Anyone notice how Obama said not extending tax cuts PERMANENTLY is a line in the sand?

[Dawgs]

So, as long he keeps kicking them down the road for the next President, does that mean he's keeping his promise?

[StClone]

1. Washington telling the British take Boston

For the sake of compromise or Martin Luther King we'll take half of the Rights you Whites enjoy...

[doc03]

2. I have a very strong feeling he won't be the next President n/t

[AtomicKitten]

4. Yes, we will elect a different president in 2016. nt

[FrenchieCat]

5. I have a strong feeling that you may be right.......

and you will also be fucked much more than you could ever dream.

But keep repeating that line.....
because advancing your/our own complete destruction
via this piece of shit of a prediction
must make you feel wise, powerful and large. Enjoy it while you can.

[frylock]

11. it'll be great though!

because then you'll hate war and tax cuts for rich again. won't that be fun?

[Dawgs]

13. Isn't that what we have now?

:shrug:

[Dawgs]

12. So, some DUers prediction will be the reason, not Obama?

You disappoint me Frenchie.

[harun]

15. He lost Middle Class whites with this decision. One term President.

[woolldog]

3. Serious question.

Is there really such a thing as making them permanent anyway? If they were made "permanent" couldn't any future President just revise them?

[Laelth]

8. Congress may revise the tax code as it sees fit, at any time. n/t

_laelth

[Freddie Stubbs]

16. If they were premanant, it would take an act of Congress to change them

Temporary ones expire if Congress fails to act.

[ej510]

6. He's saying this shit to get the left to shut up.

[craigmatic]

7. He's just saying this so he doesn't look soft while retreating.

[Laelth]

9. Yes, and that's the weakest, most pathetic "line in the sand" I can imagine.

It is positively weasly.

Very disappointing.

-Laelth

[donco6]

10. That's the heady standard around here, yes.

Wow. I'm so impressed.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. Nobody knows what's going to happen in 2012 or beyond

How in the world can tax cuts be made "permanent" anyway- short of, as you suggested, indefinitely extending them, or somehow managing writing them into the constitution? Any future Congress at any point in the future could techinically refuse to extend (or rescind) them, right? :shrug: