Posted on 12/08/2011 4:58:55 PM PST by Hojczyk
** The Republicans threatened the White House to add the Keystone XL Pipeline to the payroll tax extension bill that Obama wants signed before he goes on his next Hawaiian vacation. ** Obama threatened to veto the bill that would add at least 20,000 good paying jobs to the anemic economy. ** Republicans need to call his bluff. Force him to explain to the American public how he just vetoed a jobs and taxcut bill with the stroke of a pen.
The Hill reported:
The battle between the White House and Republicans over the Keystone XL pipeline escalated Wednesday with a veto threat delivered personally by President Obama.
Obama warned that he would veto an extension of the payroll-tax cut, his top legislative priority, if House Republicans link it to a measure that would force the administration to greenlight the pipeline project.
“Any effort to try to tie Keystone to the payroll-tax cut, I will reject,” Obama told reporters Wednesday after meeting at the White House with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Obama said he would not accept a payroll-tax-holiday bill to which Republicans add “extraneous” provisions.
“I don’t expect to have to veto it because I expect they’re going to have enough sense over on Capitol Hill to do the people’s business, and not try to load it up with a bunch of politics,” the president said.
GOP will cave..
You’d think this would be an easy one for the GOP to confront Obama on, the people would be solidly behind us. Sadly, I have zero confidence that they have the backbone to follow through on it.
Contrary to what the idiot in the White House believes he doesn’t legislate. Hopefully the GOP calls his bluff on this and nails him to the wall.
FUBO
GOP congress critters are gutless, they dast not offend the manchild, people really, really like him.
I like it, but I agree with your comment #2.
They got to him.
he angrily stormed into the press room and said his piece.
They have him rattled
The GOP are great at making themselves look like fools in an election year.
This really is a no-brainer. When the veto threat was mentioned yesterday, we all came up with the same reaction—pass it to him and dare him to veto it! It’s a no-lose deal.
But I confess I fear that the GOP leadership has even less brains than none. Can you have a minus IQ? Then that’s what Boner has.
Lack of brains by the GOP leadership is probably not the most critical thing. Mostly they need to GROW A PAIR OF BALLS and stay with it. Boner & the House GOP leadership as well as McConnell & the GOP leadership in the Senate have a continuous crybaby, frantic deer in teh headlights look. As others on the post have pointed out, this should be a no-brainer for Boner & the GOP, and yet, I am pretty much 98% certain that they will cave in. Boner & McConnell look like they are scared sh_tless of 0dumb0. They should be on the airwaves & media right now, just hammering 0dumb0 non-stop on this. So far they made a comment yesterday and that is pretty much it. Boner will give 0dumb0 98% of what he wants, and then Boner will somehow claim a victory with the 2% left over. What a crybaby coward Boner is.
Boner will cave!
Unless something has recently changed, it requires agreement by both the House and Senate before a bill can be sent to the President for signature or veto. The Democrat controlled Senate will protect Oboma by not allowing the pipeline to be included and conservatives will blame the republican controlled House for caving.
Even if the Senate reject the bill with the pipeline in it-—They buy it. They have to take the credit for turning down a pay roll tax cut and 20,000 jobs.
Shove this bill over to them and make them eat it.
If it does nothing else it saves us $100,000 dollars for the Air Force One flight to Hawaii.
Republicans need to make Keystone an issue.
People will understand that Obama is bad news when they hear that he killed Keystone and that means no construction jobs.
That indeed would be my preferred approach, but I fear it would still not satisfy those who expect Speaker Boehner to work miracles. Republicans are actually in a no win situation. They will either be blamed for “raising taxes on working people” or for “caving to Oboma’s threat”.
Good strategy - hope they do it.
BTTT
Just freaking DO it = and then don’t’ back down -
Tell me why they accept this blame.
When you say thay will be blamed, you leave out that the blame will be put on them by the Democrats.
Why do they keep accepting this blame without all of them opposing in one voice the BS that keeps getting tossed on them.We never hear from them, they are like sponges ,absorbing the crap that democrats toss on them without fighting back.Fight back. get nasty.
It reminds me of the old carnival dunk tanks where someone sticks their head through and allows others to toss balls at the target to dunk them. STOP sitting there a target and start tossing the balls.
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