Democrats Were Against The Bush Middle Class Tax Cuts Before They Were For Them

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"Its (sic) always amazing to see how relentless poor uneducated white conservatives are willing to fight and protect tax cuts that have nothing to do with them ... Sometimes I think these folks have been brainwashed to the extent that they will rather see the rich get all the tax cuts they want even if their taxes will be raised to pay for it. Very strange." 

HotAirLib on December 30, 2012 at 8:23 AM

First, taketh thee immediately to the nearest grammar and punctuation trauma centre.  For an, evidently, rich, educated, person of colour Progressive, your writing makes my hair hurt.

Secondly, I doubt very seriously that you are affected by tax rates one way or another, which is why you are unconcerned about how much fruit of another's labour the government takes.

Thirdly, I am willing to bet that you were AGAINST the Bush Tax Cuts when they were passed even though the vast majority went to the middle class and the poor.  3 million working-class Americans were relieved completely of their "patriotic duty" to pay Federal income taxes and the percentage share of taxes paid by the wealthy actually increased, as did revenues to the Treasury.  I know for a FACT that you called the Bush tax cuts the "Bush tax cuts for the rich."  OK, genius, if they were only for the rich, why are Democrats claiming that their expiration will be the largest tax increase on the middle class in history?  If they were only for the rich, why (per the White House) would extending all of them "cost" $3.7 trillion over a decade, but ending the tax cuts on the 'evil rich' only raise ~$800 billion in "revenues," ceterus paribus?  I also know for a FACT that you have claimed ever since the "Bush tax cuts for the rich" were passed that they were "not paid for," which is an asinine statement, but we'll save the debate on your economic asshattery for another day.  Yet, if the Bush tax cuts were not just for the 'evil rich,' as is evident by the frantic attempt to prevent their expiration for 98% of Americans and they were "not paid for," how is Mr Obama planning to pay for them under his extension?  Huh?  Huh?

Finally, the only things that I hate more than weak and whiny men are hypocrites.  Unfortunately, you are both...and you have a lot of company.

Democrats, who voted AGAINST the Bush Middle Class Tax Cuts in the first place:

Sen Evan Bayh
Sen Joe Biden
Sen Robert Byrd
Sen Maria Cantwell
Sen Tom Carper
Sen Hillary Clinton
Sen Kent Conrad
Sen Jon Corzine
Sen Tom Daschle
Sen Mark Dayton
Sen Chris Dodd
Sen Byron Dorgan
Sen Dick Durbin
Sen John Edwards
Sen Russ Feingold
Sen Bob Graham
Sen Fritz Hollings
Sen Daniel Inouye
Sen Ted Kennedy
Sen Carl Levin
Sen Joe Lieberman
Sen Barbara Mikulski
Sen Bill Nelson
Sen Jack Reed
Sen Harry Reid
Sen Jay Rockefeller
Sen Paul Sarbanes
Sen Chuck Schumer
Sen Debbie Stabenow
Sen Paul Wellstone
Sen Ron Wyden

Democrats in the Senate, who voted “Present”:

Sen Daniel Akaka
Sen Jeff Bingaman

Democrats in the Senate, who couldn’t be bothered to help the middle class so decided not to vote at all:

Sen Barbara Boxer
Sen Tom Harkin
Sen John Kerry
Sen Pat Leahy

And, if you think that’s a “Thanks for playing!” just wait until you see the list of House Democrats that told the American middle class to just f*ck off and die already!

House Democrats, Who Voted Against The Bush Middle Class Tax Cuts:

For starters…

Rep Tom Allen
Rep Rob Andrews
Rep Brian Baird
Rep John Baldacci
Rep Tammy Baldwin
Rep Tom Barrett
Rep Howard Berman
Rep Robert Marion Berry
Rep Rod Blagojevich
Rep David Bonior
Rep Robert Borski
Rep Leonard Boswell
Rep Rick Boucher
Rep Bob Brady
Rep Sherrod Brown
Rep Mike Capuano
Rep Ben Cardin
Rep André Carson
Rep William Lacy Clay
Rep James Clyburn
Rep John Conyers
Rep Jerry Costello
Rep Joe Crowley
Rep Elijah Cummings
Rep Susan Davis
Rep Jim Davis
Rep Pete DeFazio
Rep Diana DeGette
Rep Bill Delahunt
Rep Rosa DeLauro
Rep Peter Deutsch
Rep Norm Dicks
Rep John Dingell
Rep Mike Doyle
Rep Chet Edwards
Rep Eliot Engel
Rep Anna Eshoo
Rep Bob Etheridge

