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House agrees payroll tax deal as Republicans cave in to Obama
The Guardian ^ | Thursday 22 December 2011 | Ewen MacAskill

Posted on 12/22/2011 2:32:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

House speaker John Boehner is set to sign an offer from Obama to accelerate negotiations.

Republicans in the House of Representatives have capitulated in the showdown over the payroll tax, handing Barack Obama an important victory going into election year.

Under pressure from other senior Republicans for blocking a bill that would extend tax cuts to millions of Americans, the House speaker, John Boehner, is backing away from his insistence that any deal must cover a full year.

A deal agreed by Republicans and Democrats in the Senate on Saturday covers two months, to allow further negotiations in January. It appears that Boehner will sign up to an offer from Obama to accelerate these negotiations.

The deal means that, after a year of humiliation at the hands of congressional Republicans who have repeatedly threatened to close down the federal government, Obama is close to a much-needed victory.

The decisive moment came when ther Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, after days of silence, lined up behind Barack Obama and the Democrats.

Boehner was blocking passage of a bill that would extend tax breaks to 160 million Americans, a measure introduced by Obama last year to help stimulate the US economy. If the bill is not passed by 31 December, American taxpayers face cuts in their pay of an average of $40 every two weeks. About 1.3 million people stand to lose unemployment benefit.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky; US: Ohio
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To: MinorityRepublican

The GOP has NO moral courage. Nor any kind of courage whatsoever.

Save only a few. Bachmann for one.


141 posted on 12/22/2011 4:37:27 PM PST by bvw
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To: MinorityRepublican

No more Bushes . Never !!!


142 posted on 12/22/2011 4:39:25 PM PST by fantom (,)
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To: bvw

Bachman has courage... but she never wins anything.


143 posted on 12/22/2011 4:39:39 PM PST by kjam22
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To: MinorityRepublican

Boehner has to go. What an idiot.


144 posted on 12/22/2011 4:41:43 PM PST by AdaGray
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To: kjam22

Mrs. Bachmann won election and re-election, a very contested re-election with national pressure brought against her.

What did you mean? What hasn’t she won?


145 posted on 12/22/2011 4:42:56 PM PST by bvw
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To: rockinqsranch

i thought that we could do that till I found out Rubio. Allen west and Demint ALL voted for that” army internment of American citizens SUSPECTED OF TERRORISM”...go figure, that one blew me away.


146 posted on 12/22/2011 4:44:44 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Rick Perry 2012)
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To: MinorityRepublican

To defeat the socialists in DC, you must have a media strategy that rises above polls and talking points. The RINO’s did not debate this on conservative economic principal and lost. This is bad economics, bad policy, and bad for the nation. But the press says Obama “won”.


147 posted on 12/22/2011 4:44:51 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie; upchuck; bamahead
Allen west and Demint ALL voted for that” army internment of American citizens SUSPECTED OF TERRORISM”...go figure, that one blew me away.

Got a link for that?

148 posted on 12/22/2011 4:57:10 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: Enough is ENOUGH
"We have to take over the Republican Party"

We tried that here in Alaska. When we got a real conservative republican nominated for Senate the State and National Repubs joined forces to defeat him. The coalition of democrats, unions and natives put the most liberal republican (Lisa murkowski) back in the senate with the help of the establishment republicans. I no longer am a registered republican thanks to that eye opening experience.

149 posted on 12/22/2011 4:59:13 PM PST by strongbow
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie; rabscuttle385

Yeah. Let’s see your link.


150 posted on 12/22/2011 5:21:46 PM PST by upchuck (Let's have the Revolution NOW before we get dumbed down to the point that we can't.)
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To: EagleUSA

Get the Weeper another box of Kleenex...


151 posted on 12/22/2011 5:22:56 PM PST by Shady (The undeniable truth of the Obama Administration...The numbers do not lie.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Our GOP didn’t cave, Obama and Co. did. We won this round and we need to keep on winning.


152 posted on 12/22/2011 5:23:26 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: MinorityRepublican
I don't know, but it seems to me that by keeping the payroll tax we will be adversely affecting Social Security which is already in trouble.

Does short term tax relief now cause long term damage to retirees???

153 posted on 12/22/2011 5:25:41 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Total assholes!!!!!


154 posted on 12/22/2011 5:34:56 PM PST by dalereed
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To: MinorityRepublican

Anyone that $20/week would make a difference is too stupid to be alive!!!

Let them starve to death!


155 posted on 12/22/2011 5:37:40 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Shady

“..Get the Weeper another box of Kleenex...”

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I really thought we might have had something of a fighting leader when we got rid of Pelosi. But we just got a flaming member of the Washington Repub Establishment.

What a horrible disappointment. This kind of happening is why I left the Repub party over six years ago and became an Independent.


156 posted on 12/22/2011 6:07:54 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: rabscuttle385

I listened to allen West on Beck DEFEND his position on his vote...saying we just have to tweak the language like “suspected” and we are in a war and we need this. Beck gave him every possible out...no way, West was all in.


157 posted on 12/22/2011 6:12:23 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Rick Perry 2012)
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To: EagleUSA

disgraceful.


158 posted on 12/22/2011 6:12:37 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: Sarah Barracuda; All
"Its a shame that its scarce to find a Republican with a SPINE these days..all they constantly do is bend over for the Dems."


159 posted on 12/22/2011 6:14:54 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Another victory in the cap of the fourth best President in the history of the U.S.


160 posted on 12/22/2011 6:21:58 PM PST by uptoolate (For the record: I have complete assurance that nothing can pluck me from His hand)
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