Republican group attacks Klobuchar on Obama tax plan
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 2:31 pm
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The National Republican Senatorial Committee went after Sen. Amy Klobuchar in a press release last week and again on Monday criticizing her hesitance to take a stand on the tax cut compromise brokered between President Obama and Republican Senators. The attack came after new polling showed Klobuchar with the highest favorability rating of any Democratic senator up for re-election in 2012. She would also clobber Republicans in a series of theoretical matchups.
“With her party in total disarray, Amy Klobuchar needs to tell Minnesotans where she stands on raising their taxes as they suffer from high unemployment. Does she stand with President Obama against this massive tax hike, or does she stand with the liberal left which supports higher taxes on job creators?” NRSC’s Brian Walsh said last Wednesday. “With Americans suffering from nearly 10 percent unemployment, the last thing we need is a job-killing tax hike. So, when will Amy Klobuchar come off the fence and make her position clear?”
The NRSC doubled down on Monday.
“With her party leaders at war with one another and this key vote just hours away, why won’t Senator Klobuchar just tell Minnesotans where she stands on raising their taxes as they struggle with high unemployment?” said Walsh. “It’s a simple question: will Amy Klobuchar join with President Obama in yielding to voters’ demands, or will she stand with Nancy Pelosi and the extreme left in raising taxes on Minnesota’s families and job creators?”
Klobuchar has told several reporters that she’s still studying the president’s proposal.
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Comment posted December 13, 2010 @ 2:52 pm
Well won’t she make it clear with her vote? Why does she need to say otherwise. I’m confused. Sounds like a lot of political showmanship to me.
Comment posted December 13, 2010 @ 4:30 pm
I agree with jeff-minneapols. The article is a bunch of “the rich will save us all” double talk. 48% of the tax benefits from the planned extension go to the wealthiest one-tenth of one percent. 78% go to the wealthiest eight percent. So it’s primarily the rich who would have had their taxes raised before Obama and the GOP launched this upper-class coup.
As for Birkey’s worn-out claim about the rich being job-creators, not even Warren Buffet believes this. In my first book, The Nazi Paradigm, I note how Buffet said he never made a business decision based on proposed tax-cuts. Second, he said a tax cut of one thousand dollars for a hundred Americans would stimulate the economy far more than a one-hundred thousand dollar tax cut for him, the kind of tax cut the Bush plan offers.
In short, there’s not a shred of evident to support any of Birkey’s claims in the above article.
Comment posted December 13, 2010 @ 4:38 pm
Which Republican sacrificial lamb will be slaughtered running against Minnesota’s favorite daughter Amy? Maybe they can get Kennedy to do another poor campaign that has you shuddering with each poorly thought out commercial. Perhaps Paw=Paw will be done with his Presidential fantasy by then to make a sad sack run… poor Timmy is such an also ran that most Republicans barely consider him in straw polls.
Comment posted December 13, 2010 @ 6:10 pm
Mark > As for Birkey’s worn-out claim about the rich being job-creators …
Correction. It is NRSC’s Brian Walsh who claims this falsehood, not Andy Birkey who is merely quoting him.
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