Pawlenty: Don't Get Rid of the Bush Tax Cuts
Here's one of the leading contenders for the Presidential nominiation in 2012, and his solution to fixing our economy... keep those Bush tax cuts in place for the rich and pass a Constitutional amendment that forces the Federal government to balance the budget. You've just got to love these born again deficit hawks that don't think the rich should ever have their taxes raised and think we can control the deficit without it. Pawlenty does say there should be exceptions to those budget cuts but did not elaborate at any time during the interview as to what those should be. If I had to guess dropping bombs on poor people's heads and paying for more wars would be one of them.
Pawlenty elaborated on his views here in an op-ed he wrote -- Balanced budget amendment will do just that:
As we begin a new year and Congress reconvenes, an unpleasant reality is increasingly hitting home with ordinary Americans: Leaders in both parties have irresponsibly run up debt. And, since President Obama took office, the debt crisis has grown exponentially worse. The only way to solve the problem in the long run is with a Constitutional amendment. Read on...
Of course Pawlenty thinks that the stimulus plan has failed as well and we need to put a stop to that. More tax cuts!! Yeah, that's the ticket. We all know how well those that worked with stimulus 1 that Bush put through with tax cuts that didn't do an ounce of good. Of course that's not going to get in the way of Pawlenty and his talking points.
Lets get rid of these lying republican scumbags first.
Everything else will fall into place after that!
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
these dirtbags have to be voted out of office
in the background behind him?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
that's the 3rd ave bridge, the one that fell is the second one south of there
The bridge between the one above and the one that fell is Jimmy Hills folly.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=13488...
to the deficit financed money to rebuild it.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
It was the boosh tax cuts for the top 5% and his concurrent wars that broke the economy to the point where they're talking about freezing programs when they should be talking about infusing money into the creation and maintenance of infrastructure.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
An oxymoron if there ever was one. Unless of course the objective is a police state.
No you psycho, lets not get rid of tax cuts for billionaires and millionaire greed head assholes who make more money in a week, than most people make in a lifetime.
Far better to reduce wages for workers, cancel health insurance, middle class retirement programs and cut everything in the government - even though the most essential government functions have been cutting off bone for years, much better to do this, than make psychotic assholes like you pay some more in taxes.
If Rupert Murdoch, Melon-Scaife and the rest of the republican nazi machine can spend billions on propaganda to create an alternate reality for the sole purpose of avoiding taxes, then I think they can afford to pay billions more in taxes!
So STFU Tim Pawlenty, and that goes for the horse you rode in on too, you horses ass!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
prepare yourself folks, cause the rethugs are going to reload for the 2010 elections (not to mention 2012). They'll become the majority (yes, believe it!) and then talk about the "Party of NO." We'll see feudal times again where the rich s**t don't stink and everyone else is dirt. These people are masters of manipulation (why? because we let them) and propaganda (does Nazism and fascism ring a bell?) to their minions. I don't know what rock these mentally deranged criminals crawl out from but I pray that the rock falls swiftly upon their pointy little heads.
ride that wave man!
How much do ya think Nancy Pelosi, Jane Harman, and Jay Rockefeller made (and are still making through the end of 2010) off the "Bush" tax cuts?
How'd they ever do it without 60 votes in the Senate? I guess when it's important to people that really matter, 60 votes isn't so much a hurdle as it is a completely non-existent barrier.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
President Barack Obama is promising in his first State of the Union address to solve the economic worries foremost on Americans' minds and become the transformative leader they thought they were getting.
Print out and tack to your Wall in a Prominent Place where day after day one can be reminded.
tonight will be saying.
Hit it out the park!
Right into the End Zone!
Historic!
Best Speech Yet!
One year later . . . ______________
Cairo.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
I'm sure with the tax cut he's making pawlenty.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
..but hey, wasn't the reversal of the tax cuts on the rich and shameless a priority for the new President? Weren't they going to use the increased revenue for something called "health care"? How much did the w tax cuts on the wealthy cost us in revenue? - $782 Million or Billion, can't remember which is which anymore now that we're talking about trillions owed.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
2.1 trillion. These psycho's cant be bothered with mere billions anymore. And millions pffft! That's chump change, not worth their time!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
... such a man should be drawn and quoted.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
needed to be inclusive in cartooning?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Sounds like cooking instructions to me. The meat must be dredged and coated.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Drudge n Coultered.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Perfection!
