Boehner’s Tax Increase to Nowhere

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John Boehner Couldn’t Negotiate His Way Out Of A Wet Paper Bag

 

 

By:

Ulysses Arn

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Diary

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With Speaker John Boehner’s Plan B(as in Bad) having gone down in flames last night now is the time to look back on Boehner’s negotiating ability, or more to the point the lack thereof. First up we have the Pledge to America Boehner and crew crafted in the 2010 election cycle. In the Pledge Boehner and the boys promised to cut $100 billion in federal

http://www.redstate....-wet-paper-bag/

 

And here all along I've been thinking Obama couldn't lead his way out of a wet paper bag.

or pour P*** out of a paper bag

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Simply Extend The Deadline By 90 Days

 

 

Take Control Mr. Speaker!

 

 

By: davo (Diary) | December 23rd, 2012 at 09:27 AM | 7

 

All John Boehner needs to do to take control of the dialogue about the fiscal cliff is present a bill in the House that delays implementation of the tax rate hikes and spending cuts by 90 days. That’s it. No other goodies. No tricks. No gimmicks. A simple extension of the deadline. Maintain the status quo. He could make the argument that this is just too important to ram through in a lame duck session and under the current time constraints. Sure, he’d take some heat for “kicking the can down the road,” but he could take the moral high ground by arguing that it’s in the best interest of taxpayers to give this issue the time it deserves. http://www.redstate.com/d42nato/2012/12/23/simply-extend-the-deadline-by-90-days/

no no no no hear me yet

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The president’s Obama-centric view of the world

By Ed Rogers

While the media focuses almost exclusively on tax increases and blaming Republicans, the prospect of achieving real solutions to our economic problems and doing anything about government overspending has completely fallen off the radar. Equally underreported but vital to any analysis of what is possible is the apparent state of mind of the president in this current crisis, and his overall approach to his second term.

The president said three revealing things in his last two press conferences that say much about his state of mind. His own ego and arrogance are on vivid display, but no one is talking about it.

First, there appears to be no limit to the political posturing the president will allow when blaming Republicans. He actually used the Newtown, Conn., tragedy as a reason that Republicans should capitulate to his desire to pointlessly raise taxes.

Last Wednesday, the president said, http://www.washingto...daa43_blog.html

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December 26, 2012

It's Not Too Late

Michael Nadler

It's not too late for House Republicans to regroup and pass an extension of the Bush tax cuts along the lines of Speaker Boehner's "Plan B" before yearend. With those tax cuts scheduled to expire on January 1, each representative will soon be faced with the Hobson's choice of either going along with a bill which will be introduced and passed in the Senate adopting the president's obsession with extending the tax cuts only up to $250,000 in income, or blocking the bill and being blamed for the economic consequences of automatic tax hikes on everyone and anything else that happens as a result of Obamanomics.

Speaker John Boehner made a valiant attempt to go on the offensive in the fiscal cliff negotiations as we recommended two weeks earlier. Where we had suggested actions that did not concede tax increases for anyone, his Plan B took the more conciliatory path of allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire for income in excess of $1 million. Facing inadequate support from his own http://www.americant...t_too_late.html

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State-Run Broadcasting Pushes for Taxes

 

By L. Brent Bozell · December 26, 2012

A"serious" proposal is one that has a reasonable expectation of resolving a conflict. Anyone studying Speaker Boehner's Plan B proposal knows it wasn't serious. Why are so many defending it and bemoaning its defeat?

It tells you an awful lot about the dishonest nature of politics in America today.

Republicans -- fiscally conservative Republicans -- have argued since forever that tax increases diminish economic growth. For the past two years, they have argued that increasing taxes on the "wealthy" would wreak havoc on our fragile (at best) economy. In fact, three studies have confirmed that this "millionaires tax," now endorsed by Plan B Boehner, would cost America 700,000 jobs, an unmitigated disaster.

The problem, as has endlessly been trumpeted by this camp, is spending, not taxes, with entitlement reform as the solution. Plan B does nothing of substance here.

A "meaningless" proposal is one http://patriotpost.us/opinion/16038

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So if they let it expire. Then turn around and cut it for some and any small amount, they can claim they are voting for a tax decrease from the then current rates.

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So if they let it expire. Then turn around and cut it for some and any small amount, they can claim they are voting for a tax decrease from the then current rates.

 

I'm afraid you have nailed it. And here we see the underlying problem, way too many politicians are afraid to come out and tell the truth that they know...we are broke. We can't keep playing political games with this.

 

 

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So if they let it expire. Then turn around and cut it for some and any small amount, they can claim they are voting for a tax decrease from the then current rates.

 

I'm afraid you have nailed it. And here we see the underlying problem, way too many politicians are afraid to come out and tell the truth that they know...we are broke. We can't keep playing political games with this.

Stand Firm Republicans!

