Replies

RE :”President basically told Boehner, if you pass two-month extension Democrats will move forward on talks over one-year deal …This is big morning in this story: now have the outline of a deal; if Boehner passes two-month extend, Reid appoints conferees on 1-yr deal.....
This deal is mostly a face-saving maneuver. The only real concession is that Reid will agree to use the conference committee process rather than demand identical passage, which has some significance, but not whole lot. It means that the GOP still have to agree to the shorter-term extension and negotiate for the one-year extension, which is precisely what was going to happen anyway.”

My original prediction was that Boehner will cave and pass this extension with Pelosi votes. Now with the Senate passing a ‘bi-partision’ bill which Boehner appeared to have signed onto at the time the handwriting is on the wall for another 'cave' after a symbolic stand against it. Like this article says, it's a face-saving scam ‘deal’ for House Republicans to swallow what they said they wouldnt.

If nothing else House Republicans should a demand a fix to the part of the bill that causes the tax collection problems in two months or they will be helping Obama lay yet ANOTHER trap for themselves. The last congress helping pass the FICA/SS cut a year ago is what set this trap that Republicans appear NOT to be able to get out of.

Now with the Senate passing a ‘bi-partisian’ bill

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't a few Dems in the House vote for the 1 year bill? Why is the Senate bill the only bi-partisan one?

(purely rhetorical question mind you - I do understand that the Dems and LSM have taken the idea of "living history" to its greatest extreme - they not only seek to revise what happened in the past, they revise it WHILE it's happening!)

“If nothing else House Republicans should a demand a fix to the part of the bill that causes the tax collection problems in two months or they will be helping Obama lay yet ANOTHER trap for themselves. “

In essence the Republicans do not have the leadership and PR skills to fight Obama, Reid and Pelosi. Given the propensity to cave on critical issues, the election of a Republican House in 2010 is not really putting the brakes on the Obama socialist agenda. Nor are the House Republicans capable of using the Constitutional powers specific to the House to slow the rate of spending. Unfortunately Boehner has even agreed to keep Obamacare and its implementation cost off the table in negotiating spending. One has to ask if the election of a Republican Senate in 2012 will matter, particularly with McConnell in charge.