GOP Rhetoric

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Later tonight we will hear Barack Obama's State of the Union address, and this liberal group called The Young Turks have got hold of a proposal that The President is going to make and was analyzing it.

It is a very modest plan to change a few tax rates: increase capital gains taxes on people making more than half a million per year, and lowering taxes on couples making less than 120,000 a year in combined income.  Seems reasonable.  But The Young Turks were predicting that conservative news --- i.e. Fox News, of course --- will jump all over it, saying that it will be playing politics.  Why?  Because the proposal has no chance of passing the overwhelmingly Republican House and Senate.

But recall how the GOP tried to repeal Obamacare forty times over the last several years, though it failed every time!  The point was to keep Obamacare in the news as a program the conservatives disliked intensely.  So the GOP plays the same kind of politics, even if it resents President O doing the same.

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