Posted on 12/22/2011 2:32:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
House speaker John Boehner is set to sign an offer from Obama to accelerate negotiations.
Republicans in the House of Representatives have capitulated in the showdown over the payroll tax, handing Barack Obama an important victory going into election year.
Under pressure from other senior Republicans for blocking a bill that would extend tax cuts to millions of Americans, the House speaker, John Boehner, is backing away from his insistence that any deal must cover a full year.
A deal agreed by Republicans and Democrats in the Senate on Saturday covers two months, to allow further negotiations in January. It appears that Boehner will sign up to an offer from Obama to accelerate these negotiations.
The deal means that, after a year of humiliation at the hands of congressional Republicans who have repeatedly threatened to close down the federal government, Obama is close to a much-needed victory.
The decisive moment came when ther Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, after days of silence, lined up behind Barack Obama and the Democrats.
Boehner was blocking passage of a bill that would extend tax breaks to 160 million Americans, a measure introduced by Obama last year to help stimulate the US economy. If the bill is not passed by 31 December, American taxpayers face cuts in their pay of an average of $40 every two weeks. About 1.3 million people stand to lose unemployment benefit.
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The GOP has NO moral courage. Nor any kind of courage whatsoever.
Save only a few. Bachmann for one.
No more Bushes . Never !!!
Bachman has courage... but she never wins anything.
Boehner has to go. What an idiot.
Mrs. Bachmann won election and re-election, a very contested re-election with national pressure brought against her.
What did you mean? What hasn’t she won?
i thought that we could do that till I found out Rubio. Allen west and Demint ALL voted for that” army internment of American citizens SUSPECTED OF TERRORISM”...go figure, that one blew me away.
To defeat the socialists in DC, you must have a media strategy that rises above polls and talking points. The RINO’s did not debate this on conservative economic principal and lost. This is bad economics, bad policy, and bad for the nation. But the press says Obama “won”.
Got a link for that?
We tried that here in Alaska. When we got a real conservative republican nominated for Senate the State and National Repubs joined forces to defeat him. The coalition of democrats, unions and natives put the most liberal republican (Lisa murkowski) back in the senate with the help of the establishment republicans. I no longer am a registered republican thanks to that eye opening experience.
Yeah. Let’s see your link.
Get the Weeper another box of Kleenex...
Our GOP didn’t cave, Obama and Co. did. We won this round and we need to keep on winning.
Does short term tax relief now cause long term damage to retirees???
Total assholes!!!!!
Anyone that $20/week would make a difference is too stupid to be alive!!!
Let them starve to death!
“..Get the Weeper another box of Kleenex...”
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I really thought we might have had something of a fighting leader when we got rid of Pelosi. But we just got a flaming member of the Washington Repub Establishment.
What a horrible disappointment. This kind of happening is why I left the Repub party over six years ago and became an Independent.
I listened to allen West on Beck DEFEND his position on his vote...saying we just have to tweak the language like “suspected” and we are in a war and we need this. Beck gave him every possible out...no way, West was all in.
disgraceful.
Another victory in the cap of the fourth best President in the history of the U.S.
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