Posted on 12/22/2011 1:50:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Just across from National Journal. Our dumb national nightmare is over.
House Republicans on Thursday crumpled under the weight of White House and public pressure and have agreed to pass a two-month extension of the 2 percent payroll-tax cut, Republican and Democratic sources told National Journal…
The House will pass the two-month extension with a technical correction to the language designed to minimize difficulties businesses might experience implementing the short-term, two-month tax cut extension.
In exchange, Reid agreed to appoint several Senate Democrats to start negotiating with the House on a full-year payroll-tax holiday extension, which is right in line with McConnell’s blueprint from this morning. Updates are coming but let’s get this up since news is breaking. Two questions to mull while we wait. One: Does the “technical correction” mentioned by National Journal mean the Senate will have to return and pass the House’s version of the bill? I thought the House was under pressure to pass the Senate bill precisely because the upper chamber wasn’t going to reconvene before New Year’s. Two: If you’re going to cave, why not take Rove’s advice and wait another week, when people will be even more distracted by the holidays? Particularly strange is that this is breaking within just a few hours of The One holding a presser to demand action with middle-class taxpayers lovingly arrayed behind him. Now it looks like even more of a capitulation than it is. Merry Christmas from the GOP, champ. Exit quotation from Philip Klein: “So instead of story being ‘Obama caves on Keystone’ it’ll be ‘GOP caves on middle class tax cut’ Great work!”
Update: The House Republican conference call on the bill is set for 5 p.m. Serious question: If he can’t muster enough GOP votes to pass this thing despite overwhelming support from Democrats, is he done as Speaker?
CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEOSo! Every two months, the ‘rats get to slather on another layer of pork.
I want to put my head through a wall. How did the Republican leadership allow this to happen? Who came up with this plan?
They should have stood firm on this thing and deployed Chairman of Govt Reform Issa, Budget Committee Chairman Ryan, and Small Business Committee Chairman Graves to the national media to communicate the Republican philosophy to the American people.
Maybe in the next election the Tea Party can win enough seats so that we can replace the moderate Boehner and put in place a solid Tea Party guy who won’t cave to the neo-con liberal wing of the Republican party.
Yup. Never make a deal with a liberal. You get the shaft and the lib gets lucky.
All they are worried about is being re-elected. I’m sick of them.
The republicans always manage to let the democrats outmaneuver them and end up looking like the bad guys.
Sad but True.
McOnnell is the Biggest senile ass ,even a Bigger ass than Boner,it was McConnells Idea for the commission on the Debt ceiling and now this Debacle. With a Team Like this we are DOOMED,these Jackasses make Obama look like Rasputin
Was Bayner in tears? Our Republic IS going down. May as well wait for it to collapse and then takeover.
Good question.
You do know that the Republican-led House actually DID impeach Clinton, right?
We won't get one until we change the rules that keep third parties down. The main thing to change is election laws on the state level, state by state. We don't need any constitutional amendment to do it. Just have your state allow the instant runoff ballot. If someone wants to vote third party, he has the option to do so, and not throw his vote away altogether. Just give a second choice and if your first choice doesn't make it, your vote gets redistributed to your second choice.
That way, you can vote for a conservative, and your vote still goes to the Republican, until the conservative one day has more votes, and wins outright. But it will never happen until we change the ballot. As it stands now, you'd be throwing your vote away.
Well. Life before the Tea Party was a whole lot easier, huh, Mr Speaker?
O they care on what they can get away with what they do to us.
I think that, MORE important than having a third party, it would be better to lessen the effect of the two existing parties. Term limits would do that. The 'good-old-boy' cliques would go away.
It is sad when the politicians, republican and democrat alike, cast votes based on political positioning rather than what is best for the country.....
McConnell pulled the chair out from under the most ethical and honest Senator in Washington, and then kicked him down the stairs, Senator Jim Bunning,his colleage, and fellow Kentuckian.
McConnell is a rabid snake.
Republicans in Kentucky rewarded McConnell for it by rejecting his chosen harem boy and nominating, get this, a “Paul”......
The Commonwealth overwhelmingly agreed with that radical, even outrageous choice, and elected a “Paul” to the Senate.
Was it a miracle, a once in a century fluke?
Well, I remember 1980 and I remember Ronald Reagan.
Rush mentioned the Senate bill includes a provision that add $17/month to a $200k or greater mortgage or refi. That stab in the back is with you for 30 years.
“Republican House DID impeach Clinton”
Ou contraire, mes ami.
It brought articles, you know, like Heloise did in Ladies Circle Magazine.
But that does bring back memories.
Especially of republican senator aaarrrrlen Specktor of the great commonwealth of pollyanavania and his exculpitory findings within ancient Scottish law.
Not that he was Scottish, or that there is anything wrong with that.
don’t forget the msm and fox news, gleefully assisting the dems, shaping the argument upside down for the daily digestion of what passes for truth in lib land...
it’s a damn shame what this country has become.
“McConnell is a rabid snake.”
FRiend, I agree. We need to burn out his RINO supporters in the 2012 and 2014 primaries. Then he can retire to K Street or Castro Street, I don’t care which.
I believe I’m about ready to leave the GOP..what a bunch of weenies! Maybe I’ll wait until the primaries are over...but I’m leaving. I left the Democrat party because I didn’t want my name listed anywhere near the name Democrat. I’m feeling the same way about the Republican name now.
The House did their job and impeached him. Then the Senate tried and acquitted him.
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