some bad news for mccain and obama

[saz]

the tax policy center (http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/), a non-partisan think tank, recently released an analysis damaging to both senators mccain and obama.

according to their analysis, obama's tax plan - which includes keeping some of the fiscally irresponsible bush tax cuts in place - would add 3.4 trillion to the national debt by 2018. bush's tax cuts expire in 2010, but if some of the provisions of his tax cuts are extended, they will increase the annual deficit by 100 billion a year.

meanwhile, for mccain it's worse. he wants to keep all of the bush tax cuts and add more, which would add 5 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years.

question: why is obama considering keeping some of the fiscally irresponsible bush tax cuts? so the $1,000 child tax credit, a reduction in the marriage penalty and a new 10 percent tax bracket will all be maintained? i know the dems usually cowtow with the republicans, and usually let them do what they want, but this is really dumb. could the dems at least grow one ball, and not align themselves with disastrous republican policies at least for once?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/09/AR2008080901860.html?nav=rss_politics

[DroppinScience]

Yeah, points such as this is definitely a good reason why the Democrats need to shape up. There's too many times where they just go along with what Republicans want.

Bill Maher was on Larry King Live last night. He brought up a good point about Obama (and Democrats more generally) that they are simply not bold enough and try to imitate the right-wing on certain policies. This makes a lot of people go: "Why would I go with the imitation when I can just have the real thing?" If they just boldly stuck to their guns and sought positions and policies in ACTUAL contrast to the Republicans, they'd do better. To me, what they're doing is just pissing off the left and making the right doubt their sincerity anyways. In the end, you're pleasing nobody in your attempt to please everybody.

[ericg]

the tax policy center (http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/), a non-partisan think tank, recently released an analysis damaging to both senators mccain and obama.

according to their analysis, obama's tax plan - which includes keeping some of the fiscally irresponsible bush tax cuts in place - would add 3.4 trillion to the national debt by 2018. bush's tax cuts expire in 2010, but if some of the provisions of his tax cuts are extended, they will increase the annual deficit by 100 billion a year.

meanwhile, for mccain it's worse. he wants to keep all of the bush tax cuts and add more, which would add 5 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years.

question: why is obama considering keeping some of the fiscally irresponsible bush tax cuts? so the $1,000 child tax credit, a reduction in the marriage penalty and a new 10 percent tax bracket will all be maintained? i know the dems usually cowtow with the republicans, and usually let them do what they want, but this is really dumb. could the dems at least grow one ball, and not align themselves with disastrous republican policies at least for once?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/09/AR2008080901860.html?nav=rss_politics

thanx.