Democrats are looking at the possibility of raising taxes on families below the $250,000-a-year threshold promised by President Barack Obama during the election.
The majority party on Capitol Hill does not feel bound by that pledge, saying the threshold for tax hikes will depend on several factors, such as the revenue differences between setting the threshold at $200,000 and setting it at $250,000.
“You could go lower, too — why not $200,000?” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). “With the debt and deficit we have, you can’t make promises to people. This is a very serious situation.”
Sen. Byron Dorgan (N.D.), chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, concurred, saying, “I don’t think there’s any magic in the number, whether it’s $250,000, $200,000 or $225,000.
…Or maybe $175,000, or $150,000, or $125,000… Depending on how we’re feeling. After all, elections have consequences.
You fucked up, you trusted us!
[…] House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) hinted in a speech Tuesday that House Democrats do not consider family incomes of $250,000 an inviolable threshold, despite Obama’s pledge.
He said at the event sponsored by the Third Way think tank that “at a minimum,”the House would not extend the tax cuts to taxpayers above $250,000.
Hoyer argued that higher taxes would be necessary to address the $1.5 trillion federal deficit and downplayed threats that such action would hamstring the economic recovery.
And where did that deficit come from? Well, let’s start with all that “free” stuff you’re getting — whether you wanted it or not.
Turns out that’ll cost you. Who knew?
And to be fair, let’s face it: promises are made to get you elected. Once elected, keeping them is just, well, silly — especially when you can point to the crises you’ve ginned up as a reason to walk those promises back.
(h/t Darleen)
I guess we’ve reached the expiration date on that promise.
Obama made a specific tax pledge. Not Congress.
I guess we should thank the Dems for floating this great idea just before the 2010 elections. I am sure that will work out well.
“i’m shocked, shocked to find taxes being raised here!”
“Obama made a specific tax pledge. Not Congress.”
So does that mean that Obama will veto any bill raising taxes he vowed not to raise?
Perhaps his supporters in Congress might have mentioned that at the time. Misleading silence is deception.
Can we just skip the intermediate steps and go straight to 100% taxation?
Then the ultra-efficient government could provide all the services and comforts we could want!
I can’t believe I just came up with that! It is a brilliant idea!
And because of the government giving everything out equally, it will be super fair and socially…um…just.
I can’t believe that nobody thought of this before.
I think they were being clever in the way that Leftists are known to do. I believe a tax decrease will sunset soon, therefore not requiring the President’s affirmative efforts to increase taxes.
I’m sure once Captain Kick Ass find out about what those Dems are planning …
Remember when Barcky vowed to not sign any healthcare bill that was not deficit neutral?
“With the debt and deficit we have, you can’t make promises to people. This is a very serious situation.”
Unless, you know, you’re promising to give them a bunch of “free” shit. Those promises are unbreakable.
“especially when you can point to the crises you’ve ginned up as a reason to walk those promises back.”
I’m afraid this will become the primary form of governance going forward…precipitate crisis, then step in for more control. Rinse. Repeat.
Which is why Dianne Feinstein and her Democrat colleagues are so seriously attempting to cut the Federal outlays by 10% to 20%, and firmly eschewing any new spending, right? Because it is a very serious situation.
Hoyer and Boxer complained about the deficit without laughing, and without anyone pointing out that they are responsible for said deficits?
I would love to be a reporter covering these clowns for one day. Oh, the questions I would ask …
I saw the Q/A after the Hoyer speech. Hoyer managed to work in a riff blaming Bush and the cost of the wars for the deficit.
Evidently, Hoyer didn’t receive the memo about the House controlling the purse strings and that Democrats have run the house since 2006.
Or, Hoyer conveniently overlooked those minor points.
Anyone else find it obnoxious when members of congress claim “tax cuts cost too much?”
The comments by congressjerkoffs about “tax cuts costing money” just infuriate me. Any congressasshole who makes that statement deserves to have their teeth knocked down their throat.
5. Comment by sdferr on 6/23 @ 11:20 am #
“Obama made a specific tax pledge. Not Congress.”
So does that mean that Obama will veto any bill raising taxes he vowed not to raise?
