Fiscal cliff: Why Boehner’s Plan B vote failure helps Republicans

The Washington Times ^ | December 21 | Henry D'Andrea

[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.

[M-cubed]

Dear Cousin Eddie..

You’re from the Chamberlain side of the family I assume....How many children do you have named after uncle Neville now?...Can u tell them apart still?

[SecondAmendment]

So to sum up our posts, 100% of CONSERVATIVES agree the current GOP leadership are morons.

And now for the trick question, are they incompetent or just playing us for suckers ?

[expat2]

Most of Obama voters don’t pay taxes.

[BobL]

“Most of Obama voters don’t pay taxes.”

Maybe, but he wouldn’t be looking forward to a second term if millions and millions of tax-paying voters (like 3 people that I work with) hadn’t voted for him. They are the ones that carried him through, since this is not (yet) a Third World country where 75% of the people are destitute and have enough votes on their own to install a radical like we have.

...and the taxpayers that did vote for Obama sure as heck didn’t expect him to be force a tax hike - certainly the ones that make under $250k. He promised to protect them. But in the name of complete defeat of the Republican Party, he’s willing to let taxes go up, big-time, for those people.

They will be mad - very, very, mad.