Bush Tax Cut "Trap" Acknowledged by Republicans

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I've talked about this issue on the blog before of course. But part of my problem with the Republicans' framing of the "Bush Tax Cuts" issue is the ridiculous spinning and juvenile oversimplification.  The tax cuts were set up from the start to sunset, and were planned to be something of a poison pill to Democrats when the deadline came.  Everybody who is paying attention knows this, but they still will frame this as though they don't know how everything started.

Are you as irritated as I am with spin? We all know what's going on, but we have to listen to the weeping orange Boehner pretend that Obama is raising taxes?

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Bush Officials Celebrate Tax Cut ‘Trap’ They Laid Nine Years Ago



As debate rages in Washington over the Bush tax cuts, set to expire at the end of this year, the Bush administration officials who initiated the steep tax cuts are celebrating what they see as an apparent victory, since signs point to a temporary extension of all the cuts. The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz interviewed Dan Bartlett, Bush’s former communications director, and Andy Card, Bush’s former chief of staff, among others, and they were pleased at how the expiration debate has played out. . .
 
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