Posted on 11/24/2012 4:48:30 AM PST by tobyhill
U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss this week became the latest Republican lawmaker to loosen his ties to Grover Norquist, the anti-tax lobbyist famous for getting elected officials to sign a "taxpayer protection pledge."
The rebellion, albeit a modest one, comes as Republicans prepare to negotiate with Democrats and President Barack Obama on a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff - some $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts set to start jolting the economy at the beginning of 2013.
"I care more about this country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge," Chambliss told Georgia television station WMAZ on Thursday. "If we do it his way, then we'll continue in debt, and I just have a disagreement with him about that."
Chambliss, who represents Georgia, is a member of the so-called Gang of Eight group of senators, a bipartisan alliance working for deficit reduction, formed last year when the country was on the verge of default thanks to a partisan battle over raising the country's borrowing limit.
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If the GOP will just shut their mouths and do nothing then the collapse of our economy will fall directly on the Rats and Obama. Let the taxes increase on everyone, don't pass a budget, don't pass a CR, don't raise the debt ceiling, etc. SHUT 'ER DOWN!
Let’s vote this jerk OUT! The country is going to hell and he’s going to raise taxes even higher!?????????
Who is looking out for WM? I demand equal rights. It is all lip service. WM still rule. They are the puppet masters.
Actually, if the government confiscated all the income and property of the rich, we'd still be running deficits.
What we need to do is cut the expenditures and expenses of the federal government ~
In the past several years there has not been one peep about the FACT that reduced taxes result in increased revenue.
Even JFK reduced taxes and got more revenue.
Libtards are already on the back side of the Laffer curve and looking to go farther.
His acts, IMHO, should become the poster for term limits at the Federal level.
What else do you want to let Obama do? Shut down all drilling? Tax all white people for reparations? Offer free abortions to girls of all ages with a ban on parental notification? Let all the Gitmo detainees go? Let Iran get nukes? Appoint Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers and Bernadine Dorn to the Supreme Court?
If conservative activism now boils down to “let Obama do whatever he wants” then the movement is either dead or it’s as full of kooks as the liberals like to claim. Saying the GOP should roll over and let Obama do exactly what he wants is either stupid, crazy or spoken by a liberal plant pretending to be a conservative.
Not to mention what in the world makes you think the RINOs would vote to not raise the debt ceiling now, when they wouldn’t even do it when the Tea Party was pushing to not raise it in Obama’s first term?
First, I assure you, Mr. Jedi, that I’m not a “Liberal Plant”. That being said, how would you propose continuing the Bush Tax Cuts for ALL when they are set to expire for ALL?
Rush explained that Obama DOES want the fall off the cliff because it will enable him to accomplish a raise in taxes on the “Rich”, and cuts in the military both of which he campaigned on. And as a benefit Obama will blame it all on the Republicans. Obama will ‘come to he rescue’ of the middle class next Spring by reducing the tax to the previous Bush tax level.
Chambless is engaging in brain ausfahrten ~ he imagines you can collect enough taxes to reduce debt.
Actually, if the government confiscated all the income and property of the rich, we’d still be running deficits.
What we need to do is cut the expenditures and expenses of the federal government ~
The anticipated “revenue” from increasing the taxes on rich is around $80 billion. Obama spends $1.5 TRILLION PER YEAR MORE than what comes in as tax revenue to the federal government.
Math apparently is too difficult for Obutts to understand that taxing the rich does not mean balancing the books.
NDAA, Patriot Act, War on Drugs, constant military engagements, higher taxes, government takeover of industry, open borders, monumental fiscal mismanagement, Overburdening EPA regs, TSA, DHS, militarization of local law enforcement, reckless monetary policy, trillion dollar deficits, illegals pouring into our country/voting in our elections...and on and on.
Whether republicans and or Dems are in the majority, we are losing our freedoms and liberties to a behemoth central government.
Just reported, State, local, federal taxes, levies, fees...the average American only realizes 50% of the income we work so hard for. The rest, goes to service various government agencies.
Goodbye America, it's been a nice ride.
Can anyone explain what the republican solutions would be after the crash. What I have seen in the last 20 years is not encouraging. If the republicans had managed to take the senate and white house, is there anyone who really believes things would change?
There isn’t one right now and that’s why they are fighting themselves.
Here is a glaring reason that the Republicans stand to lose every forthcoming election. They do not stand together!!! The Democrats ALWAYS stand together no matter how far apart their individual beliefs are. Their unity is the source of their power. Wise up Pubbies!
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