Cheney: Bush tax cuts passed by a single vote - my vote

[katty]

more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/29/cheney-my-vote/

The expiration of the Bush tax cuts was put into law to mask their long-term cost, and so that they could pass under budget reconciliation rules (and thus not be subjected to a filibuster). Even so, the second round of tax cuts — the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 — barely scraped by in the Senate.

After a tied 50-50 vote, Vice-President Dick Cheney cast the deciding aye to move the Bush tax cuts forward. And in a segment of Brit Hume’s six-hour documentary, The Right, All Along: The Rise, Fall & Future of Conservatism, which aired on Fox News this weekend, Cheney brags about how his vote was the culmination of a 30 year push to put supply-side economic theory into practice:

I became a believer. If you fast-forward, in 2003, where we cut the capital gains rate, the rate on interest, did the across-the-board cuts in the income tax, and passed by a single vote. My vote.

Watch it:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Just another turd on the grave.

[Lasher]

2. Has anybody told him about the results of putting this theory into practice?

OK, rhetorical question. He and his rich cronies are now richer. They could give a shit less about anything else.

[thereismore]

3. And the results were? A boon for Cheney, obviously, and a disaster for 99% of Americans. nt

[struggle4progress]

4. So we can blame Cheney for the deficit

[Lasher]

14. He says they don't matter.

[MedicalAdmin]

5. The real reason Darth Cheney gave himself the vice presidency.

Secret Service protection.

He needs it.

[MindandSoul]

6. With all the evil Cheney can be credited with. . .If I did believe in the Antichrist. . .

(which I don't!). . .I think we wouldn't need to look any further than Cheney!

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Anyone who believes that is not a very, very evil man is not living in the same world as I live in.

Calling him Darth Cheney is an insult to Darth Vader.
THIS man NEVER had any principles.

There should be dancing in the streets on the day he can no longer stay alive without a heart....

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

8. They did this through RECONCILIATION!!! Remember how the Republicans

confused reconciliation with "nuclear option," and people fell for this lie? This is why Democrats keep losing. They do not control the message, and they haven't hit back.

The reason we have these fucking tax cuts is because the Republicans violated PAYGO rules, resorting to reconciliation to get these tax cuts through. They did it in 2001 and again in 2003! Back then, John McCain, said that it was irresponsible to pass tax cuts during a war. It had never been done before. Of course now there's a new John McCain in town.

UGH!!!!!!!!!!! :argh:

[BrklynLiberal]

9. You mean the repukes lied, obfuscated and deceived the public???!!

What a surprise....not. Just SOP for them. Anything else would have been the surprise.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

10. True dat. Why should anyone be surprised. I know that we know the truth.

The problem is not convincing us. The problem seems to be convincing average Americans that they're being duped!

Some way, somehow, we have to find a way to better get the message out there. I'm not sure how we do that, since the Corporate Media is lying to the American public, too. But, we at least have to continue to talk to people--everyone we know who don't have the facts; perhaps they're too busy to do the work. But we have to find a way...

[BrklynLiberal]

11. Messaging and framing the debate. The repukes are playing chess. The dems are still playing checkers

The Dems have ignored every word that George Lakoff has been saying for over a decade.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

12. If Lakoff is too obtuse for them to understand, they should try Tom Frank's

suggestions in "What's the Matter with Kansas."

Hell, take a page out of Lee Atwater's framing book, for godsakes!!

[katty]

13. or try on Mark Twain's common sense!

[Hawkowl]

16. The dems are playing circle jerk off

Checkers would be a ten fold improvement.

[Hawkowl]

15. But Obama needs 67 votes!

President Obama is powerless, powerless to do absolutely anything! I mean, congress won't let him! Oh, I just threw up a little in my mouth.