My understanding is that Pelosi herself supports the notion of raising taxes on incomes of a million dollars and up. It will be interesting to see whether she votes against plan B.
Worse yet,
Pelosi originally proposed that same idea B as a rhetoric club to beat Republicans with (just extend below $1M) back May 23 in a letter, and now she will line up House members to vote against it because Bohner FINALLY called her bluff.
But Republicans appear not capable of using Dems words as weapons against them like Dems do,against them(Rs) . That is why they (this congress) ALWAYS LOSE these fights to Dems.
This House took on three key battles last year and lost them all (getting whatever crap Obama didnt care about) : The 2011 budget, the debt limit extension 2011, then the FICA tax cut extension a year ago.
On the first two the R words/phrases that Ds used as deadly weapons were :
“ Rs are saying Shut it down” then on the second “Rs are saying Default”
Bohner has them home now to keep from repeating that but as you can see the new catch phrase for O to use is
“Republicans are saying Lets go off the cliff”