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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National Republicans called me the other night for a donation....I just hung up on them!!
Boehner BLOWS
WE NEED THE MOST CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE IN OFFICE OR WE ARE DOOMED..
Boehner BLOWS
WE NEED THE MOST CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE IN OFFICE OR WE ARE DOOMED..
A muted House Speaker John Boehner announced today that Republicans have decided to accept a short-term extension of the payroll tax cut, preventing a hike in taxes just nine days before the tax break expires for 160 million Americans. 
You’d almost think there was just One Party...?
Naw!
Yep..
Obama gets ,morons to write to his web site about how much $40 a week means to them .. Sickening...and Obama wins with that strategy...?
GOP are the biggest bunch of losers ever...
These threads need a thumbs up or down to tally the responses.
‘Course, whatever we think doesn’t matter at all. The bonehead pimps are out to destroy us anyway.
I believe this next election will do it for me if I have any money left I’m taking it and leaving this boiling s...hole behind for the poverty pimps, the entitlement class, the politicians, lawyers, EPA and other assorted maggots.
Cantor or Issa!
OIL = up = federal govt. = pensions/retirements/increase bureaucratic agencies = government contractors = false pension market up = high commodities= unemployment for all else = what they call the economy = Big Media DC Bureaus = “Elmer Gantry” Propaganda.
Follow oil’s rise to the above = false market
That is the way the process works.
By the way, both of my brothers are no longer in America, one is in Chile, while the other one is in Mexico.
bunch of incompetent gutless, spineless, brainless jackholes.....and there aren’t even words to described how worthless of a leader Boehner is
It’s called “picking your battles”. Probably a politically necessary move, so they can work on a longer term solution.
We are ALWAYS the stupid party. *Sigh*
The Social Security program was designed to be an insurance program.
The payments that taxpayers like us make can better be described as insurance premiums, not a tax.
Scumbag RINOs in the Senate sold the House GOP down the river... again
Call it what you want but it is a RAID ON THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND!
PERIOD!
Now all they have to do is continue the underfunding of SS and then they will declare it also has to be bailed out but in order to do so they have to eliminate the trust fund and fund SS directly from the General Revenues Fund (income taxes). So under the new structure it is welfare for seniors and it will be a one size fits all, the lowest common denominator. Since it won’t be enough, they will have to raise income taxes even more.
Has anyone ever wondered why someone on the R side of the aisle is not making this point? As always, the establishment is playing both sides and We The People are the stuffing in the sandwich.
F’em All!
Willard is a RINO...but to hear these talk show people and Fox news you would think Willard is a saint...
The Republican Party should change its name to the Wimp or
wuss party. Why is it only eunochs can be elected by Republicans.
At my age, 78, I will not live to see change in the party, but without it, the United States is doomed to follow in the footsteps of Britain in moving from a world class to a second class country.
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