Glory be! The
Times thinks "Republican Senators Face Risks" over insisting that this round of tax cut extensions should be
only for the wealthy:
Senate Republicans will press this week to extend tax cuts for affluent families scheduled to expire Jan. 1, but the same Republican tax plan would allow a series of tax cuts for the working poor and the middle class to end next year.
Republicans say the tax breaks for lower-income families — passed with little notice in the extensive 2009 economic stimulus law — were always supposed to be temporary. But President Obama had made them a priority in 2009 and demanded their extension in 2010 as a price for extending the Bush-era tax cuts for two years...
Wow, I sure hope they stick with this. It will be so clarifying for people who aren't quite sure what the party stands for.
