Conservatism Thriving

Before the Election, I wrote that Democrats were trying to get elected by posing as conservatives. Afterwards, the so-called Blue Dog Democrats resist Nancy Pelosi's idiotic attempt to make uber-liberal and divisive Jack Murtha as House Majority Leader. Now, Rich Tucker says they are trying to cut your taxes:

The Washington Post reported Nov. 11 that “Democratic leaders this week vowed to make the alternative minimum tax a centerpiece of next year’s budget debate.”
...The AMT requires taxpayers to do their taxes twice, once with deductions and once without, and pay whichever tax bill is higher. That’s hardly fair. Rep. Charlie Rangel, the man who will chair the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee next year, says he wants to repeal the AMT, even though doing so would reduce federal revenue. “We’ll have to pay for it, and it’s a big monster to do,” he told Bloomberg before the election. “It’s a lousy policy to make a mistake and to keep the policy because it’s expensive.”


I also believe, though Murtha and Pelosi will try again, moderate dems will resist calls for an Iraq pullout.