30+ Dems Defect on Tax-Vote Maneuver Boehner Calls ‘Chicken Crap’
- Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:24pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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On Thursday, Democrats pulled a sly political maneuver meant to derail Republican efforts to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts. The move drew the ire of Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner (R-OH), who called it “chicken crap,” and also angered over 30 House Democrats who defected and voted against the maneuver.
The move will only allow debate on extending tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 a year, effectively shutting down debate on the most controversial part of the cuts: extending them for high-end earners — a group Republicans contend contains droves of small business owners.
Yesterday, Democrats scheduled a vote on the tax cuts for Thursday but only for those under the $250,000 mark. The move today now ensures that lawmakers will only be allowed to debate and vote on extending cuts below that threshold.
Shortly after the move was announced, Boehner expressed his extreme displeasure, accusing Democrats of playing “political games” and calling it “chicken crap”:
“Voting for this rule is, in effect, a vote to raise taxes and destroy jobs, and yet another sign that Washington Democrats just don’t get it,” Boehner spokesman Micheal Steel wrote in an e-mail to reporters.
Apparently Boehner and Steel aren’t the only ones who think so. A total of 33 Democrats broke rank to vote against the tactic. According to The Hill, the list of defectors contains mostly “centrist Blue Dog Democrats, many of whom were defeated on Election Day”:
Rep. John Adler (N.J.)
Rep. Jason Altmire (Pa.)
Rep. Brian Baird (Wash.)
Rep. Melissa Bean (Ill.)
Rep. Marion Berry (Ark.)
Rep. Dan Boren (Okla.)
Rep. Allen Boyd (Fla.)
Rep. Bobby Bright (Ala.)
Rep. Ben Chandler (Ky.)
Rep. Gerry Connolly (Va.)
Rep. Jim Cooper (Tenn.)
Rep. Jim Costa (Calif.)
Rep. Jerry Costello (Ill.)
Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper (Pa.)
Rep. Artur Davis (Ala.)
Rep. Brad Ellsworth (Ind.)
Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (S.D.)
Rep. Jim Himes (Conn.)
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (Ariz.)
Rep. Dan Lipinski (Ill.)
Rep. Jim Marshall (Ga.)
Rep. Jim Matheson (Utah)
Rep. Mike McIntyre (N.C.)
Rep. Walt Minnick (Idaho)
Rep. Harry Mitchell (Ariz.)
Rep. Jim Moran (Va.)
Rep. Tom Perriello (Va.)
Rep. Gary Peters (Mich.)
Rep. Collin Peterson (Minn.)
Rep. Earl Pomeroy (N.D.)
Rep. Mike Ross (Ark.)
Rep. Heath Shuler (N.C.)
Rep. Zack Space (Ohio)
Despite the tactic, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) vowed that any bill that did not extend tax cuts to all would be dead on arrival in the Senate.
“Forty-two Republican senators, which is all of us, and an indeterminate number, significant number of Democrats, don’t think we ought to raise taxes on anybody,” McConnell said Wednesday night. “So regardless of what the majority forces House Republicans to do, it’s not going to go anywhere. We’re going to extend the current tax rates, we’re not going to raise taxes on anybody. The only thing we’re discussing right now is how long that extension will be.”
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Comments (153)
pap pap
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:00pmThe tax rates need to be made permanent and not just extended. Businesses need to know the rates in the future so that they can reasonably plan. A 2 year extension is not going to be the jobs producer that making the rates permanent would bring and that’s what is important.
Report Post »diesel71dan
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:16pmAgreed. Permenant cuts would be the ideal situation. If not permenant than the longer they are locked in the more stability they give to business. Two years isnt exactly ideal but considering no U.S. business knows what thier tax rates will be in less than 30days, I welcome the stability that a 2 year assurance gives us.
Report Post »spookydude
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:59pmMaybe Obama can just write an executive Order that allows the IRS to Grant Tax Amnesty to just the Spooky Dude……
Report Post »Sunnyr
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:57pmOK, SCREW OBAMA AND THE DEMS! This is WAR. Forget all the forked-tongue BS that came out of Comrade Obozo’s slimy mouth. It means nothing. The man is an empty vessel who has the integrity of pond scum. Nancy Pelosi is a morally bankrupt bag of Botox and she has no functioning
Report Post »mental capacity. Do whatever it takes to put these worthless MAGGOTS down!! Comrade Obozo has proven himself to be an untrustworthy, ball-less pseudo-“leader” who will do or say ANYTHING to win. Please don’t fall for it again. They will be gone in 2012 and their legacy will be written on the walls of Chicago’s filthiest restrooms. Pure Pond Scum.
