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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Sun Dec 18, 2011, 04:07 PM Dec 2011

Republicans may yet kill middle-class tax cut

Republicans may yet kill middle-class tax cut

By Steve Benen

It looked a bit like a breakthrough. With time running out on the calendar year, Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate agreed Friday night to a temporary compromise: Dems would get a two-month extension of the payroll tax break and a clean extension of unemployment benefits, while GOP lawmakers would get an expedited decision on the Keystone XL pipeline. It’s hardly perfect, but it’s not a bad deal.

When the agreement reached the Senate floor yesterday, it was approved with overwhelming, bipartisan support, 89 to 10. The chamber has 47 Republicans, and only seven voted against it. Soon after, President Obama expressed his satisfaction with the compromise.

So, there’s reason for optimism, right? It’s not as if House Republicans are going to kill a bipartisan compromise on a middle-class tax cut, which just passed the Senate 89 to 10, the week before Christmas, right?

Wrong.

…House passage next week was thrown into serious doubt on Saturday afternoon, when a number of rank-and-file Republicans objected in a conference call with Speaker John A. Boehner, who tried to persuade them that it was good for their party, particularly the provision that would speed the decision process for construction of an oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast known as Keystone XL. Just a week ago, President Obama had threatened to veto that provision.

“I think the American people are not going to be too pleased about this,” said Representative Tom Graves of Georgia. “I would say it has a very steep uphill fight in our conference. It’s a joke.” […]

Some other Republican conference leaders, including the House majority leader, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, also criticized of the two-month extension.

The Hill reported that rank-and-file House Republicans “voiced extreme opposition” to the compromise.

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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/republicans_may_yet_kill_middl034176.php



Boehner Rejects Bipartisan Senate Compromise, Puts Tax Cut For 160 Million Americans In Danger
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/12/18/391582/boehner-rejects-bipartisan-senate-compromise-puts-tax-cut-for-160-million-americans-in-danger/

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Republicans may yet kill middle-class tax cut (Original Post) ProSense Dec 2011 OP
and fuck you, too Boehner. Fuck you very much. Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2011 #1
I think d_r Dec 2011 #2
oops Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2011 #4
nah d_r Dec 2011 #5
and boehner stood shoulder to shoulder with them today on meet the press spanone Dec 2011 #3
Another BOHICA for the Voters... lib2DaBone Dec 2011 #6

d_r

(6,907 posts)
2. I think
Sun Dec 18, 2011, 04:46 PM
Dec 2011

that Boehner was saying that the "compromise" was good for the party, but the "rank and file" republicans in the house (remember they voted in some real, real nutjobs) were saying it was a bad idea.

see
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/200123-senates-payroll-tax-cut-extension-not-popular-with-house-gop

spanone

(135,627 posts)
3. and boehner stood shoulder to shoulder with them today on meet the press
Sun Dec 18, 2011, 04:48 PM
Dec 2011

it's his fucking failure to deliver.


 

lib2DaBone

(8,124 posts)
6. Another BOHICA for the Voters...
Sun Dec 18, 2011, 08:09 PM
Dec 2011

(Bend Over.... Here It Comes Again)

Lucy pulls the football away.. and STILL.. the American people are too stupid to figure it out.

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