Tony Snow and his Briefing on Monday

   Tony Snow's press briefing today was the usual GOP mouthpiece's attempt at spin.

   Snow was once again very adept at his usual incoherent bullshit, answering questions and really saying nothing.

   Below is part of the briefing. The entire text  is Here

Q The President, obviously, though, did not read what happened November 7th as a mandate to start bringing troops home.

MR. SNOW: The President believes that -- if you take a look, Jim, at the elections, you can read any number of messages -- I mean, when people were asked in exit interviews what was their top concern, Iraq was number four, corruption was number one. And guess what? You had 10 members of the Republican caucus who had problems, and they all lost. So you can read a lot of results. There is an understandable -- people don't want to be at war; we don't want to be at war, the President doesn't want to be at war. But the fact is you've got a situation where terrorists and a terror network is determined to try to do whatever it can to destabilize this country and other parts of the world --

Q But the President is comfortable, then, with saying to the American people, I saw what happened November 7th -- actually, you're upset about corruption?

 

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Bush's Tax Cuts Benefit The Rich

   If you are a family earning upwards of a million dollars per year, you have to love Mr. Bush because his tax cuts are helping you out big time!

    This groups tax rate plunged more than any other group in 2004, the latest year available. Mid-income families tax rates went up a slight bit in 2004 but the folks at the top went down. Surprise, Surprise!

 EDMUND L. ANDREWS @ New York Times

Published: January 8, 2007

Though tax cuts for the rich were bigger than those for other groups, the wealthiest families paid a bigger share of total taxes. That is because their incomes have climbed far more rapidly, and the gap between rich and poor has widened in the last several years.    More Here

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       The report does go on to state that even though the top earners got the best breaks, those at the bottom did not suffer to much because with the Earned income Credit, most got money back from the government instead of paying into it.

    Still though, the biggest winners were the wealthy.

 

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