Senate Battles Over Bush-Backed Tax Cuts

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Senate Battles Over Bush-Backed Tax Cuts

By MARY DALRYMPLE, AP Tax Writer 6 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats staged an election-year joust in the Senate on Tuesday over the Bush administration's tax cuts for capital gains and dividends.


The parties lined up a series of votes that caused most other morning business in the Senate to be postponed or canceled, including hearings featuring Cabinet members Condoleezza Rice, Michael Chertoff and
John Snow.

The battle began when Democrats decided to use a routine procedure that sends the bill into final negotiations to make political points about
President Bush's insistence on continuing tax cuts for investors.

Republicans matched each Democratic motion, but by lunchtime the party leaders had agreed to set aside some motions.........

[rodeodance]

1. Hatching is a hatching on cspan.--saying Dems quick to criticize

[LynnTheDem]

2. bush CUTS MILK to US kids; bush CUTS FOOD to US elderly;

bush CUTS MEDICAID to US poor...so bush can CUT TAXES FOR THE RICH.

Are you RICH?

[gizmo1979]

3. No I'm not.

I'll be alot poorer if Bush's don't leave office soon!

[LynnTheDem]

4. Won't we all.

Well, except the rich he's busy making richer, of course.

[corporatemedia]

5. Yes, but I prefer to be called Richard. eom

[LynnTheDem]

6. Don't make me come over there and call you

Dick. :P

:D

[jazzjunkysue]

7. Sounds like that long-lost filibuster we thought they bagged.

Good. Let's kick back and make these repugs negotiate.

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. "Bush-Backed" . . . - . . is that sumthin like "Brokeback" - - ???

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sorry

but that's what popped into my Canuk Cranium at the moment

:evilgrin:

Interesting that alot of Brokeback was set in Texas, no?

:silly:

[HockeyMom]

9. What the FRIG do I care about a Tax Cut?

It won't even pay for my increased gasoline to and from work, let alone, SKY HIGH Utility Bills, or lately, my INCREASED GROCERY BILLS.