The Game IS Rigged

[Donnachaidh]

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Michael Bennet gets caught in a moment of rare honesty with an open mike in the Senate:

“It’s all rigged. The whole conversation is rigged. The fact that we don’t get to a discussion before the break about what we’re going to do in the lame duck. It’s just rigged.”

Of course it is. They know what they want — a deal to extend all the Bush tax cuts for 2-3 years. It’s just a matter of how the Democrats can set the Republicans up to take the blame, yet not do it in a way that causes political blowback for them. They tried for months to get the Republicans to share the blame for the health care bill, and couldn’t pull that off either, so I doubt their competence has improved significantly.

So Nancy Pelosi will preside over her little piece of stunt theater today in the House, taking a meaningless vote that will surprise nobody when it fails because she set the bar for success at 290 votes, which they can’t possibly hope to achieve.

But gosh darn it, they tried.

And then the Senate will all huddle together, because the Democrats will have “proven” that the Republicans are obstructionists, and say “well, extending the tax cuts for 2-3 years” (you know, temporarily, like the President has been saying) is “the best we could do.”

Video and more at the link --

[bullimiami]

1. Let them all expire then. And only bring new tax cuts to 250K or 500 or whatever.

Let them cause everyone to lose out because they cant have extra tax cuts for the rich.
Let them keep killing the new tax cut bills. The economy needs the taxes more than the tax cuts anyway.

[leeroysphitz]

10. +1

[somone]

2. The rich will get their way - they already paid for it

and they will reward those who help them

[Octafish]

3. Helping the rich is the point of the whole thing.

The Middle Class has a role in the game, too. We're left to pick up the tab.

[otohara]

4. A Rare Moment of Honesty - Hardly

Bennet has been whining for months, the the system is broken, blah, blah, blah. He even had a commercial stating the same thing.

He talks about how we need to reach across the isle, but when it comes to the liberal base aka his constituents - well then, Mr. Bennet runs and hides.

When it comes to the Bush Taxes - Bennet wants to keep them in place for one year, or so he says NOW.

[Atman]

5. Because Nancy is stinking rich, just like the rest of them.

Who the fuck is going to vote to increase their own taxes? None of these spineless weasels, that's for sure.

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[patrice]

6. The churn is fucking killing us. We AGREED to let them all sunset. So be it. We WANT TO pay our

own way, unlike some Other$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ I can think of.

[patrice]

7. P.S. ALL of them will OWE Us.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. We do need the money . . . .

I'd rather pay the amount of taxes I was paying under Clinton and keep SS at 65 and keep Medicare.

[patrice]

9. This move would also be a Frak You to Obama, for those so inclined & It shows we CHOOSE to not

play their fucking games about the Deficit.

Any time you can clearly demonstrate that you are the one who is CHOOSING what to do, that's a political advantage no matter how small.

[DearAbby]

11. +1

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