Posted on December 7, 2010, in Art, blogs, budget, Congress, Economics, editorial, Finance, history, Legal, Military, News, Opinion, Politics, President Obama, Press, Taxes, vote, Word from Bill and tagged Barack Obama, Conservatives, Democratic Party (United States), FDR, Harry Reid, Joe Scarborough, LBJ, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Tax cut. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
Bill Tchakirides
Would you believe that this old man in West Virginia was once a Broadway Producer, or a Commercial Food Photographer, or a Justice of the Peace, or a Font Designer, or even a Director of a major non-profit Arts Program on Cape Cod? Well, he was. Now he spends most of his time posting in the blogosphere and looking for things to do (retirement is a bitch).
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“irresponsible to raise taxes on people in a recession” was the fickle argument they used to justify kicking the American people in the ass once again.
Doesn’t anyone find it kind of sinister that they held 2 million+ people and their families hostage to get what they wanted, more money for themselves?
And of course we knew all along this whole line of bs was going to be blamed on Obama, just like everything else. What if he had stuck to his guns? The credits would have expired, raising taxes for everyone and the unemployed would have been left flailing in the wind. And he still would have been blamed.
I think he did the best he could in light of what he was up against. Those hard asses would have let people become homeless and hungry over those credits and Obama wasn’t going to let that happen.
The voters fell for the bs and elected these devils in the midterms. Their agenda wasn’t what’s best for the American people, only what best for them and their pockets, and to embarrass Obama. That doesn’t include any of the little people who voted them in.
They will realize that, but a little too late…
I wish I thought that Obama had done the best that he could. He didn’t. He gave in to Mitch McConnell and John Boehner without even considering what heir weak spots were.
Frankly, it would be better that the tax reduction extensions disappeared all together instead of giving the wealthy their pile… think about how the Tea Partiers would crack when they found what their crap was costing them.
I, for one, wish he HAD stuck to his guns.
You know what? You right; he -all buyllshyt aside – did kinda bow down to those cretins, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner . And they were sure cocky werent they? .
But, respectfully:
I guess Im just thinking a bout the unemployed people , I feel that he had to do SOMETHING , and it tuned out that it was that. I cant help but think they backed him into a corner. IF he had stuck to his guns, they was dayumm sho’ been stickin to theirs, and they would have expired. The Thugs would have simply reinstated them once they took over in Jan and told us to kiss they ass when they made them permanent. Collected they money. The extensions would have bee roadkill in all of this. People would have gone hongry and homeless. We know this…
I know you believe in what you think would have happened had he stuck to his guns, and if I thought he would have been successfully I would too. I just cant see how he would have…
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