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Preferential tax breaks are still picking winners and losers.
Like tax breaks the wind industry gets?
Preferential tax breaks are still picking winners and losers.
Here you go:
Roll Call Vote
What tax breaks does the oil industry get that other industries do not?
Like tax breaks the wind industry gets?
It's still ****ed up that 59 votes doesn't mean something is passed, no matter what the issue.
No question the messaging campaign from Dems has been horrendous.,
Cotton showed that in Arkansas by lying about social security and Pryor letting him get away with it.
Yet Dems are sticking with the top three idiots they have as albatrosses around our necks--Reid, Pelosi and DWS.
Only Dems like Dean are capable of turning this party inside out.
And just wait for the rhetorical knives to come out from DP Republicans over anyone I suggest.
You are aware that we now have DP posters who now identify as Republicans again, right ?
They voted no, because they are against the pipeline. Just because they were voted out, that doesn't mean their political life is over. What would you do in that situation?I noticed that a lot of the Democrat "no" votes were made by those who were just voted out in the midterms, and that seemed odd to me, because I read that the public is in favor of the pipeline. Was it a personal conviction on their part, or some other reason? I understand that you can't read minds, but since it will probably pass at some point why vote no now?
The Democrats have demonstrated some of the poorest politicking and messaging in recent memory. They have given the public no clear plan at a time when that is exactly what the voters want. This has only been trumped by the most histrionic hyperpartisanship that I have seen in my lifetime on the part of the Republicans. And that includes impeaching Clinton for a blow job. ****, the idiots on the left even made a snuff film about Bush. How do you top that?
Unreal.
Whatever the senate repubs would give up in return would be nixed by the repubs in the house.
And while the two major parties were playing their hyper-partisanship they have been shrinking while the independents have been rising. Since you mentioned Bill Clinton, here are the party affiliation numbers since 1990:
Year…Dem…Rep…Ind…Ind.Lean.Dem….Ind.Lean.Rep…..True.Ind
1990…38……30…..32
1995…32……32…..36
2000…34……30…..36
2005…34……33……30………..14…………………....8…………………8
2010…32……33…..34………..12……………………15…………………7
2011…30……27…..42………..18……………………15…………………9
2012…35……30…..33………..16……………………12…………………5
2013…30……24….44………..14…………………..18………………..13
2014…28……28….41………..13…………………..19………………….9…..As of November 9, 2014
This is the first time since when records of party affiliation/identification began to be kept that both major parties have been below 30%. Now the Republicans have been below 30% numerous times, but never the Democratic Party. Not until now.
They voted no, because they are against the pipeline. Just because they were voted out, that doesn't mean their political life is over. What would you do in that situation?
If they named it the Obama Pipeline, it would have passed.
We don't give $billions, they just don't pay $billions.
Good evening polgara, you can address me as Pete, that's my real name.
Mary Landrieu doesn't have a chance of keeping her seat, she is down by 21% in the polls.
The bigger question is: why do you still believe that?
What difference does it make when the president vetos it?
This isn't good for Landrieu.
They voted no, because they are against the pipeline. Just because they were voted out, that doesn't mean their political life is over. What would you do in that situation?
Here you go:
Roll Call Vote
Other than the depletion allowance that source provided nothing so I guess your whole beef is with the depletion allowance?
What tax breaks does the oil industry get that other industries do not?
the senate writes its own rules, if republicans wish to lower it down to 51 votes needed to pass legislation, they can do it when they enter office.
A tax credit given to a very large portion of the population.
But not to a business, thus not very relevant to "picking winners and losers" in this context.
I don't know, why do we give billions to the oil industry?
That would be the same method the GOP used the last four years to filibuster the Democrats, even on GOP ideas.
Not to mention the months Franken was refused his seat in 2009 and when Kennedy's seat was lost to Brown in the 2009 term.
Filibusters are a two-sided coin .