Posted on 12/21/2012 12:56:35 PM PST by conservativeforpalin
House Speaker John Boehner’s Plan B to avert the fiscal cliff was shelved last night. Boehner cited failure to garner enough Republican votes for passage in the House. This was good news for the Republican Party and conservative movement, as Plan B included a major tax hike on those earning more than $1 million per year and would have shown GOP to be party of sellouts.
Boehner’s allies have mislead Americans all week, claiming that Plan B would not raise taxes, rather extend the tax cuts set to expire at the start of next year.
That really isn’t true at all. Boehner is still raising taxes on Americans, they just happen to be a smaller group of Americans. It’s against the Republican Party low-tax platform. Plan B failed Thursday, because Boehner asked Republicans to break the very framework of the party in return for nothing: no spending cuts, no entitlement reforms. Just a large tax hike.
Republican rank and file will now blame the conservative wing of the party for failing to extend tax cuts, ultimately going off the fiscal cliff.
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Thankfully, the few conservative House Republicans are standing united against Boehner’s inane fiscal cliff bills, showing Thursday that they were not prepared to compromise on their principles.
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the Tea Party chant is do it in public...let us see the negotiations, have it on Cspan, then the public can send you a message of approval.
The fiscal hawks in the Republican Party are the fiscal wing’s equivalent of the pro-life wing’s Akin and Mourdock. They are doing immeasurable harm to the conserative cause by ensuring that 1) Republicans get blamed for going over the cliff, AND 2) we get a far worse outcome than Plan B.
We have a losing hand, yet we keep calling and raising our opponent.
This could very well cost us the House in the mid-terms.
The fiscal hawks in the Republican Party are the fiscal wing’s equivalent of the pro-life wing’s Akin and Mourdock. They are doing immeasurable harm to the conserative cause by ensuring that 1) Republicans get blamed for going over the cliff, AND 2) we get a far worse outcome than Plan B.
We have a losing hand, yet we keep calling and raising our opponent.
This could very well cost us the House in the mid-terms.
The fiscal hawks in the Republican Party are the fiscal wing’s equivalent of the pro-life wing’s Akin and Mourdock. They are doing immeasurable harm to the conserative cause by ensuring that 1) Republicans get blamed for going over the cliff, AND 2) we get a far worse outcome than Plan B.
We have a losing hand, yet we keep calling and raising our opponent.
This could very well cost us the House in the mid-terms.
The fiscal hawks in the Republican Party are the fiscal wing’s equivalent of the pro-life wing’s Akin and Mourdock. They are doing immeasurable harm to the conserative cause by ensuring that 1) Republicans get blamed for going over the cliff, AND 2) we get a far worse outcome than Plan B.
We have a losing hand, yet we keep calling and raising our opponent.
This could very well cost us the House in the mid-terms.
The fiscal hawks in the Republican Party are the fiscal wing’s equivalent of the pro-life wing’s Akin and Mourdock. They are doing immeasurable harm to the conserative cause by ensuring that 1) Republicans get blamed for going over the cliff, AND 2) we get a far worse outcome than Plan B.
We have a losing hand, yet we keep calling and raising our opponent.
This could very well cost us the House in the mid-terms.
The fiscal hawks in the Republican Party are the fiscal wing’s equivalent of the pro-life wing’s Akin and Mourdock. They are doing immeasurable harm to the conserative cause by ensuring that 1) Republicans get blamed for going over the cliff, AND 2) we get a far worse outcome than Plan B.
We have a losing hand, yet we keep calling and raising our opponent.
This could very well cost us the House in the mid-terms.
The fiscal hawks in the Republican Party are the fiscal wing’s equivalent of the pro-life wing’s Akin and Mourdock. They are doing immeasurable harm to the conserative cause by ensuring that 1) Republicans get blamed for going over the cliff, AND 2) we get a far worse outcome than Plan B.
We have a losing hand, yet we keep calling and raising our opponent.
This could very well cost us the House in the mid-terms.
The fiscal hawks in the Republican Party are the fiscal wing’s equivalent of the pro-life wing’s Akin and Mourdock. They are doing immeasurable harm to the conserative cause by ensuring that 1) Republicans get blamed for going over the cliff, AND 2) we get a far worse outcome than Plan B.
We have a losing hand, yet we keep calling and raising our opponent.
This could very well cost us the House in the mid-terms.
The fiscal hawks in the Republican Party are the fiscal wing’s equivalent of the pro-life wing’s Akin and Mourdock. They are doing immeasurable harm to the conserative cause by ensuring that 1) Republicans get blamed for going over the cliff, AND 2) we get a far worse outcome than Plan B.
We have a losing hand, yet we keep calling and raising our opponent.
This could very well cost us the House in the mid-terms.
The Republicans could have won this past election if they had run a conservative campaign and not a liberal lite one. Turnout was lower than even for McInsane because not enough conservatives could hold their noses.
Caving in on the fiscal cliff and being liberal lite will kill the party, not sticking to principles despite the blame game.
What BS. Now incomes of over $250K will have higher taxes, instead of $1M. The GOP has been shown to be the party of stupidity.
Over 75% of Obama’s tax increases are targeted for new spending so raising taxes doesn’t contribute anything to solving the deficit. Of course, you never hear that in the media.
The Democrats, like their leader, are anxious to plunge over the cliff. Their coconspirators, the media have painted the GOP as the villains who only want to protect the “rich”. Going over the cliff entails massive tax increases and drastic cuts in military spending. Any spending cuts they don’t want can be rather easily restored after the media runs “news” stories about the suffering and anguish of the poor, the unemployed, and the elderly. The minorities will blame Republicans and will be thankful the Democrats restore their entitlements.
By mid year the Republican Party will be even more irrelevant and the Tea Party declared a terrorist group.
The media are the real problem, not fiscal principles.
Stutter much, loser?
The GOP is going to be slaughtered in the mid-terms no matter what they do.
It'd be better to take over the GOPe apparatus and throw the RINOs under the bus.
“Caving in on the fiscal cliff” is playing checkers.
“Republican rank and file will now blame the conservative wing of the party for failing to extend tax cuts, ultimately going off the fiscal cliff”
I have not noticed any GOP rank and file going on TV or radio or print
or the web stating that if this vote had been held, they would have voted
to raise taxes. I wonder why. I mean, if they think raising taxes on the rich,
was a good idea, why are they not saying so in public? I think we all know
why.
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