Posted on 02/09/2012 12:28:14 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
Taxes are set to go up on 160 million Americans in a few weeks. But there’s little sign of urgency — let alone progress — coming out of Washington.
House lawmakers dashed out of town Thursday for a four-day weekend, but not before engaging in another round of sniping. Meanwhile, the clock continued to tick toward the end-of-month expiration of the 2 percent payroll tax holiday.
Democrats formally rejected two GOP measures to rework unemployment insurance – provisions that Republicans say are needed to gain their support to extend the tax credit. One tweak would force people who receive unemployment benefits to be enrolled in a GED program, another would allow states to require drug testing for recipients.
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“They need to get moving,” House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday.
Boehner accused President Barack Obama of preventing Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) from cutting a deal with Republicans – echoing similar concerns relayed by Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) to House Republican leadership.
“Right now the only ones blocking an agreement are Democrats and the president,” Boehner said. “It’s time for them to act.”
Tom Coburn threw them a curve on Morning Joe this morning. Following Obama marching orders, the MJ team was pressing Coburn on the possible political backlash of forcing Catholic entities to pay for contraception.
Coburn said that he wasn’t good at judging the political implication of things. And that what he found distressing is that we are focusing on this issue and ignoring the debt and deficit issues that will sink us all.
Poor Mika didn’t know whether to poop or wind her watch.
I figure it will go like the last one. They will all argue for a while and Boehner will cave in.
A 10-month extension through the end of 2012 is what is needed. Nothing more or nothing less. Certainly they shouldn’t allow themselves to be played for suckers again with another short term (e.g., 2-months) extension. That would only allow the Democrats another opportunity to come back and endlessly demagog the issue.
When Congress convenes in 2013, I hope one of the first measures that they and the Gingrich/Santorum (or is it Santorum/Gingrich) administration do is to rescind the money to build that Nevada bridge-to-nowhere (actually I guess it’s that bridge to that vacant land that Harry Reid owns across the river). Reid sickens me almost as much as the corrupt, and now irrelevant, Nancy Pelosi did.
Actually that’s the 2nd thing. The first thing will be to replace McDonnell in the Senate leadership.
Yep!
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