Full disclosure, what I know about cooking you could write on Beck's little soldier.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
then.
With pear glaze.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Whoosh, that one flew right over my head.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
cooking above. And soliders brings to mind tin, which rhymes with pin, which must approximate the size of the joint you know nothing about cooking. Each angel must be able to bring at least one recipe. Or do you think they stand around all day on those pins waiting for God to send some MRE's?
Oh, forgot. Pears. Everyone with a little soldier needs pears. Armies travel on their stomachs. Soldiers shoot from their pears.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Pawlenty just essentially slit his own throat politically by aligning himself with the fascist corporations.
Or then maybe he believes that he'll be rollin' in that corporate dough and has sold his soul to the first bidder?
Either way the conclusion is clear: PAWLENTY IS A LOSER.
Tim Pawlenty is the quintessential "loser" and corporate "shill".
Grew up by the South St Paul stockyards, he sniffed too much poop as a kid
ROFLMAO! Glad I wasn't drinking coffee when I read that.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Poo woulda rhymed with glue.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Is it true that the only way for a republican to get into heaven is to propose tax cuts?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
..a conservative gets his pitchfork.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
That's probably more like it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
LOL!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Hasn't the Republican been voted out of office yet? how soon until we can vote?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
..if the w tax cuts were so good for America, why is there currently 10% plus unemployment? What the hell did the rich and shameless do with all that money that was supposed to trickle down to us peons?
If greed is good for America, I'm a Gecko!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
This is like saying when you look at your bank balance and there is no money there, you need to stop making deposits.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
and hump somebody's leg.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
The Bush tax cuts will become permanent. FOX will propagandize. America will cheer.
The Democrats will roll over. FOX will demonize anyway. America will cheer.
Obama will sign them into permanent law. FOX will demonize. America will cheer.
The economy will ultimately and finally collapse. FOX will blame Democrats. America will cheer and elect a GOP President & Congress.
The middle class will be destroyed. FOX will blame all their troubles on lack of personal responsibility AND call for more tax cuts for corporations. America will be angry, cause it's all the fault of gays, lesbians, brown people and Democrats.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
You left out the radical progressives. Right now they are at the top of the chart according to Beck.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
The ignoorance of the American People will bring about their own demise.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Fuck the people on Social Security is what he's saying. If they don't have taxes going into the fund, they can just get rid of it when they get control again.
Tim can tap into the right wing base.
It is how fiscal conservatives emerge from the closet.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
It's the same message out of these bugs time after time after time.
Their whole free market approach is a proven bust that continually grows more onerous and unmanageable yet they demand more of the same.
Greed is not good,it sucks the life blood out of everything leaving countries hollowed out shells incapable of sustaining any kind of meaningful civil societies worth living in.
A year ago the whole ideology was teetering on the brink of collapse,and now what?Time to welcome it all back with sheepish gratitude and relief? Why? It doesn't fucking work.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
I'm sure Tim already has his pissing and moaning list ready for after the President's speech tonight. It won't matter what the President really says, Tim will be ready to assail every word.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Ready to dissect every word that's said. Then twist it to suit their needs. I have to admit, I'm disappointed in Obama. But, I still hold out some hope that he gets this right. One thing for sure. If the GOp were in the Oval office, after the last 8 years, I would have no hope at all.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Hell, they are already doing it and have been all day. If McCain and Palin had won the election I'm pretty sure I would be in the hospital today being treated for deep depression. No matter what the president says or does, I will never feel as bad as I would knowing Palin was one heartbeat away from being the president.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I was focusing on McCain. oyy
What is your conceptual, continuity?
And this is precisely why the U.S. will continue its downward spiral. The dems know that no matter how badly they f*** us while they are in office that the liberal base will continue to vote for them as the "lesser of two evils." If the liberal base voted for a progressive candidate or sat out in just one election, maybe, just maybe the Democrats would get the message. On the other hand, I sorely doubt it. One has to believe at this point that the Democrats want to fail, since, for them, there's no success like failure. At this stage, they simply have more in common with their Republican counterparts than they do with their own base.
Medicare, Veterans Benefits. Welfare. Food stamps.
Education. Clean Air. Clean water. They do get lucky sometimes.
