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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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To: KittenClaws

That’s a big /S since the house will be weaker as of this year.


61 posted on 01/01/2013 8:08:04 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: BenLurkin
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62 posted on 01/01/2013 8:08:28 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: All

“All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”


63 posted on 01/01/2013 8:08:28 PM PST by BushMeister ("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: Jet Jaguar

“Motion to reconsider” announced.... not a word said, Its Over.


64 posted on 01/01/2013 8:08:28 PM PST by Orange1998 (DO NOT PRESS CTRL W)
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To: clintonh8r
Up next: debt ceiling. Baraq will taunt them like a cat with a dying mouse...

They'll simply double the debt ceiling, with the promise that Obama only quadruples spending... and call it a "win for America".

65 posted on 01/01/2013 8:08:37 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Vince Ferrer
The GOP shills have been here all day trying to soften the blow.

Blind people could see it coming. Deef folks could hear it.

/johnny

66 posted on 01/01/2013 8:09:31 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Vince Ferrer

House passes ‘fiscal cliff’ bill


67 posted on 01/01/2013 8:09:40 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: Vince Ferrer
Today the GOP-e died.

Long live the TEA Party.

68 posted on 01/01/2013 8:09:40 PM PST by Happy Rain ("Outlawing guns because of Adam Lanza would be like outlawing free speech because of Bill Maher.")
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To: Vince Ferrer

69 posted on 01/01/2013 8:09:44 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

The last time I remember seeing this kind of rout of the majority party
was when Reagan steamrolled Tip Oneil and the democratic congress.
Reagan achieved his victories by going directly to the people.
This hapless GOP just collapsed, just as this country will, in the near
future.
This was a rout of the GOP.


70 posted on 01/01/2013 8:09:55 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: Gene Eric

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85 Republicans that Boehner could have stopped from voting aye, but didn’t.

I’ve stood up for him but he has to go now. He’s costing us too many elections.


71 posted on 01/01/2013 8:10:03 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Vince Ferrer

If a candidate carries the (R) brand, it might as well be the mark of the beast.


72 posted on 01/01/2013 8:10:48 PM PST by Kaosinla (The More the Plans Fail. The More the Planners Plan.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

major fuq...i made the daring move and turned over to msnbc....Luke Russert was on and it was interesting...he said while the GOPussies lost on this because ayatollah obama had the leverage there is three months of trench warfare ahead and the next big fight is the debt limit where the GOPussies have the leverage and they will take the fight there...

i for one don’t believe the GOPussies have any desire to fight but it was interesting to hear that take from msnbc...


73 posted on 01/01/2013 8:11:11 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: clintonh8r

“Up next: debt ceiling. Baraq will taunt them like a cat with a dying mouse..”

...and then raise the ceiling through unilateral decree anyway. They’ve already been floating the idea that he has the authority to do so anyway. But I think he’d much rather play with the gop for awhile.


74 posted on 01/01/2013 8:11:16 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Getting in touch with my inner rebel)
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To: Hoodat

Pelosi and the democrat House gave us Obamacare

next for the new democrat House

1. Gun control

2. Amnesty for illegals


75 posted on 01/01/2013 8:11:16 PM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: mrsmith

Yes, the Leadership’s decision to sacrifce the conservatives in the caucus to the RINOs is inexplicable


It’s totally splainable. The beltway old dogs want the K Street cashola to keep rolling in. Barry gives them cover to continue taking bribes and spending.

Now the GOP has gun control to black mail us with. Vote for us or the marxists grab the guns, etc. Damn them.


76 posted on 01/01/2013 8:11:35 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Sporke

I heard the cuts on those making below $450,000 r permanent? Please correct me if I heard wrong.


77 posted on 01/01/2013 8:11:51 PM PST by yellowdoghunter
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To: Vince Ferrer
Going Galt is our last alternative.

That, or the other two boxes.

78 posted on 01/01/2013 8:12:13 PM PST by null and void (The world is full of Maple Streets.)
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To: rwh
And a whole lot of R’s waited to vote nay until it passed... Unprincipled idiots.

Yup, noticed that too.
Hope there's a way to get those bastards names with the ones who voted yea.

79 posted on 01/01/2013 8:12:13 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: mrsmith

Now Obummer is about to come out and gloat.


80 posted on 01/01/2013 8:12:23 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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