33 Dems vote against Pelosi tax-hike procedural stunt; Boehner on Pelosi move: “Chicken crap”
Call it Weaker Pelosi’s last gasp.
This morning, the Dems forced a rule-making vote on the Obama tax increases that will, as Rob Bluey reported, prevent Republicans from offering an amendment to stop ALL the Obama tax increases scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2011.
GOP Leader John Boehner blasted the maneuver:
House Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-OH) has called today’s tax hike vote a “Washington stalling tactic with job-killing implications,” and with good reason:
* Small businesses are “reluctant” to hire on account of the uncertainty surrounding Congress’s failure to stop the tax hikes. One small business owner in Michigan – unemployment: 12.3 percent – tells The Wall Street Journal he is “hiring at half the rate we would be if I had more confidence about the future.” Specifically, “he says he’s concerned about how Congress will vote on matters that could have a substantial impact on small businesses like his, such as income taxes and the new health law’s 1099 provision, which requires businesses to file a tax report when they pay a vendor more than $600 in a year.”
* The IRS commissioner warns that Congress’s failure to act in short order on tax policy could be “extremely detrimental” and “risk significantly delaying refunds.” “Many retailers and economists worry that the tax increase could tamp down household spending and further weaken employment and the fragile recovery,” today’s Wall Street Journal notes. “Underscoring that risk, the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Douglas Shulman, sent a letter to lawmakers on Wednesday, warning that postponing extension of some breaks, such as a measure to diminish the bite of the alternative minimum tax, could be ‘extremely detrimental’ and risk significantly delaying refunds.”
House Democrats’ maneuvers are intended to “serve as a signal to the party’s liberal base that Democratic lawmakers aren’t giving up” on a job-killing tax hike on small businesses. While January 1st looms large for families and small businesses facing the prospect of massive tax hikes, lame-duck Democrats are focused on appeasing their liberal base:
The rule passed 213-203.
Most interesting: 33 Democrats joined 170 Republicans in trying to vote down the tax-hike procedural stunt.
Cracks in the liberal establishment armor? Let’s hope.
I’ve broken out the 33 Democrats for future reference:
Adler (NJ)
Altmire
Baird
Bean
Berry
Boren
Boyd
Bright
Chandler
Connolly (VA)
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Dahlkemper
Davis (AL)
Ellsworth
Herseth Sandlin
Himes
Kirkpatrick (AZ)
Lipinski
Marshall
Matheson
McIntyre
Minnick
Mitchell
Moran (VA)
Perriello
Peters
Peterson
Pomeroy
Ross
Shuler
Space
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Related: Signs Point to Extending All Tax Cuts Temporarily.
Not good enough.
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Boehner via The Hill:
Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-Ohio) called the House Democrats’ vote on extending certain tax breaks “chicken crap” on Thursday.
“I’m trying to catch my breath so I don’t refer to this maneuver going on today as chicken crap, all right,” the top-ranking House Republican said sarcastically, “but this is nonsense! We’re 23 months from the next election and the political games have already started trying to set up the next election.
“We have an honest conversation at the White House about the challenges that we face to get out of here. … And to roll this vote out today, it really is just … it’s what you think I was going to say,” he said.
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…. “.Arthur never faltered. He looked like a figure of Thor as his untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy-bearing stake, whilst the blood from the pierced heart welled and spurted up around it.” Zzzzzsnort! Wha? Oops sorry I was dreaming!
So it seems that not all of the “blue dogs” got culled in the last election, after all.
Well some people got the message, but not all. 2012, more will get the message.
Hopefully, Boehner can line up everyone to handle this the first week of January.
If they aren’t allowed to negotiate with the President without House Dems’ playing their little games, maybe the 112th should be confrontational and uncompromising on this one issue right out of the gate.
After that, they can discuss future issues like adults while the former Speaker eats her chocolate and pecan pie with what few remaining friends she has.
Nope…. Nance ALLOWED them to vote this way, for future electoral reasons. If the vote had been in doubt, she would have yanked their collective Leashes… and brought them to heel…
As long as there are lobbyists and a tax code with deductions, there will be bribery of our politicians to give deductions and perks to favored constituents. The only answer is a single flat tax for everyone making money in America. Churches, charities, businesses, people, partnerships, hospitals, stock brokerages and banks. We all pay 10% of our revenue to the gubmint. It may make people gasp, “Oh not my church or charity” but our military protects them also, and our roads allow their people to get to work etc. PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE! But the minute you start deciding what is revenue, you are again lost. Revenue is every dime you take in less the wages you pay to your employees (as these are taxed through them).
