You are amazed that there are limitless variations of STUPID? I'm not. You are shocked that Retugs will dream up endless new ways to express STUPID? I'm not.

The Rethug's one size fits all economic policy is a two phase program:

1."..... tax cuts."

2."..... more tax cuts."

Three words:

Sharron Angle Solutions

He uses the word "certainty", which, of course, is code that means that the lack of growth is due to the uncertainty of the permanence of the tax cuts, not the cuts themselves. This uncertainty started in 2001, I presume.

And a continuation of Obama's timidity, compromising in advance,postpartisan malarky,incoherent blend of Hooverian and Keynesian economics,Hello! I must be leaving Afghan war plan, and lack of political astuteness completes the nightmare. The Repub House, BHO, and some 5-10 DINO Senators need be retired in 2012. Progressives need to form as strong and coherent as block as did the Tea Partiers.

I think you mean the Tea Partiers are cohesive, not coherent.

Benen completely misreads Pence.

The money part of the quote is:

"...then we'll fight for more tax relief."

Pence is such an idiot that he believes that the tax rates were not cut enough and if they were cut enough, the treasury would be overflowing in revenues.

gdb - Please take this short-hand, suicidal gibberish and post somewhere else. Anyone who was paying attention to what Obama said in the campaign is not surprised by what he has done over the last two years. If you want more progressive polices, forcefully advocate for them and the appropriate representatives

Anyone who wants to target "DINO Senators" and our actual president in 2012 is part of a circular firing squad, and is not part of any progressive or even intelligent movement. You're a troll or an idiot. Fuck off.

Let's at least give some certainty there and then we'll fight for more tax relief.-Pence

Oh good, I was hoping someone would float the ol' "more tax relief" solution to all our problems. Americans, and most especially wealthy Americans, really are so burdened today.

Proposal for new TEA party mantra:

White people shouldn't have to pay any taxes. Make those coloreds pay up.

The 112th Congress really is going to be a national nightmare.

Nyet. It will be a GLOBAL nightmare. What happens in the USA will have global repercussions.

Its not the fact that the takers want more tax cuts.

Its the fact that so many Americans who need Roads, Schools, Police, Fire, Ambulance, Emergency Weather Services, and some level of OVERSIGHT over the uncontrolled greed of corporations; also want to defund the government as well.

None of us in America have paid ENOUGH for all the good things we have. Those things cost money, and they cost even more if you have to buy it from a private company. I trust my government, because its made up of Americans, its not like their going to farm out the work to a 3rd world country like your average large American corporation would in a heartbeat.

Maybe this explains why the Republican leadership is turning down the President's dinner invitation (see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/opinion/19fri4.html) -- they know they'll look even more stupid next to him.

Unfortunately, after the Citizens United decision this is what the Government will produce for quite some time.

all this and unregulated nuclear proliferation, what fun

Steve, this appears to be a backhanded way to win the current tax rate war. He is not conceding anything. The only thing being offered is "Lets keep the tax breaks for the wealthy".

GOP LOGIC:

There's nothing that risk-taking businesses need more than certainty about tax cuts that had an expiration date set 9-years ago.

Let's at least give some certainty there and then we'll fight for more tax relief.

So we need to get some certainty, and then we can change things some more? If they change the tax code again, then they didn't provide any certainty to begin with.

I swear, Republicans have no idea what the word "certainty" means.