Posted on 12/31/2012 5:21:00 PM PST by i88schwartz
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I found it astonishing. Here he is -- coming out to speak to the nation at a crucial moment -- in very delicate negotiations and he comes out there with incredible arrogance. He ridicules the Congress, he spikes the football on the Republicans. He rubs in the fact that they were resisting a raise in rates and he made them do it. And of course, as always, he places himself hovering benignly at an Olympian level above the fray, where the children are playing in the sand box and he's asking that everybody be reasonable as if he just arrived in Washington on a tourist visa.
And then he goes into detail. What he basically says, 'I'm giving the Republicans zero on spending. And I mean zero, not even discretionary spending. This is after he killed a proposal from the Minority Leader in the Senate for the tiniest of changes in entitlements, change in the cost of living index, which is essentially a technical change. So that's rejected out of hand. So he's saying tax hikes all in rates, no cuts in spending. And worse than that, after all of this is done, after I shoved all this down your throats, when we negotiate later for spending cuts -- which Republicans imagine they're going to get -- no, it's not going to happen that way.
If there are going to be any spending cuts in the future, there's going to have to be an increase -- a further increase in taxes on the rich, of course, it's always the millionaires that will balance out those spending cuts. So, he laid out a radically oppositionist position, gleefully. I think he wants to go over the cliff and dare the Republicans to take the blame.
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Amen - and where are the Articles of Impeachment for all of these high crimes & misdemeanors????
It doesn’t matter what Obama says. Many Republicans too stupid to take offense, and those who take offense too nutless to do anything about it.
It’s amusing that republicans haven’t yet figured out how to beat obama. They are playing two completely different games.
During the campaign, I kept yelling at the TV - It's the media, stupid!
Of all the checks and balances we have in our Constitution, one lacking is on the media
Here in Wash State, the media covering the legislature openly wear lapel pins with the Roman numeral 3 on it. What;s that mean? They consider themselves the Third House of the legislature (Senate, Representitives, then media).
No lack of ego there, eh?
It’s the media
Yes. that is the problem.
Any year to year Federal spending cuts?
Fiscal Cliff...Fiscal Cliff...Fiscal Cliff...Fiscal Cliff...
Never any mention of the NEW $1T taxes and reduced allowances contained in ObumaCare.
So much for good journalism (even my buddy Cavuto skips over this).
All to be expected from a bimbo slut coke head. Dance on Degeneris Obama. You are now responsible for the highest tax increase, greatest debt, and least freedom in American history. Go celebrate you Marxist Islamist Kenyan, party your ass off.
wasn’t this fiscal cliff the result of a previous deal to increase taxes and cut spending, only so we could have another deal few months later to increase more taxes and no spending cut. Gawd GOP leadership are hopeless. They need to be mocked
Uhh...’cause they have no balls?
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