A Pox On Both Their Houses, But Mostly That Guy

The Rich are different than you and me....

David Leonhardt of the Times explains how the Democrats have nowhere to go but backwards on the tax cut issue.

I think he's probably right for many of the reasons Josh Marshall outlines here.

Here's the summary: Democrats ALWAYS lose the arguments over taxes.  I have no idea if that's true, but it's the conventional wisdom in DC, and it's probably accurate. For instance, the Bush tax increases of '91 and the Clinton tax increases of '93 were objectively and measurably good for the economy.  But Democrats still got creamed in '94 for raising taxes.  Although '94 was probably more complicated than that, it's a nice shorthand.

I was just reading in the local POS newspaper that sales of second homes of over $750,000 in northwest Connecticut are going up again.  Middle class housing (under $500,000) is still stagnant, but million dollar homes in Roxbury and Washington are moving.  You can't read that without wanting to tear at your hair.

How in the world did we get here?  Of course, the Democrats are terrible at politics and their incredible flubbing of this issue before the election means that they will get beaten like red headed stepchildren now.

But what I find risible this morning is that the GOP has decided to shutdown EVERYTHING until tax cuts are passed for EVERYONE.

No votes on START, DADT, anything at all, until they get their tax cuts for fucking millionaires!!!!

And then we get to hear them bloviate for two years about the deficit.

AND NO ONE WILL CALL THEM ON IT!!

Several members of my immediate family (let's face it, the bulk of the readers of this) have said I'm pretty angry in what I write here.

Well, of course I'm angry.  I'm furious!

We're watching America being turned into a banana republic because of wealth inequality, the GOP forcing MORE inequality on the country while dumb assed "values voters" vote for them, because that dusky-hued negro wants to have the government take over Medicare.

The Tea Party rails against elitists, but they're bankrolled by the billionaire Koch brothers in order to force tax cuts for millionaires while the infrastructure of this country falls apart around us and unemployment hovers at over 9% (at least).

The Bush Tax Cuts are objectively and provably bad fiscal policy.  And yet the GOP will double down on them with impunity, run up the deficit and then demand that we cut hot lunches to orphans to pay for them.

I'm close to pitchforks and torches here.