Posted on 12/22/2011 1:50:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Just across from National Journal. Our dumb national nightmare is over.
House Republicans on Thursday crumpled under the weight of White House and public pressure and have agreed to pass a two-month extension of the 2 percent payroll-tax cut, Republican and Democratic sources told National Journal…
The House will pass the two-month extension with a technical correction to the language designed to minimize difficulties businesses might experience implementing the short-term, two-month tax cut extension.
In exchange, Reid agreed to appoint several Senate Democrats to start negotiating with the House on a full-year payroll-tax holiday extension, which is right in line with McConnell’s blueprint from this morning. Updates are coming but let’s get this up since news is breaking. Two questions to mull while we wait. One: Does the “technical correction” mentioned by National Journal mean the Senate will have to return and pass the House’s version of the bill? I thought the House was under pressure to pass the Senate bill precisely because the upper chamber wasn’t going to reconvene before New Year’s. Two: If you’re going to cave, why not take Rove’s advice and wait another week, when people will be even more distracted by the holidays? Particularly strange is that this is breaking within just a few hours of The One holding a presser to demand action with middle-class taxpayers lovingly arrayed behind him. Now it looks like even more of a capitulation than it is. Merry Christmas from the GOP, champ. Exit quotation from Philip Klein: “So instead of story being ‘Obama caves on Keystone’ it’ll be ‘GOP caves on middle class tax cut’ Great work!”
Update: The House Republican conference call on the bill is set for 5 p.m. Serious question: If he can’t muster enough GOP votes to pass this thing despite overwhelming support from Democrats, is he done as Speaker?
CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEOThe GOP is not that stupid. They knew exactly what they were doing. They’re helping to get obama re-elected. All they had to do was say “The democrats and obama say they want a year extension. Come February we will remind them.” Now come February they’ll be the heartless republicans who were taken hostage by the tea party and “tried to raise taxes at Christmas”.
As I said on another post when, Romney gets beaten by obama the story will be “Tea Party Extremist Voters Stayed Home”. And that will be the story whether they stay home or not.
And by helping the democrats keep control of the senate all the 2010 elections did was give obama someone to blame for these hard economic times: The House!
I’ll repeat. The GOP leadership is not that stupid. I won’t be drinking anymore of their cool aid.
That's not news. They always crumple.
“and then it starts all over again after vacation”
And right through November as barry and harry bum roll McConnell and Boehner from one crisis to the next. The dims will get away with never producing a scorable FY budget. Disgusting.
I feel like vomiting. The Party of Stupid© lives on...
But will it be taking the original dog Bo or the fake dog Bo? And which one was it that was walking in the Hawiian sunshine and which was with Barry at the Pet Smart photo op? Or is there an Air Force Three plane that's been shuttling him back and forth across the Pacific on the taxpayers' dime. How many $40s did that cost us?
Surrender Monkeys. The French are gulping in envy at Boner and his ability to cave.
God help the Republican robocallers who call me tonite....
I’m ready to explode
That last picture reminds me of the same kind of jerk*&^s who stand there and ring the closing bell on the stock exchange on the days when we lose 4-500 points.
Dems in the Senate are the ones that need to go.
The next Republican president should have two years of both houses.
The Republican's need the opportunity that the current powers that be failed at.
...for those interested. :D
McConnell, undercut the Speaker of the House (again)
Washington (D)istrict of (C)riminals Establishment Insider
Senator Mitch "go along to get along" McConnell ....et al
enjoying (before / after) cocktails @ a sporting event/
Pres__ent Barrack "Judas Goat" OBozo;
doing what, He's done for 3+ years.
I’m sure there are a few naive congress people who actually believe they’re in the opposition party. But the truth is the GOP leadership loves their perks and insider trading deals as much as the democrats.
And you’re right about Romney. When he loses to obama the headline will be “TEA PARTY VOTERS STAY HOME”. Whether they stay home or not.
I’m convinced they’re in on this with the dems. They volunteered to be cold hearted at Christmas. And I’ll also say that cutting unemployment benefits to 59 weeks accomplishes only one thing: The number of people on unemployement will fall and so will the official unemployment rate. And obama will get the credit.
Not really. I am no big fan of RP but the way the Repubs are going now and the possibility of even worse coming in, i.e., Romney or Newt or Perry, maybe the party needs a swift kick in its butt. RP may just make it so bad that the Dims and the Repubs would (I seriously doubt it) try to correct somethings.
When I was in power I always assigned the person who complained the most about something as the person to fix it. About 70% of the time they did and the other 30% those people shut up and went away. The end result was a much better organization. The 70% may have sounded ridiculous but they did have good ideas in the end.
If something is not done on a national level to change the trends in this country we will become like the Italy after the fall of the Roman Empire. Look it up, it was not pretty and seems to have gotten even worse in the last 1500 years.
What's really needed is a new second Conservative majority party.
Relegate the Republicans to miserable third party status and hopefully they'll just disappear or just become Democrats (that's what RINOs secretly want anyway.)
So remind me again, we want the GOP to be the majority party because???????
Did the Republican leadership really botch this thing for the whole nation to hear and read about over the long holiday? They didn’t really, did they? There has to be some kind of strategy here, right? I mean, they didn’t let the Democrats and Hussein Obama come across as the leaders and the tax cutters and the Republican as they bumbling, confused, cowering children following the lead of the adults, right? Explain this witchcraft!
The establishment Republicans have given the Tea Party public all the more reason to vote out the big-government neo-cons and replace them with limited-government, people for the people, Tea Party politicians. Hot on the heels of the news that the Republicans caved in on this botched mess, we get word that Bush 41 has endorsed Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination. Of course the big-government neo-cons love Romney. If this isn’t another indication that there is collusion between like-minded big-government pols on both sides of the aisle, I don’t know what is. Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama.. little significant difference among them, and more of the same with Romney or another Obama presidency. I’m just so angry... sorry for the wall of text.
The Congress must be full of a bunch of drunks. The MSM
is making them look like a bunch of fools.
Doesn’t the Congress communicate with the Senate and the Senate communicate with the Congress? The leadership in the GOP is not paying attention. Obama can now run to Hawaii and play golf with his dog.
I'm a registered Republican and I'll vote in my states primary election but after that my wife, adult son and I are changing our voter registration to 'independent' because the Republican party left me a long time ago, it just took awhile for me to realize it. I started to suspect that something was wrong when Clinton skated past impeachment when the evidence was there to convict him but the Republican congress refused to act. I decided that the GOP simply feared Clinton's popularity and the media onslaught to defend him and demonize Republicans for daring to accuse him of an impeachable crime so I let it go. Then G.W. Bush seemed to always be expanding government and the federal debt but I gave him a pass because he was strong on national defense and cut taxes.
Now, we have Boehner and McConnell caving on this latest deal, which the GOP allowed the Democrats to characterize as a tax cut that Republicans wanted to deny poor, starving Americans, or some such rubbish. The usual PR blunders by the GOP. Nothing new, here. Then, Boehner predictably caves. I'm sick of this. The Republican party can go pound sand. They no longer represent me.
“Did the Republican leadership really botch this thing for the whole nation to hear and read about over the long holiday?”
McConnell has been trying very hard to minimize the influence of conservatives and the TEA Party. He hates us. This is another example of that campaign. Not an accident at all.
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