I am sure you have heard about all the upsets by the Republican Tea Party on the right in Tuesday’s primaries.

Those of you in Massachusetts probably also heard lots of news reports about the progressive win in New Hampshire.  What’s that, you heard not a peep?  What’s wrong with those left leaning media that are always shilling for the Democrats?  Did they let you down?

You can read some news and see a video interview on the PCCC web site.

WE DID IT! Bold progressive Ann McLane Kuster defeated Joe Lieberman’s presidential campaign co-chair Katrina Swett in Tuesday’s New Hampshire congressional primary. PCCC members made thousands of phone calls and chipped in nearly $100,000 toward her people-powered victory.

Perhaps some of my readers from New Hampshire can tell us more.

Since I live out in the red part of Massachusetts, I didn’t see anything in the local Worcester paper.  However, I do watch the Boston television stations, and I heard nothing.

There is a Boston Globe article Democrats pick Kuster in NH’s 2nd District.  Still there is not quite the enthusiasm about the national implications of a progressive winning the campaign.  If Kuster had been a Tea Party candidate, can you imagine the publicity?  Maybe it is just that the media cannot believe that people would actually vote for Tea Party candidates, so it  is news when they do.

“We report that the only exciting candidates are from the Tea Party, and we let you decide.  What could be more fair and balanced than that?”

President Obama and the Democratic leadership had the plan of letting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire.  Somehow the Republicans managed to scare a few people into thinking that this expiration would harm the economy that is in recession.

My idea was to make it explicit that the money from the expired tax cuts could be redeployed in more economically stimulative ways than giving the money to the wealthy.

The longer President Obama and the Democratic leadership delays in taking up this idea, the more they lose even conservative Democrats from their cause.

I can see that my first way of phrasing the plan was not clear enough.  Obama has to change his plan so that he takes the money from the tax cut to the wealthy and uses it instead to raise the tax cut to the middle and lower classes.  This clearly sinks the idea that letting the tax cut expire will harm the fragile economy.

In the hands of the wealthy, this tax cut money either gets loaned back to the government in the purchase of treasury bonds or it gets invested in creating jobs in other countries.  What better way to stimulate the economy than to give the money to the people who will spend it locally to create jobs here?

For such a canny politician as Obama proved to be in the Presidential campaign, you wouldn’t think that it would take someone like me to lead him by the hand to the obvious solution.

By the way, if the picture is too small on your screen to see exactly what kind of animal I am leading to water, hover your mouse over the picture and read the title.

If they lose the argument over this tax policy issue, it would make me wonder what happened to their political smarts.

On September 17, The Worcester Telegram & Gazette published my  letter to the editor.