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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Taxing priorities

Let me get this straight. The one time Republicans aren't going be able to pass a tax cut is one that will affect more of the middle class than anyone else?

That's some sharp priorities fellas. Remember this when they try and crow about increase revenue and the Bush tax cuts doing their job next year.

*UPDATE* Frist here says the Senate has simply run out of time. Funny how he had time to diagnose Terri Schavio from the Senate floor in a special session and push for tax cuts for oil companies, but couldn't find the hours to alter the AMT for the millions of Americans it will newly affect this year. Let's just pray none of them go bankrupt because of it, because I hear that's more difficult to file for some reason...