I have one simple question about the Democrats messaging

[Irritable Liberal]

The GOP attacked the stimulus endlessly and want to repeal the remain unspent funds. These unspent funds happen to be for a tax cut for 95% pf Americans.

Here's the frustrating part. Does anyone actually know what the unspent part of the stimulus is? According to a recent survey a whopping 8% of Americans are aware that it's a tax cut for 95% of Americans, excluding only the top 5% earners.

The GOP voted against the stimulus to a man, which means that they technically voted against a tax cut for 95% of Americans. Did any Democrat ad even mention that? I certainly don't recall. Will the GOP carry out their vow to repeal the balance of the stimulus which is a tax cut for 95% of Americans? To quote John "asshat" Boehner, "hell no".

WTF. Here was a winning issue for the Democrats and it remained a secret to 92% of Americans.

Do you think the GOP will really cut the budget as promised. Tea Party candidate, Vicky Hartzler who upset veteran Ike Skelton in Missouri ran on a campaign to "keep the government out of Missouri's 4th district." She and her husband own a farm and have collected over $774,000 in agri subsidies in the past decade. Do you think she will really vote to stop agricultural subsidies that add billions to the deficit. Hell no.

Ron Johnston, the businessman who sadly beat Russ Feingold, a true Progressive in the Wisconsin Senate race railed against government spending, neglecting to mention that the $31 million plus in government contracts his company received comprise the biggest slice of income that has made him a millionaire. Do you think he will vote on budget cuts that might reduce that income for his company? Hell no.

In one sense I am glad the GOP took the House. "Hell No" ceases to be a policy. They have to replace it with a real economic plan and thus far, we haven't heard a peep out of what they actually plan to do other than keep the Bush tax or reduce the deficit, neither of which will do anything to improve the economy.

Sit, back, pass the popcorn and watch the GOP start to eat itself. They can't sit around and whine about a Kenyan, socialist anti colonial worldview any longer.

[Myrina]

1. ... why didn't that 95% go out first?

Before the aid and comfort to Wall Street and The Banksters? That would have made a world of difference in the election results, IMO.

[Irritable Liberal]

2. They can only apply it to 2010 taxes because of when the bill passed. NT

[hfojvt]

4. it actually did

the $400 credit was incorporated into the reduced with-holding which added $15 to the average bi-weekly paycheck, but then, of course, the RWNM attacked Obama again for increasing taxes when that reduced with-holding provision expired after a year.

[hfojvt]

3. I certainly did, right on my front page

http://www.koch2congress.com/

"Does Congresswoman Jenkins represent you, or does she represent the richest 5% of Americans?

Jenkins voted AGAINST

$500 tax cut for all working people
spending for highway projects all throughout the 2nd district
$4.8 billion in spending for veteran's benefits
$1.1 billion in spending for farm programs and rural development
$8 billion in spending on health care for children"


The $500 tax cut is the tax cut for 95% of all Americans, although it got reduced to $400 by Republicans in the Senate.

[Irritable Liberal]

6. good for you

It should have been on of the major talking points for the Dems for months. Living n Southern Cal, where there are hardly any contested Congressional seats and TV is very expensive we see little of the ads, messages that are bandied about in the tight races.

[hfojvt]

8. I thought it was part of a winning message

But I thought Ike Skelton, who has won 15 elections had a decent message with his "Ike is a friend of veterans and Vicki is not" but maybe he should have reached out to non-veterans because "support the troops" is only lip service to many Republican voters.

[old mark]

5. One of the "GREAT SECRETS" the administration did not bother to push

in the media for the last several years...if the GOP did it, every school kid over 5 would have had to memorise it for final exams...

But the Democratic Party can always blame the left for letting them down, so why should they bother trying hard.

mark

[laughingliberal]

7. It's hard to sell your stimulus package when you're sucking up to the deficit hawks. nt