Dreier Blasts Dem Plan to Hold Completely Closed Vote to Increase Taxes

[cal04]

from Sessions twitter
http://twitter.com/PeteSessions

Dreier Blasts Dem Plan to Hold Completely Closed Vote to Increase Taxes
http://rules-republicans.house.gov/News/Read.aspx?id=430
Congressman David Dreier (R-CA), House Rules Committee Ranking Republican, sharply criticized the Democratic Leadership’s plan to hold a completely closed vote to increase taxes on families and small businesses.

“The American people have demanded openness and economic solutions. Instead, the Democrats will vote to increases taxes on families and small businesses and at the same time, shut out the bipartisan majority that opposes tax hikes on any American. This is exactly what the American people voted against last month - bad policy put forward under a closed process. Taxpayers get it. Small businesses get it. It’s clear the Democratic Leadership does not.”

[mediaman007]

1. The election takes effect in January.

No one whines like a Republican!

[Andy823]

4. Or

"LIES" like a republican! This is simply tax cuts for the rich, and the republicans are willing to say and do anything they can to get these cuts for the rich, and they could care less about the rest of this country!

[robinlynne]

2. who is increasing taxes? I thought our country was discussing going back to normal

tax rates for very wealthy people.
after an extended economic disaster provoked by the Bush tax cuts, among other thefts.

[DJ13]

3. You wouldnt have to worry Drier if you just vote yes on the middle class

Its really not that hard you slimy bastard.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Is this the same David Dreier and wouldn't open debate be considered a

characteristic of openness?

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Bennet%20Kelley/27

Dreier could be the poster boy for the failure of the Reagan-Gingrich-DeLay revolution. He was a senior member of the hyper-partisan Gingrich-DeLay Congresses, serving as Chairman of the all powerful Rules Committee during the last eight years of Republican rule. Before any bill can come to the House floor, it must first go through the obscure Rules Committee which sets the terms of the debate - including whether and to what extent amendments will be permitted. As Rules Committee Chairman, Dreier promoted the Committee's obscurity through closed-door and midnight hearings where he pushed the Republican agenda by stifling House debates to the point that nearly half of all bills were considered under closed rules preventing debate.

Thanks for the thread, cal.

[Angry Dragon]

6. No republican in congress has beenable to answer

the question of how many small businesses would be affected by
raising taxes on the higher income people. Their stand is that small
businesses create jobs. High income families do not create jobs.

Call and ask all the republicans how many small businesses would be affected
and how many jobs are they going to guarantee will be created.

[Winterblues]

7. LIAR

The vote is to keep in place tax cuts for 0ver 95% of the American people and families and business. It in no way raises taxes on anyone.. To say it does is an out and out LIE.

[Old and In the Way]

8. What's to debate?

It's pretty clear...extend the taxcuts for the bottom 95%. What's so difficult to understand about this bill? If you want to support the top 5% with a taxcut extension and add $700 Billion to the deficit, file a bill, Drier!

[PBS Poll-435]

9. I am so pissed that he is going to take Louise's gavel in January

He is a nozzle of the first order.

[hyphenate]

10. Shut the fuck up, David

We can make you irrelevant again, if need be. Perhaps a reprint of your outing might help.






(No disparagment to gays in general--Dreier was outed a while ago and disappeared for a large part of GWB's 2nd term as a result. Perhaps he thinks now that most people have forgotten the incident, and he can go back to the days when he was just a complete asshole.)

[librechik]

11. they aren't raising taxes, they're returning them to old fashioned rates from Reagan's time

when everything was so much better!