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Obama faces mutiny from own party

Tam

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Obama faces mutiny from own party as 31 Democrats demand tax cuts for the rich
By David Gardner
Last updated at 7:16 PM on 16th September 2010

President Obama was facing a mutiny within his own Democrat Party tonight over his pledge to deliver tax cuts for America’s struggling middle class.
A group of 31 rebel Democrat congressmen and women have broken ranks to demand that all income levels are given tax breaks, including the wealthy.
Mr Obama insists he is targeting Americans earning less than £160,000-a-year.
But the breakaway Democrats fear that increasing taxes, even for the rich, could jeopardise the party’s chances in the looming mid-term elections.
Mutiny: President Barack Obama has clashed with his party as some Democrats demand tax breaks for the rich
The claim any hint of raising taxes could be political suicide at the ballot box in November.
The rebellion is a major blow to Mr Obama who is desperately trying to coral Republican support for the tax bill that was one of his key promises during his presidential campaign.
Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, he lambasted the Republican leadership for holding the middle class tax cuts ‘hostage’ to boost the pay packets of ‘millionaires and billionaires.’
He complained that extending the cuts to everybody would mean the government would have to borrow another £450 billion ‘to fund these tax cuts for the very wealthiest Americans.’
‘We simply can’t afford that. It doesn’t make any sense,’ he added.
The leader of the Democrat group, Congressman Jim Matheson, insisted yesterday: ‘In the short run with our economy where it is right now, I don’t think we should be raising taxes.’
He claimed that by extending tax breaks brought in under the Bush administration for another one to two years it would give a major boost to small business owners the rebels claim make up one-third of upper-income taxpayers and are ‘the backbone of our economic recovery.’
The congressman said the two parties should work together to get the country back on its feet.
‘People are tired of that bickering. They expect people back here to act like big boys and girls,’ he added.
Many of the rebels are in tight races in states that could easily swing to the Republicans in the polls.

They have all signed a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer urging across the board tax relief.
‘We believe in times of economic recovery it makes good sense to maintain things as they are in the short term, to provide families and businesses the certainty required to plan and make sound budget decisions,’ they wrote.
The split was revealed just a day after Mr Obama announced that two Republican senators had crossed sides to help pass a bill providing £20 billion in extra loans for small businesses.


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The Dems are Scared of Nov.
 

Lonecowboy

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Facing mutiny??

Causing mutiny would be more like it.
Him and Nasty, and reid, and all the far far left.
They shoved way too much down American's throats when we had our mouths open yelling stop. Now it is our turn and it's regurgitating back all over them. We won't forget.
 

Tam

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looks like some Dems are even regurgitating on themselves over the Health care bill :lol:

Dems buy anti-health-reform ads
By: Sarah Kliff
September 16, 2010 04:31 AM EDT

Democratic candidates are spending three times more advertising against the health reform law than they are in support of it.

Since the beginning of Congress’s August recess, Democratic candidates have poured $930,000 into ads deriding the health overhaul but just $300,000 in pro-reform spots, according to Evan Tracey at Kantar Media.

“Go back to 2006, and even before that, and Democrats used health care as their No. 1 issue,” Tracey said. “They had a villain in the pharmaceutical industry. Now that they passed this law, it’s almost disarmed them rather than given them an opportunity.”

Moreover, Tracey’s data shows that health reform opponents – inside and outside of Congress – are increasingly outspending supporters. Opponents now spend seven times as much on anti-reform spots as supporters spend on pro-reform spots, a marked change from early May, when their dollars only doubled those of reform advocates.

Anti-reform forces, including the Chamber for Commerce, Americans for Prosperity and Crossroads GPS, have spent $14 million on advertisements since early August, Tracey said.

At the same time, pro-reform groups have spent just $1.8 million. The most notable buy comes from the Health Information Campaign, a new-Democrat led group currently running a three-week, national ad campaign in support of the new law.

Even Democratic candidates’ pro-reform ads can offer tepid support for the law. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) ran an ad last week that mentioned his support of health reform briefly, sandwiched between other legislative accomplishments.

“When the economy collapsed, Sen. Feingold helped pass tax cuts for 95 percent of Wisconsin family,” the script reads. “Russ also fought for tax credits for small businesses and relief from rising health care costs.”

“There’s not any messaging out there by incumbent Democrats trying to promote what people liked, like allowing dependents to stay on their parents’ insurance,” says Tracey. He describes the Health Information Campaign’s advertisements, which do hit on popular provisions of reform, as “one voice screaming in a crowd. They’re not going to get heard with everyone else screaming.”

As POLITICO has previously reported, at least five Democrats have run ads touting their opposition to health reform.

Anti-health reform groups continue to pour millions into attack ads. The Chamber of Commerce went up Tuesday with new ads attacking Attorney General Jack Conway in Kentucky for supporting the law and accusing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist of flip-flopping on the issue.

“Democrats haven’t found a good rejoinder,” Tracey said. “There doesn’t seem to be a significant effort to try and dial some of that criticism down, turn a negative into a positive.”


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Lonecowboy

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Mississippi Rep. Gene Taylor has become the first Democratic co-sponsor of a Republican effort to repeal the health care law, joining 172 GOPers to call for a vote to end the legislation.

Taylor, an 11-term lawmaker known as a Blue Dog for his fiscal moderation, issued a statement Thursday saying that he is joining the "discharge petition" proposed by Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law on March 23.

"I didn't vote for it, people don't want it, and the taxpayers cannot afford it," Taylor said in a statement issued on his website.

If 218 lawmakers sign a discharge petition, it forces a bill to be brought to the House floor for a vote, although the majority leadership has maneuvers to avoid a vote.

No House Republicans supported the bill and 31 Democrats opposed it at the time of the vote. Several Democrats are campaigning for re-election on their disapproval of the bill.

However, even if the legislation gets 218 people to sign on, and it is approved in the House, and a like-minded bill passed the Senate, it's not likely President Obama would sign-off on abolishing his hallmark legislation.

:D :D :D
 

Tam

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Obama sold the health care bill by saying 30 million Americans don't have Health Ins. and he was going to cover all of them, BUT the census has the number of uninsured at 50 million. Just what will OBAMA"S under-estimated number of uninsured do to the real cost of Obama care?
 
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