Democrats are afraid of the word "taxes"...

[kentuck]

It is reported that they believe simply saying the word hurts them.

It doesn't matter if the talk is about raising taxes on the millionaires and giving taxcuts to the middle-class. Nope! They are afraid to touch the subject.

These are the people that are representing us.

Can you even imagine a bigger group of Chicken Littles?

If the Repubs say they are for killing babies to control the growth in population, some Democrats will say, "Me too, but we need to study the long-term impact it will have on families." They are afraid to take a stand on anything.

Why?

Because it is about their "careers". They do not see their elections as temporary. They see them as affirmation for the continuation of their careers.

After all, many or most of them are making more money than they have ever made in their lives and they have all the benefits of power. They cling to their positions as if their lives depended on them. What would they do if they were not in Congress? Yeah, they could get a job with the folks that give them big contributions but then they would be expected to actually do something.

Makes one think that maybe term-limits is not such a bad idea, after all.

[notesdev]

1. Maybe

People are getting tired of paying for bullshit like African genital washing

[kentuck]

2. ??

explain?

[notesdev]

3. we actually spent $800k of taxpayer money

to teach African men how to wash their penises after sex

I wish I were kidding

But dozens of people worked all year to pay those taxes in order to fund this nonsense

Go look it up "African genital washing"... if it doesn't piss you off then I don't know what more I can say

But if we have money to spend on that sort of thing we look pretty damn cruel to be asking for more. People need money to spend on food and keeping a roof over their heads and clothes on their backs, but DC doesn't care.

That money isn't even being spent in the US to be further circulated, it's just gone.

While this is an extreme example, and not much money in and of itself, it takes merely time and no special effort to come up with a list of trillions of dollars that DC carelessly pours down the sewer.

Washington DC telling the people, we're taking your money and doing what we please, and your needs are secondary if they are on the agenda at all.

That era is over, people are fed up, and the party not getting this is way above and beyond anything else why we are going to get wiped out in November.

I tried to tell you people, but so many here don't understand money, proportion/numbers, and plain old common sense - it's like talking to a brick wall. People here living in fantasy land where the amount of money that gets spent doesn't matter, well surprise surprise that people don't like it when they turn around and say oh, we can fix the budget disaster by taxing more. We hit the practical limit of taxation already, can't get blood from a stone.

[emulatorloo]

4. Do you have a list of Dems who are afraid of the word "taxes"? Is it a 100 Dems or is it 4?

Is it 1000 or 6?

I heard that "report" too, it was a little snide aside, there was no substance. Nor any suggestion that the people who believed it were going to effect anything about the way forward.

And there was certainly no suggestion that it was a MAJORITY of DEMS, Or that the people who thought that had any power.

Don't mean to be harsh, but I am in a bit of a bad mood about DU locking on to some statement and then going nuts over it. Especially if it is not "nut worthy"

[kentuck]

5. I assume it is a very small number?

However, if it is just one or two, that is significant, in my opinion.

Because we only hear reports that the caucus met and "some" Democrats wanted to extend the Bush taxcuts for everyone. They seldom say who or how many. Only that it is holding up a decision on the matter.

I don't want anybody to go "nuts" over it, not like Christine O'Donnell, but I do believe it is something we should be aware of and we should be concerned about. Just my opinion.

[emulatorloo]

7. Agreed, and I always enjoy reading your opinion!

I think Pelosi can get this done. Reid has more challenges with Liebermann etc. A lot of good stuff has come out of the House and then been derailed in the Senate over procedural crap.

[NightWatcher]

6. the Dems are scared of lots words: "guns", "choice", "taxes", "insurance"

[kentuck]

8. But why?

is what I question?

[Gaedel]

9. Walter Mondale

He promised to raise taxes in 1984 and look what happened to him.

[kentuck]

10. Probably right but...

different time and different circumstances. Seems like they don't trust the people to know the difference?