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House passes fiscal cliff deal, tamps down GOP revolt
Yahoo ^ | Dec 31, 2012 | Olivier Knox

Posted on 01/01/2013 7:47:58 PM PST by Vince Ferrer

Edited on 01/02/2013 5:27:03 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The House of Representatives late Tuesday easily approved emergency bipartisan legislation sparing all but a sliver of America’s richest from sharp income tax hikes -- while setting up another “fiscal cliff” confrontation in a matter of weeks.

Lawmakers voted 257-167 to send the compromise to President Barack Obama to sign into law. Eighty-five Republicans and 172 Democrats backed the bill, which had sailed through the Senate by a lopsided 89-8 margin shortly after 2 a.m. Opposition comprised 151 Republicans and 16 Democrats.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner voted in favor of the deal, as did House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, his party's failed vice presidential candidate. But Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy voted against it.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breaking; coal; collapseofusa; indiancoal; marxistcoup; pork; rum; spelunkers
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Going Galt is our last alternative.
1 posted on 01/01/2013 7:48:03 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

Yup, they folded to the Communists.

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/fiscal-abyss-bill-passes-senate-barely-touches-the-trillion-dollar-deficit/


2 posted on 01/01/2013 7:48:55 PM PST by whitedog57
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To: Vince Ferrer

They are voting now. Fools


3 posted on 01/01/2013 7:49:03 PM PST by rwh
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To: Vince Ferrer

Shocking.
Unexpected.


4 posted on 01/01/2013 7:49:03 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Is anyone surprised?


5 posted on 01/01/2013 7:49:43 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

This was the last straw.. 01-01-13 is my last day as a Republican. Over and done with these turncoats.


6 posted on 01/01/2013 7:50:27 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: rwh

“There’s lots and lots of pork in this bill,” said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).


7 posted on 01/01/2013 7:50:33 PM PST by DJlaysitup
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To: Vince Ferrer

Rats will have they majority on this vote tonight.
With very few GOP votes.
What does this say about the GOP leadership?


9 posted on 01/01/2013 7:51:59 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: Vince Ferrer

Sellouts!! I’ll be watching to see who has the courage to vote no. Everyone else will be persona non grata in my books.

Hello, one party rule...


10 posted on 01/01/2013 7:52:43 PM PST by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
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To: whitedog57

Seriously, is anyone surprised?

I have often wondered what happens to Republican’s balls when the go to DC. Not to mention their brains....

It seems only our women are immune to these problems....


11 posted on 01/01/2013 7:53:18 PM PST by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the alter of "gun free zones"?)
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To: Vince Ferrer

The underground economy is the best bet.


12 posted on 01/01/2013 7:53:19 PM PST by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: Vince Ferrer
So this is how liberty dies...

* No matter what you think of the prequels, it portrayed the Emperor and his rise very well.

13 posted on 01/01/2013 7:53:47 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: tennmountainman

43 republican yes votes,
7 rat no votes so far


14 posted on 01/01/2013 7:53:59 PM PST by edhawk
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

This was the last straw.. 01-01-13 is my last day as a Republican. Over and done with these turncoats.

I agree. When the republican party starts representing conservatives I’ll give them my vote, until then, what’s the point?


15 posted on 01/01/2013 7:53:59 PM PST by Cubs Fan (If the republican party wants to be the democrat lite party then they don't need my vote)
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To: Vince Ferrer

16 posted on 01/01/2013 7:54:29 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Cubs Fan

This very likely is the death knell of the republican party.


17 posted on 01/01/2013 7:55:17 PM PST by Josa
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

That’s what I’m sending to the idiots on twitter. I’m making it shorter and sending it to:

http://www.gop.gov/republicans/twitter

The worst part is a tax on those making $400,000 or more , the “Rich”. that is called a progressive tax and is marxism.

To congress,
learn something idiot fool Senators and Congressmen, socialism never works. this is socialism and you are voting for socialism ,in the middle of the night during a holiday, on a bill you know nothing about all to avoid a fake news media created “fiscal cliff” bs. you are complete wastes of space, idiots


18 posted on 01/01/2013 7:55:17 PM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Gutless Wonders!!!!!!!!!!!


19 posted on 01/01/2013 7:55:50 PM PST by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: Sporke

It seems to be their logic is that people will be ticked off if they go over the cliff. That’s a lot of the comments today. I can see that, but at the same time....when the heck else can we get any cuts?

I don’t see the debt ceiling etc. helping much with that.


20 posted on 01/01/2013 7:56:30 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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