It is certainly well known that the Republican insistence on adding $700 billion to the deficit to secure a bonus tax break for millionaires and billionaires opposes public opinion by a wide margin. But a new poll shows that even their own base opposes them in this.

A CBS News poll released last night finds that 53 percent of Americans want the Bush-era tax cuts “extended only for households earning less than $250,000 per year,” a position that was advanced by a House vote yesterday . Another 14 percent want to expire all of the Bush tax cuts. Taken together, two-thirds of Americans (67 percent) want to end the Bush tax cuts for the rich. One interesting statistic from the survey indicates that the GOP’s push for giving the richest 2 percent an additional tax cut is not even supported by its own base : Only ten percent of Democrats and one in four independents back the GOP proposal to extend the tax cuts for all. Even among Republicans, support for extending all the cuts is less than half at 46 percent. … [emphasis original]

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Keith Olbermann puts this in perspective in an interview with former Reagan Budget Director, David Stockman.

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