At that point, the American people will have spoken….
Pretty much everything that comes out of Obama’s mouth is an expedient political lie designed to confuse or outright deceive. Including “and” & “the”.
Having given America one of the largest expansions of government in recorded history, Democrats now seek to raise taxes.
Gee, who wudda saw that coming?
good thinking, Dianne! This will do a lot to incentivize and speed the relocation of prosperous people from high tax states like failifornia to for reals states what don’t mug their citizens to pay piece of shit government union members.
People should remember this when failfornia comes begging to the rest of the country like a scabby scabby crack whore.
More good news:
Andy Stern, former head of SEIU, joins the board of directors at SIGA Technologies.
What could possibly go wrong?
Taxes have already been raised on people making less than $250,000. It is only after taking office that he put the income tax qualifier in there. Since he has already broken his actual pledge many times over, why stop now?
FAIL:
not naming names but some dirty socialist job-destroying fuckwit from Colorado didn’t do their homework I don’t think did they Mr. Salazar?
TANSTAAFL
“will become”…?
The politician and the comedian: Both tell the public what they want to hear. But at the end, the audience laughs at the comedian, while the politican laughs at the audience.
About to buy the brooklyn bridge for $125k. Only $200.00 down. Suckers.
“…And all those politicians, they all lying sacks of shit.
They say better days are coming, but I’m sucking left hind tit…”
Drive-By Truckers
Patterson ain’t talking bout the democrats.
I gave the guy the $200.00.
He just went to get the contract. He’ll be back in 20 minutes.
“So does that mean that Obama will veto any bill raising taxes he vowed not to raise?”….
Well, let’s discuss that. He may very well BWAHAHAHAHA! HOOHAAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAAAA! HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!
Sorry, that was a good one. I needed a good laugh today.
Watch him claim that allowing Bush’s tax cuts to expire is not a tax increase.
I would love to know what the fuck they expect us to use to power, you know, everything, when we can’t drill for oil. I hate this administration and everything they stand (or don’t stand) for.
Well since you asked…
Michael Yon has the answer.
Of course if it were practical, I think more people would be using it here. If your total gas needs consist of just a cooking stove and a coleman lantern, you might be able to get by on it.
But given all the bullshit that Obama spews, I suspect he could supply all the energy needs of Afghanistan all on his own.
Matt – we’ll see what Manbearpig ends up selling to fund his divorce.
The RNC ad we will never see.
Dad, Kid, and Grandpa on the front porch.
Kid: Daddy, what’s Obamacare?
Dad: Well, it’s this ridiculously expensive and inefficient overhaul of our healthcare system.
Kid: But Mommy says we already got good health insurance, and I like Doc. Jones.
Dad: Doesn’t matter, the idiots in Washington shoved it right down our throats.
Kid: What’s gonna happen Daddy?
Dad: Well son, our insurance will get worse, cost more and our taxes will go up. Oh, and Doc. Jones told me he’d retire if this law passed. And Grandpa gets fucked too. His Medicare services will go to hell. He’s hosed. See the Doctors will have to ration health care, and Grandpa will get the short end of the stick. Oh, and son, you and your kids are schtupped, too. See we can’t pay for any of this nonsense so we’ll borrow money from the Chicoms that you and your kids will have to pay back.
Kid: But I don’t even have a job.
Dad: Me either.
Kid: Daddy, you fucked us. Why’d you do it?
Dad: It’s George Bush’s fault.
(Grandpa chuckles)
Kid: Daddy, you sound just like the President…he fucked us, too. (Fade to black)
“He’s not the boss of us!”
Racist. Why are you trafficking in such commonly held myths?
I would love to know what the fuck they expect us to use to power, you know, everything, when we can’t drill for oil. I hate this administration and everything they stand (or don’t stand) for.
Well Matt, you need to understand that there are two Americas and you belong to the American that must be made to suffer so that the other America can feel good about itself. So, either you suffer, or you wise up and join the other America that looks down on people like, well, you.
You guys are trapped in your little teabagger, OMG look at that deficit!, paradigm while Nancy Pelosi has moved to a new plane of thinking…
Budgets? Where we’re going we don’t need budgets.
