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GOP softens stance on tax pledge, but doesn't mean rates are on table
First Read (NBCNEWS.com) ^ | 26 November 2012 | Domenico Montanaro

Posted on 11/26/2012 11:54:09 AM PST by zeestephen

Saxby Chambliss (GA), Lindsey Graham (SC), Bob Corker (TN), Eric Cantor (VA), Peter King (NY) - Each one waffles on a Democrat TV program - Quotes in "Comments."

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TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 112th; taxandspend; taxes
Lindsy Graham: "I will violate the pledge, long story short, for the good of the country, only if Democrats will do entitlement reform."

Saxby Chambliss: "I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge."

Bob Corker: "I’m not obligated on the pledge. I made Tennesseans aware, I was just elected, the only thing I’m honoring is the oath I take when I serve."

Peter King: "I agree entirely with Saxby Chambliss -- a pledge you signed 20 years ago, 18 years ago, is for that Congress... I think everything should be on the table."

Eric Cantor: "There has been a lot said about this pledge. When I go to the constituents, it’s not about that pledge. It’s about trying to solve problems."

1 posted on 11/26/2012 11:54:16 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

The GOP must know they will get the blame for everything the next 2 years and that the Democrats will sweep them out the door 2014


2 posted on 11/26/2012 11:56:34 AM PST by molson209
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To: zeestephen
TARGETS!

Conservative Challengers, start your engines!

3 posted on 11/26/2012 11:57:19 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
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To: zeestephen

4 posted on 11/26/2012 12:01:39 PM PST by kidd
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To: zeestephen
Surrender...
5 posted on 11/26/2012 12:03:07 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Hurricane Sandy..., a week later and 48 million Americans still didn't have power.)
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To: DoughtyOne; All

“Surrender... “

Just like I said. The Republican Party in D.C. sold us out, and are just protecting their future hig paying jobs as a lobbyist, and/or protecting their big fat pensions.


6 posted on 11/26/2012 12:27:42 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: DoughtyOne; All

“Surrender... “

Just like I said. The Republican Party in D.C. sold us out, and are just protecting their future high paying jobs as a lobbyist, and/or protecting their big fat pensions.


7 posted on 11/26/2012 12:28:42 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: DoughtyOne

I wonder why no Republican will ever say on these biased TV programs:

“Raising taxes during a recession is a really STUPID idea! It has NEVER worked! Never in the history of the WORLD!
We shouldn’t wreck this country just because Obama FLUNKED Economics in college!

“Of course, we know Obama flunked economics! Why ELSE would he have spent $8MM to keep his college transcripts “sealed”?

“And besides, one of Harry Reid’s little friends TOLD me (confidentially) that Obama had flunked Economics.”


8 posted on 11/26/2012 12:33:16 PM PST by pfony1
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To: DoughtyOne

The GOP and the French have a lot in common.


9 posted on 11/26/2012 12:33:40 PM PST by TADSLOS (Welcome to the new Plastic Banana Republic- We''ll Make You Feel Good to be Poor)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“TARGETS!”

Maybe you should have stopped typing right there?


10 posted on 11/26/2012 12:40:11 PM PST by FerociousRabbit
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Trade real entitlement reform for some tax hikes?

That's not such an easy one...

11 posted on 11/26/2012 1:34:59 PM PST by what's up
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To: zeestephen
GOP softens stance on tax pledge, but doesn't mean rates are on table

There's nothing these RINOs stand for. They might as well declare themselves to be dims and be done with it. Chambliss definitely needs to be replaced, and I'd like to see Herman Cain run against him!

12 posted on 11/26/2012 1:39:17 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Remember the Heroic SEALs of Benghazi and DEMAND a Full Accounting!!!!)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
and I'd like to see Herman Cain run against him!

Yeah, sure, that's what we need. Run another unelected bum statewide and lose another Senate seat in a red state we should be winning. Herman Cain couldn't get elected dog catcher in a general election. The minute he runs for office (which he won't again) one of his mistresses would be all over the news. The man has too many skeletons in the closet that he is not willing to come clean about. Cain is an excellent motivational speaker and decent radio host, but he is never going to be a US Senator.

13 posted on 11/26/2012 2:01:40 PM PST by Longbow1969
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To: Longbow1969

The best Senator we’ve had in the past 30 years was Zell Miller, a dim, and he was far more conservative than either of the two idiots we have now.


14 posted on 11/26/2012 2:08:20 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Remember the Heroic SEALs of Benghazi and DEMAND a Full Accounting!!!!)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
I’d like to see Cain run in Georgia, too.

I’ll bet 90% of Blacks would vote AGAINST him!

That would end the Democrat racial BS, well, for five minutes anyway.

By the way...

Has anyone seen exit polling on Rep. Allen West’s election defeat in Florida?

I would love to see how many Blacks voted against him.

Unfortunately, I think they just do exit polls for entire states.

Too expensive to do them locally.

15 posted on 11/26/2012 11:58:05 PM PST by zeestephen
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