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Surreal, really Guy? How dare Obama put forward an initial proposal consistent with the platform he was recently re-elected on my a majority of Americans? How dare he insinuate that the United States is a democracy?
Republicans have been asking for the White House's plan for some time now -- well, they finally got one. Oh my:
House Republicans said on Thursday that Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner presented the House speaker, John A. Boehner, a detailed proposal to avert the year-end fiscal crisis with $1.6 trillion in tax increases over 10 years, an immediate new round of stimulus spending, home mortgage refinancing and a permanent end to Congressional control over statutory borrowing limits. The proposal, loaded with Democratic priorities and short on detailed spending cuts, was likely to meet strong...
All I have seen is tax hikes on the rich.
That's a decades old libtard play in the playbook.