Blue Dog Blues

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from ThinkProgress:



Blue Dogs threatening to quash health bill over surtax voted for Bush tax cuts.

Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR) — along with six other members of the Blue Dog coalition on the House Energy and Commerce Committee — are threatening to vote down the House’s health care legislation in committee. Ross reportedly objects to the surtax included in the bill, saying “I don’t like the idea of raising taxes in the worst economic crisis since World War II.” However, the Blue Dogs concerned about the surtax voted for some of the budget busting Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 that constituted a huge gift to the very wealthiest Americans. Of the seven Blue Dogs on from Energy and Commerce who are complaining, four were around to vote on Bush’s tax cuts. Here’s how they voted:

Member 2001 2003
Rep. Mike Ross (AR) Yes No
Rep. Bart Gordon (TN) Yes No
Rep. Jim Matheson (UT) Yes Yes
Rep. Baron Hill (IN) No No

Over the ten year window from 2001-2010, the Bush tax cuts gave the richest one percent of Americans about $715 billion in tax breaks. This comes out to about $518,000 per household over ten years or about $51,800 per year. The proposed surtax, meanwhile, would raise $544 billion from households making more than $350,000 per year. The Wonk Room has more.


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/16/blue-dogs-surtax/

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1. They gotta reach to rationalize.

FUCKERS :nuke:

[RandomThoughts]

2. Lets look at their logic.

Money in the hands of rich people can be used to help the economy by being spent.

If it is taken from rich people to be spent to help the economy, by paying for health care, they say it is bad.


They want it left in hands of rich to be possibly spent.

not put in government hands to be spent.

For them it isn't about helping the economy, or people, it is an economic ideology.

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3. Blue Dogs: "Working Hard To Remind Us That We Should Be More Like Republicans..."

Because Republicans Have Been Wrong About Everything For The Past 10 Years"

[FiveGoodMen]

4. This is what happens

if we let those who say "gotta support the team -- go vote for a republican, then" etc etc have their way.

Many on this board are responsible for just this kind of crap.