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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (192820)6/29/2012 12:33:18 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (2) of 542914
 
And one more memory that has arisen in response to Rebublicans all jumping in now and calling the mandate a tax--when Reagan pushed what was then the biggest tax increase in history back in '85, they called them "user fees," and all of the good little Republican boys and girls marched in lockstep with that language, so that they could avoid calling it a "tax."

Now they are saying, "Roberts called a spade a spade, it is a tax."

Matt Yglesias is right about what the Republicans will do if they get Congressional majorities. Nothing is too shameless for them. They will contradict previous positions in a flash, or will vote lockstep against a bill that just a few years earlier was virtually their own proposal, or came out of a place like Heritage. And scream that that bill is a socialist plot to end the Republic.

Really quite incredible.

P.S. I finally heard this morning a member of the press--John Harwood--say that the Republicans had just completely made up their story of Fast and Furious, that is, their claim that F&F was a plot of the Obama admin to make things in the Southwest so bad that there would be popular support for gun control. FINALLY, some one in the press says that. They make this stuff up, and then they find confirmation of it by having it repeated by so many nutjobs who don't ask for a shred of proof other people talking about it.
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