Obama Caves to Cavemen on Tax Cuts

Washington, DC – President Obama has announced that he has reached a “framework” for a bipartisan (as if there is such a thing) agreement over the ill conceived, soon to expire, Bush tax cuts.  This would include extending the tax cuts for those who make more money getting out of bed and slipping into their Gucci loafers, than the average American makes in their lifetime.

Seeming to fear that he would be clubbed to death by GOP cavemen (despite having a party majority in the Senate), Obama claimed he wanted to put working families first and not allow them to become “collateral damage” in political warfare in Washington.  This protective move would include the same working families whose grand children will be paying for two poorly managed wars as a result of - you guessed it - political warfare,  and the initial tax cuts proposed to distract America from the aforementioned wars, which have thrown gasoline on the fire of the deficit. 

Does anybody still remember the Clinton $200+ billion budget surplus?  You know, the economy way back when before we went to war because we were attacked because we ignored a terrorist warning memo, or to avenge a failed hit on our daddy?  (We’re talking to YOU, George W. Bush!!)

In an effort not to be clubbed to death by Senate Democrats as well as the GOP, Obama also said he would work to secure a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits, yet the tax credits would extend for a full TWO years.

The president said, "I'm not willing to let our economy slip backwards just as we're pulling ourselves out of this devastating recession."

Unsolicited Drivel spoke with our usual, unnamed political analyst for comment about what we believe to be a very disappointing move on the part of Obama.

U.D.:  This is a very frustrating turn of events for America.  We don’t know how many reports we have read about the Bush tax cuts being unaffordable at the time they were proposed, and now in a delusion of the possibility for bipartisanship, and even before the GOP is officially in charge, Obama is caving on buying more golf carts for their cronies. And those golf carts won't even be electric hybrids!  What gives?

U.P.A.:  Perhaps Obama has convinced himself that he’s putting the average American first by offering short-term economic relief.  But the way I see it, due to the deficit he inherited from the Bush years, it’s kind of like putting a Band-aid on a severed arm.  He can’t seem to grasp that bipartisanship is a myth in Washington either.  If he thinks he can really work productively with narrow-minded, wealth-centric Republicans to help the middle class during this critical economic time, I believe he’s more likely to find himself working FOR the Republicans after 2012 – but not as the president – much more likely as their corporate lawyer.