Welcome to your Tuesday open thread. The most exciting thing about my week so far is that I’m finally done eating turkey leftovers. What’s on your mind? Spill it below.
It’s the holiday season and it’s time for a holiday tradition – Fox New making up stories about the non-existent “War on Christmas.
Fox & Friends reported that a school in central Florida had banned the “traditional Christmas colors” red and green from we classrooms. In a statement to Media Matters, the school’s district spokesperson, Regina Klares, has denied this, stating, “There is not a ban on the colors red and green at Heathrow Elementary.”
Sigh. Since we have the Kenyan socialist/communist/fascist (choose depending on your mood) the War on Christmas has been intensifying! Did you hear that Obama decided no one in the U.S. Is allowed to say “Merry Christmas?”. I heard it on Fox News or read it in The Onion, I can’t remember which, so it must be true.
Another Democratic tax cut compromise plan has been proposed. How does this sound?
Over the past few days, a growing number of lawmakers have publicly embraced the idea of extending expiring tax cuts for families making as much as $1 million a year. They include newly elected Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who argued on “Fox News Sunday” that “we should draw the line in the sand for millionaires.”
The idea’s chief proponent, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), said that raising the income threshold from $250,000, as Obama has proposed, has the potential to unite fractious Democrats behind a single strategy on the tax cuts, which are set to expire Dec. 31 unless Congress acts.
Schumer also said the higher threshold would make it far more difficult for Republicans to say no.
“There’s a strong view in the caucus that if we make the dividing line $1 million, it becomes a very simple argument: We are for giving the middle class a tax break; they’re for tax cuts for millionaires,” Schumer said Sunday. At $250,000, the message is “too muddled,” he said. “It’s much clearer at $1 million. It unites our base and the independent voters we lost in this election.”
I think this is better messaging, but is it too little too late?