Interesting list. I’d like to know how many of these 33 DEMs are Lame Ducks.
I know that Bean is losing her seat to Joe Walsh for IL-8.
And Costa is in a dead heat still for CA-20 with Andy Vidak.
According to Fox News, these races still haven’t been called due to recounts and lawsuits. Although I did hear that Bean has conceded, I think.
I don’t know why I checked the list to see if Hawaii’s reps. opposed the bill.
Wasted 30 seconds I will never get back.
Well Boehner does have a way with words to call this ‘chicken crap’! I sure hope the r’s don’t cave to the d’s. Afterall, we won in Nov.!
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Geez, I can’t believe Gerry Connolly from VA-11 actually broke with Pelosi for a change. He is usually in her hip pocket 96% or more of the time…
It was probably a fluke, or he didn’t read his “morning mayhem minutes” from the House Whip (which means something different when SanFran Nan is in charge of the House).
That’s it. I’m all in favor of eliminating Lame Duck sessions. Only mischief comes from allowing bitter losers to propose/vote on legislation after they’ve lost an election. I’d rather have Congress on recess for two months than this kind of crap to occur.
I checked WIKIPEDIA and according to their list of 112th US Congress, the following are not in next year, ie: Lame Ducks.
Adler (NJ)
Baird
Bean
Berry
Boyd
Bright
Dahlkemper
Davis (AL)
Ellsworth
Herseth Sandlin
Kirkpatrick (AZ)
Marshall
Minnick
Mitchell
Perriello
Pomeroy
Space
Keep voting them out until they are all gone, then keep them out.
I was going to note that Baird did not run for re-eleciton so he is out at the end of this year. He is being replaced by Republican Jaimie Herrera (which is great news for those of us in SW WA ST).
Unfortunately, Gerry Connolly, VA-11 will be back next year. He is a Marxist moron who doesn’t even know what the definition of a Marxist is…
He won by a margin of barely 1,000 votes out of 200,000 votes cast in the district.
We get the government we elect…
Are Republicans going with the permanent cuts or nothing? Whats wrong with doing a 2 year entension now and then making them permanent next year when Republicans can do so? Is it the political climate issue? Negotiating power? Momentum?
OT: Headline on Foxnews:
So, they would rather gut the military to allow gays, than to preserve a strong national defense.
Un. Be. Friggin’. Lievable.
Dexter Alarius said:
I had to read this several times and I am with you – Social Engineering versus a military trained to fight a war – i am willing to bet a lot of Pink cards will be waved in Boot Camp.
Absolutely. And this cannot be pointed out too often.
People, there is no such thing as a decent Democrat politician.
If they weren’t scumsucking, bottomfeeding Blame America Firsters who worship at the altar of Big Government and think we should be more like Europe, they simply wouldn’t choose to be Democrats, kissing the rear ends of obvious slime like Pelosi.
Mitchell? Mitchell of AZ-5? He is up to something–I guess he needs to line up a job or contact after leaving congress after all these many
) years.
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He is like a snake,bites you on the backside. Happily he is leaving Congress, sadly he may be returning to Arizona. We were going to refer to Dear Harry as Chicken Crap but the egg producers asked us not to.
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Don’t Leave home without it.
Resistance is mandatory
Here, here… You are right!
To paraphrase a great man, “The only good Democrat is a Democrat in the unemployment line!”
Dexter Alarius#17,
I read that statement on the Fox site. I could not believe mullen would make a statement like that! He would see to it the gays(probably not really that many) trump the vast majority of our military? It seems to be our way or you get the high way!
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The Democrat leadership in both houses are clearly threats to the Republic. Nothing they do is done in the light of day…without ulterior motives…abusing the power those who elected (and re-elected) to office gave them.
They ignore their fiduciary responsibilities, using the people’s money to fund pet projects, enrich ne’er-do-well friends (and, unions), and give vast powers to unelected evil-doers, who are now at the throats of all genuine Americans.
