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House Vote is being taken right now on tax cuts

Posted: Dec 2, 2010

So far, 211 yea, 173 nay. Mostly partisan votes. 13 dems Nay, 2 pubs yea.

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It has passed the house even though there are 12 that haven't voted yet - Backwards Typist

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The tax extension vote is on income only up to $250,000.

I missed the final vote cause I looked away for a moment.

That would be the tax cuts for the middle class? - nm

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Yep. $250K or below only. - Backwards Typist

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They are debating in the Senate now on this.

My bet is what comes out of the senate will be to keep all the... - sam

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tax cuts in place for 2 years. That is, if the DINOs cave.

Your bet has been in the news for a while - now

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Here's just one article. I bet Obama and the dems will get no credit at all for compromising. That's my bet.

I will be glad to see the roll call and give credit where... - sam

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credit is due. I got the idea from the David Corn article someone posted earlier this week, the shot across the moderate and conservative bow so to speak (calling them DINOs and accusing them of caving). I said then and say it now. Good for you, DINOs, for representing the people who voted for you instead of the DNC. And if they do go ahead and compromise and vote against excluding people making $250,000 from the extended tax cuts, then again, I say GOOD FOR THEM! I don't give a fig about political parties and think they have become more DEstructive than PROductive.

Still...I will be first in line to give kudos to the Dems who are not "caving in" in my estimation, but STANDING UP, if they vote to extend.

It appears - that

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you have a skewed sense of what "the people" want. It also appears that political parties are hated in name only. Maybe you could start using the term HINO.

Were you absent during the midterms? - sam

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And look at the tone of my post and yours...easy to see where the hate lies. Were you unpopular in high school or something?

I did not coin the term DINO. David Corn did. Big time leftist. One of YOUR guys. Oh but you probably think they are DINOs too and should be shot at sunrise if they don't vote with "the party."

You don't realize how indoctrinated you are and boy is THAT the scary part. You are the hater here, friend. And you really need to try to get a handle on that.

See blanket assumptions - post

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Not poster, but your perception of the above post - sm

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is skewed. You see everything colored by your hate. Was the high school comment called for? "Sam the Reformer" LOL. I do not know who David Corn is, but I doubt that if he is such a huge \"leftist\", he is not a real spokesman of the Democratic party, just as Rush L., Beck, and Palin are not true spokespeople for the Conservatives.

I did not know who he was either until someone.... - sam

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posted an article of his earlier this week and I then did research on him. Again, you ignore my post and call me a hater when I was giving KUDOs to any Democrat willing to stand up and vote against the prevailing \"party wisdom\" for tax cuts extension for EVERY American. Where, pray tell, is the hate in that??

I would say hate is in targeting one person who disagrees with you like a pack of snapping dogs...which is what happens to me every time I post something. This thread is no different.

You folks target a person who disagrees with you and go after them tooth and nail. Apparently that is what floats your boat, so by all means, have at it...just don\'t get affronted when I give back as good as I get.

Methinks you need to look up the defintion of hate and take a good long look at yourself.

You seem to see stuff that is not there - just saying

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Like what? Just askin. nm - sam

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see post I just posted about the Democratic losses in the midterms and you tell me what that means what what about it I am not "seeing."

There are blanket assumptions - being

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made about what the midterms meant. The thought behind this blanket assumption is far too simple and being driven by hammer heads. We will just have to see how it plays out, since there is no way to reason with a person who thinks "do this, don't do that" is as simple as those words are.

I give you my permission to have the last word. Hammer away.

Not a hammer...simple facts. - sam

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Please take a look at this:

The Democrats lost 63 (that could change when recounts are done, it could go up) seats in the House of Representatives. The last time that happened in that amount was in 1939. That is not skewed and if that is not an indictment of how things are being done in Washington, please let me know what that is.

Republicans took 11 governorships from the Democrats (Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Wyoming). An independent won one governorship previously held by Republicans (in Rhode Island), while Republicans won one governorship previously held by an independent (in Florida). Thus, Republicans held a majority of governorships for the first time since before the 2006 elections.

Now tell me how my impression of the midterms was skewed. What do YOU think caused this? People forgot Bush was the problem?

Seriously...you cannot be in that much denial. Those figures above were not accomplished by just Republicans and Independents. Some Democrats had to cross over too.

So please, tell me. All those people just really don't understand that the present situation is all the Republicans' fault...is that what you are trying to say?

Simple - indeed.

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More than your "facts."

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