McConnell and Biden to the rescue; the grandstanders holler (RINO celebrates McConnell's tax hikes)

Washington Post ^ | 1/1/12 | Jennifer Rubin

[jimbo123]

By a vote of 89 to 8 to approve a fiscal deal, the Senate demonstrated that President Obama surely is the most incompetent if not counterproductive deal-maker in an era that requires a good one. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Vice President Biden found the middle ground, with McConnell sneaking in a few gems.

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This is what compromise looks like.

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The vote once again shows that right-wing bullies like the Heritage Action Fund that threatened to “score” the vote (i.e., give lawmakers a demerit and set them up for primary challenges) are powerless in the face of real-world choices.

[jimbo123]

Rubin the RINO cheerleader is delusional. McConnell must be primaried.

[jimbo123]

[stylin19a]

Jennifer Rubin writes the Right Turn blog for The Post, offering reported opinion from a conservative perspective.

cudda fooled me !

[jimbo123]

Only Five Republicans voted against the bill:

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
Mike Lee (R-Utah)
Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)

Missing the vote:

Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)
Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)

[South Dakota]

I just need to know where to send the money. Its time for SD Senator timmy johnson to come home too

[muawiyah]

of such events are quasi credentials of Conservative orthodoxy forged in Illinois!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

If the Tea Party has any power, this man needs to be ejected. Can KY pull it off?

[indianrightwinger]

She is right on the money on this one. This was “the best” deal possible in current DC climate. If the House GOP passed the $1 million threshold plan B, then the outcome could have been slightly better.

We can primary our side all we want. It will lead to shrinking Senate minority.

[allendale]

If the House passes this bill, they ought to add an amendment with all the necessary spending cuts. Then let it go a conference and let the real negotiations begin. If the Senate bill is the only law to come out of these “negotiations”, the Republican Party will be close to disbanding. McConnell has been made a fool. $16 trillion dollar deficit, continued $3 billion a day of deficit spending,trillions more in state and municipal debts as well as $100 trillion in unfunded entitlements, and rational people are supposed to be scared of a “fiscal cliff”?

[Norm Lenhart]

Yesterday I predicted the GOP sycophants would be out telling us almost verbatim what you just said.

Folks, THIS is why the conservative movement can do nothing. It is full up with excusemakers for failure.

[loveliberty2]

". . . right-wing bullies . . . are powerless in the face of real-world choices."

In the Year 1776, those this historically-ignorant writer of the Year 2012 calls "right-wing bullies" constituted what Thomas Jefferson called "the American mind" from whose wisdom came that revolutionary document which changed the world--the Declaration of Independence. Those "right=wing bullies" proclaimed that neither King George III, nor any other individual or set of individuals had the right to violate their unalienable Creator-endowed rights.

"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately. . . ." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Roger C. Weightman, 1826

[jimbo123]

GOP vote on the McConnell Tax Hikes:

Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Ayotte (R-NH), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Blunt (R-MO), Yea
Boozman (R-AR), Yea
Brown (R-MA), Yea
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Coats (R-IN), Yea
Coburn (R-OK), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
DeMint (R-SC), Not Voting
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Heller (R-NV), Yea
Hoeven (R-ND), Yea
Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Johanns (R-NE), Yea
Johnson (R-WI), Yea
Kirk (R-IL), Not Voting
Kyl (R-AZ), Yea
Lee (R-UT), Nay
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Moran (R-KS), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Paul (R-KY), Nay
Portman (R-OH), Yea
Risch (R-ID), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rubio (R-FL), Nay
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Yea

[jdsteel]

If Boehner does as he says, which is to have the House AND ALL AMERICANS review this bill before amendments this is not too bad. The negotiations will happen simultaneously with debt ceiling talks. Not a bad thing, and NOT what Barry wanted.

[jimbo123]

RINO begone!

[combat_boots]

I resent treating this country and its finances like a game of chance. It’s tacky.

[indianrightwinger]

Failure was losing the Presidential election and losing a seat in the Senate. That is the failure. Averting tax hikes on as many Americans as possible after failing in November is NOT the failure.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Putting America's Tax Hike In Perspective

[skinkinthegrass]

a shining example of a marble-mouthed moron.
sorry..folks, he's my Sinister Mitch "go along/get along" McConnell (GOP/e-W.D.C.)
and I swear never vote for him again, G*D DAMN TRAITOROUS B@$T@$D!

[jimbo123]

RINO begone! Failure is NOT cutting spending, dillweed.

[indianrightwinger]

The only solution is to make the case to the people before they go to the Ballot boxes, and before then nominating people who can make that case to a majority of Americans. Having failed at that this election cycle, all we can expect our side to do is get “as much as possible”. Wait 2014. Wait 2016.