Posted on 12/04/2010 9:24:38 AM PST by PapaBear3625
Senate Republicans on Saturday voted against extending the Bush tax cuts to only the middle class in a pair of votes Democrats are seizing to paint the GOP as guardians of the rich.
The Senate voted 53-36 to extend all expiring tax cuts on individuals with incomes of less than $200,000 a year and married couples making less than $250,000 -- seven shy of the required 60 to advance.
The other proposal, which drew opposition from White House officials, would have renewed them for all tax filers with incomes of $1 million or less. That also failed in a 53-36 vote.
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How about traitors Snowe, Graham, and Collins?
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Agreed. The title is confusing.
You’re nuancing things.
THEY ARE TRYING TO THROW DEBT CEILING INCREASE INTO THE NEGOTIATIONS.
The Tea Party folks are going to throw bombs on that and they are are terrified of it. THAT, more than anything else, is why the decisions need to delay.
They will pass EVERYTHING in this session and leave the next Congress with no power. AT ALL.
That's FOX for you...
Looks like they all voted against the bill. A few GOP’ers skipped the vote, but none of them appear to have supported either the Baucus or Schumer cloture motions.
Here’s the full breakdown:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2637377/replies?c=35
Ignoring for the moment that this is not about Tax Cuts and Fox News should know better, there is an even bigger error in this headline. The last time I looked 53 to 36 will pass any bill and so this one, if it was a bill that they were voting on, would have passed. So I assume, in fact I know, that this was a cloture vote and not a vote on the bill itself. And since there are 58 Dems in the Senate they can have full credit for the failure of this bill to progress to a real vote. Of course they want to hang that on the Pubbies and, in this case, Fox is giving them plenty of help.
That should read that the intelligent Senators voted down a ridiculous bill that the Democratic Senate knew didn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell. Until December, we should expect all kinds of garbage to come down the pike, suitable for nothing but political whining from losers. Even after December, the Democratically controlled Senate will attempt to play stupid games, but the leftnuts who can tell which way the political winds are blowing will break ranks.
Please keep me in line also should I start to fail even more than I do now.
Thank God now the Dems are forced to not pull class warfare.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/us/politics/05cong.html?_r=1&hp
SCREW YOU MSM that are reporting this as JUST A BREAK for the BUSH wealthy. The wealthy create jobs.WHAT FREAKING PART OF A mom and pop store selling tobacco/ a beauty salon/ a HVAC company makes $250K a year. don’t the dems get? I am so sick of the dems and MSM Peter Pan spin! It won’t work, stop it, cease and desist the dem communist takeover.... now!
I think you have it backwards. Which is not surprising given how pathetically written this article is.
The vote was 53-36 and the side with 36 WON. This was not a vote on tax changes, this was a vote as to whether to vote on tax changes. They needed 60 votes to advance, and they failed.
Senators:
remember 1/3 of you are eligible to end your public service in 2 years time. You make the wrong choice here, your service ends then. What kind of moron raises taxes in a Depression for pete’s sake!?
This is a no-brainer, for once, to do the right thing and stop the Obama tax hikes, or else do the wrong thing to destroy America and vote in favor of the Obama tax hikes. Stark choice. Simple. Vote no.
I am feeling like an idiot right now.......
Now I know how idiots feel...
Ever been hired by a poor person?
Fox is rapidly slipping into the dark side, Cavuto and Beck for me, the rest I take with a grain of salt but their slide is accelerating! IMO
Good for the GOP!
From the NY Slimes...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/us/politics/05cong.html?_r=1&hp
“Republicans voted unanimously against the House-passed bill, and they were joined by four Democrats — Senators Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and Jim Webb of Virginia — as well as by Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut.”
Agreed. Everyone should feel the pain not just a select group.
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