The discussion goes beyond ideology. These people want to reforge America into a borderless factory under their control, and for their benefit. I do not wish them well. Quite the contrary. They have striven to pit “us against them” for decades, and now, they may have just gotten their wish.
It will not turn out they way they planned, because “the awakening” has happened. The question becomes; Will America hold them responsible for their unconstitutional acts of treason? Probably not, unless we have leadership with some cajones that will not just look the other way, touting “let bygones be bygones.” That will not deter future Democrat meglomanics from trying to destroy America.
I knew, when DODT was passed during Clinton’s reign, that the door was ajar for allowing gays openly.
What started as a compromise (DODT) is now viewed as discrimination.
Watch retention drop through the floor.
Many will stay in until 2013 only to get someone else’s name on their retirement certificates.
The mightiest military the planet has ever seen, brought to its knees by social experimentation.
I’m sick.
This is an insult to chicken crap. The dems are sooooo much worse.
I don’t care who these democrats are since a vote for any of them is a vote for Nancy Pelosi. If she didn’t need their votes, then how they voted is not relevant. But what this vote does do is show the sham that the meeting at the White House was.
In January we will see a classic dug in battle, and the tea party is helping keep the RINOs in line. Time for trench warfare. Be ready for efforts by the Dems to force chaos. One way is to force the tax cuts to expire for EVERYONE (which is what they have always wanted). Then prevent the GOP from lowering the taxes, whether it causes a steep down turn or not. Don’t expect rationality.
Also expect Obama to govern from the White House, thinking he can do whatever he wishes. A stalemate would be the best we can hope for, but the Dems have NO intension to relinquish control of the government or to every deal with the GOP.
Duh, I don’t know how I wrote DODT instead of DADT. Twice, too.
The older I get, the more my clutch is starting to slip. At least that’s what my wife
RoseRita says.I am going on the record right now “They are going to have to pry the gavel out of Nancy Pelosi’s hand”
When will Darrell Edward Issa start his probes and investigations?
These people have been running things into the ground since 2007. I don’t care if nothing but investigations are carried out for the next 2 years on these corporatist tools.
This calls for another Romney attack on Palin. You just never know with Romney. Being a bystander for so long has blunted (extinguished?) his political instincts.
BTW, this isn’t the end of it. It still has work its way past a likely GOP filibuster in the Senate.
On December 2nd, 2010 at 12:52 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
Call it Weaker Pelosi’s last gasp.
…. “.Arthur never faltered. He looked like a figure of Thor as his untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy-bearing stake, whilst the blood from the pierced heart welled and spurted up around it.” Zzzzzsnort! Wha? Oops sorry I was dreaming!
HA!
– Regulus
More like. . .
Having observed the result of the campaigning leading up to the mid-terms, more Democrats now realize that there’s no real gain to sticking with Pelosi on the issues. Her face was plastered on more negative campaign flyers from Republicans than even Obama’s was.
Moreover, they’re not as worried about loyalty at the moment, as there’s no pressing need to obtain DNC campaign funds to protect their seats.
I’m expecting a much higher rate of voting contrary to Pelosi’s wishes from Democrats over the next year.
Dexter: This is the crap you get from “Nato” generals who have never been near combat. The General who all the Dems put up 4 years ago as a “Military” guy to blunt the observation that Dems HATE the military, and now this putz Mullen who’s only possible combat service was watching planes fly off a carrier to go drop bombs in Iraq. Of course he has no problem with gays serving in foxholes, he’s never been within 100 miles of a bullet fired in his direction. He’s been sitting on a boat offshore checking whether the mess had pie or ice cream for desert.
Start the investigations ASAP. Start with Rangel – does he go to jail like a regular tax cheat? If not, get the IRS chief in and roast his azz and label him a crook, and defund the IRS until Rangel goes to prison. Get a bunch of tax cheats who went to prison to testify about how they were treated differently than azzhole Rangel.
Pass new House Rule: no Member can vote until their taxes, fines and penalties are paid in full – and make the member pay all costs involved in the investigation – dock their salary.
Pass new House Rule: Members may NOT libel private citizens. Invite any citizen libeled by a Member to the House to give a speech to the whole house so the victim can publicly reprimand and humiliate the foul mouth chicken guano libeling Member. These thug demoRATs are nothing but cowards, perverts, and morons.