House GOP leaders want new payroll tax cut bill

[muriel_volestrangler]

Top House Republicans rebelled Sunday against a bipartisan, Senate-approved bill extending payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits for two months, reigniting a politically fueled holiday-season clash that had seemed all but doused.
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On Saturday, the Senate voted 89-10 for its legislation, which was negotiated by Senate Republican and Democratic leaders and backed by solid majorities of senators from both parties. It would provide a two-month extension of the payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits and prevent scheduled 27 percent cuts to doctors' Medicare reimbursements during that period, reductions that could convince physicians to stop treating elderly patients covered by the program.

That measure was praised by Obama, and even Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., expressed optimism that the measure would become law. Initial bills produced by both sides lasted for a year, but negotiators working on the final product could not agree to savings that would finance such a measure, likely to cost roughly $200 billion.

Reid and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., the No. 3 Senate leader, said Boehner had asked McConnell and Reid to negotiate a compromise, seemingly suggesting that Boehner had walked away from a deal. Republicans said that is untrue and said the House GOP played no role in last week's bargaining between the Senate leaders.

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Games, it seems. McConnell voted for the bill.

[Autumn]

1. Let me guess. A payroll tax cut bill

for the very fucking wealthy.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Republicans = Scrooge

[atreides1]

3. No they don't

Scrooge could change, Republicans can't!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. Scrooges 'that don't change

[Roland99]

14. +1

[unkachuck]

4. "...House Republicans rebelled Sunday against a bipartisan, Senate-approved bill..."

....why not?....we've trained them poorly....everyone knows, including the housepukes, all they have to do is balk and the Dems will cave shortly....

[msongs]

5. having learned democrats will cave on just about anything, the repubs have zero to lose nt

[BOHICA12]

7. 2 months is a band-aid -

12 months or longer is what is needed. They all need to stay put until they can grow up and figure it out.

[Historic NY]

8. I think they should make the pricks should stay in DC no compromise......

whining SOB's

[jmowreader]

9. What they NEED to do...

is learn to write clean bills.

If the Republican Party really WANTED a year-long payroll tax cut, it would be no problem. They could write a nice clean bill, five pages long, that simply reduces the payroll tax to whatever they want it to be and lasts as long as they want. (It would take five pages because all the header shit any bill has eats up paper, and the fact that all legislation is double-spaced with two-inch margins has something to do with it too.) Spend a day debating it in the House, a day in the Senate, put the thing on the president's desk and call it good.

What the Republicans WANT is to slam the Democrats. They will take what could be a short, quickie bill and load it with totally unnecessary-to-the-purpose crap like an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the top margins, the pipeline demand or a capital gains tax elimination, shit that is certain to draw a presidential veto threat, then go on every Sunday-morning talk show to complain about how the Democrats don't care about the working men and women of this country.

[mia]

11. You nailed it. n/t

[kooth]

12. Nailed it!

Yep, you did!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

10. Is it possible he is trying to show how the tea party is hurting the GOP?

[Madmiddle]

13. Boehner

opens his mouth and lies come out. Republicans acannot be trusted. 2012 will be voted out in November, but is this gonna change anything in this country. Our biggest problems come from government leaders on both sides protecting thier jobs at all cost, reguardless of who it hurts.

[dotymed]

15. that and the fact that

the majority of our reps in all branches of the government are in the 1%.

[SmittynMo]

16. I am so sick and tired of

the whiny, hostage holding republicans. They only have one goal. Put Obama out of the white house, at any expense. They don't care who goes down with them, including the middle class. How anyone can support these idiots is beyond me.