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Home Front: Politix
Dems Worried About Raising Taxes Too Much
2011-05-14
While Republican tensions over tackling the national debt have been on public display for days, Democrats have also been squabbling with one another, though largely out of view.
It's good to have the media on your side.
At issue for Democrats is whether the party risks going overboard in its embrace of tax increases — a perilous proposition for lawmakers from political battlegrounds.

Several centrist Democrats have been voicing concern in private sessions that ConradÂ’s draft may be shifting too far to the left in order to placate liberals on the committee and in the media whose votes are needed to move the legislation, according to aides.

Republicans have been rallying around a House spending plan authored by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), even as they’ve been sending mixed signals in recent days over a key provision calling for a deep overhaul of Medicare. The Democratic-run Senate, meantime, has been incapable unable — or unwilling — to lay out its alternative agenda.

The New and Improved Harry Reid, meantime, has told his caucus to move cautiously before embracing any budget plan. “I told my members just — let’s not be signing onto all this stuff until we really know where we’re headed.”
Learned your lesson with sign-it-first-then-read-it Obamacare, right, Harry?
Posted by:Bobby

#4  "everyone get your masks on to fool the rubes"
Posted by: Frank G   2011-05-14 16:59  

#3  Congress is such a basket case and so damn tied up in knots.

It'll probably take a generation to recover from 2009-2010 when, during the reign of Nancy I, it wasn't tied up in knots.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-05-14 15:27  

#2  It's more like a competition to see who can kowtow to their political base better. No wonder this Congress is such a basket case and so damn tied up in knots.
Posted by: Delphi   2011-05-14 13:22  

#1  Must be getting close to election time again. Now these low lifes will be drapping themselves in red, white and blue bontings.
Posted by: Elmoger Speaking for Boskone8927   2011-05-14 13:18  

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