Liberals Try to Prevent Pelosi From Bringing Tax Bill to the Floor

FOX News ^ | 12/8/2010 | FOX News12/8/2010

[andy58-in-nh]

Fox has learned that Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Jay Inslee (D-WA) are crafting a letter to share with the House Democratic Caucus that would try to prevent the Speaker from bringing the tax bill to the floor.

They hope to get 60 signatures on their letter (which is still being drafted) and then force a vote in the caucus. DeFazio says he thinks that if a majority of House Democrats are against this compromise, they shouldn't bring it to the floor.

[MrB]

ah... a minor breach of etiquette, there... skipping the “triple dare”.

[spokeshave]

Quack quack. the Lame Duck Dems are not going to pass anything in 2 weeks LoL....year

All your constipation belongs to dems

[ExTexasRedhead]

All Senate RATs and RINOs up in 2012 who defy We The People will be TOAST. My guess is that We The People are big-time angry about the intentional destruction of our country.

All Tea Party members must stay vigilant and organize even further.

[ohioWfan]

This is fun to watch...... in a sick, demented sort of way......

[WOBBLY BOB]

anyone got a chart/graph to show a Dem friend what the rate increases mean if the extension fails? (this is a reasonable Dem really asking me) “Quick facts about the 2003 tax cuts expiring” http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/541131/201007211841/The-Tax-Tsunami-On-The-Horizon.aspx something that shows what an increase from 28% to 31% ,etc. actually means in dollars...

[TexasFreeper2009]

sweet !!!

I hope they pull this off!!!!!!

Then NOTHING will pass during lame duck.

[TexasFreeper2009]

We were told point blank earlier this year that congress has LIMITLESS powers, so according to that the courts can't overturn a law congress has passed.

[andy58-in-nh]

Most everything you need is in here:

http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2010/pdf/bg2473.pdf

... and here:

http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2010/pdf/CDA10-07.pdf

[andy58-in-nh]

I TRIPLE dog dare ya

Don't tempt them....

[andy58-in-nh]

Why aren’t Republicans in front of the cameras saying that Democrats want Americans to pay higher taxes????

(Sigh) Because, for too many: the time they spend in Washington strips them of creativity, imagination and principle.

It is as easy to be a Democrat in Washington as it is to be a Muslim in Mecca. Everything around you is a tribute to your faith. For a Republican, it is more like being a Pilgrim in an unholy land.

[WOBBLY BOB]

thanks,
but 2nd link no workee

[justiceseeker93]

All Tea Party members must stay vigilant and organize even further.

Not only Tea Party members but all who voted Republican last month to stomp out leftist legislation and reckless spending.

There are some bad signs emanating from the House Republican leadership concerning a couple of committee chairmanships for the new Congress.

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/12/08/did-you-vote-republican-for-nothing/

[andy58-in-nh]

A Democratic congress would never be debating the Bush tax cuts.

That's right. They'd be debating over how much more to raise taxes, and what other industries to turn over to the tender mercies of the Federal government. That is why the voters chose to boot them out.

[sanjuanbob]

So if the tax cuts revert back to prior levels, all of the lower and middle class tax payers will see what Obama is doing to them in their pay checks. Republicans ride in on the white horse and cut everyone’s taxes. Despite the inconveniences, I like it.

[wmfights]

The long delay could keep the other bad Demo legislation from passing into law. This is the best case scenario.

If I can add to the good points you've made, the best end result in this game of "chicken" is in Jan. the Pubs can make the lower tax rates permanent and force the lib Rat senators to vote against it.

All in all the Pubs are positioned well.

[andy58-in-nh]

I’ll guess that most people won’t recognize that image of the Reichstag burning, set ablaze by Nazi provocateurs seeking a pretense for seizing absolute power. In our time and country: the provocateurs are also in power, but if they are impelled to seek similar pretenses, they do so in a nation that unlike Weimar Germany once consisted of a free and prosperous Republic whose citizens have long stood on guard against tyranny.

[wmfights]

The US Senate is still in the control of the Democrats and they'll be able to cobble together enough votes to filibuster. They only need 41 to be successful, and they have 54 Democrat Senators.

A couple points. The Rat Senators will be painted into a corner. Unemployment will not drop below 9% next year and ending the unemployment benefits will be their fault. Also, the only way to get the economy growing fast enough by 2012 to get unemployment moving below 9% is to resolve the tax liability business faces.

If the Rats stop this we will suffer in the short term, but in the long term by crippling the economy with higher taxes the American public will not only give the Pubs the Senate, but the Presidency as well.

[andy58-in-nh]

Here’s the problem, chief: even the prospect of such a tax increase will crash the stock market, invested as it is in fantastic notions of growth in a time when our debt is 100% of GDP and demands on government services exceed any reasonable possibility of satisfaction. And don’t think for a moment that the Left hasn’t planned this all along. Cloward and Piven wrote the script. The players are now upon the stage. And the fools in the audience can no longer discern the play from the world outside the theater.

[andy58-in-nh]

Sorry, Bob. My bad... Try this...

http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2010/pdf/CDA10-07.pdf

[andy58-in-nh]

We were told point blank earlier this year that congress has LIMITLESS powers, so according to that the courts can't overturn a law congress has passed.

The Supreme Court might have something to say about that, or has, ever since Marbury v. Madison.