[lbo-talk] The Democrats and the Bush tax cuts

[Alan Rudy]

The only thing you left out is that your last point, the vilification of
liberal Democratic critics as ultra-left, will then be applied double to
folks who argue from the left of the liberal Democrats because such folks 1)
have no worthwhile facts or arguments to consider and 2) are (consciously or
unconsciously) part and parcel of the irrational, vituperative and
unreasonable left equivalent of the Tea Party.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand at gmail.com> wrote:


> "Some Democrats want to take a stand, win or lose, for any option that
> could depict Republicans as patrons of the richest taxpayers, at the expense
> of blocking continued tax cuts for the middle class. Others have no appetite
> left for combat."
>
> -- "Democrats Divided on Tax Cut Strategy", New York Times, November 6,
> 2010
>
> If the Obama administration is true to form, it won't take a stand. If the
> liberal wing of the party is true to form, it will criticize the
> administration for missing another opportunity to pass good policy and to
> portray the Republicans as the party of the rich. If Carrol is true to form,
> he will say it's "silly" to concern ourselves with an irrelevant issue which
> has nothing to do with the more important task of building a revolutionary
> vanguard. If Woj and Charles are true to form, they will indicate they
> favour taking a stand, but will support the administration for not taking a
> stand, and join with it in vilifying the liberal Democratic critics of the
> administration as ultra-left.
>
> Have I got any of this wrong?
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