Deeply Split By the Mid-Term Axe
Makes me chuckle to pick up the paper and read a headline “Republicans Are Deeply Split Over How to Apportion New Tax Cuts” in the New York Times. They're not split, they're scared to death of the mid-term election axe. A year ago they were not only not split, they weren’t even mildly splintered. The Bush Tax Abatement Machine was more popular than a Humvee with 50 cent gasoline.
House Republicans are still of that mind, but then the House has always been more of a zoo than a legislative body. Dick Cheney was even a member at one time. Anyway, these tax-slashing neocons are dead-set to earmark $63 billion in cuts, more than half of which would go to households with more than $1 million in yearly income. Not one million, more than one million.
Well, if you can’t help the down-and-out million-a-year crowd, what kind of neocon are you, anyway?
"We're not going to be left out in the cold," said Representative Tom Reynolds, whose affluent district is packed with families who could be battered…