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House Votes ‘Yes’ on Senate ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Bill

Jan. 1, 2013 8:42pm Becket Adams

[Editor's note: The bill passed the House by a vote of 257-167. Scroll down to see updates to this story.]

Republican Controlled House Votes to Pass Amendment Less Version of the Senates Fiscal Cliff Deal

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, center, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., right, arrive for the House Republican Conference meeting on the fiscal cliff legislation in the Capitol, Jan. 1, 2013. (Bill Clark/Roll Call/Getty Images)

The Republican-controlled House is preparing a vote tonight on the “Job Protection and Recession Prevention Act of 2012,” the “fiscal cliff” bill passed last night at 1:58 a.m. ET by the U.S. Senate.

House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.) says he expects “strong bipartisan support” for passage of #fiscalcliff bill.

— Ed O’Keefe (@edatpost) January 2, 2013

Preparation for the House’s passage of the “fiscal cliff” deal struck by the Senate has been marked by confusion and anger from conservative leaders.

“I do not support the bill. We are looking, though, for the best path forward,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said after a meeting with the party’s rank-and-file.

Some believe his decision to speak out against the bill while Speaker Boehner (R-Ohio) has remained relatively silent may signal that Rep. Cantor has his eyes on the speakership.

A handful of GOP House members fought to amend the Senate bill so that it would include more cuts. However, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) vowed that he would “absolutely not take up the bill” if it involved amendments to the Senate’s original “cliff” deal.

“We’ve gone as far as we can go,” said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), “I think people are ready to bring this to a conclusion, and know we have a whole year ahead of us” to continue the fight over spending.

The Senate’s bill puts off the automatic spending cuts (i.e. the “sequester”) for two months. It also calls for about $600+ billion in new tax hikes while cutting only a fraction of that amount in government spending. In fact, for every $41 that is raised in taxes, only $1 will be cut.

Also, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the Senate’s “fiscal cliff” bill will add $4 trillion over a decade to federal deficits.

And in case you were wondering about whether a spending bill originated in the Senate (as opposed to lower chamber), here’s an explanation:

The Senate cliff bill is a massive amendment to a House-passed bill, thus complying with Const. prov. that House must originate tax bills.

— Brit Hume (@brithume) January 1, 2013

“I personally hate it,” said Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.). “The speaker the day after the election said we would give on taxes and we have. But we wanted spending cuts. This bill has spending increases. Are you kidding me? So we get tax increases and spending increases? Come on.”

Unsurprisingly, House Democrats are all for the vote.

“That is what we expect. That is what the American people deserve,” said Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

UPDATE – Folks, we may be in for a late one:

My colleague @jacksonjk reports House GOP leadership aides estimate vote on #fiscalcliff final passage between 11:15 p.m. and 11:45 p.m

— Major Garrett(@MajorCBS) January 2, 2013

Also, unlike last night’s Senate vote, the House is moving at lightning speed to get this deal through:

House debate on #fiscalcliff rule is moving VERY, VERY, VERY fast.

— Jill Jackson (@jacksonjk) January 2, 2013

Voting has begun:

House now voting on debate rule for the Senate-passed fiscal cliff bill. Once approved, House begins hour debate on that, no amendments.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) January 2, 2013

UPDATE II: First hurdle cleared:

Rule to get to the fiscal cliff bill passes by wide margin, not a surprise

— Ed Henry (@edhenryTV) January 2, 2013

The House will now take an hour to debate the Senate-backed “cliff” deal. After that, the House will vote for its final passage.

A little food for thought while we wait. First, from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.): “We owe Nancy Pelosi a real debt of gratitude for being where we are today.”

Second, from Sen. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas):

Gohmert: I’d like to thank the other side for finally recognizing that the other 98% of Americans saw a tax cut under Bush.

— Bill Murphy (@billmurphy) January 2, 2013

The vote is scheduled for 11:00 p.m. ET.

UPDATE III (10:00 p.m. ET) — While we wait on the House to debate the bill, here’s a dramatization of America going over the “fiscal cliff” (which is really more of a hill anyway):

UPDATE IV: With the blessing of the Speaker, the “fiscal cliff” deal has passed the House.

Breaking with Rep. Boehner, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) voted “no” on the measure. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), however, voted “yea.”

Cantor spox: “Leader Cantor is very proud of Speaker Boehner and our entire conference for fighting the good fight”

— Daniel Newhauser (@dnewhauser) January 2, 2013

Thus ends the Paul Ryan 2016 Presidential Exploratory Committee.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 2, 2013

Boehner/Ryan — most prominent ayes. McCarthy/Cantor — most prominent nays. Intrigue in the GOP ranks.

— Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) January 2, 2013

Here’s a complete list of the 85 Republicans who voted “yes” to the Senate backed measure:

House Votes ‘Yes’ on The Senate’s ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Bill

Shortly after passing the bill, President Obama held a press conference to thank Congress for its work and vowed going forward to avoid any more dramatic fights over the country’s financial woes.

“I will not have another debate with this Congress over the debt ceiling,” the president said.

The president will depart later this evening to resume his Hawaiian vacation:

With bill passed, Pres Obama flying back to Hawaii tonight to resume vacation with family still there.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) January 2, 2013

Final Thought: Our “final thought” comes via senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University Veronique de Rugy:

Rs who voted for this bill that raises taxes& spending and postpones sequester to cancel it later make French socialists look like Reagan.

— Veronique de Rugy (@veroderugy) January 2, 2013

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Comments (388)

devan95
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:02pm
Now do you see that only a taxpayer strike will stop this insanity…?

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- The_Almighty_Creestof
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:08pm
  Republicans/Democrats? It is nothing more than a WWE match with a good guy facing off against a bad guy…when the whole thing is scripted and pre-determined…and afterwards…both hit up a bar and have a laugh at our expense.
  
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- Brother Winston Smith
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:27pm
  Taxpayer strike? Pardon if I’m a little jaded… but we don’t even have balls enough to vote outside the leftist republican party and leftist democrat party… or even nominate Ron Paul for a SLAM-DUNK win! I’m surprised we have the courage to even step outside of our houses!
  
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- Advection
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:31pm
  They don’t need taxpayers anymore. No amount of taxes will ever pay for the massive state they’ve illegally constructed. This whole political game is about crushing citizens under the state.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:36pm
  Tonight the republicans vote to end their party. Good bye….
  
  Report this comment
- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:36pm
  .
  Save America Lynch a Politican and a Free Lunch Slave……..
  
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- BreeZee
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:09pm
  I’m done with the loser GOP. The idiots did this to themselves two yrs ago with the stupid bill then.
  
  Tax payers need to wake up and we all need to quit paying taxes, they can’t arrest us all. I am done with this whole process and we need to follow our Constitution and exercise our right to replace this gov’t of tyrants.
  
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- kalli
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:10pm
  @CIVILWARCOMETH, I do believe the republican party just voted themselves over the cliff. We have a diktator now who has everything in place to take out those who disagree with him…Agenda 21 in process, confiscation of property using EPA, warrantless wiretapping, NDAA, personal army of goons calling themselves unions, and soon to lose freedom of speech completely (remember, nobody is allowed to protest around the diktator within earshot), and upcoming will be a violation of law to own a firearm. This is what happens to a country who turns against the G-d who blessed them into existence.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:13pm
  republicans folded.
  
  Obama was down in a hole. Republicans reached down, pulled him out, jumped into the hole, and piled dirt on their own heads.
  
  There has to be a way to stop this run away train.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:16pm
  SpankDaMonkey, awesome choice of words. You’re really clever. Let’s hear another one, with references to watermelons and apes and all those other TP symbols of, you know.
  
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- chicago76
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:24pm
  Best way to do that is for everyone to quit and go on unemployment.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:26pm
  sendthemet. We will be comeing for people like you real soon. Mark my words you and everyone like you…..
  
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- Jim S
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:30pm
  …Let’s see, a phony crisis planned and pass and signed into law was overturned by all the same people..WOW..and we slip further in debt…cool…I must assume being $20 trillion in debt is better than $16 trillion….the best and brightest just told me so…I must have been in error…I’m checking out…
  
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- The_Almighty_Creestof
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:32pm
  Paul Ryan voted “Yea”…how freaking sad is that.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:33pm
  Coward republicants…..As Obama laughs himself to the Bank to steal what was left of our country’s future. The system is broke beyond fixing and blackmail is the order of the day.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:35pm
  I’ve voted for my last GOP canidate, even in primaries. I’m done with that party. Way to go, j@ck@sses.
  
  Report this comment
- possom
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:40pm
  I’ve already started!
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:44pm
  Hey, Paul Ryan voted for it. Who’d have think it? Good fiscal conservative right?
  
  Time for R & R in 2013 right?
  
  Good Lord you all are mindless suckers!
  
  Can’t wait to see who y’all blindly follow next go-round.
  
  Report this comment
- oldguy49
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:45pm
  Term limits >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>please
  
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- MetalPatriot
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:58pm
  It sure does seem like government is nothing more than a show or game that we watch…and pay for (in many ways). I’d love to see real people in office instead of career politicians. Who am I kidding, it probably wouldn’t work out very well either.
  
