Right, and Republicans will have no leverage (Reply #24)

In the discussion thread: Report: White House Considers Smaller Fiscal Cliff Deal [View all]

Sat Dec 22, 2012, 01:32 PM

ProSense (116,464 posts)

24. Right, and Republicans will have no leverage

Do you see them holding the debt ceiling hostage to pass new tax cuts for the rich?

I mean, everyone is talking about the debt ceiling in the context of the current negotiations. After the tax cuts expire and if sequestration kicks in, they lose leverage.

If a deal is reached before the end of the year to extend the tax cuts for the middle class and kick the can down the road on sequestration negotiations, what are they going to hold the debt ceiling hostage for?

Even in that scenario, those negotiations will have a time limit, with sequestration still looming.

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56 replies	Author	Time	Post
Report: White House Considers Smaller Fiscal Cliff Deal [View all]	ProSense	Dec 2012	OP
That might actually be the best proposal yet.	Skinner	Dec 2012	#1
Yup, everyone should push for this	ProSense	Dec 2012	#4
So...put something out there that was designed to expose Boehner for the teabagging douchenozzle	Fridays Child	Dec 2012	#2
that's what I was hoping for	lasttrip	Dec 2012	#3
This is what should have been done all along	frazzled	Dec 2012	#5
If he lets it pass on mostly democrat votes, then it is passing against GOP votes.	julian09	Dec 2012	#12
I'm just sitting her enjoying the implosion of the conservative movement.	jrobbi	Dec 2012	#6
Thats what I expected to happen.	DCBob	Dec 2012	#7
then it will just move the fight to debt extension.... gov't shutdown will be the new hostage.. n/t	Mr Peabody	Dec 2012	#8
No, it will not.	ProSense	Dec 2012	#9
he/she is talking about the debt ceiling	Enrique	Dec 2012	#23
Right, and Republicans will have no leverage	ProSense	Dec 2012	#24
ha, they'll have no leverage	Enrique	Dec 2012	#27
Huh?	ProSense	Dec 2012	#29
Sounds good to me	Proud Liberal Dem	Dec 2012	#10
kick	bigtree	Dec 2012	#11
It's a 'band aid" approach, but it's not bad.	Lone_Star_Dem	Dec 2012	#13
this I can live with	magical thyme	Dec 2012	#14
This I could go for	Liberalynn	Dec 2012	#15
Sounds like a damn good idea to me.	Autumn	Dec 2012	#16
Repubs are rushing to the Greyhound station...	kentuck	Dec 2012	#17
well that plan favors the rich	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#18
The plan allows the tax cuts for the rich to expire.	ProSense	Dec 2012	#19
I suppose the plan woud be to pass with mostly Democratic votes?	kentuck	Dec 2012	#20
Possibly, but	ProSense	Dec 2012	#21
I don't see it passing the Republican House.	kentuck	Dec 2012	#22
Tea Party will own the ultimate destruction of the Republican Party as we know it.	Panasonic	Dec 2012	#36
no, actually it keeps many of those tax cuts for the rich	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#26
Please cut the nonsense.	ProSense	Dec 2012	#30
I'd like to have Obama cut the nonsense	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#39
You can	ProSense	Dec 2012	#41
the tax brackets do NOT apply to everyone	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#45
Don't be absurd! n/t	ProSense	Dec 2012	#52
Those numbers are OUTRAGEOUS.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#34
I've been posting those numbers like a broken record now	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#40
Everything we get now favors the rich. It's a given now.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#25
"We won the election by a landslide"	ProSense	Dec 2012	#31
No.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#32
Your graph doesn't make your point.	ProSense	Dec 2012	#35
Bullshit, Prosense.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#37
Bullshit, woo me with science	ProSense	Dec 2012	#38
aha, so you admit "nothing" is an alternative	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#42
Admit?	ProSense	Dec 2012	#44
but going in the wrong direction is bad	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#47
Progress isn't the "wrong direction"	ProSense	Dec 2012	#50
It's like arguing in a funhouse, isn't it. nt	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#53
P is for propaganda. n/t	ProSense	Dec 2012	#54
I wish that graph would include the baseline of "going over the clifff"	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#43
Actually, it's a	ProSense	Dec 2012	#46
I didn't know that the health care law	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#49
Regardless!	ProSense	Dec 2012	#51
It's stunning that they get away with this, and claim to represent us.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#55
Yeah, This One	AndyTiedye	Dec 2012	#28
K & R	Scurrilous	Dec 2012	#33
Sounds tentatively encouraging.	Faryn Balyncd	Dec 2012	#48
never seen government so dysfunctional in the good ol usa	spanone	Dec 2012	#56

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