Vince Cable: Right wing nutters threaten financial markets

[frunk]

You mean other than the Bush tax cuts that were supposed to be a temporary stimulus, and have now become effectively permanent?  Despite the fact that if they had been rolled back on time this mess wouldn't be nearly as bad?

Good Lord, are there really people out there that think the Bush tax cuts got extended by the Republicans?

Hmm, never said it was just the Republicans.

[Razgovory]

You mean other than the Bush tax cuts that were supposed to be a temporary stimulus, and have now become effectively permanent?  Despite the fact that if they had been rolled back on time this mess wouldn't be nearly as bad?

Good Lord, are there really people out there that think the Bush tax cuts got extended by the Republicans?

Are you saying Republicans weren't involved?

[Neil]

I think dear Vince is letting his ideology get in the way on this one: it takes two to tango, and it is not just the "right-wing nutters" who are holding up this supply bill (or whatever it is), but also the Democrats.

The Republicans do deserve more blame than the Democrats though.  At least the Democrats are willing to talk about cuts, even though they're somewhat disingenuous about it and we all know that talking about cutting things in five years is the same as not cutting them at all.  The Republicans are trying to push a poison doctrine of ever-lower taxes, and so are crazier.

The GOP is not trying to lower taxes.

They don't want to raise them.  Pure idiocy.

[Admiral Yi]

Are you saying Republicans weren't involved?

What I'm saying is that when an extension is proposed by a Democratic president, passed by a Democrat controlled House and a Democrat controlled Senate, and signed into law by a Democratic president, it's a bit of a stretch to say the Republicans extended the Bush tax cuts.

[Razgovory]

Would it have passed with out Republican support?

[garbon]

Would it have passed with out Republican support?