That smug bastard! Why is the Afghan war the cause for new taxes? What about the stimulus plan that wasn't, what about the tons of pork contained in every bill coming out of Congress, what about the 'Cash for Clunkers', what about TARP? And I suppose health care and cap and trade won't be the cause for even more new taxes. You hypocritical, disingenuous a__hole! Bloomberg : Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) --...
Add David Obey to the increasingly vocal foes of General Stanley McChrystal's proposed escalation of the U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a group that includes Arlen Specter and the 57 Congresspeople who signed Massachusetts Congressmen James McGovern's letter to the President. "There ain't going to be no money for nothing if we pour it all into Afghanistan," House Appropriations Chairman David...
Congressman Obey of Wisconsin, who also happens to be the chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee has a fiscal punch to the nose for those advocating an escalation in the numbers of troops occupying Afghanistan...You want it, be prepared to pay for it. "There ain't going to be no money for nothing if we pour it all into Afghanistan,"?he said in an interview with ABC News....
Dear rich people: Here's another burden you'll be expected to shoulder. Bloomberg : Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. An “additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000” a year, could...
Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. An "additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000" a year, could fund more troops, Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said in an interview for Bloomberg Television's...
A New kind of War has come to the Debate on Afghanistan, Class Warfare. Normally the Democrats have limited their tactic of Class Warfare to the debate on Health care, but according to an Article in Bloomberg, all of that has changed. Democratic Senator Carl Levin, has suggested that a New Higher income tax be levied on the "Upper Class" in order to pay for the War: "An “additional...
Once again the only solution a Democrat can come up with is " tax the rich ": Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for additional troops sent to Afghanistan and that NATO should provide half of the new soldiers. An “additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000,”...
Outgoing White House communications director Anita Dunn on Friday praised the " fact-checking investigative journalism " skills of Comedy Central's Jon Stewart while she pushed back against any suggestion MSNBC was at all biased. For those that have forgotten, this is the same Administration official who a month ago said Fox " is not a news network ." The following is a partial...
In an interview with Al Hunt of Bloomberg, Anita Dunn offers a fairly definitive answer to the question about whether the President of the United States gave his stamp of approval on launching a war on FOX News: HUNT: Just - just - just a follow-on on this. Was President Obama aware ahead of time that [...]
• On Bloomberg's "Political Capital with Al Hunt" this weekend, outgoing White House Communications Director Anita Dunn . It was revealed earlier this week that Dunn, who led the verbal attacks on Fox News last month, would be leaving the administration. The show airs tonight at 6:30pmET. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media .
by Mark Silva Was Anita Dunn, the outgoing communications director of the White House, speaking for herself when she called FOX News "an arm of the Republican Party'' on a rival cable news network's program, or was this something that Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and political adviser David Axelrod had planned ahead of time? "I am not exactly one known for 'going rogue,''' Dunn said today,...
by Mark Silva With about 25 legislative days left until Christmas, Peter Orszag, the president's budget director, was asked today if the White House still expects delivery of a health-care bill by year's end. "That's the goal and I think we will get there,'' Orszag said at a conference of political, business and military leaders today. "There is some distance left to go, and we will get...
On Bloomberg’s Political Capital, host Al Hunt asked House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) whether he agrees with hate radio host Rush Limbaugh’s assertion that “Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate.” Limbaugh also compared the administration’s health care logo to a swastika. Cantor hemmed and hawed in response. “Rush Limbaugh, other personalities…have...
You can’t criticize Rush Limbaugh and be a member of the modern Republican party. ‘The Republican Party in its roots is a party of inclusion and we ought to be promoting that and making sure that voices are heard,’ Cantor, of Virginia, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s ‘Political Capital with Al Hunt,’ airing today. Cantor, [...]
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