Get yo asses on board, like yesterday, Dems!
Pelosi Implores Dems On Tax Cuts: ‘Who Do You Stand With?’
TPM:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi tonight implored House Democrats in a private meeting to consider a pre-election vote on extending the Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class while letting those for the rich expire, framing the debate in partisan terms.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee told TPM after the caucus that Pelosi ended the meeting with a “resounding” and impassioned speech that fired up the Democrats and might even have brought more on board for a vote.
“She made it clear it’s a black and white issue of who do you stand with,” Lee told TPM. “It’s the middle class and they need to know we are pushing for them. We have to say it over and over again. They’ve gotta see it, smell it, sense it, taste it.”
…To be a fly on the wall in that private meeting….
Pelosi’s got pumps of steel. she’s done her job, and done it well.
BWA HA HA HA!! Steele’s a hankyhead coon!
Enough with the partisan posturing
By Katrina vanden Heuvel
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Will the 2010 election campaign provide us with a debate worthy of a great nation in trouble? The early harbingers aren’t good. The pundit herd has already declared the election over, with only the scope of the Democratic reverses yet in question. The two parties are gearing up for a fierce debate on whether to extend the Bush tax cuts to everyone including the wealthiest 2 percent or merely to everyone except the very rich.
We can’t afford this partisan posturing. Fifteen million Americans are unemployed. Poverty is up. One in four homes is under water, worth less than what is owed on it. Voters deserve a serious debate about what is to be done. And what are the choices that the two parties present?
Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the perpetually tanned Republican leader, has laid out the Republican plan: Keep tax rates where they are and cut $100 billion in spending next year. This can only add rubble to the ruins.
Beyond that, Republicans have no common plan other than obstruction. Their default position is defined by the special interests that have long dominated Washington. As former Bush speech writer David Frum noted, “Republicans have done insufficient serious policy work over the past half-dozen years. The legacy of this inactivity is a party on the brink of power, lacking an intellectual framework for the use of that power.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/14/AR2010091403203.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions