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Posted on 12/16/2010 10:16:39 AM PST by combat_boots
By Michelle Malkin • December 16, 2010 12:55 PM Interesting goings-on in Washington. On the House floor just now, Democrats have just withdrawn the rule on the tax deal and moved on to a different bill providing technical corrections for the bankruptcy law.
Jo Maney from GOP Rep. David Dreier’s office explains: “Dems just pulled tax bill rule…they can amend it on the floor without having to go to back to committee. But it’s unclear how they will proceed at this point.”
.....the first four are now employed by Acorn and demand a ride to the bar and snacks along with imported beer.
GET FOCUSED!
This is EVERYTHING.
The GOP should vote to ensure that the Estate Tax is RAISED. Yes, RAISED. The GOP should vote in the house WITH THE LEFT WING DEMOCRATS.
The goal is to FORCE IT BACK TO THE SENATE. Force it to be redone in the Senate. BUY TIME. Also, if ANY CHANGES TAKE PLACE, McConnell and ALL THE GOP SENATORS, EVEN THE MODERATES, will stand by their commitment to allow nothing else to take place until it passes.
In other words EAT THE CLOCK. It is time for a strategic vote. Vote to INCREASE TAXES. That will never become law. It has to go back to the Senate if there are ANY CHANGES, so help the left wing FORCE CHANGES.
That’s the biggest part of the problem. They DO fully understand it. They simply refuse to recognize it.
I’m waiting on barry hussein soetero obama to start coming down on the NBA players for not doing their fair share. They need to pay more taxes....
Barry, Barry, Barry ???
Hmmm....crickets chirping
We used to know this:
Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy neighbor’s.
See tagline.
You see, to a liberal, the Ten Commandments are an "evolving paradigm", a "living document", if you will. Why should we be bound by laws that were handed down in such a different time? Our needs have changed, you understand.
Our Founding Father could not have envisioned such things as tax-free bonds or cell phones or Facebook. So why should we have to live under such ancient standards of behavior?
It's all so... unfair. And that's what Government is for, after all: to make things more... fair.
Note to taxpayers: Prepare for incoming!
You are scary good with that spin, LOL.
Dems pull tax-deal rule off House floor after liberal revolt
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posted at 1:35 pm on December 16, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
The Senate passed its version of the tax deal by a wide margin this week, but in the House, the plan appears to be in jeopardy. Democratic leadership had to pull the rule governing the debate on the bill after liberals in their caucus revolted and threatened to send it to a defeat. One Democrat called it a “speed bump,” but as of yet the road to passage has not opened:
A final House vote on President Obama’s tax proposal could be delayed after Democratic leaders were forced to pull a procedural measure off the House floor Thursday.
The House was set to vote on the rule governing debate on the broad tax bill, but the measure was withdrawn at the last minute when leaders realized it was likely to be rejected. Liberals opposed to the deal Obama struck with Republicans were upset that the procedure approved by the House Rules Committee on Wednesday did not allow them a clean opportunity to vote on the legislation the Senate passed on Wednesday. A final vote on the tax deal had been planned for Thursday evening.
“We’re just trying to work out some kinks,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), a floor manager for the tax bill, told reporters. He characterized the decision to pull the procedural measure off the floor as “a bump” and said he did not think the House would have to delay a final vote past Thursday. Yet he said it was unclear what the next move was and said Democratic leaders were huddling over how to proceed.
Ironically, this resulted from an attempt to “deem-and-pass” the tax deal. The rule would have allowed an amendment for the sake of altering the estate-tax portion of the deal Barack Obama cut with the GOP; had it then passed, the House would have deemed the rest of the deal to have passed as well and sent the amendment to the Senate. If not, then the House would have held a clean vote on the Senate bill.
Unfortunately for Nancy Pelosi, her progressive caucus wanted a chance to vote against the entire deal rather than take a face-saving way out. That would have meant another attempt at resuscitating the Obama deal from scratch or nearly so, at least in the Rules Committee. The Boss Emeritus reports that the House could also try amending the rule on the House floor, but that might be a difficult maneuver if Pelosi’s caucus remains split on proceeding.
Most expect the deal to pass without changes in the end, but at the moment, how Pelosi gets to the end is difficult to see. If Pelosi can’t get the deal passed, it will result in a massive tax increase on January 1, which will be entirely the fault of Democratic obstructionism, as well as an indication of presidential impotence. The pressure to avoid both consequences will probably be enough to push it through to adoption.
According to NRO, the House Dems go into a closed door caucus meeting at 3:45 pm.
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Funny thing about the “evolving” ten commandments.
On the left, you might as well take every one of them, state its opposite, and call the result the “new ten commandments”.
“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.” Less Nessman.
This ‘tax bill’ is a Christmas tree of corruption with food control, globull warming, gay military and foreign backsheesh rolled into one, hot peanut butter shark bait fruit salad with camambert dressing.
Freeze the turkeys and drop them out of helos, why don’t you, Nanzi, Hoyer, and the slimy statists who call themselves ‘Republican.’ Gun us all down, since that’s really what you want to do with all the spending: kill the United States.
Shame on you. And if you vote for it, may the Lord God Almighty condemn you all.
Actually, Mr. Carlson (station GM) said that famous quote. Les was the "crack" news reporter for WKRP.
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