I had a conversation (if me yelling a lot can be called a conversation) with Seth Scott, Representative Harry Mitchell’s Press Secretary about Harry’s co-sponsorship of a tax cut plan to keep Capital Gains taxes at their current Bush-mandated rate, and to decrease estate taxes by increasing the exemption to 3.75 million and graduating the … Read more
Link: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords gets SCAAP Funding Restored. SCAAP is the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, which reimburses local law enforcement agencies for the cost of imprisoning undocumented aliens. You may remember the flap that Gov. Napolitano created by sending overdue bills to Washington for over $300 million in unpaid SCAAP reimbursements. Well, Gabby scored … Read more
Link: Mitchell co-sponsors bill that aims to cut capital gains and estate tax. WTF is Mitchell thinking? Cutting Capital Gains and Estate taxes overwhelmingly benefits the wealthiest Americans, who need it least. Mitchell prattled about the ways in which these cuts would benefit the average person selling stock or a house, but completely ignored the … Read more
The Hill is reporting that both Representatives Giffords and Mitchell are vying to be jumped into the Blue Dog Coalition, a select group of centrist Democrats who main focus is budgetary discipline and whose membership is currently capped at 47 lawmakers. This is, I hope, a mainly positive development. I strongly support most of what … Read more
Giffords and Mitchell voted with the GOP on HR 2237, the appropriation bill for Iraq that would have begun redeployment away from Iraq. It was widely rumored that conservative Democrats would be voting no, and about 60 of them did, dooming the bill to lose 171-255, and weakening our hand in the struggle with President … Read more