Looking Glass legislation
by digby
We’re through the looking-glass here, people… white is black and black is white
Get a load of this headline:
Yes, that’s right. The Republicans are against the payroll tax cut so the Democrats are making it smaller and offering up various “sweeteners” to entice them to vote for it. A tax cut:
“Republicans need to be prepared to meet us partway. We’re offering a serious proposal with meaningful concessions, including spending cuts to which Republicans have already agreed,” Reid said on the Senate floor.
“The scaled-back temporary tax on the richest Americans, a group with an average income of $3 million a year, is also a sincere attempt to get Republicans on board to pass what they say they want to do.” …
The reduced millionaires’ tax increase will not generate enough revenue to cover the $180 billion cost of the package. Democrats have also included about $40 billion in mandatory spending cuts that were under discussion last month by the deficit-reduction supercommittee, according to the Democratic official.
The Republicans were very impressed by all this sincerity:
A House GOP leadership aide said the new proposal remains a tool for Democrats to attack Republicans.
In baseball there’s such a thing as the mercy rule. Maybe they ought to start thinking of having one in politics.
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