How Many Times Will Speaker Boehner Save President Obama From Himself?
“In other words, we arrived at the magic cutoff point through an arbitrary process by which two very economically centrist Democratic politicians one-upped each other to protect higher and higher income earners from even one dollar of tax increases (even as we do nothing about reducing the number of children living in poverty below its scandalous level of 21%, in this very wealthy country).”
IMHO, when criticized rationally from the left, it becomes far easier to see how the centers of the two parties have essentially merged into one monolithic pro-Wall St party. The only real difference, as I see it, is that the GOP caters to it’s more radical constituents while the Dems throw their radical elements under a bus.
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