Budget talks: This is getting nasty

You gotta be kidding.

Who the hell in either party is gonna go for a tax increase (and that's exactly how the expiration of the Bush cuts will be sold by the MSM) in the weeks before the election?

The GOP will pull the debate up into September and October and peel off enough chickenshit Blue Dogs to ram the cuts through again.

Obama will go into the election with a FBOP wrapped around his neck, if he dares to publicly push for the expiration of the cuts.

If he folds on that too, he will drive off whatever minuscule percentage of his base he hasn't driven away already.

 

lame duck session after the election

 

The GOP will make sure it never gets that far.

 

The way these Republicans operate, I'd expect them to threaten to shut down the government this fall unless those tax cuts are made permanent.

And they might get it. 2012 elections are looking like a choice between two rotten apples right about now. I hope things will change for the better, but the past is often prologue...and the past looks pretty damn grim.

 

There aren't enough Blue Dogs left in Congress to peel off to make a difference. Most of them were beaten by Tea Party Republicans in the last election.

 

8:32pm | Reid on the floor says leaders have reached a ‘historic bipartisan compromise’.

Reid: Neither party, neither chamber can do this alone.
8:28pm | President Obama will make a statement in the WH briefing Room at approx. 8:40 PM eastern BREAKING NEWS: NY Times Ticker Only. Obama to Deliver Statement on Debt at 8:40 PM ET

 

D_B early for a change ... by two minutes.

 

Bill Maher said it best: The Republicans have no brains, the Democrats have no balls.

 

Gotta love Obama not having the courage to take questions from the press at his announcement.

 

Since he was interrupting Big Brother, yes.

 

It the tax rates* aren't extended before the election, Democrats will be punished -- just like they were for not passing a budget in '10.

Letting the tax rates* expire will raise taxes on the middle class.

Good luck with that. The Dems will be wiped out.

*Referring to tax rates that have been in place for 11 years now and have been extended by a Democrat President and Congress is silly.

The left thinks they're winning a word game by calling them cuts. As if no one will consider it a tax increase if the tax rates expire.

They're wrong. They will be viewed as tax increases, not a return to tax rates that existed long ago.

 

The Bush tax cuts will expire. Obama will win.