EqualJustice
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:55pmLibertymark… that is just brilliant and that is exactly what the “progressives” do.. RE-BRAND.
Report Post »LibertyMark
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:50pmWhy didn’t the Republican geniuses in Spin City re-brand this nonsense as the Obama Tax Increases? The so-called Bush Tax Cuts have been the law of the land for a decade.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:53pmBrilliant!
Report Post »bigbear78
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:57pmNice
Report Post »rwing
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:43pm“chicken crap”
Report Post »****************
LOL. God I love that man!
GEW
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:43pmIts not that the Dems “just dont get it”…THEY DO, they just dont give a (in the speakers in waitings word) “crap”.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:41pmLooks like the Dems NANCY AND HARRY threw under their bus are giving a little PAYBACK, as well they SHOULD! :)
Report Post »Cliff
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:40pmI wish people would understand logic not class warfare… I am an employer… if I get nailed for an additional 30-50k in taxes… that means I look at my employees and find the money in the not so productive employee that I can release and account for the taxes that the Federal Government steals from me! So all those people out there complaining about the rich fat cats… when you are standing in the unemployment line with no hope of another job… look around and understand that the people you think are rich fat cats are your EMPLOYERS!!! My 7 year old son can figure this one out!!!
Report Post »Oh and Merry Christmas too!!! <– I know that will twist a few commies!!!
untameable-kate
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:08pmMerry Christmas Cliff. Try explaining that to the social justice, entitlement crowd. I have a part time employee who doesn’t pay a cent in taxes but gets a refund check for about $6000 every year She certainly doesn’t care if the business community gets wacked as long as she gets her free refund, food stamps and medical paid for. She doesn’t think farther up the food chain than that.
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on December 3, 2010 at 1:15pmHoping to bring a smile to you both with this wonderful summation by the ever sagacious Maxine:
Let me get this straight .. . . .
Report Post »We’re going to be “gifted” with a health care plan we are “forced” to purchase and “fined” if we don’t, which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that didn’t read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, for which we’ll be taxed for 4 years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke!!!!! ‘What the hell could possibly go wrong?’
zacharytcuster
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:38pmWow I’m surprised Matheson (UT) voted against it. These idiots just don’t get it which is why lots of them are now gone! :)
Report Post »dailey4jesus
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 4:12pmMatheson got re-elected. The pressure is on and I call his office often to remind them. Don’t worry, his feet are really close to the fire.
Report Post »JerryMac
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:37pmReid at work again – backdoor deal for votes
Report Post »lecar
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:43pmSorry, this is in the HOR. That would Nancy boy doing the dirty work. But I am sure your comment is valid concerning Senate manipulating procedures to further a bill (DREAM act comes to mind).
Report Post »bigbear78
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:37pmOne thing that I feel keeps getting missed is that it seems like the Repubs don’t have very much political savvy and they keep getting burned by the Dems who seem to be more sly about these deals.
Report Post »BRAVEHEART
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:59pmDon’t forget that this is a lame Duck Session and the Dems still have the Majority and Pelosi is still the Speaker of the House. This was a sneaky end-around by Pelosi and ranking Dems. As of Janurary 1st Pelosi will no longe be Speaker and the Dems will no longer be in majority.
Report Post »youguysready_letsroll
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:36pmIs it the tax rates or the tax credits that will change? Or is it both? If the tax rates go up, the cost of having an employee goes up, right? I’m unemployed, and the firm that I interviewed with last week seemed reluctant on hiring and then having to layoff soon after.
Report Post »chuchu12
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:01pmwhy are they wasting time interviewing if they are not hiring?
Report Post »youguysready_letsroll
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:26pmYeah, I know. It seems that they are still trying to figure out what they are going to do. It’s a small engineering firm and adding 1 more employee is a big deal I assume.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:35pmThey are probably interviewing so the can hire right away if they will be able to afford it once the tax rates are settled.
Report Post »Cliff
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:35pmFIRST!!!
Report Post »Throw out the trash 2012!!!
