Need some balls, its sure. President Obama too, I'm afraid. If you want your Congressman to spine-up and deny tax cuts to the rich that, if not allowed to sunset, will cost us $700 Billion, call (202)224 - 3121 and ask for your representative or senator. I called Senator Mark Begich and left a message about the Bush tax cuts, and the U.S. Senate's idiotic filibuster rule. I would rather let the whole thing sunset and see my tax burden go up a couple of hundred than give more $$ to the very wealthy, particularly in view of the fact that we now have the greatest disparity of wealth in this country since the 1920s.
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Speaking of the former president, "W" has been on tour plugging his book "Decision Points." In one interview he both bragged about giving the order to water-board torture prisoners, a war crime, and actually blame Saddam Hussein for the Iraq War, because Saddam fooled Bush into thinking he had WMDs, when in fact he had none. 4000+ American lives, 100,000+ Iraqi lives, probably $2 Trillion in lost American treasure, all because George Bush was duped into invading the wrong country? Do you miss him yet?
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For all those Tea Party types who carry the signs quoting T. Jefferson about the "Tree of liberty" needing to be watered by the "blood of tyrants:" Jill Lepore (Bill's book of the month recommendation "The Whites of Their Eyes") writes that "aside from Jefferson,whose enthusiasm for revolution did not survive Robespierre [and the Terror] most everyone else [other Founders] came down in favor of order." The Teahadists still have it all wrong.
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