Bye bye to the tax cuts for the rich!!

[jillan]

Wooohooooooooo - that was another one of my favorite lines from the speech.

[BootinUp]

1. wow, maybe I shoulda watched it. nt

????

[jillan]

3. You didn't watch? Well maybe there will be a vid up soon.

[sandnsea]

4. Here's the text, and yes you should have

Better than even the cheerleaders expected.

http://obama-mamas.com/blog/?p=1114

[BootinUp]

5. thanks

looks good. I have been waiting for something like this.

[NoSheep]

2. Hell Fucking yeah!

:applause:

[femrap]

6. Tax them like Eisenhower did!!!! nt

[Thothmes]

12. Were those the taxes that Kennedy reduced.

[femrap]

14. I believe Ike had

a 90% rate.

[samplegirl]

7. When does that take effect?

[jillan]

8. I think they expire this year. Not sure exactly when.

[WallStreetNobody]

9. they expire in 2011

[tranche]

10. I hope he uses this call for "paygo" as a reason to bump that up even further.

[troubledamerican]

11. Talk is cheap. I'll believe it when I see it.

[quaker bill]

13. This requires zero votes

and that is a number of votes the democrats in the senate can deliver. It only requires a vote to retain the tax cuts for the middle and working class. Otherwise they all expire.