HouseNegro
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:35pmIt’s gonna be a long 2 years…………………
Report Post »Tallbriar
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:36pmRest assured, the Progs and their affiliates are already working many extra hours a day to ensure that the necessary “civil unrest”,which they desire, will happen long before the elections of 2012 can further correct the heading of the Ship of State. It will require a lot of discipline not to “bite” when they bait us.
Report Post »lecar
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:34pmCall it like it is Boehner! Just make sure you do not step in it. THe Democraps are sly and will do everything in their power to broker a comeback victory in 2012.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:33pmBarack Obamanation and the Demunists haven’t learned a damn thing. 2012 is just around the corner.
Report Post »Strife
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:33pmJust makes the Dem’s look worse… maybe the rest will go in 2012
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 4:01pmSorry. Nice idea, but there’s too many stupid people in the country to do the right thing. Eventually this will lead to every man for himself. My concern is knowing what side the military will fall in favor of….the people or the administration.
This is a war between good and evil. The sooner we admit it to ourselves, the better.
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 4:55pm@Tsunami: You are right. I signed up to the Huffington Post just to read their comments section and could not believe all the vitriol spewed against the GOP and anyone who disagrees with their point of view, even if it is a plea to open their minds to a possible alternative solution to a problem. It’s their way or the highway. Granted, there is a lot of vitriol spewed on this forum as well; but for some reason, I can understand why the comments are made on the Blaze. We are all so angry, frustrated and disillusioned that expressing our anger helps relieve the tension. There seems to be a difference in the content or reason for the remarks here on the Blaze as opposed to the comments made at Huff Post. I’m trying very hard to approach each issue with an open mind, to weigh the arguments of both sides, then make a decision. My approach begins with no more talent or knowledge than common sense and fair play. I’m baffled by the attitudes of most of the folks at Huff Post. Are they all so close-minded they cannot even consider the arguments of the other side?
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:59pmThey are delusional, blind, and prejudice against the truth. They have rejected the truth, and subsequently built layer upon layer of defenses against any possibility of light getting in. There is very little hope for them or the world for that matter. My hope is in God’s heavenly kingdom, not in this world. From all the signs we see today it is evident the prophecies are about to be fulfilled concerning it’s end.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:07pmRONMORGAN:
Report Post »I concur.
TSUNAMI-22
Posted on December 3, 2010 at 3:43am@ tierrah
Like you, I did the same thing. I also arrived at the same conclusion. The so-called “open mined” liberal-progressives are some of the most closed-minded people I ever met. They want their cake and eat it too. It baffles the mind. They think that sending a convicted killer to the electric chair is unacceptable, and in the same breath they defend the abortion of a defenseless fetus under the premise of “choice”. They want jobs and great pay to be magically created by penalizing motivated, hard-working risk takers and entrepreneurs through high taxation because the aforementioned became “rich” through their efforts and self-motivation….and then bitch because the regulatory red-tape forces the business to move overseas in order to maintain open doors. They‘re the type that urinates on your leg and then try’s to convince you that it’s raining. They perpetually paint themselves into a fiscal corner and then cry for a bailout when the SHTF.
These people are mentally inferior and by arguing with them they succeed in bringing us down to their level and then they beat us with experience.
Progressives and liberals are like electricity….they always take the path of least resistance. This makes them susceptible to being short-circuited.
The day will come soon enough.
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on December 3, 2010 at 12:05pmTsunami and Ron, thanks for your thoughts. I heaved a sigh of relief when you both responded to my post. I was afraid that I was judging and couldn’t shake the depressing feeling I had upon visiting that site. Couldn’t stay there very long, it was too upsetting. Hope you both have a Merry Christmas and thanks for the comments.
Report Post »fan-of-glenn
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:33pmWAKE UP!!!
Demon-crats (progressives, liberals) are doing all they can to destroy America. They don’t give a flip about what Americans think or want.
Report Post »jrichardson
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:33pmThis is off subject, but Media Matters just announced that Helzberg Diamonds will stop advertising on Glen Beck’s show. Please contact Helzberg and let them know how you feel. I contacted Helzberg on their website under customer service.
Report Post »Cliff
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:45pmI contacted them compelling them to stay with Glenn… I said that I support Glenn and his advertisers!!!
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:46pmAre there any FOX viewers who buy the cheap crap that Helzberg peddles? Probably not.
Report Post »betsp
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:56pmIt’s a Berkshire Hathaway company. Warren Buffett is kissing O’s booty again. It must be hard for a billionaire to admit how wrong he has been and how he needs to forever more think before he supports another Democrat. I’ll never shop at Helzberg again.
