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WSJ editorial: Boehner and McConnell handing Obama relection

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by TigerVols, Dec 21, 2011.

  1. JakeandElwood

    JakeandElwood Well-Known Member

    Cool story bro.
     
  2. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    How many racist bombs did he drop?
     
  3. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    McConnell negotiated with Reed with the implicit or explicit approval of Boehner that the House would approve the deal he got. It's not like Mitch is not a good negotiator. Then Boehner, or his caucus, reneged. THAT'S why so many Republican Senators are pissed. They've essentially been dissed, no, neutered as a group, because obviously, the Democrats will not bother to negotiate with them again.
    PS: Obama should unilaterally order the Treasury not to collect the higher tax and defy Congress to impeach him. Of course he won't. But I'd love to see Congress impeach a President on the grounds he gave taxpayers a rate cut. That'd really play well.
     
  4. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    DING DING DING


    Their one and only goal is to make the White House White Again.

    Has been since Nov. 5, 2008.

    Usually it's just annoying in an abstract sort of way, but now YOU and ME are going to take a $1,000-a-year ass fucking because of it.

    Enjoy, Teabag Nation.
     
  5. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    A good story hear about how Republicans snatched defeat from the jaws of victory:

    http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/how-did-the-payroll-tax-slam-dunk-turn-into-such-a-disaster/250339/?google_editors_picks=true

    A landslide margin of 89-10 approved a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut, along with renewed unemployment benefits and the so-called doc fix. On the eve of winter vacation, Republicans appeared to have scored a clear tactical victory on at least three counts.

    1) President Obama initially said he wanted a full-year extension of all three measures. On Saturday, he was ready to sign an eight-week "insurance policy."

    2) Democrats initially proposed a surtax for millionaires. On Saturday, the caucus was lining up behind a plan that would cut spending, only.

    3) The White House warned the GOP it would never marry the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to the payroll tax debate. But Saturday's vote would have pressured the president to make a decision on the pipeline in early 2012.

    Then yesterday, three days after the Senate's vote, something not-so-extraordinary happened in the people's chamber. House Republicans rejected the nine-to-one compromise, tore up all the concessions Senate Republicans had won from Democrats, and threatened to leave Washington for an early vacation. The response among some conservatives has been barely concealed shock. Even the Wall Street Journal has thrown up its hands in dismay. "The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass," the editorial board wrote this morning. "This is no easy double play."

    What do House Republicans want? They have proposed a full-year extension with their own list of offsetting measures to make the payroll tax package deficit neutral. These include: extending the federal pay freeze, trimming federal pensions, and means-testing Medicare. Democrats don't want another $200 billion in domestic spending cuts in exchange for a payroll tax break that's practically inevitable. Republicans won't pass this bill unless they get their way. As a result, Americans are left in the familiar position of wondering why their government doesn't work.
     
  6. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Do a "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" on 'em.

    The Senate and House Democrats should make a huge show of staying in session 24/7, yes on Christmas Day, until the teabaggers come back and pass a bill. Call roll every hour on the hour to put on record who's there and who isn't.

    Make loud thunderous speeches calling out BY NAME the members sitting home drinking eggnog while the rest of congress stands ready to pass a bill.

    America has put up with the teabaggers' juvenile shit long enough. Time to put the gun barrel right between their eyes.

    Democrats should offer resolutions in both the House and Senate:

    "All members of this legislative body must immediately disclose if they have made any pledge, promise, affirmation or commitment to serve any objective other than their Constitutional Oath of Office, and if so, immediately and explicitly disavow such pledge, or immediately resign from this body."

    Put that to a roll call too. Any time anybody votes against it (or to table it or to rule it out of order), have somebody shout out from the gallery, "How does Grover Norquist's dick taste?"

    AND KEEP DOING IT.
     
  7. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Of course the super-duper hilarious thing about the whole thing is that the teabaggers are, of course, violating Chairman Grover's blood-oath orders by effectively forcing the imposition of a tax increase.

    But it turns out there is something more important to Teabag Nation than keeping taxes low: Making the White House White Again.

    Gee who woudla guessed it.
     
  8. BrianGriffin

    BrianGriffin Active Member

    But Grover said it's OK if we do it:
    http://www.nationaljournal.com/norquist-says-payroll-tax-cut-expiration-isn-t-a-tax-hike-20111201

    That was about December 1. At that point, you saw a lot of middle-of-the-roaders jumping ship.
     
  9. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Obama's chances of getting reelected are better because of the fact that The Republicans do not have any good candidates, not because of the payroll tax debacle.
     
  10. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Ding, ding ding...
     
  11. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    "Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating"

    Huh.

    www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/21/boehners-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-beating/
     
  12. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    How many times have we seen the GOP insist on voting, insist that politicians be held accountable? Judicial appointments, the fleeing senators in Wisconsin, etc. Kinda funny to see the House walk out of the chamber in this case, then.
     
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