Posted on 12/28/2012 7:11:54 PM PST by BenLurkin
President Obama and Senate leaders were on the verge of an agreement Friday that would let taxes rise on the wealthiest households while protecting the vast majority of Americans from historic tax hikes set to hit in January.
The development marked a breakthrough after weeks of paralysis. After meeting with Obama at the White House, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said they would work through the weekend in hopes of drafting a “fiscal cliff” package they could present to their colleagues on Sunday afternoon.
As the Senate began haggling over critical details, the emerging deal faced an uncertain fate in the House, where Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) failed just one week ago to persuade his adamantly anti-tax caucus to let taxes rise even for millionaires.
Still, on Friday, Obama pronounced himself “modestly optimistic” at a brief news conference at the White House. The ordinarily dour McConnell said he was “hopeful and optimistic.” And Reid immediately began preparing Senate Democrats for what could be a difficult vote.
“Whatever we come up with is going to be imperfect. Some people aren’t going to like it. Some people will like it less,” Reid said on the Senate floor before dozens of silent and attentive senators from both parties. But “we’re going to do the best we can for . . . the country that’s waiting for us to make a decision.”
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It is not supposed to sound as if there is any agreement: theater for the people, is all.
The GOOBers must have pulled out their white flags. The Kenyan whipped them like stepchildren.
Wow, I feel so much better now. Oh thank you wise Holy Ones of the US Government, ah, I mean Democrat Party. You are all so sagacious and pure and I know you all really, really care about us.
As shown by the misleading headline the script of this media production will follow the plot of the perennial media blockbuster “Those Conservatives in the House Are Just Mean!”...
so they kick the can down the road some more.....
It’s all theater in my mind. So what if it is blamed on those “mean conservatives”?
As a citizen, I don’t care who blames who for what!
Even in my personal life, I don’t care about the opinion someone one I do not respect holds of me!
The business of the Country is not what children feel on a playground!
Sadly, our so called representatives seem to hold the opinion of liberals in higher regard than the country or its people.
This whole thing is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
The press, as usual, does not tell the story correctly. Suprise surprise.
McConnell had better be careful. If he allows a bill to pass the Senate which is unacceptable to the majority of House Republicans, not only will Boehner be thrown under the bus, but the 2014 elections will be a disaster and the last two years of Obama’s term will be the most destructive imaginable.
Because they are LIARS and CHEATS
Did anyone honestly think this wasn’t going to happen? Betcha unemployment will spike over 10% next year.
.......reminds me of the proverbial “Bull in a China shop”........
The “535”, as a class, notwithstanding a few good indiduals, make me sick! It’s time for the national conversation to turn to “The 535” and the destruction their powers of incumbency are doing to this country. Contempt for The 535 needs to be repeated a million times a year from now on until some of the “less informed” masses start “getting it”.
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