It was hilarious to listen to John Boehner call Thursday's House vote to extend middle class tax cuts “chicken crap”.
No Mr. Boehner, what is chicken crap is the Republican obstruction of any meaningful legislation whether it is national defense (START), help for the unemployed (expiring unemployment benefits), or stimulus for jobs creation.
What is chicken crap, Mr. Boehner, is Mitch McConnell’s letter signed by 42 Republican Senators that they will block any legislation that is put forward before the tax cuts for the wealthiest two percent of the country is extended.
What is chicken crap, Mr. Boehner, is standing in the way of legislation that will help this country emerge from the recession and placing politics above the good of the people so that the right wing can limit President Obama to a single term.
What is chicken crap and totally counter-intuitive, Mr. Boehner, is demanding deficit reduction while also demanding that the highest impact item on the deficit - the extension of the Bush high end tax cuts - be passed.
The argument for the high end tax cuts is that this will spur the economy - well it hasn’t ever done this since this misguided “trickle down” economics first raised its ugly head in the Reagan era. As Warren Buffett pointed out in an interview with ABC last month: "The rich are always going to say that, you know, 'Just give us more money, and we'll go out and spend more, and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you.' But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on."
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