Do Democrats by passing the tax bill basically vindicate Bush* fiscal policies?

[Bandit]

Is there anything about the least popular President in recent memory (Bush*) that has not been vindicated by elected Democrats?

[dennis4868]

1. Only the republican....

fillubuster is vindicated....no one seriously thinks, including dems, repubs, and the people of this country, that tax cuts for the wealthy creates jobs....

[somone]

2. Under new management, but same crap or worse

The new menu is so shiny, though

[Autumn]

3. Yes he has been vindicated,

by the Democrats maintaining the status quo. Disgusting isn't it.:puke:

[Bandit]

4. In a very recent interview Bush* stated he felt vindicated but wished they wouldn't refer to them as

The Bush* Tax Cuts....:shrug:

[myrna minx]

5. Yep - tax cuts for the uber rich create jobs, doncha know.

:puke:

[mmonk]

6. Nothing can vindicate it but it signals they have no problem

with the ideology, supporting its premises, or a full understanding of the damage long term.

[NightWatcher]

7. Not only vindicate, but the Dems own it now (just like the economy, wars, torture, and Gitmo)

And it will be a millstone around our necks come 2012

[earthside]

8. Let's see ...

Patriot Act: unchanged
Guantanamo: still open
Rendition: still in effect
NSA wiretapping: still in effect
Iraq war: occupation continues
Afghanistan war: war and occupation escalated
Military budget: increased
Global climate change: sorta, kinda
TARP part two: supported
Federal employees: pay frozen
Bush tax cuts: to be extended

Health care reform: mandate on all Americans to buy corporate insurance

Gosh ... vindicated hardly says it all.

[unblock]

9. i wouldn't go that far.

i'm pissed that the idiotic cuts are being extended, but to whatever extent they make sense, they make vastly more sense now than they did when shrub first campaigned on them or signed them into law.

the logic at the time was that we had a big surplus as far as the eye could see and that we could easily afford a tax cut. remember shrub going around layout out three dollar bills, saying we've got enough surplus to use one dollar to pay down the debt, one dollar for "important project" (supposedly infrastructure), and one dollar to return to the people. after all, it's your money.

so the idea was to return one-third of the available surplus in the form of tax cuts, yet of course he not only vaporized the surplus but blasted through record deficits.

in any event, times were good and there was no need for a tax cut. THAT was when we could afford taxes to pay down the debt.


now, at least we're in a miserable economic time and there's SOME logic to tax cuts, though it'd prefer something vastly more progressive than what's on the table.

[shraby]

10. I would say NO, They want the unemployment renewed

as well as other things in the bill that will help the poor. With the R's stonewalling everything, that's the only way they are going to get it thru the Senate.

[meow mix]

11. yep

pretty sad