A BIPARTISAN ALLIANCE? Sens. Sanders, DeMint plan to filibuster Bush tax cuts

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Sanders, DeMint promise to filibuster Obama-GOP tax cut deal

By Sahil Kapur
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 -- 9:40 am

The US Senate's most liberal and most conservative member have both come out strongly against the bipartisan compromise on tax cuts between President Barack Obama and Republicans.

Self-avowed democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Tuesday evening promised he will "do whatever it takes" to prevent passage of the measure, objecting to its temporary two-year extension of tax cuts for the highest income earners, a centerpiece of the Republican agenda.

A fierce opponent of the high-end tax breaks, Sanders appeared on television Tuesday blasting the deal as a "moral outrage." He depicted it a Republican ploy to hold the middle class "hostage" to the demands of millionaires and billionaires.

Sanders' office confirmed to Raw Story that he will filibuster the measure, becoming the first senator to announce such an intention, and will court others to do the same.

more:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/sanders-demint-promise-filibuster-obamagop-tax-cut-deal/

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. Maybe They Can Run As A Coalition Ticket In 012

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[WI_DEM]

2. In some ways I hope it succeeds, but my biggest worry is about the millions

of people who will soon lose their unemployment benefits just before Christmas, because if they do derail the compromise that will be gone too and it will be unlikely that the issue will be brought up again until the next congress.

[Dawgs]

3. Don't worry. Republicans always vote for unemployment benefits - ALWAYS!!

A fact many seem to ignore.

[ProSense]

5. Republicans

will find an excuse to discontinue extended benefits. Bank on it!

[young but wise]

7. Whatever. They held up unemployment benefits for two months.

They don't give a shit about the unemployed.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Do You Think A Republican Congress Will Extend Unemployment Insurance?

What pisses me off is it is our constituents who are getting hammered by unemployment; Republican constituents not so much...

[wolfgirl]

6. And yet the President is to blame

for everything! With this kind of situation in the Congress, I'm amazed at what has actually been accomplished.

[TwilightGardener]

8. The problem is, Bernie doesn't have a replacement plan.

Stopping legislation from going forward is one thing, getting something better to pass is another.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. And Bernie And DeMented Have Jobs

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[Change Happens]

10. :)