Pic Of The Moment: Congratulations Tea Party! Behold The Fruits Of Your Labors

[EarlG]

U.S. House passes estate tax repeal despite veto threat

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[DetlefK]

1. Remember: The deficit only counts when Democrats talk about taxing and spending.

[forest444]

33. By which, when pressed, they really mean welfare spending,

by which, once they get a few drinks in'em, they mean "spending on them n******."

[Spitfire of ATJ]

48. Poor white folks in the South are convinced they're poor because of welfare for blacks.

[forest444]

49. Sad, but true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=13&v=GkJm4SaAs0U

[AngryDem001]

59. They are also convinced that one day they will be rich too.

Why do you think the lottery is so popular?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

60. With casinos popping up they're discovering video poker too....

It's described here in Vegas as "The Heroin Of Gambling Addiction".

[AngryDem001]

61. And there is Internet gambling as well.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

62. I used to say, "The road to riches is not paved with lottery tickets".

[AngryDem001]

63. May I please steal that?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

64. Go for it.

[corkhead]

2. Shame on the supposed Dems that voted for this piece of trash

[sunnystarr]

6. If the numbers are right

on that jpeg then 7 Dems voted FOR it! Those are 7 who should be hearing from us and feeling the consequences when looking for votes in the next election.

[underpants]

17. I wonder how Dave Bratt voted

The local Teabaggers ignored him until primary night when it became clear that he would beat Cantor - then there was a stampede to claim him as their own.

[ThoughtCriminal]

35. List

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/16/1378170/-Which-7-Democrats-Just-Voted-to-Repeal-the-Estate-Tax

Brad Ashford (NE-02)
Sanford Bishop (GA-02)
Jim Costa (CA-16)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Collin Peterson (MN-07)
Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02)
Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09)

[delrem]

42. Facts like this should be *pinned*, in DU

and these Dems should be just bloody hammered when it comes time to re-elect them.

But it seems that Dems can cross the floor with impunity and nobody can remember, nobody can recall...
Hey, look over there! A Kardashian spotted!

[NCjack]

55. And shame on the ignorant Teabaggers that wanted our government and society returned to

the day that the Bill of Rights passed Congress 1789) -- except "keep your filthy hands off my Social Security". Look around Teabaggers. The Tea Party congress members that you elected want to take your Social Security to give the 1% more tax breaks.

[bjobotts]

65. Will it pass the senate or get filibustered or vetoed by president?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. But there's no difference between the parties. They're both in the pockets of big business.

[MisterP]

26. right, because overall the Dems are SUCH decades-long staunch opponents of Wall Street and the rich

[delrem]

43. There's a difference.

When the Dems have a majority *just enough* Dems can always be found to cross the floor and vote with the Republicans on economic/military matters, so Dem policies get stonewalled. Every time. That doesn't happen on the Republican side. That's why Republicans totally rule on economic/military matters.

[valerief]

4. Teabaggers must be SO proud. Now they can pretend to be just like those

multimillionaires. Pretending from the comfort of their rented mobile home. Which they'll be evicted from because some multimillionaire just fired them from their big box store job. But the multimillionaire is just doing god's work. Which is make more money. For himself.

[Gothmog]

5. This tax only affects the larger estates

This is a really dumb idea

[1StrongBlackMan]

18. I had a DUer defending this ...

saying that the estate tax was the death of the family farm ... citing to a story I heard beck talking about, where a family had to sell the family farm upon the death of the father in order to pay the estate tax.

I called B.S., but more suggested that any family farmer that is concerned about this might wish to consult a Business Organization attorney ... concern resolved.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

22. It's bullshit when you consider how many black families were conned

out of their farms. Sharecropping destroyed black families who rightfully owned land. I say, let the 1%ers pay!! They owe much more than that. It is a privilege to live in a country that allows one to be wealthy due not to one's own hard work and labor.

