THEORETICALLY A BILLIONAIRE MIGHT HAVE TO PAY SOME TAXES, MAYBE, SOMEDAY

The Republican plan to turn out their base in November is to campaign on their record of attacking gays who want to get married, flag burners and by kowtowing to multimillionaires and billionaires-- but not garden variety plain ole millionaires-- who want to perpetrate an American aristocracy by permanently doing away with any estate tax at all. Yesterday they lost on their hate-filled anti-gay Constitutional Amendment and today they failed to pass their disgraceful giveaway of a trillion dollars in revenues over the next decade to a few American families already dripping with untold wealth (and privilege).

The plutocrats, oligarchs and self-styled aristocrats at the heart of the tragic Bush Regime really believe in this one-- unlike the silliness with the gays and the supposed flag burners-- but even with almost the entire rubber-stamp contingent doing the rubber-stamp thing they've come to do so well, Bush, Kyle and Frist failed to move the bill forward.

Voinovich and Chafee infuriated the Republicans and the ultra-wealthy forces who bankroll them by breaking ranks with Bush on this to vote to block repeal of the tax. Except for the currently pee-ing-in-his-pants-over-Ned-Lamont Joe Lieberman, all the regular sell-out fake Dems who always vote with the Republicans where campaign contributions come into play-- Max Baucus, the 2 horrible Nelsons and Blanche Lincoln-- were true to form and voted to make sure more social services would be cut so that the American aristocracy could dominate even more of the nation's wealth. I wouldn't vote for any of these creatures regardless of what kind of monstrous Republican replaced them.


FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE: UGGHHHH... NO ONE CHOPPED THE SNAKE'S HEAD OFF!

Yeah, according to reactionary lackeys of the very rich-- disgraceful shills like Jon Kyle (R-AZ) and James Talent (R-MO), not to mention Frist and Bush-- the never-ending drive to make the rich richer and impoverish our society as a whole and make it less and less equitable, is still not over. According to today's NEW YORK TIMES a "compromise" is in the works that they hope will peal off a couple of more corporate-Democrats to vote with the GOP to kill the Estate Tax.