Democrats now reject GOP fiscal cliff offer they proposed
Could you imagine if Republicans pulled a stunt like this? The media would be at the gate with pitchforks and torches. But, as it happens today, it’s Democrats who are playing games on Capitol Hill as our country nears the edge of the fiscal cliff and outrage is sparse:
Back in May, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi proposed in a letter to Speaker John A. Boehner that the House should vote to raise taxes on household incomes of more than $1 million.
“A million and above,” Mrs. Pelosi wrote. “Who can argue with that?”
Actually, Mrs. Pelosi can. Now that Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, has embraced the proposal in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations with President Obama, Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, and her team are urging their party’s lawmakers to vote against it.
In most conservatives’ eyes, Boehner has already caved by giving into such demands to let the Bush tax cuts expire on the countries top earners. If he insists on adopting Pelosi’s plan, it would seem like the only good move at this point would be to walk away. Tell the White House you’ve accepted Pelosi’s offer and Obama can take it or leave it. No more games.
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noslave
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 9:29pmlets go over the cliff,tell arrogant obama go fluke yourself ,now beg me for another debt ceiling increase,now you get nothing??
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INTOODEEP
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:06amI despise that idiot, How did we ever get this low to have ignorant people like her in government? Lets put out the trash and take our country back !!!
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anothercomment
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:09amThis is my surprised face……uh, um, I guess I’m surprised anymore when it comes to what Demwits say and do, not after the illegal passage of “let’s vote it in so we can open it up and read what’s it” bill, and not after the “Grand Theft Freedom” on November 6th. Bullies, Thugs and Demwits (oh wait, that one group) tend to run in a huge gangs, and change the rules anytime they want just to intimidate those who refuse to drink the Kool-Aide, they now enjoy telling white people to ‘shut up’, and have forsaken any shred of civility they have acquired.
Just like Lucy yanking the football away from Charlie Brown when he tries to kick the ball…..except not as funny.
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mr. parker
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:39pmNow just a minute, Nancy didn’t know what she was saying. The multimillionaire vineyard owner had washed down her Xanax with some of her delicious Merlot.
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