The Republicans voted against the biggest tax cut in history

[MrPerson]

They must hate America.

[janx]

1. Not only that, but the biggest tax cut in history was aimed at

the middle class! It's mind boggling!

[truedelphi]

11. Is that true? I have been afraid to find out about it -

Hoping against hope that I actually have lived to see that the middle class gets a break.

have I lived to see it?

[Puzzler]

23. The GOP has only ever been really interested in tax cuts for ...

... the wealthy, and never anyone else. If the GOP ever seemed to be supporting tax cuts for the middle class and the poor... it was only window dressing for the much bigger agenda of massive tax cuts for the rich. That's why the large tax cut for the middle class this time means absolutely nothing to them... nothing at all.

[TheKentuckian]

2. Great frame

So it is written, so let it become the common wisdom.

[MrPerson]

3. Got it from A-Blog.

[FrenchieCat]

4. What is wrong with them?

They voted for the Bush Wealthy tax cuts, but don't seem to give a damn for the Middle Class.....the folks who need the most help and number the largest as a voting bloc!

Tsk, tsk, tsk.....

[OHdem10]

5. There is a history here. Not one Republican voted for Social Security

Not one Republican voted for Medicare Not one Republican voted
for Medicaid.

Do you get the pattern? The GOP does not believe in these
programs and certainly do not wish any further developments
of any kind of social programs.

[Thothmes]

10. The Democrats that voted for Social Secuirty in the 1930s

became Republicans in the sixties.

[CLANG]

15. Then why do so many lower to middle class people vote for them?

Either they are dumb as rocks or woefully uninformed. Oh, I forgot they listen to Rush and Hannity.

[WinkyDink]

18. Where I live and taught (PA), it's guns, religion, and abortion. Oh, and total ignorance. (eom :) )

[CLANG]

22. Yes, and the first 2 are snowmen

The third one they should just stop thinking about so much. Manage you own life the way you choose and leave everyone else the fuck alone. What a surprise that they don't seem to care much about all the myriad other ways REAL people die every day in the world. Nutbaskets all of them!

[stray cat]

6. No they just hate working Americans - these are not the "Bush Tax Cuts" to cronies.

[OKNancy]

7. OH - excellent thought. I will use that one!

Thanks

[unblock]

8. is this actually true? i thought the shrub tax cuts for the uber-rich was $1.3 trillion.

i'm not sure which is worse. voting against the biggest tax cut in history, or voting against a more modest tax cut during a time of tremendous need having voted for a larger one in a time of tremendous greed.

[MrPerson]

9. The Bush cuts were over a longer period.

[MrPerson]

14. Bush tax cuts - 1.6 trillion over 10 years.

Obama - $350 billion over 2 years.

[unblock]

16. got it, thanks!

:hi:

[zulchzulu]

12. The GOP would rather wait until 2010 than be your friend

They are going to get nailed in 2010 if I have anything to do with it.

[CitizenPatriot]

13. the rushublicans hate the middle class

and this should be the talking point for the next four years...

they forced the dems to lower to tax cuts to the middle class!

I think that says everything.

[Doctor_J]

17. Hopefully the few Dems that get on TV this week will repeat "Without a single Rushpublican vote"

over and over and over

[RichGirl]

19. They are playing games...as Obama said...

...and as they have always done. It's all they know. They are betting that the stimulus will be a huge failure, then they will be right and they'll have better election results in 2010. They gamble with our future. Change has not come to the republican party. The shift from "it's all about me" to "we're in this together" has not effected the republican party.

[Arkana]

20. If the stimpack works, the Dems just made themselves a big ol'

cudgel to beat the GOP about the head with in 2010.

"Well, sir/ma'am, you voted against a sweeping stimulus plan that pulled our economy out of the hellhole it fell into...how do you explain that to your constituents?"

[Jennicut]

21. Rethugligans don't care about us, the little people.

I saw a horrendous documentary about the process of the stimulus bill on Faux news last night. Watched it to laugh at it. The conservative Reps and Senators literally asked conservative bloggers to pick out things in the bill they did not like. It was like they did not even want to read it, they just wanted to complain and nitpick before they even got a chance to really see what was in it.