{"id":11658,"date":"2012-07-27T10:25:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11658"},"modified":"2012-07-27T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T15:25:24","slug":"why-the-bush-tax-cut-vote-was-so-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/07\/27\/why-the-bush-tax-cut-vote-was-so-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Bush Tax Cut Vote Was So Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Beutler on <em>Talking Points Memo<\/em> has a nice analysis, <a title=\"Talking Points Memo article\" href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2012\/07\/why_the_tax_vote_matters.php?ref=fpblg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Why The Bush Tax Cut Vote Was So Important<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He concludes with the following paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now I don\u2019t think the public hew and cry will be loud enough to force Republicans to move off their position before the election. Maybe if this were another issue \u2014 but not taxes. And if Mitt Romney wins in November, then they\u2019ll just extend all the Bush tax cuts anyhow. But if Obama wins, this bill will still be live. And the pressure on the House GOP to relent and pass it during the lame duck will be overwhelming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He might add that the likelihood of Obama&#8217;s reelection may have increased because of this vote and what the campaign will make of it.\u00a0 The sudden display of a spine might also enliven the President&#8217;s supporters.\u00a0 It certainly looks encouraging to me.<\/p>\n<p>I was once under the impression that if the Republicans ran a reasonable candidate against Obama, that Obama had a chance of losing.\u00a0\u00a0 Now that we know that Romney can&#8217;t (and sometimes doesn&#8217;t even try) to hide who he really is and what he really stands for, I think Obama&#8217;s chances are improving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Beutler on Talking Points Memo has a nice analysis, Why The Bush Tax Cut Vote Was So Important. He concludes with the following paragraph: Now I don\u2019t think the public hew and cry will be loud enough to force Republicans to move off their position before the election. Maybe if this were another issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11659,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions\/11659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}