The tax deal cometh
Harry “Who’s the loser now?” Reid had quite the week.
His DREAM Act illegal alien bailout was put on ice; his DADT deal went up in flames.
Tonight,he announced that the cloture vote on the tax deal has been scheduled for Monday at 3pm Eastern. He still intends to cram shamnesty into the lame-duck session and a stand-alone vote on DADT.
Phew.
Via Jamie Dupree, you can read highlights of the 74-page Reid-McConnell tax deal plan here.
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Too much pork and too much “temporary” for my tastes. Especially-galling – the blatant buy of farm-state pols with the extension of the domestic corn-a-hole subsidy/imported ethanol tariff.
Would it be wrong of me to pray that Harry develops a case of chronic diarhea and can’t make it out of the john for the next 3 weeks?
Hitting my knees now.
There’s gotta be a special place in hell for this gargoyle!
David Freddoso found a bunch of TARP leftovers regifted into Le Grande Compromise.
Reid has to pay back all those illegals who helped get him in to office again.
If there were ANY GOP leadership, they would demand a permanent extension of the tax rates with a 2 to 5% reduction on each bracket. And then they should demand a reduction in Social Security tax rates for employees and employers, and start work on privatization of SSN.
And if the Dems balk, tell them to wait a month and then reconsider the offer.
The GOP looks leaderless to me…
Nothing there about the deficit.
Actually everything on the agenda comes from the ‘America stinks’ mentality.
DREAM or you’re racist
DADT or your a homophobe
Extend unemployment or you favor wall street fat cats.
Yeah, you could sum this whole session up as a ‘America the terrible’ lame duck session. I wish someone in MC thought America was great just the way it was and didn’t need as much government as such.
Any day now they can stop spending and everyone would cheer. The D’s could have left Afghanistan 2 years ago and saved a ton of lives and money and appeased their base and centrists.
But we’re stuck with . . . ‘America is bad so pay more’.
The House Dems will kill this thing. As a result the GOP will throw out all their goodies in January, and then dare the President to veto it. Sounds good.
Leaderless?
They aren’t called the Stupid Party for nothin’…………..
Sarah Palin has managed to be more effective from Alaska on Facebook than McConnell, Boner and Can’t/or(won’t).
Yet he wont put up a Defense authorization bill without DADT in it….go figure.
Understatement of the year LOL
We can thank the drooling imbecile from IA, Grassley, for the ethanol deal.
You nailed it, Hadenough. Grassley is nothing more than a representative for big-agri.
This is an example of why both parties simply suck. Conservative? Liberal? Does it matter? It’s all about incumbency, baby. If we can use some labels and related language to “differentiate” our views to take power from someone else, so be it.
It’s been this way since POTUS #1, but as the American people become more populous, more productive, more industrious and, thus, more wealthy, politics and power take on a whole new meaning.
I agree with the sentiment from the rep in the Dem Caucus meeting, only I would change “Obama” to “all y’all” playing these games.
Like Global Warming…. Liberals are convinced the only reality as deficits go is to raise taxes.
Hey… idiots on the left….. Try cutting spending by meaningful amounts.
Don’t want to do that? Fine… it will “hopefully’ be done for you starting in 2011.
By hopefully… I mean “hopefully” the republicans will have a spine.
You have more hope than I can muster, so far, the “leadership” hasn’t shown much, leadership, that is.
The committee assignments so far seem to suggest the GOP just wants to be in charge of the gravy train, not reduce it in any meaningful way.
And Harry’s tax bill concoction, which apparently includes Rum…. has more BS in it than you can shake a stick at.
So instead of just passing what needs to be passed, these morons are going to pack the bill full of pork, payback and placations to get it passed by dhimocrats that hate the idea of not raising our taxes.
Eff them all.
I agree, they shouldn’t have made ANY deal at all unless it made the Bush cuts permanent plus a lot more stuff like leaving the estate tax at zero, indexing capital gains, eliminating the double taxation on dividends, repealing the incandescent light bulb ban and burying ethanol, (sheesh, even Gore flipped on ethanol so it leaves idiots like Grassley ‘holding the bag’).
The whole point is that the dems are on the run after last November and their only hope is to dupe the spineless republicans into any ‘deal’ they can get to muddy the water for 2012. It didn’t take long for Republican ‘leadership’ to start ‘compromising’, compromising away the most important advantage they earned last month – voter enthusiasm.
Making the Bush tax rates permanent will do little to change to federal revenue and little to improve our stagnant economy; leaving them temporary is only WORSE. Guess who liberals are going to blame for a lack luster economy in two years?
What part of ‘strike while the iron is hot’ or ‘take no prisoners’ is it that some republicans don’t understand? They have the opportunity to shape the outcome of 2012 right here and now but are faltering at the starting gate by just ‘going along with’ anything the democrats want.
Any fool ought to understand that when democrats are suddenly clamoring to keep taxes from going up they’re doing it one reason only, out-maneuver you in the next election.
Now I know where to stick the pin in my voodoo doll!
NO BILL unless they take the pork out!! WTF?? They talked on and on about pork and how they were getting rid of it, and now they are ready to sign on to this bill??? My God, is there NO ONE who can stand up for what is right??? Oh, one…Jim DeMint.