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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:01am
  If you own a business and employ people. Close it down.set on your money
  If you work quit and go on unemployment.
  All transactions done in cash
  Don’t use banks anymore than you have to.
  Stockpile and become a preper.
  Get this collapse on the road via Reese & Arab spring style.
  Its the only way to change Washington. Starve down and run them out.
  Painful but a necessity, at this point.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:09am
  ALMIGHTY_CREESTOF
  Paul Ryan voted “Yea”…how freaking sad is that.
  —-
  Glenn, please interview Ryan on your radio show. He owes us an explanation. Seriously.
  
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- Racemosa7
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:09am
  There may be a way to fix this.
  
  First we have to determine what is the greatest fear the democrats and republicans have? Not being reelected into power.
  
  Second, go after that one soft part of the armor.
  
  How? Someone who has the technical skill sets up a web site where we the people can register state by state online as sane citizens for America, and cast our votes for individual bills, and politicians. They will see the numbers and realize they are in trouble with the people. But when they change their tune we do not change our vote and cast them out.
  
  Develop a playbook of our own. List what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. Do not use any illegal tactic as this would be against the law, and play into the stronger opponents hand. In this age of information no one person, not even the out of control Government can keep or use it all at this point in time. We can by sharing information, not here but at one local site. From there to each state and community. Beat them at their own game by community organizing and education.
  
  Organize for strength.
  Expose with the truth.
  Use the current laws to our advantage.
  Confront with facts and demand answers at every public hearing.
  
  It is the only peaceful way to demonstrate how we feel.
  Alas in the end it is really all about the inside control of a man or the man being controlled from without. It has been well said that, “Either a force from within or without, either the Bible or the Bayonet. It is Christ or Cha
  
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- resme
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:11am
  LOL @ Gop
  
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- welovetheUSA
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:14am
  Wish it were that easy my friend…….they are out to take over this nation and crush the American people into poverty, period.They work for the government..not the American people.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:18am
  There’s one political party. The Communist wing and the progressive wing of the unified party. Republicans are toast. I’ll let the country go bust under an honest Democrat rather than a smarmy, lying Republican… and Ryan can kiss my pearly white ass.
  
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- missdagnytaggart
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:22am
  I’m sooooo done with the GOP!
  
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- OlefromMN
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:40am
  “Now do you see that only a taxpayer strike will stop this insanity…?”
  
  Find a way to make it go viral mainstream and I will join up no problem. Keep it to us rubes and I am out.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:42am
  @Laura5487
  You think you’re bad? I’ve got some bad news for you. I’ll send you one last e-mail and then I’ll release your info here so everyone can contact you. I have your name, e-mail address, work address, phone # and all your info so that people here can show up when you least suspect it and give you the hell that you deserve. Do you understand this Bao, David, Brandon and Tutu. I know where you work and I’ll let others know as well.
- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:29am
  Bro…”…or even nominate Ron Paul for a SLAM-DUNK win!”
  
  Another one of your classics. A SLAM-DUNK win? If he couldn’t even come close in the primaries what makes you think he could win anything?
  
  At this point instead of continually trying to prove how out of touch you are, why don’t you start pushing someone new for 2016. I would love to find a strong conservative to vote for. Maybe the next one can try to form a coalition instead of being so stubborn that they make sure they don’t garner enough votes and so stubborn that they let their blind faithful followers hand the election back to the most anti-American regime in history.
  
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- bearfoothillbilly
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:40am
  Can someone please explain how are you to stop paying taxes?
  They take them from your paychecks,
  They take them when you buy stuff,
  They take them from your home,
  They take them when you are born,
  They take them when you die,
  Thy raid you bank accounts,
  And the list keeps going,
  And when it is all over at the end of the year when you are with your family enjoying you evening meal,
  You get a letter from them telling you, “You haven’t paid enough now you got to pay more or lose all you have and maybe a little jail time to boot.”
  So I do not see how you can stop paying taxes when thy take them before you even see them.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:10am
  JERK
  I’ll let the country go bust under an honest Democrat…
  —
  Bwhaha. Oxymoron.
  
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- realindependent
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:04am
  Oh please Oh Please Cantor run for Boehners seat. You will get slapped around by this President just like *****. He is playing chess you children are playing checkers.
  
  He had you check mate all day and twice on Sunday.
  
  Your TP is finished. next year you’ll be calling yourselves something else.
  
  “points finger” HAHA
  
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- Thomas
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:08am
  Right now most of the democrats have enough grasshoppers in their districts to secure their office but lets go after these liberal Republicans and finish up the political careers permanently. I am tired of these liberal republicans pretending to be conservatives. Send these liars home.
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 6:47am
  As a resident of South Carolina I am proud to see that no SC House Members drank the Koolaid….
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:53am
  spankdamonkey said… Save America Lynch a Politican and a Free Lunch Slave……..
  to which sendinthemeteors replied…SpankDaMonkey, awesome choice of words. You’re really clever. Let’s hear another one, with references to watermelons and apes and all those other TP symbols of, you know.
  
