Thread: Political winds shift to Democrats

Political winds shift to Democrats
By Cameron Joseph - 12/11/11 06:10 PM ET

The political winds have shifted to the Democrats’ backs over the last month.

President Obama is in better shape at the prospect of a prolonged GOP primary battle between former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and Mitt Romney. Democrats in the House have been buoyed by a series of court decisions on redistricting and Senate Democrats have recently landed potentially strong recruits in conservative-leaning states.

Democrats on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue have seized on the payroll tax extension, which has divided the GOP.

Voter angst at Washington is extremely high, though it is unclear which party will feel the most of the public’s wrath next November.

The political atmosphere is clearly volatile. A couple months ago, Republicans were optimistic that they had a good chance of running the White House and both chambers of Congress in January, 2013. But since then, that optimism has waned.

“Democrats definitely have had a better time recently than they had had earlier in the year,â€

If Republicans are going to patch up the differences and unite against Obama they would probably need more time than the few months between the convention and the election in 2012. I don't think Palin came off as a very believable cheerleader for McCain in 2008, and the same thing could happen in 2012---whoever the nominee becomes. Watching Sean Hannity go head to head with democrat commentators leads me to think the GOP is very unprepared.

On the payroll tax cut "holiday", Republicans need to pose these questions to American Citizens:

If you don't want to pay all of your payroll tax, then why do you want to pay any of it?

If you don't want to pay any payroll tax, then why do you want to pay any income tax?

If you don't want to pay any payroll or income tax, then why do you want your employers to pay payroll and income tax which is just passed back to you to pay when you purchase their goods and services?

Seems to me when almost half of individual tax filers aren't paying any income tax, wage earners don't want to pay all their payroll tax, the middle class wants income tax relief, corporations and the 1% don't want to pay income tax and are willing to leave the country to avoid it, something is wrong.

Seems to me when Congress spends hours a day, days a week, weeks a month, month after month, year after year, election after election, decade after decade trying to find an income tax scenario that someone is willing to pay in big enough form to support the federal government and can't, something is very wrong.

Seems to me, after a century of this nonsense, we end up with a $16 trillion growing unpaid federal debt while running Social Security and Medicare into the red with a payroll tax cut "holiday", people would want to get rid of a tax that no one wants to pay and doesn't generate enough revenue and replace it with something better like the FairTax that you only pay when you want to purchase new goods and services above the family consumption allowance and when you do generates more than enough revenue to support the cost of the federal government and Social Security/Medicare.

The mandated income tax, which Republicans opposed, turns 100 years old in 2013. After a century of proven, irrefutable, indisputable, undeniable, epic failure, it's not enough to tweak the rates or who pays them, it's time to eliminate the tax entirely and replace it with a voluntary tax on consumption like the FairTax.

HR 25 in the US House of Representatives. S. 13 in the US Senate.

www.fairtax.org

Originally Posted by Captainron

If Republicans are going to patch up the differences and unite against Obama they would probably need more time than the few months between the convention and the election in 2012. I don't think Palin came off as a very believable cheerleader for McCain in 2008, and the same thing could happen in 2012---whoever the nominee becomes. Watching Sean Hannity go head to head with democrat commentators leads me to think the GOP is very unprepared.

Its fairly hard to patch things up when half the candidates are RINO's who are pretty much double agents for the Dems looking to sabotage the Conservative true voice.