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Proud Public Servant

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1. Let's be even clearer

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 04:10 PM

Dec 2012

Republicans made the cliff:

- Tax cuts that expire were a GOP idea, passed when the GOP controlled both houses of Congress and signed intop law by a GOP president.

- Boehner characterized the original deal that would ultimately produce the cliff as getting "98% of what I wanted."

- The Budget Control Act passed the House with 2/3 of GOP voting yes.

To revive a tired phrase: They built it.

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Congress knew the cliff was coming. In fact, Congress made the cliff. [View all] kpete Dec 2012 OP

Let's be even clearer Proud Public Servant Dec 2012 #1

Corporate Republicans and corporate Democrats, including President Obama, woo me with science Dec 2012 #3

Also the debt ceiling and the doc payments and the amt fix. dkf Dec 2012 #2