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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
I do not get it. Democrats and Obama do not want the tax cuts for the wealthy. Republicans want tax cuts for everyone. Why have the Dems not just passed the bill they want? They still have super majority and in a lame duck session.
What is stopping them?
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Ok moron I'll explain. If the Senate tries to pass the Obama version then the republicans will fillibuster which means a vote can not be taken on it unless 60 members of the Senate agree to end the fillabuster. Since the Dems only have 59 memebrs of the Senate how to do you get 60 votes?
What I don't get is thay all the republicans and teabaggers complain about passing on this huge deficit to their kids and grandkids yet want to extend a tax cut that never should have been that will add $700 billion to the deficit over the bext 10 years. This is on top of a republican passed medicare prescription drug bill that will cost over $500 billion over it's first 10 years and a 2 trillion Iraq War that never should have happened.