Let it be noted that the Bush tax cuts are set to expire on 12/31/10.
That date is right after the next election, and right before a new congress is sworn in.
The expiration of Bush's tax cuts would increase the personal tax rates of those making over $250,000,
which would include the tax rates of those executives and news anchors who establish political narratives and report such
for our Corporate media conglomerates. That would include well paid folks such as the usual suspect, plus Tweety, Mourning Joe,
everyone over at CNN (yes, they are all paid over $250,000, don't think otherwise), CBS, ABC, FOX, Rush, etc., etc, etc,.
These Tax cuts were in the works for almost 30 years, and started with Reagan, and were brought to fruition by George W. Bush in his first year in office. We are talking about millions upon millions of dollars that the rich didn't have to pay, year after year after year, and that is a lot of money. It was a 10 year plan, and the bet was that once in place, no one would dare rescind these taxes cuts.
Those who have followed our "Liberal" Media's heavier than warranted coverage of the Teabaggers phenomenon have long scratched their heads and wondered why would the media want to promote these racist assclowns as much as they do, considering how hard they have to work to get this done? The numerous lies, exaggerations, the inconsistent outrage, the non-stop promotion of, and the still little discussed fact that it was a corporate channel's anchor (CNBC - read that as corporate friendly, cause it is) who called out for protests while naming it the Tea Party Protests early last spring on National Television, i.e. The Santelli Rant.
Of course, most of us have understood that the Teabagger party ain't nothing more than a disguised/re-branded/repackaged form of the GOP who lost badly not only in the 2006 and 2008 elections, but have also lost all credibility with the public, namely Independents, of being able to do anything decent for the American People.
This repackaging is seen by many inside the GOP as their only chance of making a hasty political comeback; swinging Independents back over to their ranks; and making ordinary Americans think that Teabaggers are something "different" from this century's biggest losers to date; the Republican party.....just in time to deal with the expiration of Bush's Tax Cuts and its looming deadline.
So here we have......
- Teabaggers who are against Health Care reforms.
- Teabaggers who are against Financial Industry reforms.
- Teabaggers who are silent on the BP spill, except to blame Obama for such.
- Teabaggers who distrust the Government
- Teabaggers who are now against Government Deficits.
- Teabaggers who are against this particular President.
- Teabaggers who are against big Government
- Teabaggers who want their country back
- Teabaggers who only vote Republican
For most who have been paying attention they know; Teabaggers = the GOPThe media via unprecedented collective effort have manipulate the general public into believing that Teabaggers are numerous and politically powerful by doing a few things:
- Inflating Teabagger attendance at rallies, and televising these rallies adnauseum, and even promoting such.
- Failing to do due diligent investigative reporting of following the money that funds this party, or the various faction thereof.
- Ignoring the links between such Teabaggers and their cousins; the hard Right Militias, and not connecting the dots for viewers.
- Repeating over and over again that Teabaggers have no political affiliation, although such only support Republicans.
- Refusing to question what exactly Teabaggers believe beyond hatred and distrust of the current administration,
and failing to ask what is the difference between obama's brand of Socialism and George W. Bush's (which they apparently were willing to live with, since we didn't hear not as much as a "Boo" from them throughout those 8 long years).
- Omitting any mention of Teabaggers's take on BP.
- Obscuring the reasoning as to why the Teabaggers hate Wall Street, but are also against Financial Regulations of any kind...and how those inconsistencies don't make a damn bit of sense.
- Promoting as much as possible (to where it is brazenly obvious) how Teabaggers will make a difference in November, win congress back for Republicans, and because of their sheer political power, shaping the entire election up to be an anti-incumbent year (read, throw the majority Democrats out of office year), by a party who basically is for no tax increase for anybody (but especially the rich) during an election year where "coincidently" Bush's masterpiece, the 2001 Tax Reform Act is up for renewal or expiration.
Other "small" things the media is actively doing (and has done) in manipulating our political climate (some would believe by accident, and only due to chasing ratings, LOL!):
- Ignores all other groups protesting anything, even if their numbers are greater than those at
a typical Teabagger rally, unless it is seen as something that could "hurt" this President. Than it's big news.
- Continuously advances any so called infraction that the Teabaggers promote regarding this President, no matter how loony, unsubstantiated, improvable, non relevant (see Sestak, Birthers, calls for impeachment, and whatever else cooked up as we go) and just plain untrue.
- Allows the lack of immigration reform to be blamed on this administration unquestioned, although the last administration had had 8 years to get this done, and yet not a damn thing happened on this now "important" "can't wait" issue. Like 16 months was more than enough to get this passed,
all the while this administration was working on so many other things (left fucked up)...while the media earlier promoted the meme that Obama was trying to do too many "Big" things, which has now morphed into he didn't do enough.
- Omits or/and rationalizes most of the racist beliefs emanating from the Teabaggers, instead of having an honest discussion that yes, teabaggers are mainly made up of one race of people, and they seem more than a little bit agitated at this President without solid justification, i.e., everything that they say they don't like that this President is doing, the last President did bailouts, deficit spending, nothing on immigration, and grew the government.
- Reports anything Sarah Palin posts on her Facebook page or Rush Limbaugh rants about on his radio show. Why is that? :shrug:
- Reported with glee Rand Paul's winning a primary like he had just practically won a general election.....and ignored his Democratic opponent without any plausible explanation apart from "Rand Paul is news cause we said so" posturing.
- Report breathlessly on what no-national security experience, Cheney's spawn has to say about anything related to national security.
- Give little time to stories about sitting republicans senators such as Ensign, Vitters, or governors such Sanford, while promoting the hell out of anything related to scandals linked to Democrats, even if it is made up or irrelevant.
So the question is why is corporate media working so hard at Rehabilitating the Republican party and pushing for their victory
with the aid of re-branding tools?
Well, the corporate media is a corporation, and no matter those who want to believe that Obama is a "corporatist",
obviously he isn't enough of one to where the media would find it in their interest to promote his brand of capitalism.
I personally believe a lot had to do with attempting to stop Health Care reform in order to deny Obama an early victory,
but most importantly, at this stage it is to prevent the expiration of those deficit causing Bush Tax Cuts so loved by the wealthy.
It's in our face...and while some of us might choose to continue to hold Pres. Obama's feet to the fire,
and berating on his cabinet, etc., etc.,....
I would request that you diversify just a tinch, cause in the Corporate news world, the only good news is watching the Democrats house burned down to a crisp. The only other good news is news that has been faxed and emailed to them directly from GOP headquarters. Anything that shows the Left unhappy with this President will only get airplay if it judged as helping bring this President down long enough for Washington to get themselves another Congress.
To kid oneself that the Left will be used for anything other than whatever directly or indirectly helps the Right by the corporate media is false....and the evidence is overwhelming.
Whether you believe it or not, the only way that the expiration of the Bush Tax Cuts can be stopped is to swear in a Republican controlled congress, and the only way to do that is to lower Obama's popularity as much as possible. If they don't succeed, there will be hell to pay, as well as higher taxes by the Rich....and as you well know, we can't have that.
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