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Obama's Economic Push: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Open Left - Front Page —
... reports that Congress is not about to rubber-stamp these tax cuts, with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus saying his "preference is to invest a bigger share of the roughly $775 billion package in domestic energy programs." Meanwhile, the Politico reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is urging Obama to back an immediate repeal of Bush's upper-income tax cuts, rather than waiting for them to expire). ...
Pelosi to Obama: Repeal Bush Tax Cuts
TPM Election Central —
... "Put me down as clearly as you possibly can as one who wants to have those tax cuts for the wealthiest in America repealed," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol today. On her way to her weekly press conference, she made the point more overtly to the Politico. ...
Democrats Indicate A Pulse-- Some Will Not Be Rubber Stamps For Obama When He Leans Too Far Towards Bad Republican Ideas
DownWithTyranny! —
... I fear that Obama's obsession with compromise is the wrong way to proceed. In the name of some kind of unattainable bipartisan consensus he is rolling over of virtually everything that comes up. Fortunately we are starting to hear rumblings from the committed defenders of working families that Obama show some backbone in dealing with the Republican obstructionists. Today, for example, Speaker Pelosi urged him to repeal Bush's economy-crippling tax cuts for the wealthy. ...
Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog —
The Guardian reports that the Obama camp is open to talks with Hamas.
William McGurn picks apart the poor press coverage of a study on abstinence pledges and teen sex.
Pelosi urges Obama to raise taxes.
Kit Bond won't run for reelection in 2010.
Chris Matthews won't run for Senate in Pennsylvania.
Spidey teams up with Obama.
Stepping Up, Ever So Gently, On Taxes
Open Left - Front Page —
... ) stands on Obama's worst tax ideas - they'll likely see that they can pass progressive tax policies and not face political extinction. And maybe - just maybe - that will embolden people like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) to stop merely "urging" Obama to support repealing Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, and simply use her legislative powers to force him to sign such a repeal. ...
Waving Goodbye to Reaganism: Terms of the Tax Debate Continue to Tectonically Shift
Open Left - Front Page —
... Over the last few weeks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) has been escalating her demand for the Obama administration to back an immediate repeal of the Bush tax cuts for the top one percent of all income earners. Like ...
Obama will not immediately repeal Bush tax cuts.
Think Progress —
... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said in January that she was “urging” Obama to immediately repeal the Bush tax cuts, which she said were “the biggest contributor to the budget deficit.” ...
