The problem was that opposition to this was based on a big lie, and that HUGE lie was that this B proposal raised anyone's taxes, all it did was protect 99.8% ( all of us) from the comming January 1 tax increases.
I am pretty sure that everyone who claimed this B bill was a tax increase already knew that all the taxes go up January 1, so they knew what they were posting was not true.
Now if they had a principled argument they would have been honest with their stated position:
“If anyone gets a tax increase then you all must get one. If the 0.2% get an automatic tax increase than we will defeat this bill so taxes go up on the rest 99.8%. that will teach you a lesson”
But admitting that defeating this bill raised our taxes on Jan 1 would have been the kiss of death for the opposition.
So I expect disaster will result from this.
No. Go back to the core of this. The truth is we have a spending problem. That’s the truth. It is the job of the GOP to lower spending and lower taxes. Most signed a pledge to not raise taxes.
Fact. Bohner caved and tried to raise taxes on the rich.
That is a black and white fact.
The party platform says basically ‘read my lips, no new taxis’.
Bohner and his cabal decided they can ignore the platform and their voters and raise taxes. They also caved with the Supercomittee BS. Thats the fact here. And the conservative wing said no.
Now if your taxes rise and my taxes rise because of the supercomittee BS and the FAILURE of boner to stop it by shutting Obama down, then put the blame where it rightly belongs.
At ANY POINT in the past 2 years the GOP could have stopped this. But they did not. They again waited till it was crisis time and followed the Rhamm plan to the letter.
And a flock of sheep in ‘the party’ are being good little soldiers and backing their incompetence to the hilt.
Solution?
1: Accept that because of past FAILure on the part of the GOP, we are now going to get it up the tail.
2: Get rid of the freaking morons that created this clusterfork to begin with.
3: take the platform of the party and FOLLOW THE DAMN THING.
I see no reason for one Repub to ever open his mouth about Obama wiping with the Constitution when they can’t even follow their own party’s ‘constitution’.
Bottom line. It is O U R fault that we are in this mess because we empowered the moderate wing of the Democrat party (the GOP) and just took all the crap they fed us. Now we can buck up, eat the crap we cooked ourselves and make sure we learn from the experience or just keep on keepin’ on.
Because either way, it’s gonna taste REALLY bad.