else.  Keeping the tax cuts keeps the deficits which puts pressure on eliminating entitlements so that when Medicare and Social Security are gone these anti-tax Democrats can get re-elected.

50 states, 210 media market, 435 Congressional Districts, 3080 counties, 192,480 precincts

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

So yeah, they're frigging crazy and worse. The Dems in a hallucinatory way and the Reps psychopathically. I think we've reached the Johm Wayne Gacy House tipping point -- the DC ground is so cursed that our only survival play is to turn it into a museum and start over someplace else. Sad that nobody but a few teabaggers feels the same way.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

Letting the Bush Tax Cuts expire is political GOLD for the Democratic Party.  It's not a tax increase.  IT'S NOT A TAX INCREASE.  It's repealing giant tax breaks handed to the richest 1% of our country, without being paid for.  Bush basically subsidized being rich in this country, paid for on the backs of the middle class, and letting these tax breaks expire, and being vocal as all hell about it, is the best thing Dems can do.

Everyone still hates Bush.  These tax breaks can EASILY be framed as part of the problem that got us into the economic mess we're in - the debt, the deficit, and the overall economy.  The Democrats should be screaming "NO MORE TAX BREAKS FOR THE WEALTHY!" all over DC.  And they should fucking DARE the GOP to defend the Bush Tax Breaks for the Wealthy.

I'm pretty damn sure that having Republicans defending a) Bush, b) Tax Breaks for Rich People, and c) Bigger deficits/debt, is exactly what Dems would want in an election year.

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"TAX GREED"

Is it me, or is everyone in Washington friggin' crazy?

And the politicians, who live and die politically by the support of the wealthy in this country, have absolutely no reason to argue otherwise with that part of their constituency.  

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

Common theme of anger by whom?  You know this comes up every time there is a Democratic President, right?  Where was Pete Peterson when Dubya was spending like a drunken sailor?  People are only worried about the deficit in as much as they hear the empty headed fools on the BoobTube talking about it.

They say it will be a tough sell.

What's to sell? The expiration is AUTOMATIC! All the Senate Dems have to do is NOTHING! This should be easy for them. They have demonstrated all year their skill at doing nothing.