Happy Holidays From The GOP-Give The Rich A Tax Break-Or-2 Million Lose Benefits By End Of December

[kpete]

GOP lawmaker holding 2 million unemployed hostage on behalf of richest 2%
by Joan McCarter
Tue Nov 16, 2010 at 12:40:04 PM PST

If this isn't class warfare, I don't know what is.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/11/16/921080/-GOP-lawmaker-holding-2-million-unemployed-hostage-on-behalf-of-richest-2

A senior Republican in the House of Representatives said he could back extending jobless benefits, favored by Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in exchange for an extension of all Bush-era tax cuts, including for the wealthiest groups.

"What we're going to do is sit down and talk with Mrs. Pelosi," Representative Pete Sessions, a Republican in leadership, told Reuters as he left a meeting of House Republicans. "I see nothing wrong with her winning as long as the American people do."

In other words, give the rich a tax break, or the two million people who will lose their benefits by the end of December are out on the street. Oh, and happy holidays.

MORE: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A44K020101116

[TwilightGardener]

1. One thing I really hate about the American legislative process--the

allowing of issues to be tied together and/or horse-traded. Really pisses me off when they do this.

[rurallib]

2. Okay Nancy - make them vote individually on unemployment extension

then on lower and middle class tax cuts.

[Lil Missy]

3. Call then and raise them.