By: Jared Woodfill

Chairman, Harris County Republican Party

Since the President's recent reelection, he and the liberal political pundits have claimed a mandate for tax increases. What they seem to forget is that the electorate also gave the Republican Party the majority mantle in the House. I don't recall one Republican Representative campaigning on tax increases during the last election cycle. In fact, most persuaded their districts into electing them based on a promise that they would not yield to President Obama's call for raising taxes. Let's not forget that his so called tax on the rich would result in a tax increase for over one million small businesses. Given this background, I was shocked when Speaker Boehner recently proposed a compromise that included tax increases. I am thankful for the conservatives Representatives in the House who stopped Republican efforts to acquiesce in tax increases as part of a deal with President Obama. When will we learn that you cannot compromise on core principles that will allow our failing economy to further slide in to the economic abyss. When we compromise on our core principles and campaign promises, we lose. Representative Louie Gohmert said it best, "We know that our big problem is too much spending." Democrats have set the trap, arguing that if Republicans will just raise taxes we can come along with cuts later; we cannot fall for it. Under the leadership of President George W. Bush, Republicans passed tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 that removed the increases in taxes President Clinton gave us. Now, President Obama wants to raise taxes again.

 

I am firmly convinced that there is no stronger voice than that of the grass-roots activists, the men and women who spend time away from family, friends, hobbies, and businesses to get these folks elected. It is time to let your voice be heard! Please use the link below and call, email or fax our Republican Representatives all around the country and let them know that a tax increase is not the solution. Remember, the issue isn't that we are taxed too little, the problem is the government spends too much! Encourage our Republican Representatives to stand firm, ask them not to compromise on principle, remind them to be true to their campaign promises, and request that they oppose any compromise that would result in undoing the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. Thank you for making a difference!

 

http://www.gop.gov/republicans

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Obama, Senators to Discuss Budget Moves

By Alexis Simendinger - December 26, 2012

Ending his holiday break early, President Obama expects to be back at the White House by midday Thursday to search with senators for an escape hatch to avert more than $500 billion in tax hikes and automatic spending reductions that take effect next week should Washington fail to act.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who conferred with the president this past Friday, is developing a possible fallback plan with the White House to extend the Bush-era tax breaks for families earning less than $250,000 annually. His plan would also postpone into 2013 the across-the-board federal spending cuts devised in 2011 as a way to compel lawmakers to rally behind a comprehensive deficit-reduction plan. http://www.realclear...dget_moves.html

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So if they let it expire. Then turn around and cut it for some and any small amount, they can claim they are voting for a tax decrease from the then current rates.

 

I'm afraid you have nailed it. And here we see the underlying problem, way too many politicians are afraid to come out and tell the truth that they know...we are broke. We can't keep playing political games with this.

Stand Firm Republicans!

By: Jared Woodfill

Chairman, Harris County Republican Party

 

I don't recall one Republican Representative campaigning on tax increases during the last election cycle. In fact, most persuaded their districts into electing them based on a promise that they would not yield to President Obama's call for raising taxes.

 

Exactly!!!

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

P. J. O'Rourke

 

BTW it should be, a if not a rule, certainly a very good idea to read some P. J. O'Rourke everyday.

 

"Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadows about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

Parliament of Whores (1991)

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December 27, 2012

In Defense of John Boehner

 

By Timothy C. Daughtry

Before conservatives form our customary circular firing squad to deal with concerns about the leadership of House Speaker John Boehner, we might want to consider the possibility that Boehner was dealt a bad hand in the last election and that he has played that hand as well as anyone could have. It might even be worth considering the possibility that Boehner has been crazy like the proverbial fox in his dealings with Obama.

Of course, frustration with the Republican tendency to cave under pressure from the left was one of the animating forces behind the birth of the Tea Party, and we must acknowledge the possibility up front that Boehner has simply followed other Republican leaders down the path of appeasement. If Boehner genuinely thought that Barack Obama would agree to serious spending reductions in return for Republican concessions on taxes, then Boehner has misread both Obama's character and his ideology, and he has been played like an old piano. In that case, those calling for his replacement as speaker could make a case that a change in leadership is needed.

But there are at least three compelling reasons to believe that –

 

So now Boehner and the Republicans face an electorate in which those who are ignorant of even basic economic principles

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/in_defense_of_john_boehner.html

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So if they let it expire. Then turn around and cut it for some and any small amount, they can claim they are voting for a tax decrease from the then current rates.

 

I'm afraid you have nailed it. And here we see the underlying problem, way too many politicians are afraid to come out and tell the truth that they know...we are broke. We can't keep playing political games with this.

 

Stand Firm Republicans!

By: Jared Woodfill

Chairman, Harris County Republican Party

 

I don't recall one Republican Representative campaigning on tax increases during the last election cycle. In fact, most persuaded their districts into electing them based on a promise that they would not yield to President Obama's call for raising taxes.

 

Exactly!!!

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

P. J. O'Rourke

 

BTW it should be, a if not a rule, certainly a very good idea to read some P. J. O'Rourke everyday.

 

"Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadows about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

Parliament of Whores (1991)

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My favorite is

I have read neither, but I'am going to take a look and see thanks

 

If nothing else, he'll make you laugh...and lord knows we are in need of that, right now.