  Sendthe, who is the racist? spank didn’t say black anywhere in that statement. Are you suggesting that only black people are on food stamps getting a free lunch? And you call us racist. We are saying that all the people of all colors who abuse the system to get a free lunch are to blame…YOU are saying that only black people abuse the system and get a free lunch. I don’t care if they’re purple, the system needs to be totally redone. It’s a way of life for some people.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:58am
  oldguy49…I agree, term limits. If only two terms (or 8 years) is good enough for the President, than it should be that way for Representatives and Senators. Of course, 2 years for a senator would be 12 years, maybe we could let the house have 3 terms, or 6 years, and the senate have just one. No one needs to make it a career. My son is reading common sense by Thomas Paine, and he said our representatives should only meet some of the time, and spend most of the time around their own people that they represent. I agree…they’ve become the elite.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:19am
  This is why we will lose our 2nd amendment rights. The Republicans have no balls. They have been removed and placed in the lock box.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:24am
  @ civilwar
  I’m with ya. I never have voted democrat and I will never again vote for a republican. That includes the tea party republicans.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:26am
  @kali
  You are right on the money there.
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:30am
  “Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.”
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.”
  Benjamin Franklin
  
  “Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature…. If the next centennial does not find us a great nation … it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”
  James Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States, 1877
  
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- dcatkin
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:32am
  Speaker Boehner new name is the caveman since he cave to the Dems at every oportunity. Don’t get me wrong here niether side is worth the corn out of my s—-.
  
  They have both played a huge part in destroying this country, and as long as they are left in charge, we deserve what we get.
  
  Free Our Country
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:38am
  Here is the start to change the Republican Party.
  
  1) Every republican should switch to Independent – let the republican coffers dry up.
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:46am
  @ohbrother aka encinom.
  These comments from an obese 22 year old punk, living in his mothers basement,you are one funny little pos……….
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:46am
  @THE_ALMIGHTY_CREESTOF
  “Republicans/Democrats? It is nothing more than a WWE match with a good guy facing off against a bad guy…when the whole thing is scripted and pre-determined…and afterwards…both hit up a bar and have a laugh at our expense.”
  
  That’s it in a nutshell, I’m convinced. The only difference is, after a WWE match or a movie is over, you get to walk out and return to your normal life. Instead, we are all an unwilling part of the cast and crew of this political theater.
  
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- max00man
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:50am
  When it comes time to vote I will either vote fiscal conservative who will not only vote against tax increases but must vote to cut taxes & stop “the madness” of federal spending or not at all… I’m fed up with both democrats & republicans.
  
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- TEOTWASWKI
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:20am
  CIVILWARCOMETH
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:36pm
  Tonight the republicans vote to end their party. Good bye….
  
  and America…as we know it…but what the hell the sheep asked for it
  
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- TERM-LIMITS
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:47am
  We need TERM LIMITS FOR ALL THESE CLOWNS.
  
  SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITION!
  
  http://wh.gov/U5rY
  
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- happygranny
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:05am
  I was absolutely shocked to see Paul Ryan vote for this bill. As far as I am concerned, I will never again support this man, and we should all go over the Ayes list to make sure none of these so called Republicans (RINOS) get reelected when their term runs out.
  Shame on you Mr. Ryan – and I had such high hopes for you!
  
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- zorro
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:16am
  All of you complaining did it to yourselves. Keep voting for a third party, dumbasses.
  
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- Oldphoto678
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:19am
  @CIVILWARCOMETH.
  
  You and MONK are nothing more than big mouths with no a$$ to back them up.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:40am
  Always remember folks, if you vote Libertarian, you’re just wasting your vote, because if you vote Libertarian then the GOP may not win, and if the GOP doesn’t win, well then, things like this will happen.
  
  Wait…what?
  
  The GOP is a wasted vote. This is the new paradigm. If you vote GOP over Libertarian or Constitutionalist, you’re voting, by intent, for more progressivism and fascism. Just that straight forward.
  
  I strongly urge those tired of the GOP and longing for a “new party” to take a look at the Libertarian Party. They may not align 100% with every single thing you believe, but no party will, but point for point I’ll guarantee you that if you’re old school conservative that you’ll agree with at least 80% of their platform, as opposed to the 5% reality you see from the GOP today that you might agree with.
  
  Raise in taxes $41 for each pretend $1 of cut, and a net $330 billion dollar INCREASE in spending. Right, don’t waste your vote, otherwise you won’t have the GOP doing this to you again.
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:46am
  @ loriann12
  
  “My son is reading common sense by Thomas Paine, and he said our representatives should only meet some of the time, and spend most of the time around their own people that they represent. I agree…they’ve become the elite.”
  
