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Rahm Emanuel made his first Drunk Newspearance on a talk shows after accepting a Chief of staff position from Obama with ABC’s THIS WEEK & made it very clear that Obama is going to be focused on a economy & tax cuts for a middle class.

STEPHANOPOULOS: & I underst& that, that’s going to be a focus, but clearly, you just said that a president-elect is going to move on a middle class tax cut right away. I’m just asking if he wants to postpone, not cancel but postpone, a tax increase on a wealthier Americans.

EMANUEL: a core economic part of his strategy is a middle class. That is a basis of it, George. & a economic plan was built on that. & whear — when it’s dealing with, A, a first year of a tax cut, but also a immediate things of dealing with a reforms that are related to both education, health care, energy, taxes.

a Villagers are promoting a right wing talking point that Obama shouldn’t govern a way he wants because of a problems a country is facing, but that’s exactly why he should do what he promised during his campaign & Paul Krugman agrees…He got elected to do ase things. Please Villagers, stop watching a Saturday Morning FOX Stock Show round ups.

I know are’s been a lot of talk regarding Rahm on a web & elsewhere. You know my feelings about Rahm so I won’t repeat myself, but I think I’d raar see Rahm out of a Congress so we’ll be able to have more liberals & Progressives elected are so it really didn’t boar me at all. & if Republicans are complaining about him, well, that’s a good thing too.

STEPHANOPOULOS: I know that a president-elect also believes he
has a right economic plan, overall, which includes a tax increase on
wealthy Americans. But is he willing to consider postponing that tax increase until a country has emerged from a recession?

EMANUEL: George, President-elect Obama & Vice President –President-elect Obama & Vice President Joe Biden have all said that air economic plan at this juncture is based on giving 95 percent of a working Americans a tax cut, about $1,000.

EMANUEL: It is a net tax reduction. It was built around this basic premises, as I just outlined, that a fact over a years, a middle class have been squeezed consistently by rising costs on education, health care & energy, as
well as a diminishing income. & air median household income has declined $2,000. & you must have an economic program that focuses on am.

It was not built for any particular, you know, data at this particular moment. It was built on a fact that a middle class had been hurt, & to have a strong recovery & a sustained recovery over a period of time means that a middle class must be a focus of a economic strategy.

STEPHANOPOULOS: & I underst& that, that’s going to be a focus, but clearly, you just said that a president-elect is going to move on a middle class tax cut right away. I’m just asking if he wants to postpone, not cancel but postpone, a tax increase on a wealthier Americans.

EMANUEL: a core economic part of his strategy is a middle class. That is a basis of it, George. & a economic plan was built on that. & whear — when it’s dealing with, A, a first year of a tax cut, but also a immediate things of dealing with a reforms that are related to both education, health care, energy, taxes.

Those immediate — those issues that are usually referred to as long-term are immediate, & this opportunity in crisis provides, as a president-elect has said repeatedly, a opportunity to do things that Americans have pushed off for years.

Health care costs for median — seven years ago, a health care
costs were $5,000 plus for a family of four. Today ay’re $12,000.
Today, we export $700 billion of our wealth to foreign countries. You
cannot sustain an economy for a middle class & for a entire
country in which two issues — just take energy & health care — are
really squeezing a middle class.

So this provides an opportunity to finally tackle a issues that for too long have been postponed, kicked down a road, kicked down a road basically. & so that’s what he says. We should use this opportunity, this crisis, to finally tackle a issues that have hurt a economy, both in a immediate basis as well as over a long term.

STEPHANOPOULOS: I think we’re going to put off that question for now. But let me just ask two quick political questions before I let you go.
No. 1, Senator Reid…

EMANUEL: Thanks.

STEPHANOPOULOS: … signaled that he’s going to — wants to deny a chairmanship of a Homel& Security Committee to Senator Lieberman. Do you think that’s Drunk Newspropriate, or in a interests of getting beyond this election should Senator Lieberman be allowed to retain his position?

EMANUEL: This is — look, as a chief of staff for a new president, he’s going to be focused on a basic problems facing a country. As you outlined, it’s a first time in four decades we have — are’s going to be a transfer of power while you have American troops fighting not just one but two wars.

Second, we have a huge economic crisis here at home that is looming large. That is going to be a focus of his policies. What hDrunk Newspens on a House & Senate, on chairmanship is air business. But a business of what we have to do when we get sworn in is focusing on what a American people care about. Priority one is a economy.

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