Politics Over Prosperity. . . Democrats Adjourn Fearing Bush Tax Cut Vote

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The Democrats are running scared. They have spent the last month demonizing the Tea Party Movement as much as they can to stop the avalanche against them, and as a result, the number of Tea Partiers has tripled. And it turns out the Tea Party isn't some white, racist, fringe group either. Aside from representing a third of likely voters, it also turns out that more than one in three African-Americans support the movement. The hard left is making claims that isn't true because they fear the Tea Party, and they fear the truth.

The effects of the Tea Party has rippled all the way through Washington. John Boehner has announced that he had the votes to pass the full extension of the Bush tax cuts, but instead the Democrats voted to adjourn Congress rather than have the vote. A significant number of Democrats, 47 of them, want to extend all of the Bush tax cuts, including the tax cuts for those who make over $250,000 a year, the so-called rich. But the Democrats decided to vote to adjourn Congress rather than have a vote. They fear the truth of the insurrection happening in their own party becoming apparent. They would rather avoid doing what is right for the American economy, and get out of town instead. This would have made the vote for the tax cuts bipartisan, everything everybody claims to have wanted, and everything everybody thought Obama was going to do as president. But the Democrats have proven that their aim is power, and politics. They have no intent in allowing anything to happen that may disrupt their attack on American prosperity. They would rather avoid the vote, avoid the attention to their crumbling party, and run home so that they may campaign. They barely had enough votes to adjourn.

Now, what they need to be doing, is prepare for defeat, because for the Democrats, a major defeat is going to be handed to them in November.

The dire circumstances caused by Democrat control of the federal government was laid out clearly by yesterday's GOP Press Conference. "Fifteen million Americans are unemployed. Millions more have given up even looking for work. It is clear the economic policies of this administration has failed. But now Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats want to allow one of the largest tax increases in American history to take effect in just over one hundred days. And House Republicans won't stand for it. . . "

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Tea Party Movement Emerges As Major Force - Fox News

Surprise! 1/3 of blacks back tea-party movement: 'The wheels on the race-card bus are beginning to fall off' - World Net Daily

Boehner surprise: Dems barely get votes to adjourn after floor speech - The Hill