[BlueJazz]

25. Also,,Forbes reports that the rates will start at somewhere around 5.34 million.

(which of course, will keep most of the USA populace up all night worrying about it)

[Major Hogwash]

37. Was he talking about an Amish family milk farm in Wisconsin?

Those Amish fellers are bullish on milk cows!
Nevertheless, I don't think their farm is going to be worth anywhere near $5.4 Million dollars!!

[PatrynXX]

7. course if one was watching Faux the other day

they had it as benefiting mostly small biz and 72 % of americans wanted to get rid of it. welcome to fantasy like yeah they do and after the vote they still will

[asiliveandbreathe]

8. Ask Not what you can do for your country -

Ask what your country can do for you!

Me thinks Harry will stop a vote in the senate.....

[father founding]

9. The deficit, OHHH ! , the deficit

I guess they got over the vapors.

[samsingh]

10. would the President need to sign this bill?

[silverweb]

12. It still needs to go to the Senate.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]If they pass it, as well, then it goes to the President, who will veto it. The big question is, can Congress override a veto?

[wordpix]

16. if it goes to a veto override that will hopefully wake up the sheeple

at least by that time the media should be all over it. I wonder how Faux will spin it

[silverweb]

45. Let's hope it never gets that far.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Every Democrat really should be shouting from the rooftops about this thing right now: "Look what they're trying to do to you, people!"

Faux can only spin so much, but Dems have to counter every single lie immediately and completely. Social media should be in a total uproar, as well, spreading the word.

[herding cats]

11. Thanks for making such a perfect graphic for this!

I love it!

[JimDandy]

13. The congressional reps who benefited recused themselves, of course.

[Fred Sanders]

14. Tea party folk are willing to forget how they are being used like useful idiots...it is the End of Days, after all!

The News is clearly telling everyone that, but libs refuse to listen.....tax breaks for Zillionaires and more taxes and shaming of the poor is just obviously part of God's mysterious plan.

How else did Iowa and NH evangelical pastors end up getting to decide on of two choices for President if not God's plan?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

23. They hate the black guy more than they care about principles.

[bunnies]

28. NH Evangelicals?

Good like finding one. We're tied for the least religious state in the country.

[Fred Sanders]

29. Is the Republican 2016 Presidential primary voter representative of the entire state? Or of Fox zealots?

[bunnies]

31. Fox zealots by a mile.

Probably the entire percentage that considers itself religious.

[wordpix]

15. Tparty is the Koch Bros' baby and they love their billion$

I'm sure they're giving thanks to the Koch babysitters in Congress who are bought and paid for

[Martin Eden]

19. Rethugs WANT deficits. Rethugs NEED deficits.

The only way to shrink government to a size that can be "drowned in a bathtub" is to de-fund government, and that means Huge. Budget. Deficits.

Rethugs are NOT deficit hawks. They just play deficit hawks on TV. It's tempting to call them idiots because their policies produce huge deficits (the opposite of what they say) but I think the actual results (Huge. Budget. Deficits.) are what they wanted in the first place because that's the only way they can implement their long term agenda.

They want to overturn FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society, but Social Security and Medicare are very popular. Campaigning to directly eliminate those programs would be political suicide, so their strategy is to make them unaffordable and force the public to accept some "tough choices" (which always fall on the backs of those least able to afford economic sacrifice).

[Novara]

53. ^^ this ^^

Exactly.

[d_legendary1]

20. Knowing Fixed News

They're probably telling them that the tax cuts will create jobs, cure cancer, and piss off Obama.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. Yeah, but, but their future rich self will benefit from that.

[Electric Monk]

47. They're just "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" for now, as Steinbeck put it

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ― John Steinbeck

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/328134-socialism-never-took-root-in-america-because-the-poor-see

[hibbing]

24. Bootlicking their masters n/t

[MADem]

27. Oh phew!!! Now if our elderly parents win the lotto, we'll not have to pay through the nose!

Hurrah! Hurrah!! The Teafarty really IS the Party of the People!!!

[liberal N proud]

30. That brings us back to the million dollar question

Why do these teabaggers vote against their own best interest time and time and again?

