WA Wets

To follow-up on what Matt says here, it’s especially dismaying to see Murray and Cantwell vote for the decrease in the estate tax. It’s not as if they have to be frightened that voting against a tax giveaway to upper-upper-class heirs is going to cost them re-election. They would appear to believe as a matter of principle that it’s crucial that the wealth amassed by the Paris Hiltons of the world be greater during a time of great economic dislocation. What a disgrace.

…Nicholas correctly notes the influence of Seattle Times owner Frank Blethen, a fanatic supporter of putting less tax burden on the shoulders of upper-upper-class heirs, who forced his paper to endorse Bush in 2000 largely because of this issue. Your liberal media! Which isn’t a defense of Cantwell and Murray — does anybody seriously think that Blethen actually could cost them the election? It’s not like he swung the state for Bush…