RADICALIZATION OF THE GOP PREVENTS A "POLITICS OF HOPE"
Few other issues are put forward more disingenuously by the Right than the "death tax". Everything I've heard said about inheritance taxes from the Right is distortion, if not false outright.
The GOP trench warfare types, even the gay ones, are quick to claim that the Leftists too often dismiss them, in one way or another, rather than engage in a "debate".
But no where is it more clear that the GOP is not interested in a 'debate', than with the campaign over a tax, giving it a name that they invented that sounds like it came straight from a Madison Avenue spin campaign. It certainly doesn't reflect the history of the legislation or anything but a wholly contrived point of view...
HOPE OR FEAR
So, when AS comes up with a choice for Democrats in the upcoming election of "hope or fear", I just have to ask, "How does one run a politics of hope, when the other side is gleefully running swiftboats up your rivers?"
Even as we speak, the FEC is moving to shut down ... the little guys, which may well give advantage to those who raise money $1 million at a clip! [The election will be over by the time it is litigated, if it needs to be ...].
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Arrrrg! with the "Death Tax"
