Posted on 12/27/2012 5:08:36 PM PST by Sub-Driver
White House Says It Has No New Fiscal Cliff Plan
By JON KARL, SUNLEN MILLER (@sunlenmiller) , JOHN PARKINSON (@jparkABC) and SARAH PARNASS (@wordsofsarah) Dec. 27, 2012
The White House said today it has no plans to offer new proposals to avoid the fiscal cliff which looms over the country's economy just five days from now, but will meet Friday with Congressional leaders in a last ditch effort to forge a deal.
Republicans and Democrats made no conciliatory gestures in public today, despite the urgency.
The White House said President Obama would meet Friday with Democratic and Republican leaders. But a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said the Republican "will continue to stress that the House has already passed legislation to avert the entire fiscal cliff and now the Senate must act."
The White House announced the meeting after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called the budget situation "a mess" and urged the president to present a fresh proposal.
"I told the president I would be happy to look at whatever he proposes, but the truth is we're coming up against a hard deadline here, and as I said, this is a conversation we should have had months ago," McConnell said of his phone call with Obama Wednesday night.
McConnell added, "Republicans aren't about to write a blank check for anything Senate Democrats put forward just because we find ourselves at the edge of the cliff."
"That having been said, we'll see what the president has to propose," the Republican Senate leader said.
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If Obama is not issuing new proposals, he might as well be on strike. He is not doing his job, which is to avert crises.
Obama is the one man in America at whose desk the buck stops — not John Boehner or Mitch McConnell, who are merely legislators representing a district and a state, jobs which they’re doing well by standing firm on taxes as they promised their constituents they would do if elected.
The problem is that Obama has no executive abilities, such as successfully resolving conflicts, because he has had no executive experience. He might as well be asked to perform brain surgery, which he also has no experience doing, as being asked now to successfully lead budget negotiations to a responsible conclusion — something he has not been able to do for the past three-plus years since we have not had a budget during that time.
The only realistic alternative to going over the cliff in four days would be for Obama to ask the leaders of his bi-partisan budget commission — Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles — to come to Washington and present another iteration of their bi-partisan proposals. Which every Congressman and Senator should then support in order to save the country from financial collapse. But it’s a fantasy to think Obama would care enough about our country to do such a thing.
Other than destroying this nation, has this regime ever had a plan?!?
Nobody could have resolved this problem. The two sides are diametrically opposed and the administration has most of the cards and the msm on their side. The republicans have demonstrated willingness to bend backwards and forwards and it hasn't been good enough.
The republicans now must play the only card they have. Shut the government down. Let's find out if the constitutional separation of powers actually works.
Obama offered a deal to the Senate today. He doesn't want to own it.
He'll pretend that the deal worked out Friday was the work of the Congress because it will likely offer concessions.
He doesn't want his base to know that he was the one offering the concessions.
Exactly right.
Whoever offers a deal first opens himself up to attacks from the other side.
This is why the Dems never offer one. It will be so obvious that they offer garbage.
This is also why Obama is lying today by saying he didn't offer a deal to the Senate. He doesn't want it examined and the blame put on him by either the left or right.
One side or the other, is going to go to bat for American workers.
Or one party will be replaced by another which will.
What’s it going to be GOP?
Foreign sell-outs and eventual collapse?
Or start supporting American companies?
Which is it?
ZerO’s plan is to demagogue and buy votes.
“The White House said today it has no plans to offer new proposals”
Never did, never will.
The RNC should bomb the airwaves over the next few days (during the bowl games and on Daytime TV) with a couple of plain-spoken ads talking about what the problem is, its enormity, and the consequences to small business if the upper bracket threshold is too low.
Obama has the bully pulpit, and the average American does not ever hear the other side unless they are political junkies.
I fully agree with your thoughts. Once this pain becomes widespread and tangible--the rabble will begin to look around for a face to pin the blame on. So, far they have largely been shielded from Obama's policies. The best thing that can happen is they get to really feel the pain of what they've voted for.
Boehner has called the House back in session for Sunday.
At that time we will find out the White House plan when Boehner agrees to it.
Obama has a plan and Boehner will agree to it.
Why else would bath house barry have left Hawaii early-—unless it was to get away from the Wookie and have a week with a “friend”.
Well, it is time they developed a plan.
Does this mean the beloved Clinton tax rates were onerous?
Fundamental motivating principle,to wit: Socialist Autocrat Obama cannot countenance any diminution in the rate of transfer of private wealth to the central government, nor in the rate of spending by the central government.
The only plan Obama ever has is to blame someone else for his failures. It’s his Plan B — for blame.
Will he take the Executive Order scenario?
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