Senate Plans Symbolic Tax Votes
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 3rd, 2010 5:41 am by HL
Senate Plans Symbolic Tax Votes
“The Senate will vote on two Democratic options to extend some Bush-era tax cuts on Saturday,” Reuters reports, “measures likely to fail but highlight deep ideological divisions between the parties.”
Washington Post: “A bipartisan plan that would have brought four competing proposals for extending the Bush-era tax cuts to the Senate floor fell through Thursday night, leaving both parties again pointing fingers at each other. Democrats said a last-minute objection by a Republican senator scotched the deal, and they accused the GOP of opposing progress on the issue it has touted as its top priority for the lame-duck session.”
O’Donnell Gets Book Deal
Christine O’Donnell (R) lost a U.S. Senate election but gained a book deal, CBS News reports.
The Tea Party favorite will offer her take on the campaign and her “frustrations” with the political process.
Democratic Melt Down
Mark Halperin: “Is it hyperbolic to say the Democratic Party is in the midst of a nervous breakdown? I have been covering national politics since 1988, and I don’t remember a situation quite like this. The signs of a crack-up are everywhere…”
“Democrats are understandably — and largely justified in being — frustrated that they lost an election based on Republicans defending tax cuts for the wealthy that are only expiring because of a budget gimmick championed by George Bush — and based on criticism of their apparent lack of concern over the deficit, by a party that has shown no past or current seriousness about deficit reduction and the hard choices involved. Losing those political fights was as inexplicable as it was hard for the Democrats. Maybe that’s why Thursday seemed to have donkeys melting down all over the place.”
