Dems spent years rejecting Bush tax cuts and now claims that it was Bush who refused permanency.

From TPMDC: Earlier this evening [ Tuesday] , House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer rolled out a new way of talking about the fight over the Bush tax cuts. Democrats, he said, are committed "to absolutely ensure that Republican phasing out of the middle-class tax cuts will not happen."

"That's what they adopted at the beginning of the Bush administration -- that they would phase it out, and it would end," Hoyer said.

He's right.

The only reason Congress is debating income tax cuts (for the rich or anybody else) is that President Bush and Republicans in Congress scheduled their 2001 tax cuts to expire at the end of 2010. They were constrained by the budget rules, and by sticker shock, from making the tax cuts permanent, and now they're about to sunset. . . . . . . read more >>>>>

Editor's notes: the fellow who wrote this tribute to ignorance is Brian Beutler. Know who he is ? We didn't think so.

Understand that the reason the Democrat talking point is "new" is because it is not true. The storyline leaves out a very important fact - from the first year of the Bush tax cuts, President Bush tried to get the Democrats to go along with making the tax cuts permanent. ON EVERY OCCASION, the Democrat caucus refused vote "no".

Bush had to compromise with the Democrats in the beginning. That is why the cuts were "temporary" in the first place. Steny Hoyer knows this. The ignorant Beutler does not.

Here is a reference to an article written on April 3, 2007 [PERMALINK] confirming the accuracy of what we are saying. Of course, if you were alive and politically aware back then, you already know the Dems fought the Bush tax cuts and forced him to make them temporary. The Dems took back both houses of Congress with the midterm elections of November, 2006. At any time during the two years before Obama, the Dems AND SENATOR OBAMA could have made the tax cuts permanent.

They have no one to blame but themselves and before it is all said and done, the hapless Democrats, in total disarray, will approve all the Bush tax cuts for another year, perhaps two years.

Point of post: we think it humorous that the Dems have decided NOT to run on anything they did in 2009. Instead, they are suddenly concerned about and the deficit they have helped to create. They have 48 days to come up with fantasy substitutes for the mess they created last year. Will the voter be fooled ? We don't think so.

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