DLCer presidential hopeful Mark Warner says Don't repeal Tax Cuts

[Robbien]

In Iowa yesterday, ex-VA Gov. Mark Warner said his party had taken "the wrong approach" on the tax cuts. . .

Said Warner: "Even though the Bush tax cuts only applied to the top 2 percent of Americans, what I think the Kerry campaign missed was that the other 98 percent of Americans still aspired to get to the point in their life where they could qualify for the tax cuts." . . .

Sen. Hillary Clinton has also voiced doubts about repealing the Bush tax cuts. Before a speech on the economy in Chicago, she told Bloomberg that she wasn't sure whether she'd want to see pre-Bush tax rates "restored." Said Clinton: "I'm not sure that that's exactly what we should do, but I think the combination of fiscal responsibility and economic growth proves to be very positive for our country."

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/09/dem_08ers_to_de_2.html

[MallRat]

1. You got the wrong Warner from VA. (eom)

[Robbien]

8. Whoops. Thanks and edited. n/t

[AX10]

2. So we should just spend our way into bankruptcy then?

:eyes:

[LSparkle]

3. And HOW MANY of those people ever GET to the 2%, Mr. Warner?

This is the same drivel the Rethugs use to keep us all from FIGHTING BACK in the class war that's been going on for 30 years (or at least since Raygun's admin).

This guy is NEVER getting my vote.

[dkofos]

4. That's easy for a 2%er to say.

[BootinUp]

5. Your heading has the wrong Warner (its Mark)

[CarlVK]

6. HAHAHA!! A "TRICKLE-DOWNER"

What a jackass. I suppose he hasnt noticed that the old Reagan ideas on tax cuts have been a complete and utter failure.

[Sadie5]

9. Economy is already so screwed up

That it will take years of fixing before it improves to Clinton days. What is this guy thinking.

[MrModerate]

7. Warner's remark sounds like . . .

A lottery promoter pushing yet another scratch-off game: "But you might win!" What nonsense.

And Hillary's remark translates roughly as "wubba, wubba, wubba."

[partylessinOhio]

10. Warner is nuts and is in no way presidential. Give it up!

Anyone with a ounce of brains knows that everything the Emperor did MUST BE reversed - all of it - with no exceptions.

[MisterP]

11. the DLC will call us out of touch with Mittel-Amerika, anti-bourgeoisie

barnburners in 3...2...1...

Des Moines Register: "The ex-Virginia governor claims Democrats could appeal to more voters if they'd stop alien-ating the wealthy."
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060919/NEWS09/609190391/1056

[electropop]

12. They both just lost their party's nomination.

I hope they keep pushing this message - but they could at least wait until after November '06. We don't want people thinking real Dems are fiscally insane and morally bankrupt.

[Ignacio Upton]

13. His comments are being taken out of context

He isn't arguing in favor of the Bush tax cuts. He's criticizing the way in which Kerry framed his position to the voters. He opposes the Bush tax cuts, and Hotline is just giving disingenuous spin.

[Disturbed]

14. Busholini said that the wealthy hire tax attorneys and

get out of paying taxes anyway, so these tax cuts to them are sorta irrelevant. Yeah, I personally heard him say that. On this rare occassion Busholini was spouting a truth.

[papau]

15. Hillary has been anti the Bush tax cut/is anti their being made permanent

Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005 Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that she favors rolling back the Bush tax cuts to fund reconstruction efforts in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Asked where the money to rebuild the city should come from, Mrs. Clinton told NBC's "Today Show": "It comes from the first instance in not making those tax cuts for rich people like us permanent."

"Let's get back to shared sacrifice," Clinton insisted, defending her tax hike plan. "Let's take care of each other. Let's plan for the future. Let's do what is necessary to put Americans first again."

In 2003 Clinton argued for a tax hike to pay for the Iraq war.

In Nov. 2001, Hillary told CNN: "If we hadn't passed the big tax cut last spring, that I believe undermined our fiscal responsibility and our ability to deal with this new threat of terrorism, we wouldn't be in the fix we're in today."

THE OP'S REFERENCED STORY IS CORRECT THAT CLINTON HAS NOT ADVOCATED REPEALING THE BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE LAST YEAR OF THEIR LIFE - 2010 - WHICH WOULD BE THE FIRST YEAR THAT SHE AS PRES BEGINNING 1/20/2009 COULD PROPOSE SUCH AN ACT.