Report Post »WBOB
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:58pmNo problem…..leaves room for all the other advertisers that are willing to ply their product
Report Post »on this very highly rated show. Business finds a way.
MidwestMomof3
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:13pmhelzberg.com > customer service > advertising questions/comments is where I sent mine.
Before I started buying my own jewelry, my mom bought me some special pieces from Helzberg. I went on to buy all my jewelry from there including my wedding rings and special things for my daughter. I just informed them that I support Glenn Beck AND his sponsers and would no longer do business with them if they do not reconsider.
Report Post »timber wolf
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 8:15pmGeorge Soros?
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:33pmAMEN CONGRESSMAN BOEHNER! CHICKEN CRAP!!!!!!!!! But then again what else comes out of Pelosi’s and Liberals mouth.
Report Post »Urutu
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:33pmThe fight continues.
TAKE BACK AMERICA 2012 from the State Capitalists (aka: National Socialists/NAZIS)!
Folks you need to engage your neighbors, friends, casual acquaintances, family and everyone else you can about w
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:32pmIs this anything new the Progressives will do to get the agenda rammed down our throats; by hook or crook they will do anything. Until the new members are sworn in this January, we need to watch out for Pelosi is still only two events away from becoming a life time dictator.
Report Post »NoMarxist
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:01pmProbably not a problem.. Why do you think Obama chose Biden over Hillary for VP? But assume something did happen to Obama, Pelosi would be just one Amtrak train ride from the Oval office.
Report Post »Hoosier Daddy
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:31pmI’m glad to hear McConnell sounding like a conservative, but I don’t trust him to maintain that pose for long. Once he thinks he can get away with it, he’ll resume his big-government elitist stance.
knotaclu
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:59pmBoehner could be Speaker for life if he follows the conservative path. Look for him to do just that. And yes we should not trust him or any of them, and I think they know that……
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:55pmI think they know we are watching … but we must remain vigilant and keep the pressure ON. These are no longer the “Bush tax cuts” they are the OBAMA TAX INCREASES … hang strong and make them own up to that!
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 4:20pmI agree HOOSIER DADDY (first time that I EVER agreed with a Hoosier on anything), I am afraid that Mitch is just playing the ball right now. Too many things happen behind closed doors and we don’t know about them until it is too late. I voted for Mitch the last time but I wasn’t very happy about it. We need another Tea Party candidate from Kentucky to go with Rand Paul.
Report Post »Remember, all of this flap is over keeping the tax cuts the SAME. Imagine how much wailing and the gnashing of teeth would be heard in the halls of Congress if they actually were talking about LOWERING taxes.
Richlove1
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:31pmAnd all this is over merely keeping tax rates the same, not even reducing them. Imagine the leftist pantswetting and bansheelike screaming that would happen if the GOP wanted to man up and actually reduce tax rates.
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:34pmHow much more proof is needed to show that Dem‘s won’t stop until we are collapsed and embrace Socialism?
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:40pmThe Dems need us to stay in this depression for a couple more years until people start to accept the way things are going as the norm. They keep saying that they don’t want to give Millionairs and billionairs tax cuts, but then include everyone doen to 250,000.
Report Post »I have a compromise for Republicans, Let taxes raise on Millionairs and billionairs, but write in the law that ANY tax increase can ONLY be used for deficit reduction, not new spending.
untameable-kate
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:41pmReducing taxes ,cutting spending, reducing the size of a bloated government, same response, banshee wailing from the dems.
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:44pmRepubs should have demanded tax CUTS, anytime you negotiate, ALWAYS start from your side. NEVER start where you hope to end up.
Report Post »lecar
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:51pmAnother thing. It is not a tax cut! The government sets the rate at which it takes our money. This is a debate over the rate at which the government can take our money (regardless of income). In the governments wisdom, they impose a graduated tax rate in name of equality.
I would label a tax cut as money that the government has taken. Then through fiscal responsibility, decided that they took to much of my money and returned it. I do not mean a tax refund. That is simply correcting my error in exemption choices and letting the government hold my money interest free. A true tax cut means I get my money back over and above my mistake. The returned money is due to government efficiency (yea and hell will freeze over first or pigs will fly).
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:52pmOut smarted by the demon-craps again. It’s tough to triumph over evil.