  They’ve become elite because We the People have allowed them to set their own rules.
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 11:04am
  I also used to believe a 3rd party vote was a wasted vote, but now I see it as our only chance….so long as enough people vote 3rd party. The reality, as is becoming increasingly apparent to me, is that Reps and Dems are effectively one and the same. They have the same end goals but, perhaps, sometimes disagree on the means. No entity could so consistently spineless and incompetent as the Rinos are now. I once thought Obama was incompetent, but he is successfully, incrementally, getting exactly what he wants. Any “resistance” is just talk. At the end of the day, we see that both sides get what they want (in spite of what they say), and we the people get screwed again.
  
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- Bum thrower
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 11:10am
  If the ‘stupid amercan people’ want the federal governn to spend THREE TRILLION DOLLARS per year, then by golly tax TREE TRILLION per year; enuf of tis immoral ‘generational theft’!!!
  
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- joey g
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 11:58am
  ron paul people were right about ryan…..repukican
  
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- washicd
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:11pm
  Loriann12, if a representative is doing a good job, why should we be forced to replace him. Instead, try taking responsibility for your representative. If he sucks, remove him. Don’t even wait until his term is up, remove him a soon as possible. If he is a good representative, keep him. For the most part, all of these lousy thugs that have served past one term were RE-ELECTED by people just like you. Be honest, how many of them served extra terms against the will of their constituents? I’ll bet no more that 30 or 40% of them.
  I live in the district that sends Ron Paul to congress every couple of years and I can’t imagine having to settle for someone less now. If your representative sucks for more than one term, is that his fault or your fault for re-upping him?
  GOOD GOD PEOPLE, YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR OWN REPRESENTATIVES! Not that I kid myself into believing that it is not too late.
  And that’s another thing, do you really think that the elections are honest anymore? If so then how does that same old crap get re-elected every time. Either the elections are a sham or Americans in general just don’t value freedom anymore. Think about that Loriann, surely, it has to be one or the other. Thank you for at least taking the time out of your day to voice your concerns.
  
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- Silversmith
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:12pm
  The Fed is broken – clearly. Sanity no where to be found on the hill. I see revolution coming – tax or worse.
  
  Silversmith
  
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- Shasta
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:30pm
  A taxpayer strike would be a bold plan, but I don’t see enough courageous people. Moreover, the libreals would just expedite their plans to confiscate our 401Ks and then our savings and general investments. The machine needs to be fed.
  
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- mbazan1
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:12pm
  Hopefully this has prove to the Republicans in the House that Bohener has to go!!!! He has no support from the file-and-rank and he has never been able to move the conversation away from TAX increases and into the real problem which is Spending.
  
  He better go now. We need a leader that is willing to take the ‘blame game’ democracts are playing and stand tall on our Principles, which is the only way out of this problem.
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:21pm
  1) Start a recall petition for every Republican that voted “aye”
  2) Everyone Leave the GOP – switch to Libertarian or Independent – cut off all funds to GOP -
  
  Article I – The Legislative Branch
  Section 7
  Clause 1:
  
  All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
  
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- conspiracygirl
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:18pm
  So Paul Ryan and the majority of Republicans voted for tax hikes…? Well, I’m not the least bit surprised. I hate to say I told you so — but I told you so. Maybe you should pay less attention to Bill O’Reilly and the Republican Establishment and start listening to Ron and Rand Paul….
  
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qpwillie
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:56pm
“The vote is scheduled for 110:00 p.m. ET.”

My clock doesn’t have that time on it. Days here are not that long.

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- LadyGOP
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:05pm
  Someone please explain to me how a spending bill forced on already bankrupt country averts us from “going off the fiscal cliff”. Sounds like a nail in the coffin.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:10pm
  They passed it … they have not listed the votes yet .. when they do I will post them here….
  
  God help us.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:25pm
  HERE IS THE VOTE … Anyone who has a Rep who voted for it … send them and email tonight .. COWARDS!
  
  http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll659.xml
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:29pm
  Sorry catb but after NDAA and this vote all people in government has to go……
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:50pm
  Thanks CATB. My congressman voted NO, still planning on voting against him in the primary.
  
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- AZfreeman
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:41pm
  Look carefully at the list above. The first thing I noticed is that with the exception of CA, WA and a few others, the vast majority of these Republican (RINO) representatives are from east of the Mississippi river. So that begs the question… what is it that these liberal eastern RINOS know that we here in the West are so ignorant about? (SAR)
  
  Forget the Mason-Dixon line…the Ol’ Miss river will be the next dividing line between the states. The eastern states are a lost cause. Time for the west to secede.
  
  I will not comply! ….rf
  
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Armyduderetired
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:44pm
Do you really believe there is a difference between r’s and d’s? It has been straight down hill since Reagan. Are you ready for the new world order? Than get out there and get yourself some force multipliers and learn how to use them. When the free stuff ends the games begin!

