Would the Democrats go along with it?
“Look, Mr. President... Just pretend you are, you know, ‘coming in my direction’ a little bit, okay? C’mon, home, gimme something! Pleeeeeease? I’m twisting in the wind here.”
“Awright, awright awready... No need for tears. Listen, here’s what I’ll do. I’ll let it leak that I am willing to discuss... ha ha ha, ‘spending cuts’, ha ha... down the road. Okay? Does that give you something to make it look like you’re accomplishing something for your side? Good. Now beat it. I gotta catch up on a couple episodes of ‘Glee’.”
“another clear concession to Boehner”
David Espo’s parents beat him constantly for lying, as did everybody in the town he grew up in, and now AP pays him to lie.
Makes you think...
= Boehner offers to let Ubama and the rats bankrupt yet another generation of Americans (this time our great-grandchildren) so that the Republicans can have the honor of being blamed for both raising taxes AND pushing granny off a cliff ("spending cuts"). That's some great work, Boehner.
"NOW, you're negotiating!"
What’s wrong with curtailing any Congressional raises?
Now, if Bonehead would just throw in gun confiscation and amnesty
he might get his deal.
Boehner will cave and the GOP will go along with it. We serve a worthless party. A party that has let the left steamroll over them because they want to be nice. To heck with being nice ... our country is at stake.
Over at DU they are PEEVED!
Kabuki Theatre. 26 trillion in debt or 25 trillion in debt. A joke.
Beavis and Butthead hard at work..........
“Speaking a few hours after Obama and Boehner met at the White House, these people said the president was now seeking a higher tax rate beginning at incomes over $400,000, “
Actually, Boehner may be playing some good poker ... IF he keeps the debt ceiling card in his pocket.
Here’s why: SPENDING IS THE REAL PROBLEM. Boehner needs to minimize the tax increase while keeping the ball on the spending side.
We know that. We also know that the Democrats want and will demand their ‘tax the rich’ and they have the recent victory in the elections to feel their oats. Obama cannot and will not back down on insisting on raising taxes, he needs something.
But raising the bar to $1 million puts the top rate on the smallest group of Americans, and at the same time makes this even less of a real solution to the budget deficit.
IF Obama is backing up to $400,000, then that’s more than most had thought Boehner would get.
once we get this ‘deal’ done, we will find:
- Obama is taxing too much (Obamacare tax increases)
- he is spending too much
- the deficit is still one trillion
in effect, Obama will have ‘won’ and he will own the fiscal mess that will continue. THEN comes the hammer blow. Debt ceiling increase? What, without a real deal to fix entitlements, cut spending and get back on track? You kidding me? More painful negotiations, but GOP House will have more leverage and Democrats less excuses... “oh you want MORE tax increases? you just GOT your tax increases!”
LOL, they will run out of excuses and rich people to go after!
The only reason Obama has offered up the CoLAs is that he knows the retired people will exact a price for anyone dem or rep who supports it. So in the end, it is something he can give up that will come back.
Why don’t they ask for something no one will demand returned such as income tax refunds for illegals. Also, the income tax system should not be a part of the Welfare system. No one who pays no tax at all should ever get an income tax check. A refund check should never be larger than the taxes paid in.
They should also demand that crazy checks (SSI) be limited to children in US families. There are plenty of things they can cut that will not automatically be reversed come next election. The GOP needs to focus on demanding those things.
Does this negotiating with the Obama Regime instead of the Senate seem odd to anyone? Obama is doing more legislating now that he is out of the Senate than he did while he was in it.