Update: Chuck Grassley just quoted our own ortcutt on the Senate floor!

He's irritated at 'Democrat' bloggers who distort tax relief [sic] and took exception to ortcutt's recent post that expiring tax cuts do not equate to a tax increase.

He's requested the "ortcutt post" from the 'Daily Koze' be inserted into the record.

I'll delete this lame diary in a few minutes - just couldn't resist getting this up here. Grassley is still bleating about permanent tax relief.

Update: Thanks to the magnificent Magnifico, we have the infamous comment that attracted the Senator's attention:

Having it both ways

The Republicans want it both ways on budgets and expiring tax cuts.  If you look at the CBO's budget outlook, there will be a surplus in 2012.  However, the only reason for that is that the temporary tax cuts of the so-called Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 will expire on January 1, 2011.  When a temporary tax cut expires is that a tax increase or not?  When the President Bush brags that the budget will be balanced in 2012 without tax increases, he is saying that letting a tax cut expire is not a tax increase.  But when Republicans debate extending the tax cuts, how many Republicans do you think will cast letting a tax cut expire as a tax increase.  All of them.  It's fundamentally dishonest and disgusting.  I just hope that we can get this fact through to the American people.

I remember now the steam coming out of his ears as he sputtered about having it both ways.