Lawrence O’Donnell destroys Senator Mary Landrieu after she takes cheap shot at tax deal
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Democrat Mary Landrieu is one of the worst Senators in Congress, so many were probably surprised when she took a moralistic tone in going after President Obama in the tax compromise.
Extending the tax cuts for those making more than a million dollars a year is borderline immoral, Landrieu charged. “I’m going to argue forcefully for the nonsensicalness and the almost, you know, moral corruptness of that particular policy,” said Landrieu, walking into a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats. “This is beyond politics. This is about justice and doing what’s right.”
Landrieu was fuming about the deal. On her way into the meeting, she slammed the tax-cut extension as a needless giveaway, adding, “That’s all I have to say.” But it wasn’t. She emerged from the meeting a few moments later to continue prosecuting her case to reporters.
“It’s what I’m calling the Obama-McConnell plan. We’re going to borrow $46 billion from the poor, from the middle class, from businesses of all sizes basically to give a tax cut to families in America today, that despite the recession, are making over a million dollars. I mean, this is unprecedented. Unprecedented. I want to repeat that,” she said. Landrieu added, however, that she had yet to make a decision on the final package and was speaking strictly about the extension of tax cuts for the wealthy.
That’s right – she voted for the Bush tax cuts years ago and helped start us on the road to financial ruin, and now she’s citing morality?
Lawrence O’Donnell, however, wasn’t buying her bullshit, so he called her out on it on “The Last Word.”



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The Bush tax cuts started us on the road to ruin???? That’s an interesting take, although I agree Mary is one f’ed up and corrupt broad….
The Bush tax cuts added trillions to the national debt that everyone is now freaked out about. We had a surplus in 2000.
We also found out that the Bush tax cuts did not lead to a better economy as supporters predicted. Job growth was weak under Bush’s watch, and then of course we had the meltdown at the end of his term.
The tax cuts alone did not create this mess, but they were the biggest part of the irresponsible fiscal policy of the last 10 years. WE didn’t pay for the wars, we didn’t pay for the prescription drug bill, etc. Had we been more responsible, the measures we’ve had to take to get out of this ditch would not have been as big of a threat to our future prosperity because we would have been better able to afford them.
Spending is killing us, not tax cuts
Spending is also a problem, but both sides of the ledger matter.