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  A voice of reason vs. GOP recklessness
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ContributorPenguin 
Last EditedPenguin  Jun 02, 2006 04:35pm
CategoryEditorial
News DateJun 02, 2006 04:30pm
DescriptionThat this Congress passes tax cuts apparently is hardly news these days.

At least, the latest action to extend by two years some $70 billion of the Bush administration's tax cuts barely made the front pages and the evening news last month...

There was one Republican senator - George Voinovich of Ohio - who had the guts to stand up on May 3 when the Senate gave the tax cuts final approval - cuts, incidentally, that mainly benefits taxpayers with more than $200,000 in annual income - so that George Bush could quickly make it law.

As Washington Post columnist David Broder commented, Voinovich's speech was met with a yawn from both his GOP colleagues and the press.
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