Pelosi won't budge on expiring Bush tax cuts

[Joanne98]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signaled Friday she is not softening her opposition to extending the Bush-era tax cuts for high income earners.


Asked whether she would accept even a temporary extension of all the cuts like some Democrats want, Pelosi said that it is time to let them expire for the upper income brackets and be extended for the middle class.



"The position that we have, and which is the position the president has put forth, is that everybody should get a tax cut in our country," the outgoing Speaker told NPR. "The problem comes," she said, "when an additional tax cut to the wealthy is two percent that will heap $700 billion in debt" upon the country's children.

Pelosi's comments indicate that Republicans and Democrats are headed for a stand-off on the tax cuts when Congress returns for its lame-duck session next week.


http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/128889-pelosi-wont-budge-on-bush-tax-cuts

[Tippy]

1. K&R....Nancy..a Speaker with guts

[sasha031]

2. Over time I've developed such respect for Nancy

[daleanime]

6. Amen...

:toast:

[Andy823]

3. Good!

I am glad she is standing her ground. If I were her I would put a bill on the floor for ONLY the tax cuts for those making under $250,000 and force republicans to vote on it. Make them have to explain their vote if they voted NO! Put them on the spot and hammer them if they don't vote "YES" for the middle class. No matter what I would not give in. I myself would rather see all the tax cuts expire than to see the rich continue to get their tax cuts when they have been doing great for the last decade or more while the rest of americans are suffering!

[BeyondGeography]

4. That's a little better than, "We have to deal with the world as we find it."

[KansDem]

12. That sounded so Rumsfeld!

Paraphrased: You deal with the world you have---not world you might want or wish to have at a later time

[BeyondGeography]

13. I have lost all respect for Axelrod

He is either a wimp or inept. Perhaps both.

[grumgrum]

5. THANK YOU! And Finally Someone Who Doesn't Cave!!

Here is hoping Pelosi isnt arm twisted by the WH to do temp tax cuts since we have seen the same thing happen with the Public Option

[flakey_foont]

7. Thank You, Ms Pelosi

glad someone has the guts to say NO and mean it.

[grumgrum]

8. NICE! However, the Public Option was the Same thing.

Although the PO passed the house we later found out the WH wanted it dumped and Pelosi became less insistent on it being kept in the final bill after Obama talked with her.

I do respect her Progressive stances though...my fear is when the WH begins to meddle.

[bigwillq]

16. Hello.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[emulatorloo]

9. YEA! Thank you, Nancy Pelosi. Thanks, Joanne98 for posting this. rec n/t

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

10. GANGSTA!!!! K&R!!!!!!

[grumgrum]

11. Pelosi for President 2012

[mmonk]

14. Will she hold to her guns this time? I hope so.

[flpoljunkie]

15. A Democrat with balls. How refreshing! Give 'em hell, Speaker Pelosi!

[whistler162]

17. So what... Obama can just wave his magic

legislation pen and continue the tax cuts!<SARCASM>

[mzmolly]

18. Go Nancy! THAT is how it's done!

:toast:

[DURHAM D]

19. This is a shot across the bow of the WH.

She is sending Obama a message and telling him to man up and take a stand for democratic policy. Hope it works.

[Clio the Leo]

20. And that's the same thing the President said today...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=519650&mesg_id=519650

Man, I wish the President would get home and Congress would reconvene .... this is all just one big p*ssing match until then.

[R. P. McMurphy]

21. Bless Nancy Pelosi.

She was wrong to take impeachment off of the table but damned if she doesn't have more spine than almost anyone in Congress.

[glitch]

22. This is how you fight. Thank you Madame Speaker. nt

[LeftyAndProud60]

23. Ummm, what exactly can she do to stop it? She's in the minority now. nt

[phleshdef]

24. She is Speaker of the House during the whole time between now and the time they expire.

[davidwparker]

25. Good for her. I was ambivalent about Nancy as leader, but

when I heard the remaining Blue Dogs, the ones not kicked to the curb, were against her, I became for it.

You Go, Nancy!