The Republicans are about to get snookered by the Democrats again on the tax increase deal. The Bush tax cuts have already been made. Anything else is a new tax increase. Extending jobless benefits is increased spending and keeping people in a dependent state.
These elected officials don’t get it. Tax cuts did not cause this problem. Their uncontrollable spending did.
I guess the Dems feel they’ve loaned the taxpayers their money long enough. After 10 years, they want your tax dollars back because they feel it is theirs.
Hope the Tea Party is watching this and the appointments to the appropriations and energy committees the Republicans are about to make. They must be as tone deaf as the Dems.
They even have some kind of pork in there for ethanol. Seriously??? After even Al Gore admited ethanol was a mistake??? Is NO ONE LISTENING??? I feel like I am hollering down a big hollow tube with eternal space at the other end. These people are so removed from reality, they don’t even realize that ethanol is a VERY bad idea!!
Ethanol has become big business, and big business gives big campaign contributions.
It does not matter whether something is good for the country or not. As long as Congressmen can be bought, nothing good will come out of the District of Corruption.
We need a more thorough House cleaning next time.
I tried to get rid of Can’t/or, Floyd Bayne got 7% of the vote.
Amen.
You know it’s funny but PasadenaPhil gets dogged regularly for his utter rejection of the majority of the current GOP leadership but as I see it, he’s batting a 1,000 on just about every outcome he’s predicted. And yet, we have been told FOR ALMOST 10 YEARS NOW (at least) to hold the line, help is on the way. We’ll get it right this time, don’t worry. Just.need.a.little.more.time.
When…oh WHEN? will we finally realize that more of the same is not going to cut it??
This isn’t just a fight between two parties, it’s an ideological battle against statists who exist in BOTH parties. I certainly wish it weren’t so, but such is the case. It’s high time we realize it.
Major O,
Progressives infect both parties. Globalist ambitions drive most of what the leadership does. They try to placate us with tidbits while continuing to allow our country to be overrun with foreign nationals to dilute American citizen votes.
We and our Constitution are all that stands in the way of one world government. They’ve been pretty successful at rendering the Constitution worthless with their installation of a non-natural born citizen as President, with the cooperation of every elected official and judge.
Only God and our faith in him can save our Republic.
As one of the “Phil bashers”, let me point out that I don’t disagree that we need to replace the current Republican leadership. As I pointed out on other occasions, I didn’t and don’t disagree with Phil much on philosophy, just on the best strategy for this particular election. He certainly didn’t “bat 1000″ there.
The problem I see is that too many people on our side thought that this election would be a cure-all for 100 years of bad government. It wasn’t, and couldn’t possibly be. We only had a shot at replacing 1/3 or the Senate at most, and we actually did pretty well in placing conservatives in 5 new seats. The tea party movement arose too late to produce enough good candidates to replace more House or Senate members, and some of the candidates who did step up turned out to be fatally flawed. And also remember that the 65 new House members haven’t taken their seats yet. There isn’t much they can do until they are sworn in, and even at that they won’t have the numbers to force their agenda on the House. I couldn’t agree more that the current leadership needs to be replaced, but that’s beyond our control at the moment. As with a hemorrhaging patient, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding, beginning with this pork-filled “tax extension” bill. After that, we need to work on a cure, which is to sharply reduce government spending and regulation. On another thread, I’ve cheered for Sen Bernie Sanders for filibustering this tax extension bill, because the Democrats are larding it up with every pork program they’ve been unable to pass for the past 4 years. The Republican leadership needs to get off of this bill and Republicans need to defeat it. The new Republican House can deal with the tax increase when the new conservatives are on board and have a voice.
The key things for now for those of us not in the government are to 1) find more conservative candidates to run two years from now so that we can gain conservative control of both the House and Senate, and 2) keep the heat on the current Congress to try to keep them from straying from the conservative line.
I hear you, I really do. It is too much to ask of a single election. That said, this “single election” is part of a history, one that has been filled with a lot of such single election dilemmas.
I think back to the folks on the bandwagon who supported Arnold over McClintock in Cali; Specter over Toomey in PA. The Gang of 14, etc., etc. And now this most recent tax deal. Always, we’re told, it makes sense this time. Meanwhile, the Left is continuously on the March. Somehow, they’re always able to move the ball forward, and all we can do (apparently) is stymie them for a while. Robert Byrd can go on record filibustering against the rights of black folks like me and still go on to have a storied and even celebrated career, no prob.
When is a conservative legislator going to stand up for once and filibuster the country-destroying nonsense the Dems try to impose seemingly every other month? The DREAM act seems to come up now REGULARLY because the Left is relentless and driven in their goal of remaking this country in their image.
I constantly hear (by the likes of Hugh Hewitt) how the US is a “center right” country and yet statism is inexorably moving over the whole nation. How does that work? My point is that the stakes really are dire for the future of this country and the more we embrace that and CHOOSE LEADERS WHO ALSO SEE IT THAT WAY the better off we are. If they don’t see it that way, they are part of the problem.
The worst part of this is that in cannot be denied. McConnell, Boehner et al. are seemingly without a clue most of the time. They have been in Washington far too long and have lost touch with America.
They haven’t taken control of Congress yet and they are already racing to break the so called pledge.
The incoming freshman class is going to have to go into open revolt to get anything done with these clowns in charge…