Tagged: tax cut

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 12:06 pm

Wall Street Journal Slams Rehberg Over Tax Cut Failure

It looks like we’re in for a white Christmas–but it’s just as likely to be from the foam coming out of the mouth of TEA Party Congressman Dennis Rehberg and his colleagues as from snow.

Rehberg’s latest move is so nutso in fact, that the Wall Street Journal has published a scathing editorial slamming Rehberg and House republicans for “thoroughly botching” the payroll tax cut.

The editorial assigns particular culpability to TEA Party Rehblicans like Rehberg who, along with his fellow foamers, are blocking the bipartisan compromise to extend the tax cut.  This after 39  Repubs in the Senate joined the Dems in passing the tax cut in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 89-10 vote.  After all, the proposal contained plenty of Republican provisions–like a pay increase for doctors.  But because Rehberg and his Tea Party crew knew the  bipartisan compromise would gather enough support to pass the House, they used some archaic Congressional rules kill the bill without taking a simple up or down vote.  Their ranting and temper tantrums resulted in Rehberg and friends forcing a $1,000 tax hike on the average Montana family beginning January 1st,  according to the DSCC.

 

Posted: April 22, 2011 at 6:48 am

Montana Republican Math

As we wait for the legislature to resume and the GOP leaders sharpen their pencils, let’s discuss national politics, and math. The Tea Party and the mindless GOP and FOX news are all out in force, enraged at Obama’s suggestion that perhaps taxes ought to be raised as a way of paying off the debt.

To be sure, Obama has added his share of debt with maybe trillion and a half dollars–give or take–of stimulus and health care reform (the bailout ended up in a near wash because banks paid most of it back, so its not a big ticket item).

During the 2000s, Bush entered us into two invasions and occupations that have cost, let’s say, a trillion a piece. At the same time, he cut taxes. I’m told these are the only two wars in American History for which taxes were not raised as a way of paying for the war.

Of course not only were they not raised, they were lowered. Exactly how this accounting was suppose to work is something that not a single Republican in America has yet explained.

And remember, Bush and the GOP Congress that helped him pull off this feat were enabled or abetted by cheerleaders for both the wars and the tax cuts, cheerleaders like Denny Rehberg, Conrad Burns, Will Deschamp, Erik Iverson, Rick Hill, Chuck Denowh, Scott Sales, Bob Brown, Roy Brown, John Mercer, Martz, Marc Racicot, Jim Peterson, Mike Milburn and the entire brain trust and vanguard of the GOP past present and future who believed that two trillion dollars in wars can be covered by a tax cut.

And now again. The hot new thing lately is Paul Ryan, Republican Wonderboy, who’s “bold” plan for reducing 14 trillion of deficit calls for taxes to be cut–again. How does this make sense? Anyone?

Posted: December 19, 2010 at 9:21 am

The Rehberg Puzzle

Denny Rehberg’s vote against the tax cut package could be explained by his expected bid for higher office, either Governor or Senator–he’s keeping his options open.  As The Hill reports,

A slew of House Republicans thought to be contenders for higher office in 2012 voted against the tax package on Thursday.

Rehberg was one of them, and Rehberg’s vote against the recent spending package can be explained by these ambitions, because votes against the spending measure will likely be a positive with Tea Party activists and could help in a GOP primary against Daines or Hill.

But the question isn’t which office he’ll run for, what’s really puzzling is why some far-left liberals would rather fight the friends who disappoint them on occasion than focus on the enemies who want to destroy them. The right doesn’t do this.  They just want to win.  If actions are any indicator, some liberals just want to whine.