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发帖数: 29846 | 1 President Obama's latest "pivot to jobs" has turned out to be more of a
sharp left turn. First he announced a new $447 billion stimulus of new
spending and temporary tax cuts. Then on Monday he proposed to offset it
with $1.5 trillion over 10 years in permanent tax hikes. Mr. Obama knows
that little of what he's proposing will pass the Republican-controlled House
, so the conventional wisdom has it that the President is trying to emulate
Harry Truman by setting up a "do-nothing Congress" as a re-election foil.
But the bigger news may be how much resistance Mr. Obama's ideas are drawing
from the Democrats who control the Senate. Senators from energy-producing
states object to targeting oil and gas companies. "Just picking out one
industry is not acceptable," said Alaska's Mark Begich. Louisiana's Mary
Landrieu added: "That offset is not going to fly, and [Mr. Obama] should
know that."
Even New York's Chuck Schumer, of all unlikely partisans, has objections—
notably to Mr. Obama's plan to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire on
taxpayers earning more than $200,000 (or $250,000 for married couples): "$
250,000 makes you really rich in Mississippi, but it doesn't make you rich
at all in New York, and there ought to be some kind of scale based on the
cost of living on how much you pay."
Mr. Schumer didn't mention that one reason for the cost-of-living
differential is the Empire State's own sky-high taxes, but the important
political point is that the Democratic Party's chief Wall Street fund-raiser
is tacitly acknowledging that raising taxes on the not-so-rich isn't
popular.
Democratic pollster Douglas Schoen on new polling data that shows
overwhelming support for curbing public workers' benefits.
Other Senate Democrats don't like the President's basic priorities. "Tax
increases have to come second to cutting [spending]," said Ben Nelson of
Nebraska, perhaps the most vulnerable Democrat up for re-election next year.
"I was just home over the weekend and that's what [my constituents] were
all talking about."
Delaware's Tom Carper, who ought to have an easier time retaining his seat,
said: "I think the best jobs bill that can be passed is a comprehensive long
-term deficit-reduction plan. That's better than everything else the
president is talking about—combined."
Not all of the objecting Democrats are concerned about their own re-election
. Virginia's Jim Webb, who is retiring, called the President's tax proposals
"terrible," adding: "We shouldn't increase taxes on ordinary income. . . .
There are other ways to get there."
The Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman told a reporter from his home state
of Connecticut that Mr. Obama's plan "doesn't represent the kind of
comprehensive tax reform, entitlement reform and spending reduction that we
need to get our country back into balance. And to me, therefore, it doesn't
pass the test. And I don't think it can be passed."
One of the many differences between 1948 and 2012 is that Republicans then
had majorities in both houses of Congress. Mr. Obama will find it harder to
run against a do-nothing Congress when his own party is rejecting his ideas. | l******a
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House
emulate
drawing
Take a look at his pose in a UN photoshoot, you will get how dumb he is.
I guess the never-revealed grades of his harvard will likely all be F!
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: President Obama's latest "pivot to jobs" has turned out to be more of a
: sharp left turn. First he announced a new $447 billion stimulus of new
: spending and temporary tax cuts. Then on Monday he proposed to offset it
: with $1.5 trillion over 10 years in permanent tax hikes. Mr. Obama knows
: that little of what he's proposing will pass the Republican-controlled House
: , so the conventional wisdom has it that the President is trying to emulate
: Harry Truman by setting up a "do-nothing Congress" as a re-election foil.
: But the bigger news may be how much resistance Mr. Obama's ideas are drawing
: from the Democrats who control the Senate. Senators from energy-producing
: states object to targeting oil and gas companies. "Just picking out one
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: Take a look at his pose in a UN photoshoot, you will get how dumb he is.
: I guess the never-revealed grades of his harvard will likely all be F!
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