Well, I sure didn’t. I knew they could never resist sticking their filthy hands in the tazpayers’ pockets. In addition to the Bush tax cuts expiring, anyone not eligible for food stamps is gonna get hit by those fucking thieves.
I mean, just because the federal budget is one of the specific ‘responsibilities’ of Congress laid out in the Constitution doesn’t mean much of anything to us in an election year.
If you can’t see it, did we really spend it?
They aren’t even going to bother passing a budget, since their actual priorities tend to be at odds with people who might vote. Who needs budgets when we have emergencies!
Budgets? Where we’re going we don’t need budgets.
Because all ur EVERYTHING r b’long 2 US, Mr. W?
Why vote when you can just “deem?” You’ll know that they’ve decided to apply that principle to general elections when the rehabilitation of Diebold begins.
“Budgets? We don’t need no steenking budgets!”
Um, he ain’t back yet.
Back to the Future I missed that on the first reading. Congratulations on the clever, multi-layered cinematic reference. I’m bitterly jealous.
I think the issue is that “budget” implies some kind of limit. Nan, you see, she’s a dreamer.
Sounds like a bunch of moonbats are going to want more sugar in their kool-aid, but CAN THEY AFFORD IT??????????????
What was it with the Clinton Whitehouse? Now the Enquirer drops the bomb that AlGore left DNA on a masseuse’s pants?
She never should have told him her name was Gaia.
Must be seen as it is entirely too awesome for mere words to express.
http://nalert.blogspot.com/2010/06/national-equirer-gore-sex-scandal.html
A lesson for you ladies is that whether it’s a blue dress or brown pants, you always keep the Democrat DNA.
Yeah, I know it’s gross, but then so is Al.
Well, the Global Warmening scam isn’t turning into such a happy ending for Algore, so he thought he’d get one someplace else I guess.
algore should apply for that school “job” in detroit
your 1st amendment rights are canceled by sharia in dearborn
Um, well,…
newrouter, isn’t Michigan part of the lands of Islam?
So, that whole bridge deal has gone south, I’m guessing.
newrouter,
a $540 massage?.
That must have been a hell of a massage!
here is for dicentra if she ambles by
i hope you can update us on the jews
also masons we need more info on
Just don’t get him started on the illuminati, newrouter…
They should really have a itemized the bill:
The massage was $100, and apparently ‘keeping your mouth shut’ is worth $440.
What’s sad is that I’m sure that Al Gore would have volunteered to pay for her dry cleaning, but it uses all those nasty chemicals that are so totally not green.
Quote: I’m Al Gore, bitch!
Alec Leamas,
Hammer, meet nail. BANG!
Mr. W, apparently a “happy ending” in Portland is pricy!
Good thing Al has lots of stolen tax dol…I mean…sensible investing in renewable-energy-green-jobs millions to console him.
You know what Al likes best about money?
It’s green.
the fight for freedom:
link
Here’s one of the first California LA micro-burgs to go tits-up. ‘feets, is Maywood near your neck of the woods?
that’s very very to NG’s zone but they’re much worse off and more crimey… she’s on the other side of the 710 from there and a little further south I’ll ask her if anyone’s been talking about that
very very *close* I mean
fire Kevin Jennings!
yes perverts of all types must go
feets – That is rather pathetic, yet entirely predictable of the little president man, no?
it betrays an unprecedentedly smug confidence that he’s made the media of America his bitch I think
“…he’s made the media of America his bitch…”
And this only works, I think, because as Dave B put it “We’re good people…”. Or was that what that meant actually? Oh well, whatev’s.
That Forbes article is actually even worse than the part you excerpted.
From the sound of it, I’ll bet Richard Lazarus, Georgetown University Law Professor, Illinois University and Harvard grad, hates him some Sarah Palin.
And you know what? The little envirowhack prick looks a lot like William Yelverton.
What is Illinois University?
I dunno, the way Obama’s shoving all this stuff our backsides, those fisting kits of mine ought to be coming in pretty handy these days.
Fisting kits; standard issue for progressive politicians intent on ramming the Obama agenda through.
