Stop looking for boogey men. This whole problem is the sole creation of the GOP. It started when Bush agreed to make his tax cuts temporary. Then it was made worse when Bohner made the shitty deal to increase the debt ceiling. The GOP have retreated time and time again. THAT’S why we’re all where we are.
You give far too much credit to the media.
The mews media creates the false reality we live in.
For the last month everyone has been talking about this “fiscal cliff” bs. who put that in people’s minds? A group of idiots last night were in panic mode about the cliff. I asked them to tell me what it was or how the U.S.A was going over a cliff. no one could tell me what or how this was a cliff . why don’t you say how we are going over a cliff.
Not much of a deal if you ask me. Boehner gave Obama permission to print up a $2.5 trillion slush fund of federal money with which to win the election. I still haven't figured out what he got in return. It certainly wasn't any spending decrease, because that simply has not happened.
Whoa! Before you senselessly start blaming Bush, you should understand why the tax cuts are "temporary".
At the time, the Republicans had 50 votes in the Senate, plus VP Dick Cheney to create a bare majority. It takes 60 votes to make tax cuts "permanent", because a Democrat filibuster could stop the measure in its tracks -- and Tom Daschle would've done so.
However, a "temporary" tax cut can be passed with a bare majority -- via the reconciliation process. However, such a tax cut expires in ten years. So that is the course the Bush administration chose to follow.
What would you have done under the circumstances? Insisted on a "permanent" tax cut...and gotten nothing? Or employed the reconciliation process...and gotten a tax cut for twelve years?
If we'd elected a Republican Senate and a Republican President in November, there wouldn't be a problem, would there? The tax cuts could've been easily extended for another ten years. But we didn't.
You can blame Bush for a lot of things. But "settling for a temporary tax cut" isn't one of them.
Whoa! Before you senselessly start blaming Bush, you should understand why the tax cuts are "temporary".
At the time, the Republicans had 50 votes in the Senate, plus VP Dick Cheney to create a bare majority. It takes 60 votes to make tax cuts "permanent", because a Democrat filibuster could stop the measure in its tracks -- and Tom Daschle would've done so.
However, a "temporary" tax cut can be passed with a bare majority -- via the reconciliation process. However, such a tax cut expires in ten years. So that is the course the Bush administration chose to follow.
What would you have done under the circumstances? Insisted on a "permanent" tax cut...and gotten nothing? Or employed the reconciliation process...and gotten a tax cut for twelve years?
If we'd elected a Republican Senate and a Republican President in November, there wouldn't be a problem, would there? The tax cuts could've been easily extended for another ten years. But we didn't.
You can blame Bush for a lot of things. But "settling for a temporary tax cut" isn't one of them.