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- DutchOven
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:17am
  Yeah cant wait to see the 47% when the pyridine shift comes and they go from free money for no work, to 15 hour work days 7 days a week with no pay.
  
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johnsell
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:43pm
BLANCO5 – Of course it’s a kabuki theater, however the logic of cutting spending and paying down the debt is being voiced by the Republicans and as we are(were) a Republic and not a democracy it is our job to hold our representative’s feet to the fire and vote in those that at least align the best for now toward stopping the digging and confronting the economic situation this country and the world is in.

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- OlefromMN
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:03pm
  To hell with Kabuki theater, it’s a Mexican Hat Dance. I am just trying to figure out who Boehner and Reid are as far as partners goes.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN-p4mUbq6k
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:36am
  Ha, ha! We won and you lost! Our President is a mighty warrior god! He’s a superpowered mutant rock star! He’s a great golden dragon! Your Speaker Boehner is a scared little girl huddling in the shower, clutching her knees and crying because she can’t wash away her shame! Boo, hoo, little girly loser!
  
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- sta
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:55am
  you’ll never see another honest election again.
  
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taxpro4u03
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:38pm
60 years AFTER FDR’s ‘banking holiday,’ THIS guy on the House floor plain and simple spoke truth — course — he was scapegoated and spent some time in the poky (7 years) — also — It’s not so much the messenger as the message – delivered — —>Speech delivered On House floor by James Traficant
Representative Traficant Reports On The Bankruptcy Of The United States, United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 VOL. 33, page H-1303
The Speaker – Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House.
Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11..

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SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:35pm
This is a joke….starting this bill in the senate and bringing it up up in the house afterward with massive democrat supporrt and reluctant republican support could have been done several weeks or months ago……Yet they wait until the last minute to do it……and everyone will be patting Boehner on the back for his hard work…..Everyone who has a republican representative in the house should be ringing their congressman’s phone off the wall and fill their e mail boxes demanding they vote for new leadership as speaker of the house.

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- elderbat
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:46pm
  this conservative has been there done that, with you on urging others to do the same. also via twitter.
  
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- The_Almighty_Creestof
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:02pm
  A better idea…buy this clown costume (or one like it) and send it to your senators and repesentatives:
  
  http://www.amazon.com/Rubies-Co-Haunted-Collection-Costume/dp/B000HAPK8A/ref=sr_1_1?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1357095579&sr=1-1&keywords=clown+costume+adult
  
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- Advection
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:13pm
  This was all scripted a long time ago. It’s all total BS.
  
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:23am
  Republicans could have had an even better deal then this one yet their unwillingness to compromise hurt them in the end.
  
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SilentReader
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:32pm
Disgusting traitors. All of them!

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- joey g
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:38pm
  agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
  
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- The_Almighty_Creestof
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:45pm
  The supposed “positive” side to this, is that it kicks the can down the road for another year, giving them “more time to fight”…who are they kidding? They’ll wait until the last minute, scream “cliff” again and fold like they always do.
  
  I’m beginning to think they keep our soldiers fighting overseas, because they fear a military coup if they were in the states.
  
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- haras42000
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:41pm
  yes they are all a bunch of IDIOTS
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:53pm
  Voted for my last GOP. Worthless weasles. I’ll have to find a party or affiliation that will actually fight for fiscal responsibility and personal liberty.
  
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StandingOnMyHead
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:29pm
“Send in the Clowns”…

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- johnsell
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:19pm
  They are already there……………………!
  
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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:26pm
No spending cuts , these folks are mildly deranged .

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- WaterTheTree
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:12pm
  “mildly”?
  
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Hotconchick
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:22pm
You have to love Nanny State Pelosi- “the American people deserve this”. I guess we deserve to get scammed yet again. What a joke Skeletor is.

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mary841
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:21pm
Does anyone else what to join me in storming Washington???? WHEN will people wake up? EVERY SINGLE elected official must be voted out of office. Democrats are horrible, and the traitor republicans are worse!!!!

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- Hotconchick
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:27pm
  Yes they must be voted out and will be replaced by Obamabots. 2014 will give the Dems a super majority. Stolen but still this 2 party system is done- replaced by all liberal Communists. Mark my words- it will happen unfortunately.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:28pm
  Sign me the he!! up.. Let’s roll!!!
  
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- The_Almighty_Creestof
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:36pm
  I’m for it passing and excelerating the end of America which is inevitable. Then, we can reform the country into several “mini-countries”…I’m hoping to live in the one formed by the former states known as Texas/New Mexico/Arizona/Oklahoma/Utah.
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:41pm
  @hot. Agreed, 2014 will be a blood bath.
  
