Republicans: Now against tax cuts

In one of eight bajillion recent posts on the plight of the conservative movement, Dave Weigel writes:

The Republican strategy here is incredibly bold. The party’s betting against Obama’s current popularity and against the chance of an economic recovery by 2010 (or 2012), having done very little work convincing Americans that the stimulus tax rebates amount to “welfare” (one popular argument) or that, after eight years of deficit spending, voters should worry about the cost of this bill. I’m skeptical about the political oomph of attacking “wasteful spending,” even though (in a growing economy, at least) it makes more sense than endless tax cuts. But maybe the strategy will pay off. Or maybe putting 177 Republicans on record against tax cuts will come back to hurt them. We’ll find out.

Speaking as an out of touch liberal, I think it'd be best to keep attacks against Republicans for voting against tax cuts to a minimum. Ultimately, the best case scenario for progressives (and everyone, really) is for the stimulus to succeed, and for Americans to identify working government programs as the engine that hauled the country out of its ditch. A few quiet, well-targeted attacks, sure. But it will be a real bummer if Democrats go the opportunistic route and--years down the line, when things look substantially rosier--some significant portion of the country attributes the turnaround to a smattering of tax cuts.

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And they have placed trust in the government not just to fix the economy but to do so with minimal waste and, more importantly, in a way that destroys--not reinforces--the culture of rot that created the crisis in the first place. Collectively they have the power to take that trust away, and while that might spell economic doom for all of us, they might understandably (or rightly) conclude that the government's blowing it anyway, so why waste the extra few hundred billion dollars. http://www.watchgy.com/
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