Say It Ain't So Already

To John Kerry and the DSCC: Get Back to Us When Democrats Start Being Democrats

February 14, 2011 at 7:33 PM Leave a comment

Mr. SayItAin’tSoAlready and I got a solicitation from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee today in the form of an ahem, personal note from John Kerry.  It warns about Republicans concentrating on “profits for the super rich” and not approving “any help for the middle class.”

It’s ironic we received it on the same day Obama released his 2012 budget:

The cuts the president has outlined barely offset the tab of temporarily extending the Bush tax cuts, which added $858 billion to the deficit over two years, including $125 billion for Americans making over $250,000 and slashing the estate tax. If Obama ends up once again extending the Bush tax cuts in 2012, the savings he envisions in the current budget will be completely nullified. Meanwhile, his unwillingness to play hardball with the GOP last year will result in increased hardship in real time for millions of Americans who are struggling to survive this recession. We’re living in odd times when a Democratic president is okay spending billions of dollars on an unpopular and seemingly unwinnable war in Afghanistan but has no problem cutting heating aid for poor Americans in the midst of the coldest winter in memory.

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Yet the president is playing on the GOP’s turf. The debate is over cuts vs. cuts. At a time of 9 percent unemployment, neither party is laying out a roadmap for how to put people back to work and lift the country out of its economic morass.

And then there’s this:  Obama’s 2012 Defense Budget Bigger Than Bush’s or Reagan’s — Largest Since WWII — but he proposes cutting heating aid for the poor?

Yo, John, get back to us when Democrats start being Democrats.

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