The alternative is simply not acceptable.
Unless you don't mind panhandling. For a living.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
That is why they keep cutting essential services again and again and again.
and if the federal govt did impose a mandatory balanced budget amendment we would see economic conditions that make the great depression seem like easy street.
the Republicans aren't forthright about their dreams. They simply want to make all social spending constitutionally illegal.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Unless it's earmarked as no-bid corporate welfare for their own private companies. Then it's not socialism.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
This is how they see the average American that isn't a dutiful slaves, bunch of ne'er-do-wells.
Famour print by Hogarth, "Gin Lane"
http://www.radford.edu/wkovarik/envhist/envim...
far left loon >.<
I remember the republicans calling for a balanced budget all eight years of the bush administration. Oh wait, no I don't.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
until I read your last sentence. A stroke can be a tragic thing.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
In the long run governmental budgets ought to be fairly balanced, but every few years we get a recession and then a balanced-budget mandate turns into a poison pill. The only way around that is for the government to build up a sizable rainy-day fund but then these same "sane government" types start carping about the guvmint holding onto their hard-earned money.
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"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Palin accent?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
I wonder if tonight fox will have their new news analyst, Palin, on to critique the president's speech. They could have a round table of Palin, Tim and a few more pissers and moaners.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I'd love to hear what Caribou Barbie has to say. Naw, they'll keep her off to the side. It'll take her too long to form a cognizant reply. They don't have that much time.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
to provide the repug response.
It would be pure comedy gold for weeks on end.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
nobody has taught Billy Kristol how to twit her.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
and pee his pants ...
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
the expiration of those malicious tax cuts is that they don't require actual organized action by the Democratic party. There is therefore a reasonable chance that they will end.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
That's why he put in an expiration date. He knew it would screw up the country. The rest of these dipsh*ts haven't figured that out yet.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
have the money for health care reform?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
they need to expire. Those tax cuts were responsible for a large part of the deficits. They gotta go and the sooner the better.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Did I miss something?
What is your conceptual, continuity?
2.1 trillion dollars, of which 88% went to people who were already millionaires.
But hey, the teabaggers got a $150 bucks, so they are totally down with it!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
... took office, the debt crisis has grown exponentially worse.." ... ?
I looked at the article ...didnt see any references for this nugget ... ?
> Some peer-reviewed economics journal?
> The Economist?
> Time ?
> Field & Stream?
He didnt just pull this factoid out of his ugly a$$ did he?
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He has managed to run Minnesota into the ground, billions in debt and no end in sight. He just cut off care for the mentally ill so they're now roaming the streets of Minneapolis unmedicated.
His greatest desire in life it to pleasure Grover Norquist. BTW he won the Gov. race in 2006 with 47% of the vote here.
I say we try calling it a tithe instead of tax and say it's for the republic. At least it would be fun to see who scratches their head. ;)
PS. Good catch Heather ♥
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Beware the mullet!
A former award-winning journalist and lifelong class warrior, keeping a jaundiced eye on the Washington elite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhSYbRiYwTY
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Thanks for the musical interlude, ysb!
I know republicans don't want to hear this but yesterday Oregon voted to tax the rich. Anyone making over $125,000 and a couple making $250,000 is going to be taxed. What a concept I wonder why no one ever thought of that before.
Not only would I like to see the G Dubya Bush tax cuts go away (like forever!), but I would like to see taxes go back to a level comparable to those that were in place during Eisenhower"s administration. How do you like them apples, Sheisskoff ?
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We have an economy to rebuild, right here at home. Plus, we also have 2 - 1/2 unnecessary and illegal wars to extract ourselves from, and pay for. If you don"t like that bit of bad news -- well, it's just too damn bad that you screwed over the survivors of the 9/11/2001 attack. Consider it to be a bit of well deserved karma coming back to haunt you ...
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Now, just STFU !
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
From the Corruption of this Governor some of his Bullshit is being
challenged in Court. Most People in Minnesota regard him as a Major
Slime-Ball.
Has known TPaw since he entered politics and yes he is STILL an ASSHOLE!
We in Minnesota have a $1.3 trillion deficit for 2010 under the TPaw administration and it is expected to be even bigger when his term comes to an end in 2012. Why should we listen to anything the Republicans have to say about fiscal issues given the last eight years? TPaw is a lightweight.
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