The real, real stuff of hypocrisy

Jay Carney:

And at the microeconomic level, we’re worried about individual families who need that extra money, an average of $40 a paycheck.  As you know on Tuesday, the White House called on Americans to add their voice to the conversation here in Washington about why we need to extend the payroll tax cut.  If Congress fails, if the House fails to act, the typical family making $50,000 a year will have about $40 less to spend or save with each paycheck.  

That adds up to about a thousand bucks for the year. The response has been extraordinary.  Over 17,000 [SEIU] submissions I think is the last information I got.  Someone contacting us from Connecticut says, “I can buy lunch from the cafeteria for almost a whole month for my twins.  I can buy food or pay for gas.  I can save it for my daughter’s prescriptions -- prescription deductibles.  To some people $40 is nothing, but $40 is big money for us.”  

In West Virginia someone wrote in saying, “After everything that comes out, including my mortgage, my take-home pay is $150 every two weeks.  So minus $40 would be $110.  I can barely get by now.  That 40 bucks is my gas for my car to get to work.  Taking $40 away from my pay would just about put me under.” This matters.  This is real, real stuff.  This is not about high-stakes poker or political brinkmanship.  

It’s about 160 million Americans and their families and the impact that failure to act would have on them.  And the voices are growing louder from average Americans, from Republicans in Congress and the Senate -- even in the House now -- from respected commentators within the conservative arena.  

The House needs to act.  They’re not behaving in the interests of the country.  We want to do this together with them.  We want to work with the Congress, with Republicans and Democrats alike.  That is how we achieved the compromise in the Senate that was authored -- co-authored by Senator McConnell.  It’s time to get this done for the American people.  

  So here's some real, real stuff, Mr. Carney.
  Oh, come on.
  This whole sock puppet "What does $40 mean to you? Write and tell the president" shtick is sickening.
  Blaming the Tea Party for not wanting a tax cut is absurd.
  This is what always happen. It's typical political maneuvering and unworthy of even the Democrats, who've demagogued every issue rather than face the hard tasks of cutting budget or even HAVING a budget for the last 3 years.
  Since when have Liberals been interested in tax cuts?
  Since when have LIberals/the Establishment been interested in balanced budgets?
  Since when have Liberals been interested in accountability for anyone?
  One day they're crying that old ladies are going to be killed by budget cuts.
  The next day they're crying that they care, really care, about $40 in our paychecks.
  Michelle Obama can fly separately to vacations at a cost of $180,000 per hour but they're trying to convince us they CARE about our $40?
  They/Liberals/the Establishment feel comfortable sinking billions of dollars into the Chevy Volt/GM/Chinese prostitutes' drugs habits/sexual studies of college students but now they're acting like they CARE about $40 in our paychecks?
  Please.
  Tweet your $40 concern, the White House says.
  But, heh.
  I think they're onto ya, bro.