Oh. U of I. That’s in Champaign, not Chicago.
I hate it when one of those clowns comes from my alma mater. Dick Lazarus sullies the name of the school that myself and LtC John attended.
Someone in Congress needs to make a big deal out of Richard Lasarus’ appointment. This is a job for a scientist or engineer, not for an enviro-nazi, offshore drilling opposing attorney, who is a dilettante at best.
Unless, of course, the goal is to, you know, end all offshore drilling…
That one doesn’t even need a wink and a nod.
mostest pathetic wiki profile ever?
We should start at the top and work our way down.
this is the douchiest thing I’ve ever seen ever my whole life and I click and click
The title of this post is funny; Dems aren’t bound by any pledge, they are amoral pieces of crap.
‘feets, that video showcases why most people are against public displays of fisting. Supporters.
Did you see willie the racist hilljack is back, serr8d?
hah ok we are moving on to the coolest thing I have seen all week here you can donate lip balm to soldiers and also skin care balm and also soap this is obviously someone what had a vision and did whatever it took to realize that vision and her name is sara
I just left him a comment over at TFree. Poor doofus, he’s so confused. Nothing is working out according to master’s plan. With the evil BOOOOOOSH! gone, life was supposed to be near-perfect for him; he could quit blogging and get ready for the leftist nirvana he knew was coming.
Until someone asked his ilk to pay for it.
What they see from the ISS, multiple times a day since they’re circling. Pass you cursor over the pic for captions, click the pic for an enlargement, wherein mountains appear silhouetted at the horizon.
Climate Science Blacklist established, with climate denier as a journal keyword.
Oh. U of I. That’s in Champaign, not Chicago.
There’s University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at Chicago (Bill Ayers), University of Illinois at Springfield (Ward Churchill is an alum), and University of Chicago (private school, Barky allegedly taught con law there).
All of these institutions also have plenty of real scholars among their faculty, staff, and students, of course. There are many Nobel winners from UIUC (real Nobel prizes, not Gore-style fake ones). University of Chicago is where Milton Friedman taught. And so on.
baracky and fisting so chicago thug. yo vagina warriors forced penetration ain’t salve by progg jelly
No way that Ward Churchill came out of Illinois-Springfield. It has only existed under that name for about 10 years. It was Sangamon State prior. And by no way, that is an expression of shock and surprise, not questioning your facts. I had just never heard that before.
Quite right, JD. It was still Sangamon State when he graduated.
That is nearby by father’s lake house, is how I know that.
O hark you, nameless bolus
Of wagyu beefsteak
Do your worst, or is it, best?
Condom distribution policy starting in elementary school at Provincetown, Mass.
Beth Singer has questions that need answered on when to be beaten into retirement or pursuit of another occupation.
From that link:
Also, as early as first grade?
The not honoring the wishes of the parents part is something that would make my head assplode.
Early morning tomorrow. Be nice to wee willie the racist hilljack if he goes all estupido on your asses again during one of its manic phases.
It’s Provincetown, JD. It shouldn’t be much of a problem.
According to Wiki, the total pop is 3421 with around 200 school age kids. Times that by 2/3s to get the elementary school age and you’re at 132 kids. Times that by 2 (very traditional of me, I know) and you get 264 parents total. Rough estimate of course.
Take the 3421, subtract the sub 18 year olds (8%) and you get 3147.
So, 264 parents vs 3147 voters.
106 is towards 105. It’s really, really not a problem politically for this school board.
Very rough. Which is good, because some residents like it that way.
bh, many, if not most of those 264 parents will have friends and relatives. I can imagine a fair number of grandparents, for example, who might not be very keen on this. Hell, I imagine every fixed income retiree in town wants to know why there tax money is going to fund something like this. It wouldn’t take much to take over the school board in a town that size.
“…why there are tax monies going to fund…”
There. Fixed it (sorta).
And you know what? The little envirowhack prick looks a lot like William Yelverton.
Seems like those “Low T” peddlers are really onto something.
Heh, Sullivan would probably be much more concerned about the dread curse of male circumcision that just under half the kids have suffered through. Priorities, man, priorities.