The definition of insanity: Teabagger Republican.

[hifiguy]

32. Fortunately, the President will veto this

absurdity if it ever makes it to his desk.

[world wide wally]

34. Do you think they'll ever figure out what tools they are?

[turbinetree]

36. Oh Boy

I had to pay taxes this year to subsidize a life style of the rich and famous among the elite in Congress and in the country.
And to add to this disgrace they just came off of a two week vacation out of the 35 days off that they have been on vacation so far this year, making $14,500 a month and doing absolutely nothing.
Then having a yearly salary of $174,000 a year to give tax breaks---while I, have family members out of work and they haven't passed one jobs bill or extended unemployment benefits going on six years and three years now respectively which they and (millions more ) have paid into for 35 years and are in the same third country boat we are heading into too.
Nice job to the hypocrites and to John Boehner for doing nothing.
Oh boy, did you get any more tobacco lobbyists money to hand out on the floor of the house like you did in 1996--you should have been forced to resign back then

[SoapBox]

38. It's like a crime against Americans.

But we know that Pukes and Baggers love to divide and conquer.

[central scrutinizer]

39. Leave Paris Hilton alone!

She is creating lots of paparazzi jobs.

[AlbertCat]

40. As a person who inherited a chunk of dough...

..... I dutifully paid my inheritance tax...which was the biggest check I had ever written.

But guess what! After I paid my taxes, I still had plenty of money! Huh!!!

Yes, the tax bill for millions in inheritance is hefty... duh!.... but it is nowhere near bankrupting... or even life-style changing. (and this bill wouldn't have affected me.... I didn't get that much)


Pay your damn taxes. You wouldn't have so much if not for the country you comfortably live in. Give back a little.

And I for one don't want to be wealthy in a banana republic. I want a quality country.... with fine infrastructure and excellent education....and an educated citizenry.... that even spends money on arts and parks and... y'know, things that make for a quality life OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
I wish the government would spend it more wisely.

[Cha]

41. That's the problem with the "tea party".. they were started by kochs and they're

dumb enough to exist to make life better for the most loaded Americans. Congratulations dummies. Is that too harsh? I don't think so.

mahalo EarlG

[colsohlibgal]

44. So Much For Their Concern About Our Deficit

Just more evidence that the right is dead set on turning the US upside down to shake any cash free remaining with the 99%.

Maher made a great point recently about the right's talk about how hard work can turn around young people - and how this would be good for that jerk Hilton heir who played the "do you know who I am?" card when misbehaving on a flight. Hard work would do that rich brat some good, that's for sure.

Push has to come to shove at some point as the oligarchs rob us blind - there are 99 of us for every one of them, if people ever wake up from being played or not paying attention watch out.

[blkmusclmachine]

46. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qq9esZbF2r4/UZZ8KS__HKI/AAAAAAAAAmI/QKNGZQ1WNKs/s1600/dont-tread-on-me.png

[progree]

50. The exemption is $10.8 million for a married couple, $5.4 million for an individual

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[Enthusiast]

51. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

[IronLionZion]

52. "The best way to “spread the wealth” is to leave it in the hands of the wealthy."

Conservative journalists and economists actually believe and promote this garbage despite what we have always seen through our own lying eyes.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/popular-economics-contains-inconvenient-truths-for-liberals-2015-04-15

Republicans want a better life for you that Democrats can’t stand
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/republicans-want-a-better-life-for-you-that-democrats-cant-stand-2015-03-19

They also talk endlessly about the "culture of dependence" where liberal Democrats are really the ones keeping you down.

[Initech]

54. They don't care. Really, they don't care.

[Cryptoad]

56. Jesus said

you will know them by the fruit they bear!

[joshcryer]

57. 97% of Democrats voted against it.

The other 3% (totaling 7 Democrats) need to be ousted.

(99% of Republicans voted for it, for perspective, and people say there's no difference between the parties.)

[libodem]

58. How are they paying for that?

Hmmmm?