OBAMA ADVISER SAYS PRESIDENT WILL NOT EXTEND BUSH TAX CUTS, EVEN TEMPORARILY: ’100% COMMITTED’

[BlueCaliDem]

20. This could mean

there'll be NO extension of tax cuts for the middle class and working poor and NO extension of unemployment benefits or whatever other program for the not-so-well-off the GOTP and RepubliDems can hurl at him to force him to sign an extension. You're okay with that, right?

Either way, Gibbs' statement is a true one, and one skeptics can take to the bank. Here's why . . .

1) Either President Obama gets re-elected, which in this scenario, he doesn't have to worry about running for re-election and curry favor with the masses - many who are still unemployed and need unemployment benefits - OR since the transportation has passed and 1 million more jobs will open up and the high speed rail in CA has been approved which will open tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of jobs, too, unemployment will be down and the GOTP and RepubliDems in Congress can't hold UE benefits hostage to force through tax cuts for themselves and their corporate masters like they did the last time;

or

2) President Obama does not get re-elected and he won't have the power to extend Bush's tax cuts anyway. An eventual (god I hope NOT) president R'money will most definitely extend Bush's tax cuts while raising them on the rest of us (he believes Ryan's bill is "marvelous" and that bill will do just that).