Posted on 11/08/2012 8:56:45 AM PST by reegs
If Republicans don’t go along with calls by President Obama for higher taxes and the nation goes off a “fiscal cliff,” then the GOP is to blame, says a Democratic congressman.
<SNIP>
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday it’s actually Democrat policies of massive borrowing and spending that’s pushing the nation over the edge.
“We are going over a financial cliff. Everybody in the Obama camp knows we are going over the financial cliff whether we raise taxes on the rich or not,” Limbaugh explained. “Raising taxes, confiscating the wealthy’s money would not save us. There isn’t the money. But this is how this works now. This is how they do it. … It’s not Obama, you see, whose policies are going to take us over the financial cliff. It’s these Republican creeps that won’t go along with tax increases.”
But will Republicans draw a line in the sand, or will they go along with tax hikes?
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I say Burn Baby Burn
Barack ran up the Federal charge card far more than George W. Bush did. How is that virtue when Bush’s part was vice?
I agree that Republicans should make a very visible good faith effort. But Boehner should also announce a very firm “no backroom deals” position, not only on the fiscal cliff but also on all future budgets. The House should pass its proposal and then demand that the Senate do the same, and then go to conference. Regular order. The default position would be a continuing resolution at last year’s levels, with not a penny more, along with defunding of a couple of targets of opportunity to add some heat. If the dems shut down the government, so be it. We have to tough it out, keep emphasizing that the House has passed a budget, and demand that the Senate does its job.
At this point the GOP should consider themselves innoculated as they have already lost everything except the HOuse of Reps. They need to be as obstructionist as possible for 4 years. But they won’t. Boehner is already down on one knee to the Man of Perdition.
hehheh...you’re expecting the House, Senate and Executive branch to perform Constitutionally.
IMHO...that without a few thousand of We the People peons and peasants on Capitol Hill with pitchforks and torches...they won’t even go into session about this.
Tough. WHo cares how they bash us now? It is time to do everything and anything to undermine the commies.
My thinking is headed toward yours. Obviously I don’t want to pay higher rates or lose whatever GDP growth we have coming to us. On the other hand, it appears to me that there are no tangible consequences to O voters for being O voters. If they have to kick in tax money, then they can actually weight out that vote for gay marriage or the phantom abortion restrictions they seem willing to die for versus an ACTUAL COST TO THEM FOR ONCE ......
I admit I haven’t thought this through that deeply yet but it appears to me that the zero percent tax payers will go absolutely nuts when they are once again 17% tax payers and that conservative governing principles will once again be an option.
we still have the original CDs in the Smithsonian.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.