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Reid offers to talk tax reform if GOP ends shutdown (Video)
thehill.com ^ | 10/2/13 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 10/02/2013 12:35:10 PM PDT by ColdOne

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) offered to open negotiations on tax reform Wednesday if Republicans agree to a clean resolution to reopen the government.

Reid sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) pledging to appoint negotiators to a budget conference if House Republicans relent on a six-week funding stopgap.

The budget conference is something Democrats have long sought, however, and the proposal was quickly shot down by Boehner’s office.

Reid offered to include tax reform, which has bogged down in partisan politics this year, on the agenda. The letter suggested that Democrats would be willing to negotiate changes to ObamaCare as part of budget talks as well.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: harryreid; nevada
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To: NormsRevenge

Massive massive fraud! I do not know one single person who voted for Reid. I seldom saw a bumper sticker or a yard sign for Reid. Sharron Angle was several points in the lead in the polls on election eve.


41 posted on 10/02/2013 12:55:50 PM PDT by erkelly (Never underestimate the stupidity of the stupid party!)
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To: ColdOne

Yea, gimme what I want today, and we can discuss the possibility of me promising you something in the future.

Thanks, but no.


42 posted on 10/02/2013 12:56:00 PM PDT by Monitor ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken)
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To: ColdOne

Typical Democrat. “You give us what we want first, and then we might talk to you about what you want.”

They might as well follow up with “And it can be anything you want, as long as you don’t get any of it.”


43 posted on 10/02/2013 12:58:36 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: ColdOne

My Response back to him after watching that video is, We WILL NOT Negotiate with Terrorists.

Chuck Schulmer is the most dispicable Human I think I have ever observed. Followed closely by Harry the Mobster Reid.
Ted Cruz must have so incensed those cockroaches they have nothing but blood in their eyes. Wow, such hate.

They have been shown to be a bunch of conspiring treasonist bastards and they aren’t liking it one bit. They must be not enjoying the feedback from the Citizens very much.

Note to Chuckles, the more you make this about Ted Cruz the more publicity he gets. ALL OF IT GOOD!


44 posted on 10/02/2013 12:59:26 PM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: ColdOne
When Reid says ‘tax reform’ he means ‘raise taxes’

So if you give us ‘clean’ CR will will agree to raise taxes’

Sounds like a great deal.

45 posted on 10/02/2013 1:00:22 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: ColdOne

Harry,

Why don’t you have your staff send some “confidential” emails to the opposite side?

Your credibility is shot.


46 posted on 10/02/2013 1:00:29 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: erkelly

Remember stalin. He, who counts elects. Never truer and I Hate stalin! May you rest in hades stalin, ever in the fire!


47 posted on 10/02/2013 1:00:46 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Errant

They need to keep offering “rifle shot” bills to fund all the little pain points that Obama and Reid want to punish the country with,

just to make it clear who’s causing the pain.


48 posted on 10/02/2013 1:02:25 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Nachum

Ping.


49 posted on 10/02/2013 1:03:59 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: ColdOne

Go for it, but put in a sunset clause. Govt stays as is until the results of “tax reform” are presented, in say two weeks.

Give Reid a reopening of govt, and he has zero incentive to negotiate honestly.


50 posted on 10/02/2013 1:05:55 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: ColdOne

Hey Harry, SHOVE IT!


51 posted on 10/02/2013 1:07:13 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: ColdOne

The GOP didn’t cause the shutdown. Obama and Reid caused the shutdown. Keep it shut. And stop all this nonsense about cordoning off outdoor open spaces.


52 posted on 10/02/2013 1:09:25 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: 11th_VA
have the GOP keep sending bills to the Senate, and saying, “let’s vote on the things we agree on ...” - the sheeple get that. Action speaks louder than words ...

Yes. And while the media will ignore it or downplay it, word will get out on social media.

So the media can shove it, too.

53 posted on 10/02/2013 1:10:50 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: MrB
They need to keep offering “rifle shot” bills to fund

Yep, thanks to Cruz, Lee and others, it's a strategy that WILL work. It's what Congress should have been doing all along.

But it will only work if GOP leaders grow a spine, or get out of the way, and let the Tea Party Reps lead.

54 posted on 10/02/2013 1:10:50 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Vigilanteman
The house should counter with "We will do a 6 week stopgap funding CR in return for a 6 week delay of ObaMaoCare."

How about a 6 year delay of OCare?

55 posted on 10/02/2013 1:10:53 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: ColdOne

Go get ‘em Boehner!

We will NOT relent until Obamacare is totally destroyed and the ashes of its corpse are scattered!!!!


56 posted on 10/02/2013 1:10:54 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: ColdOne
Reid's (and ObamaCo's) tax reform means very different than normal citizens' pov.

The 'negotiation' is but a trap.

57 posted on 10/02/2013 1:11:14 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: ColdOne

surprised Boehner didn’t fall for it.
He must really be worried about reelection AND losing his Speakership


58 posted on 10/02/2013 1:11:25 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: JSDude1

Was a joke. Remember when Pelosi said you had to pass Obamacare before you could find out what is in it ?


59 posted on 10/02/2013 1:13:27 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Senator Reid - "Why would we want to help one child with cancer?"

They're all for jamming scissors into the skulls of newborns, so this isn't surprising.

Death is for the children.

60 posted on 10/02/2013 1:13:32 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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