red states rule
11-24-2008, 09:47 AM
The kook left must be having a nervious breakdown. First Obama staff is mostly Clinton retreads, reports about second thoughts are expressed, leave Iraq right away is off the table, FISA looks like it will stay in place, now Bush tax cuts may stay in place
Now it looks like liberals are admitting tax cuts are good for the economy.
Seems Obama is doing more flip flopping now then he did during the campaign. How will this play with the liberals who wanted change - and conservatives who likely support these Obama's flip flops?
Obama Advisers Signal Tax Cuts May Stay
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama has signaled that he will pursue a far more ambitious plan of spending and tax cuts than anything he outlined on the campaign trail — a plan "big enough to deal with the huge problem we face,” a top adviser said Sunday — setting the tone for a recovery effort that could absorb and define much of his term.
A member of the Obama economic advisory team, William M. Daley, acknowledged that because of the gravity of the situation, Mr. Obama was leaning toward letting a Bush tax cut for the wealthy expire on schedule in 2011 rather than repealing it sooner.
There were hints Sunday that a stimulus package might be extraordinarily large. Austan Goolsbee, a senior Obama economic adviser, charged that the Bush administration had “dithered” as the economy turned down and suggested that the incoming administration would take dramatic action.
“We’re out with the dithering, we’re in with a bang,” he said on CBS. A senior Democrat, Senator Charles Schumer of New York, said that any package should be as much as $700 billion, equivalent to the recent financial bailout plan
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/politics/24transition.html?_r=1&hp
Now it looks like liberals are admitting tax cuts are good for the economy.
Seems Obama is doing more flip flopping now then he did during the campaign. How will this play with the liberals who wanted change - and conservatives who likely support these Obama's flip flops?
Obama Advisers Signal Tax Cuts May Stay
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama has signaled that he will pursue a far more ambitious plan of spending and tax cuts than anything he outlined on the campaign trail — a plan "big enough to deal with the huge problem we face,” a top adviser said Sunday — setting the tone for a recovery effort that could absorb and define much of his term.
A member of the Obama economic advisory team, William M. Daley, acknowledged that because of the gravity of the situation, Mr. Obama was leaning toward letting a Bush tax cut for the wealthy expire on schedule in 2011 rather than repealing it sooner.
There were hints Sunday that a stimulus package might be extraordinarily large. Austan Goolsbee, a senior Obama economic adviser, charged that the Bush administration had “dithered” as the economy turned down and suggested that the incoming administration would take dramatic action.
“We’re out with the dithering, we’re in with a bang,” he said on CBS. A senior Democrat, Senator Charles Schumer of New York, said that any package should be as much as $700 billion, equivalent to the recent financial bailout plan
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/politics/24transition.html?_r=1&hp