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Obama Cuts Vacation Short To Deal With Fiscal Crisis
Reuters ^ | 25 December 2012

Posted on 12/25/2012 11:41:01 PM PST by zeestephen

President Barack Obama is cutting short his Hawaiian holiday to leave for Washington on Wednesday to address the unfinished "fiscal cliff" negotiations with Congress.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


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KEYWORDS: fiscalcliff; obamavacation
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Sounds like a tentative agreement has been reached for a temporary extension of ALL tax cuts.

There may also be agreement on a temporary delay of ALL spending cuts.

In other words...

A "Continuing Resolution" of the status quo.

The Republicans would have agreed to this 6 weeks ago if Obama hadn't chosen the path to High Drama.

1 posted on 12/25/2012 11:41:20 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

This was either planned from the beginning (”Ubanga rides to the rescue!”) or Ubanga’s people got sick of seeing the Drudge Report and advised Ubanga that he is looking pretty bad and “out of touch”.


2 posted on 12/25/2012 11:45:07 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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He's a martyr. A saint. God bless you, President Obama. (sarc)
3 posted on 12/25/2012 11:48:14 PM PST by llevrok (ObamaLand - Where young people go to retire.)
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with the money he saved by staying home, we should about be able to avoid the fiscal cliff.


4 posted on 12/25/2012 11:48:29 PM PST by RC one (From My Cold Dead Hands.)
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To: Lancey Howard
Maybe he is going to leave the old ball and chain in Hawaii
5 posted on 12/25/2012 11:49:20 PM PST by funfan
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Ubanga’s people got sick of seeing the Drudge Report .....

Or he blinked.

6 posted on 12/25/2012 11:49:20 PM PST by llevrok (ObamaLand - Where young people go to retire.)
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To: zeestephen
Dear Leader really does care.....

How's yer cake comrade?

7 posted on 12/25/2012 11:50:54 PM PST by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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I don’t think His Heinous NerObama gives a rat’s arse about how he is perceived by this people any longer outside of creating the myth he is a god and benevolent dictator all must worship and approve of.

He has no election to win, and has more flexibility now that he has secured himself in office again.

It’s all politiks now. All for show and creation of the meme the media will establish as narrative for the purpose of consolidating all power within their man-god.


8 posted on 12/25/2012 11:50:54 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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seems the polling; ain't going good for 0'Buttcrack, while he's on a golf junket.

9 posted on 12/25/2012 11:52:05 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0Bama man can :-)
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To: zeestephen

we went over the fiscal cliff a long time ago....


10 posted on 12/25/2012 11:54:01 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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"Before the talks ran into trouble, Obama had originally been expected to stay in Hawaii - where he was born - until well into the first week of January."

Someone please explain to me why they felt the need to add that little nugget.

11 posted on 12/26/2012 12:02:33 AM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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Vacation...He goes golfing...to the gym....

When hubby and I and children went on vacation, we did things together. He wouldn't even think of going golfing or to the gym with the boys.

12 posted on 12/26/2012 12:03:22 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Re: "we went over the fiscal cliff a long time ago...."

Great point, Bookman.

Massive debt, massive money printing, massive government guarantees, massive unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare, and state pensions.

We are in deep, deep trouble.

13 posted on 12/26/2012 12:07:51 AM PST by zeestephen
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If you repeat it often enough....


14 posted on 12/26/2012 12:09:22 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Superciliousness is the essence of Obama)
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President Barack Obama is cutting short his Hawaiian holiday to leave for Washington on Wednesday to address the unfinished “fiscal cliff” negotiations with Congress.
oh and to get away from the wife to have sex with his boyfriend.


15 posted on 12/26/2012 12:18:50 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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"Where he was born"

Yes!

I saw that, too.

One word explanation...

“Reuters”

I also noticed the camouflaged blame shifting for a possible tax cut extension.

Reuters says Obama must secure Republican agreement in the Senate for that to pass.

They make it sound like Republicans, who are in the minority, might block the tax cuts.

The fact is exactly opposite.

Many Democrats will vote against the tax cut extension, and Obama will most likely need many Senate Republicans to support it.

However, many of the Tea Party Republicans in the House oppose the extension of the 2% cut in the Social Security Payroll Tax.

I'm wondering if they will vote against the Extension.

16 posted on 12/26/2012 12:20:47 AM PST by zeestephen
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17 posted on 12/26/2012 12:30:12 AM PST by mirkwood
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To: Sacajaweau

It has always been pretty bizarre how little time Obama spends with his family. 18 holes of golf and the trip to the course is a good chunk of the day. And he did that several times on a short family vacation!


18 posted on 12/26/2012 12:35:09 AM PST by lodi90
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To: zeestephen

On the second day of Cliffmas, Obama said to me...


19 posted on 12/26/2012 12:37:17 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: zeestephen

Ol

Saint Alfonso would be Proud of you

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20 posted on 12/26/2012 12:41:26 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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