Comments on: White House to Woodward: “I Think You Will Regret” Taking on Obama on Sequestration

By: nk

nk — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:48:45 +0000

Woodward should know how to deal with Chicago Democrats. His father was the chief judge of solidly Republican DuPage County and after one of the most conservative justices in the Illinois appellate court.

(For criminal lawyers, he rejected the Bazelon standard for intent in burglary cases in Illinois and established the permissible inference standard.)

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By: Sammy Finkelman

Sammy Finkelman — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:11:46 +0000

About Woodward – I think what might have happened is that, back in 2011, Gene Sperling and/or a few others, lied to Barack Obama about who first prioposed the sequester – maybe they told the republicans to suggest that.

I think maybe they lied because they wanted to have a deal about the debt ceiling, so that told the Republicans this was Obama’s proposal and Obama this was the Republicans’s proposal.

This would explain Sperling going crazy about a trivial matter: He was afraid Obama might discover the lie.

Obama did not read the book so he wouldn’t know but if woodward started to write about it and all Washington was talking about it….

If Obama even got the book maybe he just checked the index for one or two things.

By: Sammy Finkelman

Sammy Finkelman — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:07:05 +0000

Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/28/2013 @ 5:24 pm

Sammy – What promise not to raise taxes on the middle class? Remember that Obama campaigned on promising to get rid of all the Bush tax cuts.

No, he didn’t. Just the taxes on those reporting income over $250,000.

Obama’s promises all come with expiration dates.

Obama complained (or claimed) today that he couldn’t cut entitlements until he’d extracted the maximum amount of taxes (he called it closing tax loopholes.)

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=88789DB9-AAEC-C275-75032B60413AA517

(Print gives you this on one page)

But what I can’t do is ask middle-class families, ask seniors, ask students to bear the entire burden of deficit reduction when we know we’ve got a bunch of tax loopholes that are benefiting the well-off and the well-connected, aren’t contributing to growth, aren’t contributing to our economy. It’s not fair. It’s not right. The American people don’t think it’s fair and don’t think it’s right.

By: daleyrocks

daleyrocks — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:19:30 +0000

My above comments on Obama and taxes on the middle class were incorrect. I apologize. While Obama and Democrats spent years bashing Bush and his tax cuts and deficits, including the frequently heard refrain of putting two wars on a credit card and that the tax cuts only impacted the rich, once Obama began running for president he stuck to class warfare platform of ending the tax cuts for some amorphous level of the wealthy. He also had tax reform ideas for “fairness” of raising capital gains tax rates, ending various deductions and loopholes.

By making the Bush tax cuts permanent for 985+ of Americans, Democrats have effectively acknowledged that their tax cuts for the rich demagoguery was pure empty rhetoric.

By: daleyrocks

daleyrocks — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:24:12 +0000

“I suspect because they felt they could not break the promise not to raise taxes on the middle class, unless they let the tax increases for the highest income brackets go through, or because they felt they could not cut entitlements unless they did that first.”

Sammy – What promise not to raise taxes on the middle class? Remember that Obama campaigned on promising to get rid of all the Bush tax cuts. Obama’s promises all come with expiration dates.

By: daleyrocks

daleyrocks — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:20:04 +0000

“How would tax reform raise revenue?”

Sammy – Why don’t you tell me since that is what Obama is yammering on about now.

By: narciso

narciso — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:16:40 +0000

Any proposal, that begins with a carbon tax, just goes ‘turtles all the way down’

By: happyfeet

happyfeet — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:11:11 +0000

Ezra Klein doesn’t number the ideas so it’s hard to read plus also Ezra Klein can sequester a cantaloupe in his fascist butt for all I care