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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:27pm
  Arab spring in america. Guess Obama is for that too.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:36am
  @ mary
  I’m there but we need no less than 5 million people to to join in.
  
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- enzomedici
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:22am
  Good luck with that. After the govt stole $16 trillion of your dollars and passed it out during the stimulus, what did you do? Did you join Occupy Wall St or did you make fun of them? The GOP & Dems passed The Patriot Act and the NDAA and what did you do? Once they come for the guns, most people will just turn them in too. You don’t need to worry about terrorists, this country has been destroyed from the inside.
  
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susan126
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:21pm
If they pass this, here is some of the pork buried in it…

$430 million for Hollywood through “special expensing rules” to encourage TV and film production in the United States. Producers can expense up to $15 million of costs for their projects.

$331 million for railroads by allowing short-line and regional operators to claim a tax credit up to 50 percent of the cost to maintain tracks that they own or lease.

$222 million for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands through returned excise taxes collected by the federal government on rum produced in the islands and imported to the mainland.

$70 million for NASCAR by extending a “7-year cost recovery period for certain motorsports racing track facilities.”

$59 million for algae growers through tax credits to encourage production of “cellulosic biofuel” at up to $1.01 per gallon.

$4 million for electric motorcycle makers by expanding an existing green-energy tax credit for buyers of plug-in vehicles to include electric motorbikes.

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- susan126
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:27pm
  I got the info here..
  
  http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/01/fiscal-cliff-deal-also-doles-out-millions-for-hollywood-railroads-rum-producers/
  
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americanexile
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:20pm
If this bill passes, the Republican party is officially over.

In four years we’ll be $20+ trillion in debt. The GOP is selling us into slavery.

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- Hotconchick
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:28pm
  It is over.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:37pm
  There are only progressives in the government. Does not matter what letter you have infront of your name.
  
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freenj
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:18pm
2013 is the year for every responsible conservative to put their personal finances in order. Get rid of as much debt you possibly can. The clowns in Washington can’t stop spending but each of us can control our individual and family debt.
The debt of this Nation will eventually strangle our personal Liberty.

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- Hotconchick
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:23pm
  Why get rid of the debt? So the government can take more- the can’t take what you don’t have? I’d rather spend it on my family not the low life free loading takers.
  
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- DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:31pm
  That’s the problem. We pay our mortgages & they give deadbeat cronies mortgage bailout. We pay our credit cards & student loans & they give their cronies bailouts for not paying. We save for retirement & they giveaway SSI & Medicaid out of the funds we paid for. This is opposite world which teaches the youth all the wrong things. The future is no one willing to work any more – where will that take us?
  
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BigMuddy
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:17pm
Come on Repubs, grow a set. This is you chance to thwart this piece of cr@p bill. Little or no tax relief and not spending reduction. Oh wait there are tax breaks for Hollywood producers…….

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MisterSarcastic
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:02pm
My prediction: There will be juuuuust enough R’s vote for it to pass it.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:11pm
  If they pass a spending bill that started in the senate ALL of them should be charged with treason.
  
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- OlefromMN
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:17pm
  @civilwarcometh
  
  This is a re-worked version of H.R.8. The process is legal although the words “strike all…” at the front of the bill show it has nothing to do with the original House bill.
  
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- Hotconchick
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:20pm
  Illegal maneuvers yet again…they all need to get out.
  
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Walkabout
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:02pm
Meanwhile our spec ops are currently fighting Syrian spec ops.

We are better I assume, but nonetheless some of our guys are going to die & no war has been declared or police action or liberal R2P action.

Syrian spec ops are crossing into Jordan to control the border region & disrupt the Syrian rebels.

Americans are dying or will die & Obama is playing his stupid game of financial chicken.

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- Kregneva
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:08pm
  Hello Mr. Walkabout, when you say “our spec ops” do you mean to say you are a voting, taxpaying US citizen? Just curious. Thanks. Mate.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:55pm
  What I am saying sleazy hippo /Monicne/ Kregneva (a.k.a troll) is:
  
  “IDF and Syrian rebel officers meet clandestinely in Jordan”
  
  “Altogether, the goings-on on the Israeli and Jordanian borders with Syria are in deep hush. But European intelligence sources, some of them French and Russian, reveal nightly clashes taking place between US, Jordanian, Israeli special forces and Syrian rebels, on the one hand, and Syrian special forces, on the other.”
  
  http://www.debka.com/article/22647/IDF-and-Syrian-rebel-officers-meet-clandestinely-in-Jordan-
  
  Now troll, if you remember your own cover story, you are nurse who has served in the military. As such I figure you have contacts in more than the military nurse community to check this story out.
  
