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President Obama To Republicans - You Have Another Thing Coming!
Political Realities ^ | 01/03/13 | LD Jackson

Posted on 01/03/2013 7:30:32 AM PST by LD Jackson

Thank God, we finally have the fiscal cliff behind us. President Obama finally got his highly-touted tax increase, the one that is supposed to make the rich pay their fair share and help reduce the budget deficit. Conservatives aren't exactly happy about that, but we did manage to make the majority of the Bush tax cuts permanent, so that may count for something. As for the tax increases reducing the deficit, National Review Online has a well-written piece that debunks that myth, but most of us already knew how false it was.

Even though most conservatives are not happy with the deal that supposedly ended the fight over tax increases and kicked the can of sequestration and the spending cuts it will entail down the road, there could be room for a small amount of optimism. It could be argued that we are in a better negotiating position to force the hand of the liberals and get the spending cuts that we know have to be forthcoming, if the fiscal condition of the United States is to improve. That optimism is probably a bit premature, as evidenced by the remarks made by President Obama in his speech about the fiscal cliff on December 31, 2012.

(Huffington Post) If Republicans think that I will finish the job of deficit reduction, through spending cuts alone -- and you hear that sometimes coming from them -- sort of, after today we're just going to try to shove only spending cuts down, you know, well -- shove spending -- shove spending cuts at us, that will hurt seniors, or hurt students, or hurt middle-class families without asking also equivalent sacrifice from millionaires or companies with a lot of lobbyists ... if they think that's going to be the formula for how we solve this thing, they have another thing coming.
I have watched the video of the speech and it was pretty clear to me what President Obama meant. We may believe he has little room left to negotiate, but he doesn't seem to think that is the case. I expect him to demand more concessions from the GOP, before he even considers spending cuts that are real and substantial. He has also said he has no plans to negotiate over the debt ceiling, saying he will use his own authority - authority that does not exist - to borrow the money needed to meet the obligations we already have.

If there is one thing I have learned from watching how Obama has worked in the past four years, it is to never underestimate the lengths to which he will go to achieve his goals. If he has to create authority out of thin air, he will do so. I expect him to push hard for more tax increases on the rich, or to lower the threshold to the $200,000/$250,000 he really wants. Do not believe for a minute he is finished with his push to make the rich pay their fair share.

By doing so, Obama will make two things abundantly clear. First, he will expose himself as the class warfare warrior he really is. Second, he will show just how serious he really isn't about the debt and the deficit. I have said it before, it's the spending, stupid. Obama either doesn't understand that or he just doesn't care about reducing our debt and deficit and getting spending under control. I suspect it is probably the latter.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: obama; presidentobama; republicans

1 posted on 01/03/2013 7:30:39 AM PST by LD Jackson
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To: LD Jackson

This Obama is a communist pos dictator. A tax on the rich is called a progressive income tax. That is one of the goals of the communist manifesto. It is marxism/socialism and a way to turn the U.S.A into a communist country. Socialism never works and this progressive income tax hurts the economy and gets us closer to socialism as was the media’s goal in creating the fake “fiscal cliff” scare tactic.


2 posted on 01/03/2013 7:34:07 AM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: LD Jackson
By doing so, Obama will make two things abundantly clear. First, he will expose himself as the class warfare warrior he really is. Second, he will show just how serious he really isn't about the debt and the deficit.

LD, if your conclusions weren't "abundantly clear" to you three years ago, you just weren't paying attention. There's nothing new in your conclusions. Worse, 2/3 of America and 3/4 of Congress don't give a fig if these are truths.

3 posted on 01/03/2013 7:51:32 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Democrat_media
This Obama is a communist pos dictator. A tax on the rich is called a progressive income tax. That is one of the goals of the communist manifesto. It is marxism/socialism and a way to turn the U.S.A into a communist country. Socialism never works and this progressive income tax hurts the economy and gets us closer to socialism as was the media’s goal in creating the fake “fiscal cliff” scare tactic.

What you said. Sadly, the country's at the "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" Marxist mindset.

4 posted on 01/03/2013 8:00:30 AM PST by Marathoner (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: LD Jackson
While I'm no fan of the Republican's in congress. Don't for a minute believe the liberal media spin that Obama won the fiscal cliff deal because of some shrewd strategy on his part, or because Republican's were afraid of him or his voting drones or whatever they are saying.

Obama won, because in the 2011 debt ceiling deal, Republicans bet everything on having a Republican president and Senate after the 2012 elections....they lost that bet. And because they lost the bet, Obama was left holding all the cards on the fiscal cliff. Even if Republicans did nothing, he still won, taxes would go up defense would be gutted, Obama knew that, Republican's knew it too. So they were essentially left to crawl on their knees for whatever crappy deal Obama decided to throw at them.

For those that think this turd sandwich fiscal cliff deal means the House Republicans are going to cave or be outfoxed by Obama on every issue from gun control to Cap and Trade don't fully understand what happened. Obama didn't overnight become some master politician ala Reagan, he is still the same bumbling idiot who couldn't get his "jobs bill" through the House, even will all the name calling and rabble rousing he could conjure up.

5 posted on 01/03/2013 8:04:22 AM PST by apillar
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