[Argus]

The media will make sure that the Tea Party owns every bad thing that happens until doomsday.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”“The worst thing that Republicans can do is raise taxes,” Matt Kibbe of Freedomworks said Friday. “If Obama wants to raise taxes, he can do that, but Republicans shouldn’t give him cover. If Obama wants to go over the cliff, let him own that.” …

Here's the flaw in this political strategy.

All those taxes go up January 1 without either party votes and then Obama will continue to blame Rs for them going up and every day he will get on TV and demand the house pass (extend) middle class tax cuts.
Obama: “The Republican party is blocking tax cuts for you to protect those billionaires from paying a dollar more in taxes”

Obama plays to win, not to play symbolic games. We will never beat him by living in a fantasy world where these taxes stay as they are if Republicans do nothing.

[Nuc 1.1]

Owebama doesn't give a doom about his legacy because the propaganda media will make him out to be a demigod no matter what he does. So...quit dealing. Work to save the republic. Do that and only that. Good things will follow!

[gleeaikin]

Why do the news media and commentators always fail to mention that even if the tax on income over $250,000 is raised by 4.6%, all the amount under $250,000 for 100% of taxpayers will keep the Bush tax cut rate if the House approves the Senate plan.

[Lancey Howard]

“I think it is certainly better to go over the fiscal cliff than to have the Republican party deny the American people to have one party that stands for lower taxes and another party that doesn’t,” Michael Needham of Heritage Action said last week."

Agree 100%.
If the Republicans cave on taxes, the GOP is through. Period.

And that includes the lame "additional revenues from closing loopholes and deductions" crap. More tax dollars confiscated and dumped down the government toilet is more tax dollars removed from the private sector and dumped down the government toilet where Democrat politicians can use it for growing government and buying the votes of the moocher class.

“The worst thing that Republicans can do is raise taxes,” Matt Kibbe of Freedomworks said Friday. “If Obama wants to raise taxes, he can do that, but Republicans shouldn’t give him cover. If Obama wants to go over the cliff, let him own that.”

And Ubama WILL own it. History will record that whatever happens happened on Ubama's watch. Nobody will even remember who was in Congress at the time, or who the Speaker of the House was or who the Senate Majority Leader was. The FAIL will be Ubama's alone.

[sirchtruth]

First on this wonderful morning let me start off by wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!

Why do conservatives care what the useless republicans do? I sure don't! Stop relying on the loser republican's to do conservative bidding, they won't do it because they are mostly rino prix!

[Bernard]

Now that the latest fiscal cliff has come and gone, now it's time to vote on permanent tax rates and other changes to laws.

No more 1-year or 2-year or 2-month extensions because of a "temporary" downtown in the economy.

No more silly "payroll tax holidays", which only help to bankrupt Al Gore's Social Security Lockbox even faster.

Time to leave the Coolest Kid In Junior High to his golf games and snappy patter, while the adults take care of business. Let the media follow Obama; he means nothing anyway. While the CKIJH makes whiny noises for his followers in the media, the adults who actually want to make a difference need to act in the best interest of this country.

[gotribe]

Anything the GOP says or claims is wrong. Obama would LOVE to go over the fiscal cliff and destroy the GOP once and for all.

[Vaduz]

Obama&Co own the cliff and the MSM can’t cover it up,their word is useless.

[Jim Noble]

“I think Obama is very mindful of his legacy and is horrified of going over the cliff,” said Andy Roth of the Club for Growth

Andy Roth doesn't understand Obama.

At all.

[Jim Noble]

“I think Obama is very mindful of his legacy and is horrified of going over the cliff,” said Andy Roth of the Club for Growth

WRONG.

Obama IS the cliff.

[FreedomNotSafety]

How I am learning to love the Cliff...
It hits the liberal high tax states of both coasts the hardest. Its a different sort of game than we are used to. This cliff will hurt me, no doubt, but it will not hurt me near as much as someone in New York especially New York City. Liberals have a history of making others pay for their generosity but this time they will have to pay. Wages and non earned income are the highest in liberal land so the value of deductions are highest. Some of those states will not survive significantly higher taxes.

Only down side is that their residents will flee to the good states.

[bray]

Guess what, nobody is going to die or be harmed from this little cliff. Look out for the one we are free falling from in Obamanomics.

Merry Christmas