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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 04:57 PM
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Lipless Mitch on those "hit hardest by this recession"...people making $250,000 and up


September 16, 2010 02:30 PM
Mitch McConnell Cries Over The Plight Of Those Hardest Hit By Recession: Those Making $250K
By Susie Madrak

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/mitch-mcconnell-cries-over-plight-tho

I was thinking that all the sad, dirty-looking people who now stand on street corners in my neighborhood dressed in rags and begging for change were the hardest-hit victims of the recession, but I was so, so wrong. Leave it to Mitch McConnell to point out that the people hit hardest in this are actually those small business people making $250,000 and up! (Wish I had those problems...)

Yesterday, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) unexpectedly suggested that he could support President Obama's plan to enact permanent tax cuts for the middle class while allowing the Bush tax breaks for the wealthy to expire. Boehner's comments have prompted fierce pushback from conservatives in the House and Senate alike, who disagree with the public about giving tax cuts to the richest Americans. In a speech on the Senate floor today, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued that Obama's plan would hurt "the people who've been hit hardest by this recession."

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, announced Monday he will introduce legislation that would ensure that no one pays higher income taxes next year.

"We can't let the people who've been hit hardest by this recession and who we need to create the jobs that will get us out of it foot the bill for the Democrats' two-year adventure in expanded government," McConnell said on the Senate floor.
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Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 04:58 PM
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1. "Read My Lips..."
oh wait, sorry...
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 05:02 PM
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2. Where did his lips go?
As a matter of fact, where did all his features go?
Is he Voldemort's cousin or something?
Is he the eggman?
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 06:55 PM
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13. Separated at hatching...
Edited on Thu Sep-16-10 06:55 PM by HCE SuiGeneris
I had a picture of Cheney getting out of a black limousine with Voldemort nose and features that I was going to post... but, it has been "disappeared" from my Photobucket account.

Hmm. Odd.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 05:05 PM
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3. Mitch weeps for the Predator Class




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Rage for Order Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 05:08 PM
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4. Try to put yourself in their shoes
Imagine that, prior to the recession, you were knocking down $400,000 per year. Then the recession comes along, and a couple of years later you're only making $265,000 per year. That's a serious decline in your ability to afford the lifestyle to which you would have become accustomed. Have some sympathy!
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county worker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 05:13 PM
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5. They may have to sell the vacation house and the third SUV just to get buy!
Not to say anything about forgoing that planned trip you Europe. Just think of the wasted sky miles!
Also how about losing those credit card perks while the cards remain in the desk drawer?
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vixengrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 05:19 PM
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6. Poor things, reduced to fish eggs and goose livers......
:evilgrin:
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hayu_lol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 05:25 PM
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8. Most, if not all, our congressmen/women and senators...
are millionaires with yearly incomes above the 250,000 line.

Conflict of interest? Looks like it.
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DesertFlower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 05:25 PM
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7. i hope his poor and middle class
constituents remember his words when they go into the voting booth.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 05:54 PM
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9. Is he rehearsing for the comedy circuit?
I don't think he'll replace Jon Stewart but that's damn funny.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 06:43 PM
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10. Right-so many of them are out of work and losing their homes...
he is a real asshole.

mark
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 06:45 PM
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11. He left his lips on Little George's zipper.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 06:47 PM
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12. Which homeless shelter are they living in. And according to
Rush are they eating out of dumpsters.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 07:22 PM
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14. You don't come across a chin like his very often...unless you're rich
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