Representatives (bill) that had to pass it before it became law
originate in "The People's House" of Representatives
it really should change its' name to "the
and the Senate's to "the 'ol ButtCrack's Rubber Stamp"..the truth of it all.
Posted on 01/01/2013 9:52:16 AM PST by Cheerio
The White House issued a "fact sheet" statement Tuesday declaring the fiscal cliff agreement a victory, though the House has yet to vote on the measure.
"At this make or break moment for the middle class, the President achieved a bipartisan solution that keeps income taxes low for the middle class and grows the economy," the statement says. "For the first time in 20 years, Congress will have acted on a bipartisan basis to vote for significant new revenue.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
That's funny. You really think these cowards will do a damn thing?
And that's the way it works....Dems i8n the house will selectively pass it along with Republicans. There really is no choice.
What makes it really embarrassing is that Barry put in his second string quarterback, Biden, to get it.
Very true! I agree 100%.
But, from a political perspective, if they don't pass it (which I think is what Obama really wants to see happen)millions of legitimate unemployed Americans will pay the price because this week is their last unemployment check.
Obama wants to see those legitimate unemployed Americans suffer so that he can blame Boehner and the Republican controlled House for it. Obama and the democrats are looking ahead to Nov 2014, not to a prosperous America.
John Boehner should have offered a bill to extend the emergency unemployment back in the late summer / early Fall and offsetting the cost with cuts in other places. This would have been put in Harry Reid's lap before the election and he would be the blame for the fate of the legitimately unemployed Americans without it having to be part of the bill being discussed today.
Harry Reid's actions could have been what would have helped the GOP win the Senate in 2012.
A bunch of us had called Boehner's office and other republicans back in sept/oct 2012 with this idea. As you can see, the calls were ignored.
Today it's in Boehner's and the GOP's lap.
Absolutely....Members of the House can be twisted and turned....The Whitehouse and a dictator such as Obama controls the Dem Senate.
The Republicans in the House could vote Present and let it pass with only Dem votes. That way the resulting recession is pinned only on the Dems and their isn’t a “Bipartisan” label.
Thomas Jefferson once offered a wise bit of advice in a letter to young Peter Carr:
"Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition, that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties ten fold; and those who pursue these methods, get themselves so involved at length, that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed. It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions." -- See "Letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785," in Thomas Jefferson: Writings (New York: The Library of America, 1984), pp. 814-815.
From "fast and furious" to Benghazi, from Obamacare to the so-called "fiscal cliff," do we not see examples of such "chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice"?
The guises by which Americans are being deceived into surrendering their liberty grow more numerous every day. Truly, Jefferson summed it up well, "there is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible" as this kind of habitual deceit--especially when it is by an Administration elected to "preserve and protect" "the People's" Constitutional protections for liberty.
Yet they still insist (as they have for the last 6 years) that the minority Party GOP controls everything and is the blame for all that has happened since 2006. Since there is no elected official in the GOP who is articulate and out there on a daily basis reminding the American people who really is in control, the American people see the "majority party" is republican and they will vote them out in 2014 so that poor Obama and the powerless democrats can finally save America from the republicans.
That is and has been the narrative for the last several years and a narrative that goes indisputed day after day after day.
Rubio talks a good game but when the SHTF he hides under his desk along with all the other beltway GOP cowards. His strongly worded press release was right out of the McConnell loser playbook.
And by the way...IMHO....voting present is irresponsible.
Freepers must make in excess of 450K a year. Obama was voted in on the platform of raising taxable income over 250K. I think we dodge a bullet so this is a HUGE WIN for GOP. Can anyone name a Negative on this deal for anyone under 450K taxable income? I only disappointed the spending cuts we delayed for another day.
The payroll and Obamacare tax was never on the table for discussion.
“John Boehner should have offered a bill to extend the emergency unemployment back in the late summer / early Fall and offsetting the cost with cuts in other places. This would have been put in Harry Reid’s lap before the election and he would be the blame for the fate of the legitimately unemployed Americans without it having to be part of the bill being discussed today.”
Absolutely; the extended unemployment benefits only kept Obama in power. If people had to suffer real consequences for this economy/job market, Obama wouldn’t even have won Illinois.
All of my potential customers do. If they don't buy, I'm out of business.
That's how that works.
/johnny
“Congress will have acted on a bipartisan basis to vote for significant new revenue.”
Seems like that statement alone should be enough to call them on the futile act of their revenue increase against the debt totals. How much “new” revenue does it actually generate after being implemented?
Wow! If no agreement, what about all the Americans making over 250K have you thought of them on "freak out".
I think we dodge a bullet so this is a HUGE WIN for GOP.
Absolutely. Why exactly is voting for the “Obama Tax Cuts” a huge win for the GOP? There is no fight in the beltway GOP. This just more of the same and the dims will control the narrative. The beltway GOP have learned nothing after 4 years opposing the kenyan. Nothing.
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