Howard Dean: "You can't deal with the deficit and give tax cuts to those who make a million a year"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Tax Cut Deal: Dean, Ex-Obama Advisers Lament President's Plan
First Posted: 12- 7-10 11:26 AM | Updated: 12- 7-10 11:35 AM



"We clearly have to deal with the deficit; it is probably the biggest problem facing the country," said former DNC header Howard Dean. "But you can't deal with the deficit from a political point of view if you say to Democrats, we are going to cut Social Security and Medicare and, by the way, give tax cuts to those who make a million dollars a year."

Antipathy, however, was saved as much for the process of securing the final tax cut package as for the substance of the package itself. Suggesting that the deal could die in the House, Dean echoed a question other Democrats offered in the hours after Obama's announcement: Was enough secured in return?

"I'm not so sure you can get the House to agree to this in conference committee," he said. "And what about the president's other priorities: Don't Ask Don't Tell, START, DREAM Act? I mean, do we not get anything for the $700 billion?"

Certainly, Democrats got something, perhaps even more than expected. Discussing the arrangement with the Huffington Post, senior administration officials stressed that even the labor federation "AFL-CIO did not think...we could keep" the 13 months of unemployment insurance. The actual cost of the provisions that the White House secured, meanwhile, was pricier than the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich -- $215 billion (including UI) versus $95 billion, all over two years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/tax-cut-deal-lament_n_793105.html

[Tansy_Gold]

1. No shit, Sherlock. So tell me somethin' I don't already know. n/t

[Schema Thing]

2. Your headline is incorrect.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Your headline appears to be a misquote.

[grasswire]

4. run, Dr. Dean. run. n/t

[TwilightGardener]

7. I disagree with him that the deficit is the biggest problem in the country right now.

I'd argue that chronic unemployment is the biggest problem.

[ProSense]

5. That's not Dean's quote. Also

Dean quoted an inaccurate number: $700 billion.

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Certainly, Democrats got something, perhaps even more than expected. Discussing the arrangement with the Huffington Post, senior administration officials stressed that even the labor federation "AFL-CIO did not think...we could keep" the 13 months of unemployment insurance. The actual cost of the provisions that the White House secured, meanwhile, was pricier than the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich -- $215 billion (including UI) versus $95 billion, all over two years.

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[harun]

6. Fix headline.

[Egnever]

8. Dean doesnt say that anywhere in that article

Yay for another bullshit headline.

I notice you didnt qoute this part.



The actual cost of the provisions that the White House secured, meanwhile, was pricier than the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich -- $215 billion (including UI) versus $95 billion, all over two years.


So Obama won way more than he gave up but that doesnt quite fit the meme does it?

[gmiami]

9. Dean

DUH!!!!!!

[BrklynLiberal]

10. If the deputy national director of Obama's presidential campaign thinks

this was a mistake.....not good news...at all. The President is disappointing even those who helped manage his campaign.

I cannot understand why, in the midst of a big debate about the viability of Social Security and discussions of cuts to those
receiving SS.....the SS deductions are being reduced for a year???????????????????????????? WTF hardly begins to describe my wonderment.
If anything, the cap on Social Security income should have been raised!!!

[2Design]

11. does dean have a twitter or facebook account - is there a du group 4 dean n/t

[PassingFair]

15. Yes....DFA Group n/t

[2Design]

16. that is not a personal twitter or facebook account that is a group

[TwilightGardener]

12. Are you just refusing to change your headline, or what?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. Welcome to my ignore list.

No I'm not refusing. I changed it. I just don't jump when you snap your fingers.

[TwilightGardener]

14. backatcha

And edit to add: you completely concocted the fake headline.