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:52pm@Love the Kids:
Report Post »Sounds like a brilliant idea!
ozchambers
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:56pmAMEN Richlove! I am fearful, not only of what this “lameduck” congress will be capable of doing when laws, rules, and protocol are disdained, but also of whether this new group of Repubs will have the fortitude to do the dirty work of actually cutting (SLASHING EVEN) the spending across the board that will have to happen to keep our government and economy (dare I say civilization?) from complete collapse. Eric Cantor saying Republicans health insurance legislation should include forcing insurance companies to accept pre existing conditions and allowing “children” to stay on parents plan until age 26 makes me believe that they do NOT, in fact, “get it”.
Report Post »When are these @**holes in Washington on BOTH sides of the aisle realize that the only NEW regulatory legislation We The People are looking to see passed is DE-regulation or at least far less restrictive regulations!
BMartin1776
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:06pmSocialist party has proven itself to be dangerous and NOT CARE about Americans. Their plan along with their boy king is the systematic destruction of the USA. Oh and the last time I checked homeless and poor people are not the ones creating product and jobs its the rich that do it. These fools want to slam them on taxes is only going to drive them and their money right out of this country.
Socialists need to see that their actions have consequences, time they get a dose of their own medicine. http://www.savingtherepublic.com
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:10pmOnce again this proves that the libs and progressives within the dem party do not now and never will care about AMERICA, AMERICANS, creating jobs, helping small businesses, and doing something that would actually show businesses that ok, you have a little stability to work with so hire some people.
Report Post »rosie100
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:55pmThe good news is that they are digging their own political graves for the next election. They missed the teachable moment and are now proving that they have no intention of heeding the American directive from this last election. So….vote out all the Democrats next election, including the Big Stinky Cheese.
Report Post »me
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 4:10pmno, this is about deficit reduction. These are not ‘existing tax code’. these were intended to lapse,
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 4:39pmWho in their right minds would support the democrat party? They are like foreigners to my thinking, can’t talk or think their language. Who are these people anyway?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:02pmThe income tax rate under Reagan for top earners was 50%. Now it’s about 35%. So I guess that makes Reagan a socialist, based on the ill-informed opinions I’m reading here.
An for those of you who think that if you give the wealthiest in the country more money, they’ll start hiring people – that is nonsense. People are laid off when there no demand for the product they make or the service they provide. That is the situation today – lack of demand because so many of us (not me by the way) or unemployed or underemployed. And nobody, for example, is going to hire a factory worker when there is no demand for the product the company makes, no matter how rich the company owner is. Why would he or she? When people like you and me have money, and start buying more, then people get hired, not before.
I love the posts here. A bill is proposed to extend the Bush era tax cuts (which were limited to 10 years because it was obvious how much those tax cuts would run up the debt) for 98% of Americans. And everybody is against that, despite the fact that corporate profits last quarter were the highest in history. Pathetic.
Report Post »tradexpertbuysell
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 8:36pmBeck et al are correct the new class of Nov 2 will have to go in there with taisers to get anything done.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 8:43pmWow do I love the look on Boehner’s face as he looks at Obama (in the cover photo.) A picture is worth a thousand words.
Report Post »payitforward
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:04pmJZS Pick up your yellow pages and flip through them. These are the people that will be hurt by the tax increase, most of these cos. make over 250k and need the $ for tooling, trucks, inventory, rents, on and on. There are just not that many Millionaire and billionaires around. and most of them rearrange their income to capitol gains treatment. We have to take care of our small businesses.
Report Post »That is where most of our jobs are created.
silentwatcher
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:26pmWow, am I fed up with hearing the tax cuts run up the national debt-truely sick and tired of the facade. Maintaining a “fair” tax base is essential for the citizens and the country. For the umpteenth time,,,,,,the frickin’ national debt is expanded by an incompetent government who REFUSES to recognize or adhere to a BUDGET. This malarky of ‘out of control’ spending and then blaming that taxes are too low is B.S. Get your hands out of the BOTTOM of my pockets.
Report Post »tranquilrider
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:35pmI certainly wouldn’t want facts to get in the way of your rants but you may want to read this.
Report Post »http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/dec/02/john-boehner/john-boehner-says-american-people-spoke-pretty-lou/
tranquilrider
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:38pmSome addittional FACTS about the tax cuts
Report Post »http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/dec/02/sarah-palin/obama-tax-hikes-just-easily-call-them-bush-tax-hik/
steve-o-con
Posted on December 3, 2010 at 8:17am*like*
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