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House approves payroll tax cut, jobless benefits
AP/MSNBC ^ | 12/23/11 | AP

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breaking; congress; taxcut
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Republicans = COWARDS
1 posted on 12/23/2011 7:35:41 AM PST by illiac
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To: illiac

Boneheads. Time to clean house. Starting with Boehner.


2 posted on 12/23/2011 7:40:26 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: illiac

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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. :(:(:(


3 posted on 12/23/2011 7:45:20 AM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: illiac

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.


4 posted on 12/23/2011 7:45:28 AM PST by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
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To: illiac

Damn it all. Boehner is a weenie. Should have bowed their backs on this. GD Obama and the whole bunch.


5 posted on 12/23/2011 7:47:02 AM PST by Jukeman (Not Romney, not now, not ever!)
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To: The Great RJ

If I understand it correctly, any single rep or senator could have voted this thing down...not a backbone to be found anywhere.


6 posted on 12/23/2011 7:47:20 AM PST by qwerty1234
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To: The Great RJ

And this is the same s.... we’ll get with the establishment republican presidential candidate.


7 posted on 12/23/2011 7:49:36 AM PST by Jukeman (Not Romney, not now, not ever!)
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GD Obama and the whole bunch.

Husein up to -13 in today's RAS daily approval rating - the pharaoh should see a huge approval jump over the Christmas weekend now that he has.......
8 posted on 12/23/2011 7:51:50 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: illiac

HOUSE REPUBLICANS PROVED ONCE AGAIN THAT THEY ARE NOTHING BUT DIMS PARADING AS REPUBLICANS FOR WEALTH, FAME AND POWER!

LLS


9 posted on 12/23/2011 7:54:04 AM PST by LibLieSlayer ("Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness." Ronaldo Magnus)
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To: illiac

The Dumb Party indeed!


10 posted on 12/23/2011 7:54:25 AM PST by AU72
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The dems win again... oh, stop the presses.

):-(


11 posted on 12/23/2011 7:54:59 AM PST by ScottinVA (I miss America.)
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To: illiac
King Obama is now guaranteed reelection. The ammunition he has with most of the Country paid for and with a GOP that are no better than the communists Democrats is it any wonder?
12 posted on 12/23/2011 7:55:53 AM PST by Logical me
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To: Cheerio

If things continue without changes in the republican party... obama will sail to reelection and we are dead along with our republic.

LLS


13 posted on 12/23/2011 7:56:02 AM PST by LibLieSlayer ("Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness." Ronaldo Magnus)
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To: fatnotlazy

No.....starting with McConnell!!! Then Boehner!!!


14 posted on 12/23/2011 7:56:20 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: qwerty1234
"If I understand it correctly, any single rep or senator could have voted this thing down...not a backbone to be found anywhere."

Somewhere on FR is a illustration of a Republican cloakroom meeting where there is a rack of spines checked at the door.

15 posted on 12/23/2011 7:57:31 AM PST by Truth29
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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.


16 posted on 12/23/2011 7:57:41 AM PST by GrandmaPatriot
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To: LibLieSlayer
You are giving me the impression that you expected a different outcome. Am I reading you incorrectly?
17 posted on 12/23/2011 7:58:25 AM PST by verity (The Obama Administration is a Criminal Enterprise.)
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To: illiac

Boehner surrenders again.


18 posted on 12/23/2011 7:59:23 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: Truth29

Where was Michelle Bachmann? She could of actually done something instead of saying all the time, “I fought Obama”.


19 posted on 12/23/2011 7:59:57 AM PST by GrandmaPatriot
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To: illiac

All I want for Xmas is a real conservative leadership.....


20 posted on 12/23/2011 8:00:43 AM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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