Senate Dems Vow Tax Cut Vote Before Election -- Even If It Fails, 'We Win'

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

With all the wrangling over the Bush-era tax cuts among House Democrats, who would have thought that it actually would be easier for Senate Democrats to push through a critical election-year vote on extending the cuts for the middle class?

It is, after all, the Senate, so this could of course all fall apart at any moment. But a top Democratic aide told TPM that Senate Democrats have a detailed plan for getting the vote through to win the political battle.

"We're having this fight before November," the aide told TPM, speaking on a condition of anonymity to be able to lay out the political agenda. "The caucus is in agreement that this fight is a fight worth taking before the election. You may not win but you put yourself in the camp of fighting with the middle class."

The idea is to vote on the middle class cuts, then box Republicans into calling for cuts for the rich. "Those Republicans will have to stand up and say, 'Don't forget the high earners.' They will have to call for an amendment."

Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/senate-dems-vow-tax-cut-vote-before-election----even-if-it-fails-we-win.php?ref=fpb

[no_hypocrisy]

1. A filibuster against middle class tax cuts won't look good at all.

[happygoluckytoyou]

6. F'in middle class and their GREED!!! Wanting to raise families as if we were A FREE PEOPLE....

[GOTV]

8. It will be spun as fillibustering a tax increase and the media will repeat that sales pitch ...

... and the Democrats will probably start doing it too unfortunately.

[backtomn]

9. Do you think that this will actualy happen??

PLEASE!!! This is the Dems bending over. The Repubs (as said by John Boehner), will take the cuts for the "middle class" and move on. So, now we think that tax cuts are the right thing to do?? So, this is all about the election for us?? What is the matter with us?? I guess the election season brings out the best (or the honest) of us.

[hfojvt]

2. I think that is a good strategy.

it shows all their talk about "the deficit and the debt" to be just so much hypocrisy. Republicans have voted against money for veterans, for children, for schools, for roads, for the unemployed, and so on based on the argument that the deficit is a great threat to our future. Now they will stand up and push for tax cuts for people with high incomes? Not just people making over $200,000, but also people making over $10,000,000. It could not be a more obvious demonstration of whose side the Republicans are on.

[AC_Mem]

3. Go Dems!

:)

[asjr]

4. But what about all those Blue-Dog Demos who

would rather vote to keep themselves employed rather than vote for Americans?

[pansypoo53219]

5. i liked a snippet i heard this AM on NPR.

the rich consider the tax cut an entitlement. needs to meme that.

[happygoluckytoyou]

7. Don't forget to DONATE to DEBUTANTE AIDE... any can of caviar or quail eggs will help ! ! !

[joeglow3]

10. Well, this threat lasted almost a day

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42439.html

Christ, and our leaders wonder why their no balls approach is killing them.

And yes, I know one is the House and the other is the Senate, but you would think our "leaders" would get them on the same page.

[Zenlitened]

11. But but but fighting is so gauche, so tawdry and declasse.

I know this to be true, 'cause I read it on DU. ;)

"The caucus is in agreement that this fight is a fight worth taking before the election. You may not win but you put yourself in the camp of fighting with the middle class."