And, for your second helping of House whipass, HAL…

Rep Lane Evans
Rep Sam Farr
Rep Chaka Fattah
Rep Bob Filner
Rep Harold Ford
Rep Barney Frank
Rep Martin Frost
Rep Dick Gephardt
Rep Charlie Gonzalez
Rep Gene Green
Rep Luis Gutierrez
Rep Jane Harman
Rep Alcee Hastings
Rep Baron Hill
Rep Earl Hilliard
Rep Maurice Hinchey
Rep Rubén Hinojosa
Rep Tim Holden
Rep Rush Holt
Rep Steny Hoyer
Rep Jay Inslee
Rep Jesse Jackson
Rep Sheila Jackson-Lee
Rep Bill Jefferson
Rep Eddie Bernice Johnson
Rep Stephanie Jones
Rep Paul Kanjorski
Rep Patrick Kennedy
Rep Dale Kildee
Rep Carolyn Kilpatrick
Rep Ron Kind
Rep Gerald Kleczka
Rep Dennis Kucinich
Rep John LaFalce
Rep Nick Lampson
Rep Jim Langevin
Rep Tom Lantos
Rep Rick Larson
Rep Barbara Lee
Rep Sandy Levin
Rep John Lewis
Rep Zoe Lofgren
Rep Nia Lowey
Rep Bill Luther
Rep James Maloney
Rep Carolyn Maloney
Rep Ed Markey
Rep Frank Mascara
Rep Rep Robert Matsui
Rep Betty McCollum
Rep Jim McGovern
Rep Cynthia McKinney
Rep Mike McNulty
Rep Marty Meehan
Rep Gregory Meeks
Rep Bob Menendez
Rep George Miller

Yes, sir, you MAY have another!

Rep Patsy Mink
Rep Alan Mollohan
Rep Jim Moran
Rep Jack Murtha
Rep Gerald Nadler
Rep Grace Napolitano
Rep Richard Neal
Rep David Obey
Rep John Olver
Rep Solomon Ortiz
Rep John Owens
Rep Frank Pallone
Rep Bill Pascrell
Rep Ed Pastor
Rep Donald Payne
Rep Nancy Pelosi
Rep David Phelps
Rep Earl Pomeroy
Rep David Price
Rep Charlie Rangel
Rep Silvestre Reyes
Rep Lynn Rivers
Rep Steven Rothman
Rep Lucille Roybal-Allard
Rep Martin Olav Sabo
Rep Loretta Sanchez
Rep Bernie Sanders
Rep Tom Sawyer
Rep Jan Schakowsky
Rep Bobby Scott
Rep Jose Serrano
Rep Brad Sherman
Rep Ike Skelton
Rep Louise Slaughter
Rep Adam Smith
Rep Vic Snyder
Rep Hilda Solis
Rep John Spratt
Rep Pete Stark
Rep Charlie Stenholm
Rep Ted Strickland
Rep Bart Stupak
Rep John Tanner
Rep Gene Taylor
Rep Mike Thompson
Rep Bennie Thompson
Rep Karen Thurman
Rep John Tierney
Rep Mark Udall
Rep Tom Udall
Rep Nydia Velázquez
Rep Peter Visclosky
Rep Mel Watt
Rep Anthony Weiner
Rep Robert Wexler
Rep Lynn Woolsey
Rep David Wu

And, for my next Memory Lane Mindfuck of Democrat Hypocrisy, Hal, I’ll give you the names of those Democrats in the House, who couldn’t even be bothered to vote on the BUSH MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUTS.

House Democrats, who couldn’t be bothered to vote at all on the BUSH MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUTS:

Rep Gary Ackerman
Rep Joe Baca
Rep Xavier Becerra
Rep Ken Bentsen
Rep Sanford Bishop
Rep Earl Blumenauer
Rep Allen Boyd
Rep Eva Clayton
Rep William Coyne
Rep Lloyd Doggett
Rep Tony Hall
Rep Joseph Hoeffel
Rep Mike Honda
Rep Marcy Kaptur
Rep William Lipinski
Rep Karen McCarthy
Rep Jim McDermott
Rep Mike McIntyre
Rep Carrie Meek
Rep Juanita Millender-McDonald
Rep John Moakley
Rep Jim Oberstar
Rep Jack Quinn
Rep Nick Rahall
Rep Ciro Rodriguez
Rep Bobby Rush
Rep Edolphus Towns
Rep James Walsh
Rep Maxine Waters
Rep Henry Waxman
Rep Albert Wynn

DEMOCRATS: AGAINST tax cuts for the middle class before they were FOR them.

Hey, Repubics!  It wouldn't hurt you to REMEMBER this either, ya know???  And, you idiots wonder why I will never join the Stupid Party???  Ben Stein, please, substitute, Boehner for Bueller.  Please, please, please, with sugar on top...and chocolate sprinkles...and marshmallows...and pistachios...and Oreo crumbles...and chocolate chunks...and Reese's Pieces...and walnuts...and M&Ms...and chocolate whipped cream...and Irish coffee-flavoured whipped cream...and a cherry...no, make that three cherries!

 Boehner? Boehner? Boehner?

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“I hope a tax will be preferred [to a loan which threatens to saddle us with a perpetual debt], because it will awaken the attention of the people and make reformation and economy the principle of the next election. The frequent recurrence of this chastening operation can alone restrain the propensity of governments to enlarge expense beyond income.”

- Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1820  


"I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy." 

- Thomas Jefferson  


“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” 

- Thomas Jefferson


"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."  

- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Ludlow, 6 September 1824


“To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, “the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, & the fruits acquired by it.’” 

- Thomas Jefferson

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You pretend you're anything
Just to be adored
And what you need
Is what you get

Don't believe in fear
Don't believe in faith
Don't believe in anything
That you can't break

You stupid girl
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All you had you wasted
All you had you wasted

What drives you on (What drives you on)
Can drive you mad (Can drive you mad)
A million lies to sell yourself
Is all you ever had

Don't believe in love
Don't believe in hate
Don't believe in anything
That you can't waste

You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it

Don't believe in fear
Don't believe in pain
Don't believe in anyone
That you can't tame

You stupid girl
You stupid girl
All you had you wasted
All you had you wasted

You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it

You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it

You stupid girl.