The quotation for today highlights how Republicans' self-serving view of middle- and work-class Americans.
Republican Representative Tim Huelskamp of Kansas -- whose plan to block the tax cut was thwarted -- was one of many Republicans with self-serving motives.
Hennessey, Kathleen and Lisa Mascaro. "Boehner loses some ground as House leader." Los Angeles Times 23 December, 2011: online edition.
Related link:
Representative Huelskamp congressional web page.
"I'm disappointed in leadership. The freshman class came to change Washington, to make it more principle-based. But this [compromise to provide tax relief to 160 million middle- and working-class Americans] is just more of the same decision-making based on political expediency."
Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas)I'm happy to be a member of the group that most people view as the strength of America, but that Republican Representative Tim Huelskamp thinks of as expediencies.
Republican Representative Tim Huelskamp of Kansas -- whose plan to block the tax cut was thwarted -- was one of many Republicans with self-serving motives.
Hennessey, Kathleen and Lisa Mascaro. "Boehner loses some ground as House leader." Los Angeles Times 23 December, 2011: online edition.
Related link:
Representative Huelskamp congressional web page.
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