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Obama Passes Historically Large Tax Cut With No Republican Help
We talked a week ago about the tax-cut provisions of the economic stimulus package and how it turns out that President Obama proposed and passed one of the largest tax cuts in American history -- $282 billion over two years -- without Republican support.
I'm glad to see some others are picking up on this. Yesterday, Marc Ambinder noted:
Don't know if anybody has yet noticed in the Republican Party but President Obama was presented last week a major talking point for 2012.
He'll sign today one of the largest tax cuts in history.
In spite of the White House pointing this out to journalists, it is funny how little remarked-upon this is.
It's hard imagine we won't hear about this four years from now. And if that's not boxing a future Republican candidate in ahead of time, I don't know what is.
Chris Hayes had a similar observation:
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