  But alas you were not a military nurse, you are are troll as ugly on the inside as mythical trolls are on the outside.
  
  http://www.theblaze.com/users/kregneva/
  
  How is it when we click on the post name Monicne we get the web page
  http://www.theblaze.com/users/sleazyhippo/ ?
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:43pm
  The spec ops guys should be killing al-qaeda, not working with them. The Syrian government is fighting Al qaeda, not an oppressed people desiring freedom. I guess you didn’t watch the video of them cutting off the head of a local christian man and feeding his body to the dogs. If our spec-ops guys are fighting syrian spec ops, than they are fighting the wrong team.
  
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Delores at CH WV
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:59pm
It is time to change parties and get ready to elect WE the People!

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- RetChief
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:19pm
  I’m with you. We must take our country back. Damn takers.
  
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- RetChief
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:20pm
  I’m with you.
  
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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:31am
  And who would “We the people” be then? It is clear that there is no one leader on the conservative side that enough people agree on to represent “We the People”. National politics are big league and require massive organization, big donors, serious planning to have a chance to win. The people that know how to do that get paid a lot of money, where is that coming from? How do you know you can trust them?
  It might make you feel good to make simple declarations like you did but to actually make something happen requires a whole lot more money and work than you give credit for.
  
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Delores at CH WV
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:57pm
If Republicans vote this bill in then, I will change my voter card tomorrow with the county clerk! I will never vote for Dems or Repubs again, EVER.

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- Racemosa7
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:14pm
  Same here.
  
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- Hotconchick
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:24pm
  I did that a long time ago- didn’t help. Just sayin’
  
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- Oldphoto678
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:14am
  Thank you!!! We don’t need idiots like you on our side.
  
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hauschild
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:57pm
Yeah, I’m literally on the edge of my seat in anticipation.

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CatB
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:53pm
GO OVER THE D*MN CLIFF THEN … if they won’t agree to cuts!

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- neverending
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:02pm
  Absolutely – go over the cliff like the commie really wants.
  
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CatB
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:51pm
We have not been able to celebrate or have a “peaceful holiday season” since these morons took over. We get ObamaTAX or some other moronic tyranny it seems every year … I for one would like to send them all home from Thanksgiving til after the first of the year so they leave us the H alone >>> even better PERMANENTLY and start over with new blood. FACISTS!

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:01pm
  I have to agree with you CatB.
  
  However here is something of interest, more and more I am seeing that the swan song for the left and the right are at hand. We have an opportunity to press for the major difference as we did in 2010; by WE THE PEOPLE using all social media platforms to push the word out of this being Obama’s mess and Obama’s responsibility.
  
  CatB – in the first term of Obama we had the 3rd Great Awakening occur; now we are at the stage where our faith is tested and forged as with the followers of Christ (all of them, not just the apostles) who had the three days of trial to see if Gods promise is true.
  
  We shall make it.
  
  May of 2014, everything changes.
  
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CONTUMACY
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:49pm
OH, what a nailbiter, I cannot stand the suspense. NOT, we all know we are screwed!!!

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- barber2
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:07pm
  CONT: We knew that fact when the , supposedly honest , 2012 election results were announced .
  
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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:49pm
Watching it on cspan now. This was all a setup to blame the tea party. All spending bills have to start in the house. Why do you think this one started in the senate???

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- CatB
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:55pm
  They may see it as “blame…. I see it as standing for what is RIGHT … if they can kill the d*mn thing!
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:09pm
  I’m with you CATB i’m right there with you…
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:18pm
  @CatB – agreed. If they can kill it.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:40pm
  If the R’s would stand together .. .against Boehner (who needs to be voted out of the Speakership!) then they could…. any R voting for it should be primaried and replaced in their next election.
  
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blanco5
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:46pm
The House continuously disappoints so why would this time be any different?

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- YAHSHUARULES
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:52pm
  Are those trying to destroy this country ignorant of evil. You decide:
  https://vimeo.com/52009124
  If America goes down, the free world will go down with it and it will be finished for a very, very long time…
  
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- johnsell
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:59pm
  Really? And the Senate doesn’t, especially when they wouldn’t ever consider the House’s bills and budgets that the Senate has never produced and they even voted against Obama’s? What are you drinking? Wake up and realize that both parties have, someway, gotten away with passing bills without a budget and for which we had no funds to pay for them and now the Democrats still want to continue passing spending bills for which there is no funding? If you are in a hole and you want to get out, STOP DIGGING DEEPER!
  
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- CatB
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:07pm
  Actually the House has passed budgets it is HARRY REID and the Dems who REFUSE to allow them to be voted on .. which they ARE REQUIRED TO DO .. time to perp walk Reid off the floor of the Senate for Contempt of Congress.
  
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- blanco5
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:07pm
  JOHNSELL—I hope you don’t actually believe that repubs and demonrats are on opposite sides. It’s all kabuki theater!
  
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