I was watching Morning Joe on MSNBC this morning, and for once a Republican Senator actually made me laugh out loud. I said to myself, "self, this deserves a post on Soapy's Soapbox"! And so here it is!
Guest John Barrasso, Republican Senator from Wyoming, actually referred to sunsetting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy as the "Obama Tax Hikes"! Ya gotta love it, just the sheer chutzpah of that! The Republicans under acting President Bush 10 years ago put into law a huge tax cut for the wealthy (and a teeny tiny one for the rest of us, just so we couldn't say we were left out). And in their genius they decide not to let these (supposedly temporary) tax cuts sunset in, say, 5 or 6 years, but to make it 10 years! Why 10 years? Because once Bush was out of office the next President, who of course had the possibility of being a Democrat, would have to decide whether or not to continue them. And if said Democratic President decided to let them sunset -- remember, as the Republicans originally wrote in the bill -- they could call them tax hikes!!
So I wonder who else is going to get the memo to refer to what they so proudly called the 'Bush tax cuts' as the 'Obama tax hikes'. Hmmmm....
