Neighbor Jody Eckmeyer said the father was peacock feather hair extensions a truck driver, had a good sense of humor, and often visited with neighbors. The mother was a nurse, and the teens, a girl and a boy, often spent time hanging out with friends on the porch and stayed out of trouble, she said.
“They were very well respected,’’ Eckmeyer said.
Another neighbor, Thomas Slade, said the father would often come over to Slade’s garage to have a couple of beers and work on his Suzuki motorcycle while Slade worked on his Harley-Davidson. “We were good friends, but we didn’t ride together,’’ he said. Slade never heard him talk about problems at home but he had recently mentioned that he had landed a new job with a trucking firm.
With the stakes much higher this autumn and next year, Democrats are cheap feather hair extensions urging the White House to correct these blunders. Specifically, they hope the president will insist that every dollar of spending cuts the supercommittee demands be accompanied by a dollar of higher revenues, and to say that changes in entitlements and taxes are joined at hip.
Mr. Obama, they say, also should play the national security card, forcing Republican to choose between higher taxes or about $600 billion in defense cuts.
“He can force Republicans to make a fundamental choice: Do they care more about protecting tax breaks or national security?” says the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.
A separate issue for Mr. Obama is the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts: more than $3.5 trillion, including $800 billion benefiting wealthier cheap hair feathers Americans, over the next 10 years. The president backed down last year from a threat to block high-end tax cuts when he cut a deal with Republicans to extend them for two years in exchange for additional stimulus.
This was necessary because the White House never tried last year to “decouple” the Bush tax cuts by proposing to extend them permanently for the middle class but only for a limited period for the upper incomes. Doing so might have put Republicans on the defensive.
Drawing from that experience, many congressional Republicans now are convinced that Mr. Obama will blink again next year and will prove unwilling to oppose a measure that would extend tax cuts during an election year amid a sluggish economy. The president has vowed publicly and privately to Democratic congressional leaders that it is a certainty he will block any extension of tax cuts for the affluent.
Whether he sticks to that may affect the deficit wholesale feather hair extensions picture, the U.S. credit rating, and perhaps whether the incumbent is around for a second term to affect further changes.