I’m not sure, Ernst. If the school board was effectively taken over in P-town, I assume they’d be replaced by even more progressive idiots.
It’s incredibly sad to say but I bet over half the parents involved are actually for the policy.
Well, Singer is awfully close to Sanger, so you’re probably right about the progressive idiots. I suppose the hard left position would be mandatory sterilization for children recieving free meals. That should take care of all the ones in the public schools.
FWIW, the internet tells me that it’s a Pre-K to 5 elementary school with 95 kids.
I went to a 1-8 elementary parochial school. I still get confused by the very concept of junior high.
And, don’t give them any ideas, Ernst.
Thanks for the link in your #60, feets.
“When you’re selling religion door-to-door,” one hedge-fund manager, who is a Mormon, told CNBC, “it makes every other business enterprise easier in comparison.”
To begin our tour, ladies and gents, here we see the “Mormons learned Teh Hard Sell as missionaries and they can’t seem to stop themselves afterward” meme. It’s older than anyone living but it still maintains its shape.
And if you’ll turn toward your right, you can look through this peephole and see the the parallel universe, where:
Brigham Young University (BYU) [is] a Mormon stronghold
and
BYU is in Salt Lake City, Utah, where the church is headquartered.
In the conventional universe, BYU is in PROVO Utah, a whole county away (46 miles) from Church Headquarters. BYU has a little branch in SLC, and sister schools in Rexburg ID and Laie HI, but there’s no actual BYU campus in Salt Lake.
Furthermore, “Mormon stronghold” is a weird way to put it, because the Church owns (and founded) BYU lock, stock, and barrel, and some 97% of the students are LDS. (Strangely, Palestinians send their kids to BYU a lot because the dorms are sex-segregated, we don’t drink alcohol, and we don’t stare at the hijab.) “Stronghold” sounds like a lot of us just happen to go there.
The business success among Mormons is almost entirely male, partly because the church believes that the faith is best served if women devote their time to home and family. But another reason has to do with the training that young Mormon men receive and then put to use later in business.
And here on your Left, you can see the “Mormon women are oppressed by Teh Patriarchy” diorama, featuring several barefoot and pregnant women who strive to hide their disappointment at not being allowed to have this marvelous training that young Mormon men receive and then put to use later in business. Well, except for the part where women are allowed to serve missions and go into business. A minor oversight, I’m sure.
If you’ll peer into this other parallel-universe peephole, you’ll see that:
the missionaries spend 12 hours a day for two months learning the basics of a foreign language at the Mormon school in Salt Lake City
Which in our universe is called the Missionary Training Center, and it adjoins BYU which is, once again, in the next county.
And it was 10 hours of language training per day, but only if you were going to, you know, a foreign-speaking mission.
Wait, is that all? Where’s the part about how we’re secretly trying to buy and sell the entire world? Where’s the reference to Our Sinister Ways? Where’s all that insinuation about how the Church is structured like a corporation? (Just a for-profit part, which is kept separate from the non-profit part; what, you think the IRS doesn’t tear through our accounts every year with a fine-toothed comb?)
Well, boys and girls, this concludes our tour of Bad Journalism, where they can’t get the geography right and they leave all the good dirt out.
Do me a favor, kid. Wear your hat.
The Goracle was just looking to pick up another piece prize.
JD, I cringe at the loons that get mention in conjunction with dear alma mater….at least we had the good grace to invite Jesse Jackson to leave after he got caught cheating.
hf, we saw plenty of lip balm, etc. But only one lucky American (and some Scots he shared with) managed to get Robusssstooo!!!!
:) I wonder if that via stuff from Starbucks has gotten popular over there… I haven’t tried it yet
He never answered his phone.
If anybody sees alonzo by Pete’s Place drop me a line @ 1-800-dumbass.
LtC John – Hugh Hefner more than makes up for most of those clowns.
She any relation to Peter “Party
Animalwith animals” Singer?KNOCK KNOCK.
Who’s there?
Wagyu Beef.
Wagyu Beef who?
Wagyu Beef at somebody else for a change, Mistah Pezzident!
You may now laugh politely.
Ding, ding, dong.
Sweet, old school.