The politics of extending Bush's upper-class tax cuts are indeed straightforward. If you win and just extend them for lower brackets, fine. If you lose, you still win: you have a political issue, and the new policy status quo would be much better than extending...
compassion is an upper class tax cut
...is apparently Tom Golisano, who didn't like the fact that New York state tax polcies weren't being constructed for his personal benefit:Mr. Golisano, a billionaire business executive, had spent heavily.
These sublimely clueless musings from Lisa Schiffern at the Corner illustrate the strange belief system of the GOP's true ideological base, which is made up mostly of the American version.