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Reid Abdicates 'Fiscal Cliff' Talks

by Mike Flynn27 Dec 2012, 7:25 AM PDT

Today, the Senate takes up legislation to reauthorize FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The law allows the government to conduct wiretaps without a warrant in certain limited cases. This article is not about this law. It is about how, with only four days until we go over the "fiscal cliff", Sen. Reid is consuming the Senate's time on legislation that isn't pressing. He is not serious about averting the cliff.

 

One week ago, the House failed to move its "Plan B" proposal, a legislative opening-bid in the "cliff" talks. Since that time, the talks have fallen into posturing. Reid hasn't proposed even general outlines of a compromise deal. This morning, Sen. Reid took to the Senate floor and focused blame for the failure of the talks squarely on Speaker Boehner. It was a clear indication that the Senate has no plans to move any kind of deal to avert the "cliff."

Sen. Reid has failed to pass a budget throughout Obama's first term. Now, he has failed to do anything to avert the "cliff" on Monday. But, he has found time to debate amendments to unrelated legislation http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/27/reid-abdicates-fiscal-cliff-talks

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Out with The Christmas Strategy, in with The New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Strategy

Posted by William A. Jacobson Thursday, December 27, 2012 at 11:50am

 

Kick the can down the road, Republicans.

Do what I’ve been telling you to do since early December, The Christmas Strategy, which now needs to be renamed The New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Strategy because you didn’t listen. It’s still called Plan C:

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/12/out-with-the-christmas-strategy-in-with-the-new-years-rockin-eve-strategy/

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Dems to Boehner: Just Come Back to Washington

 

Democrats pressed Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to bring the House back in session as time ticks away on 2012.

 

“The House Democratic leadership is calling on the Republican leadership to come back to work and stop stonewalling every effort to get the job done, including making sure that taxes are not raised on tens of millions of middle class families,” Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement today.

 

“House Democrats have been standing ready and willing to return to Washington to vote on critical issues including the middle class tax cuts, Sandy disaster relief, the Violence Against Women Act, the Farm Bill – all while we continue to work on a bipartisan solution to avoid the fiscal cliff. There are plenty of reasons for this Do-Nothing Congress to get back to work,” she added.

The fiscal cliff is five days away, and lawmakers have not yet received the requisite 48-hour notice from Boehner to return to the Hill.

“Over the past several weeks, Majority Leader Cantor has said that the House would do the work necessary to finish the items we need to get done by the end of the year. I talked to Mr. Cantor today and urged him to have us come back,” Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said at a press conference today. He said the Republican conference would be discussing whether to return on a call this afternoon. http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/12/27/dems-to-boehner-just-come-back-to-washington/

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Congress awaits president’s fiscal cliff proposal

By: Sen. Mitch McConnell

12/27/2012 07:16 PM

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding the need for swift, bipartisan action to prevent the country from going over the Fiscal Cliff:

“You’ll excuse me if I’m a little frustrated at the situation we find ourselves in. But last night, President Obama called Congressional leaders from Hawaii and asked if there was something we could do to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.

“I say I’m a little frustrated because we’ve been asking

“Make no mistake: the only reason Democrats have been trying to deflect attention onto me and my colleagues over the past few weeks is that they don’t have a plan of their own that could get bipartisan support. The so-called Senate bill that the Majority Leader keeps referring to passed with only Democrat votes. And despite his repeated calls for the House to pass it, he knows as well as I do that he himself is the reason it can’t happen. The paperwork never left the Senate, so there’s nothing for the House to vote on.

 

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/12/27/congress-awaits-presidents-fiscal-cliff-proposal/

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Just Do It

 

 

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 28th, 2012 at 04:30 AM | 4

 

One of the biggest problems on Capitol Hill these days is that the leaders of both parties are calling all the shots without input from the rest of Congress until the end. Certainly there comes a point when there are too many cooks in the kitchen, but the purpose of the legislature is to legislate and the legislators cannot do their job because of their leaders.

 

HR8 has been pending before the United States Senate for some time. It purports to solve the fiscal cliff problems from the Republican perspective of the House. Harry Reid should throw it on the floor of the Senate and just let both sides offer up amendments to reshape it. http://www.redstate.com/2012/12/28/just-do-it/

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The Right Scoop: Did Obama just admit he’s ready to concede increased taxes on the rich…for now?

 

If I’m hearing what I think I’m hearing, it sounds like Obama is going to concede raising taxes on the rich to ensure that taxes on everyone doesn’t go up. He says that he still wants increased taxes on the rich, but if he can’t get that he’ll take a basic package:

 

“BUT if an agreement isn’t reached in time between Senator Reid and Senator McConnell, then I will urge Senator Reid to bring to the floor a basic package for an up or down vote, one that protects the Middle Class from an income tax hike, extends the vital lifeline of unemployment insurance to the 2 million Americans looking for a job, and lays the groundwork for future cooperation on more economic growth and deficit reduction.”

 

I admit I have no idea what he means by “and lays the groundwork for future cooperation on more economic growth and deficit reduction”. But it doesn’t sound like raising taxes on those making $250k. He’s basically saying he wants to keep Middle Class taxes from increasing and unemployment insurance for 2 million Americans, but that’s it. Sounds like he’s really saying he’s willing to extend the current tax rates for another year or so, to fight the 250k battle another day.

 

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