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 VIDEOYes, little mention of pipeline.
Fox News is now no better than CNN.
Yes. I mistakenly conflated 'impeach' with 'remove from office'. My error - but one that does nothing to alter my opinion that the current-day Republican party and specifically it's 'leadership' in the House and Senate are no longer working in the interest of most voters that call themselves Republican. They seem to be determined to cave anytime the Democrats use lies and inflammatory rhetoric to demonize Republicans on some issue or other. I'm sick of it.
Term limits would do that. The ‘good-old-boy’ cliques would go away.
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