Posted on 12/22/2011 1:50:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Just across from National Journal. Our dumb national nightmare is over.
House Republicans on Thursday crumpled under the weight of White House and public pressure and have agreed to pass a two-month extension of the 2 percent payroll-tax cut, Republican and Democratic sources told National Journal…
The House will pass the two-month extension with a technical correction to the language designed to minimize difficulties businesses might experience implementing the short-term, two-month tax cut extension.
In exchange, Reid agreed to appoint several Senate Democrats to start negotiating with the House on a full-year payroll-tax holiday extension, which is right in line with McConnell’s blueprint from this morning. Updates are coming but let’s get this up since news is breaking. Two questions to mull while we wait. One: Does the “technical correction” mentioned by National Journal mean the Senate will have to return and pass the House’s version of the bill? I thought the House was under pressure to pass the Senate bill precisely because the upper chamber wasn’t going to reconvene before New Year’s. Two: If you’re going to cave, why not take Rove’s advice and wait another week, when people will be even more distracted by the holidays? Particularly strange is that this is breaking within just a few hours of The One holding a presser to demand action with middle-class taxpayers lovingly arrayed behind him. Now it looks like even more of a capitulation than it is. Merry Christmas from the GOP, champ. Exit quotation from Philip Klein: “So instead of story being ‘Obama caves on Keystone’ it’ll be ‘GOP caves on middle class tax cut’ Great work!”
Update: The House Republican conference call on the bill is set for 5 p.m. Serious question: If he can’t muster enough GOP votes to pass this thing despite overwhelming support from Democrats, is he done as Speaker?
CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEOand another stonewall set up...to the next crisis. Another earhtquake in the DC area is in order. Maybe a human one.
Boehner folded up like a cheap suit, as expected.
Obama’s Air Force One plane is warming up for the Hawaii flight even as we speak.
Obama nailed it again.
Thanks for nothing Mr. Boehner
Just another rollover-and-play-dead exercise by Boner and friends. We truly have one party in DC.
Maybe this type of butt licking shows we need Ron Paul.
I’M OUTTA HERE! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
I'm certain you forgot the sarcasm tag
Exactly. Thanks for saving me the keystrokes.
Another win for them. Over and over again. These people in Washington do not care about us.
Well, THAT is just the work of progressives as usual.
Create a problem to fix a problem only to create 3 more problems with the fix because of lack of thinking only to scramble to fix those problems before anyone finds out about them only to have to blame someone else for them when they are uncovered.
Then in comes the GOP....
Forget eletions. Starve the beast. Stop paying taxes. It will take courage and millions of people, but somehow it must be done.
About f-ing time! Boehner is an absolute imbecile. It’s well past time to replace the weeping loser, with a real conservative with balls.
Obama read a letter from a father, and they couldn't bear the fact that, that, poor father wouldn't be able to take his teenage daughters out for pizza night if he didn't get to keep the tax break. GEEEEZ!
Hopefully they set the altimeter too low.
Boner is a wimp. And McConnell gave it to him without any Vaseline.
“Maybe this type of butt licking shows we need Ron Paul.”
Not in a million flipping years.
Yeah like $17 a week will get you a Pizza Night out every Friday. Were do the DemonRats find these poor slobs, South-side? Frankly were is the outrage from Moochelle?. Her constituency eating heart clogging Pizza!
OK who had 4PM today in the Boner Cave-in pool?
and then it starts all over again after vacation
Now. Anyone here actually believe that Obamacare will be repealed?
So now they look mean spirited AND spineless. Great job boys.
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