Today's "War Room" column on Salon.com points out the forthcoming G.O.P. efforts to roll back the estate tax:
The U.S. Senate approved $10.5 billion in emergency disaster relief for Katrina last night, and the House of Representatives is expected to approve the measure this morning.Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman has other priorities in mind. In an e-mail he sent yesterday, Mehlman called on the Senate to eliminate the estate tax. And he urged his supporters to call their senators -- "today" -- to demand that they get on board with the plan.
The message arrived in our in box at just about the same time Scott McClellan was pushing away criticism of the president by saying, "This is not the time for politics."
In light of the failure of the federal government to plan for and respond to the natural disaster in the Gulf states, the failure of the Administration to send in enough troops to establish a secure Iraq, and the ballooning budget deficits, it strikes me as POSITIVELY UN-AMERICAN to argue for an abatement of the estate tax.
