Not Every Republican Is A Lying Shill

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Orrin Hatch, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, had this to say about allowing the Bush tax cuts for the top 2% to expire in January.

“I don’t know anybody who believes that’s a safe or wise thing to do.  And whatever it takes, we should not increase taxes.”

Really?  No one believes it’s a wise thing to do?  Not a  single person?

A number of old Republican hands warning of a deficit crisis have split with the GOP leadership over extending the George W. Bush-era tax cuts.

Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), President Reagan’s budget chief David Stockman and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan have each argued that extending the tax cuts — set to expire at year’s end — would increase the nation’s $13 trillion debt.

“It’s like tax reductions, you don’t need to pay for them? To me, that’s nonsense,” Voinovich said.

“It’s crisis time, and we’re ready to go over the cliff.”

Voinovich is on his way out so I imagine he felt he had nothing to lose by going against the party line.  Still I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and choose to believe that not every Republican is a hypocritical accomplice to the rich…just most of them.

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