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Next Move Is Obama’s After Boehner’s Tax Plan Fails (McConnell preparing to surrender?)
NY Times ^ | 12/21/12 | JACKIE CALMES

Posted on 12/21/2012 7:37:22 AM PST by jimbo123

With House Republicans’ revolt over their leader’s tax plan the evening before, President Obama on Friday faced the challenge of finding a new tax-and-spending solution — perhaps working now with Senate Republicans — to prevent a looming fiscal crisis in January.

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Officials in the administration and Congress, and in both parties, suggested the likeliest route was for Mr. Obama to seek a bipartisan accord with Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who is the Senate majority leader, and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican minority leader, and hope that it could get through the House under deadline pressure. Last year, when the president and Mr. Boehner were at an impasse over getting Congress to approve the essential increase in the nation’s borrowing limit, it was the wily Mr. McConnell who first suggested the legislative way out of the mess.

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To: Mouton
"the left and left of center’s don’t want to compromise one iota"

Bump, that is the real story here, but do not expect the Marxist media to report that.

21 posted on 12/21/2012 8:26:23 AM PST by jpsb
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To: Sooth2222
Neither side really wants to cut any spending, and they've both discovered that the gov't can print as much paper money as they want.

Bingo!
22 posted on 12/21/2012 8:27:34 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: yoe

By Boehner you mean?

If so, I don’t think so.

His job first and foremost is to serve the GOP. Currently, the GOP is playing the “good cop” role.

But both parties have the same ultimate goal: grow government.

In order to grow government, they must expand their ‘services.’

In order to expand their ‘services,’ they must increase tax revenue.

Rush is right. The DemocRats are using this issue to raise taxes so that next year they can reduce taxes by some negligible amount and thereby take from the GOP the claim that the GOP is the party of lower taxes.

We are the casualties of their political war.


23 posted on 12/21/2012 8:49:58 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

““Boehner enlisted in the United States Navy but was honorably discharged after eight weeks because of a bad back”

Caused by the absence of a spine?”

LOL!!!!! Excellent! :-)


24 posted on 12/21/2012 9:12:57 AM PST by MNGal
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