Posted on 12/19/2012 8:39:16 AM PST by pabianice
In the spirit of bipartisanship, Obama has been willing to compromise, putting two plans on the table:
A My way.
B The highway.
If only he’d go down as the most useless.
He is WORSE than useless and has gone so far as helping the other side win.
ARE YOU LISTENING, BOEHNER?! Obama is NO friend or fellow colleague.
Now hold the line on the debt ceiling debate!
WRONG.
The Republicans in the House need to pass THEIR BILL.
Extend the Bush Tax Cuts.
Then adjourn and let the Senate and the President deal with it.
The hell with him then. Submit a bill, call it a BAFO (Best and Final Offer) and walk away. ut the ball in this chump’s court once and for all.
I so very much despise these people to the point of spitting. They have managed to wreck each and every Christmas since they got in office.
No debt limit hike, no more offers. Take it or leave it.
The GOP is continuing the drive to extinction.
Boehner looks weak and stupid...the GOP needs a wartime consigliere.
Yep, instead we get Fredo...
just hafta wait and see if this isnt merely posturing to save the speakership, with a monumental cave soon to come...
its not like these brilliant politicians cant understand the SOL strategies, more like they *dont* do them, for nefarious purposes...
Be very careful...fiscal cliff is exactly what Obama wants.
I hope this blows up in the son of satan’s face.
Exactly what I am expecting unfornuately.
The problem is, and it happened time and time again with this House, is they camp out on the MOST unpopular positions until even their OWN district voters turn on them calling up screaming at them, and then they give into O everything he demands. Then its boo-hoo-hoo, blame the MSM, the voters and victim whine...
O is on TV right now rejecting this <$1M proposal.
Maybe if Bonehead and Cantor throw in gun control and amnesty, along
with more Free Obama Phones, they can get the Grandest of All Bargains
they so desperately desire.
The fiscal cliff is the result of the Grand Bargain the GOP signed onto
two years ago with the debt ceiling deal.
If they don’t like the deal now
Why did they like it two years ago?
Be very careful...fiscal cliff is exactly what Obama wants.
THEN GIVE IT TO HIM!
In this case just like the SS/FICA battle Rs lost EXACTLY a year ago it is different group helping O.
calling a bill that keeps our taxes from going up a ‘tax increase’ is just plain dishonest
O on TV NOW is rejecting it claiming that “ Republicans are once again with plan B just playing politics and need to do the RIGHT thing for the American people ”
(meaning, give in to all his demands), But he says he is optimistic that the Rs will do the right thing (meaning, give in to all his demands),
what is missing is a R party leader on TV calling O out for raising OUR taxes to get his debt limit extension by rejecting this bill.
I wondered that too.
To my knowledge, Obama’s only compromise ever was the debt ceiling deal of 2011, whereby they kicked the can ahead to now. That deal didn’t do anything but raise the debt ceiling. The fiscal cliff it set up, supposedly, was to motivate a deal, to be shaped by the vote of the American people. The American people spoke and returned Obama with a reduced majority and Boehner also with a reduced majority. What are they going to do now? Boehner’s compromise proposal is minimalist (from our point of view). It is one step removed from kicking the can to the next election. But, going over the fiscal cliff is not going to be sufficient. In a couple months, they will have to either bring the budget into balance or raise the debt ceiling again. As amazing as this sounds, with the tax rates raised up to the pre-Bush level, with domestic discretionary and military spending cut by 10 percent across the board, it wouldn’t take much in the way of entitlement reform to actually balance the budget. Going over the fiscal cliff would be balanced in the sense of forcing almost everybody to contribute something. Subsequent entitlement reform would expand the fairness and balance of the sacrifice.
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