Posted on 12/23/2011 7:35:35 AM PST by illiac
The House passed a two-month renewal of payroll tax cuts for 160 million workers and unemployment benefits for millions of jobless on Friday, giving President Barack Obama a resounding victory over Republicans who control the House.
The Senate approved the bill earlier.
The measure was passed by voice vote in a virtually empty House chamber despite lingering grumbling from Tea Party Republicans.
It buys time for negotiations early next year on how to cover the costs of a yearlong extension of the two percentage point payroll tax cut, the centerpiece of Obama's fall jobs agenda.
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Boneheads. Time to clean house. Starting with Boehner.
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So wish I could say I was surprised. :(
THIS SUCKS. Nation is going down the crapper and these guys act like it’s a joke. :(:(:(
The GOP should be mopping the floor with Obama and Congressional Dems for what they have done to ruin the economy, but instead we get the Keystone Cops for party leadership. At this rate we will get another 4 years of Obama and the end to our Republic.
Damn it all. Boehner is a weenie. Should have bowed their backs on this. GD Obama and the whole bunch.
If I understand it correctly, any single rep or senator could have voted this thing down...not a backbone to be found anywhere.
And this is the same s.... we’ll get with the establishment republican presidential candidate.
HOUSE REPUBLICANS PROVED ONCE AGAIN THAT THEY ARE NOTHING BUT DIMS PARADING AS REPUBLICANS FOR WEALTH, FAME AND POWER!
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The Dumb Party indeed!
The dems win again... oh, stop the presses.
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If things continue without changes in the republican party... obama will sail to reelection and we are dead along with our republic.
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No.....starting with McConnell!!! Then Boehner!!!
Somewhere on FR is a illustration of a Republican cloakroom meeting where there is a rack of spines checked at the door.
What do you mean establishment republicans? Not one tea party republican stopped this either and they could have. I would say no one in congress is worthy of their office.
Boehner surrenders again.
Where was Michelle Bachmann? She could of actually done something instead of saying all the time, “I fought Obama”.
All I want for Xmas is a real conservative leadership.....
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