FOX informs us of the President's and Democrats real agenda in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations:
The goal of getting Republicans to agree to raise taxes is not to raise new revenues. After all, allowing the Bush tax rates to expire for wealthier Americans will bring in perhaps $67 billion a year; Warren Buffet’s plan for a thirty percent minimum tax rate for millionaires another $5 billion. That’s spit in the ocean compared to annual deficits of $1 trillion and counting–let alone a $16 trillion national debt.Actually the GOP "surge" of 2010 was as short-lived as Romney's post-Debate One momentum and had nothing to do with the electorate embracing the idea of taxing the middle class instead of the top 2%.The real goal of getting Republicans to cave on taxes is to detach them from their Tea Party and conservative base, and wreck any chance of a repeat of 2010's GOP surge–not to mention recapturing the White House in 2016.
The proof that there was no sustained drift rightward toward the GOP's pro-2% policy agenda, is the fact that while Romney/Ryan received more votes than McCain/Palin did in 2012, fewer Republicans overall showed up to the polls.
So rather than creating momentum, their anti-middle class pro-2% tax policies in 2012 created lessmentum.
The truth is the so-called "surge" was due to seniors who were misinformed by FOX and forwarded emails, showing up in greater numbers than everyone else, convinced that they were saving the Republic from the Medicare-destroying Democrats.
FOX peels more layers off the Democrats nefarious plan for electoral domination:
The real goal is to detach Republicans from their Tea Party and conservative base, and wreck any chance of a repeat of 2010's GOP surge–not to mention recapturing the White House in 2016.FOX, you say that like it's a bad thing.What a Republican capitulation on taxes will really mean is a future of political defeats stretching out beyond the horizon, as a disheartened base either stays home or wages bitter Tea Party versus Establishment primary fights like the ones that cost them the Senate this year.
When you consider that the current incarnation of the Republican party has learned nothing from the last debt ceiling negotiations and seems willing to stall our economic growth again, as they toy with the nation's credit rating, it is in the best interest of the morale of the country and the market that a tea party-enslaved GOP never again assumes a leadership role until they get their act together and begin serving the best interests of the country rather than right-wing extremist ideology or party.
What Obama and the Democrats are hoping is that GOP lawmakers will publicly abandon the no-new-taxes pledge they signed as part of their campaigns for office.[...]Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/...The pledge isn’t legally binding. As Vice President Al Gore would say, there’s no governing legal authority enforcing it. The only thing involved is honor, and trust–the honor of the candidate who took the pledge to voters not to raise their taxes, and the trust of voters that this time, unlike with President George “Read My Lips” Bush, they wouldn’t be betrayed again.
Honor and trust. Breaking the no-tax pledge violates both–and it’s hard to see how either ever comes back. And the Democrats know it. That’s why they’ve focused on the pledge. They don’t just want to take away Republicans’ voters; they also want to destroy their sense of honor and integrity. They know it will make Republicans more compliant for future deals, and more alienated than ever from the voters they will need if they ever get another chance to salvage what’s left of this country.
Now you've lost me.
There is no honor, trust and integrity involved, when an elected official that is duty-bound to uphold the United States Constitution abandons that sworn oath in order to appease an unelected lobbyist's pledge that was conceived when he was a 12-year-old.
Basically FOX, you got it wrong again. Taxing the 2% is not about money vs. power, it's about money and power--for the all the people not just the 2% and Grover Norquist for which you are the willing mouthpiece and enabler.