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Cliff-jumping with Barack
Washington Post, by Charles Krauthammer

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Posted By:Dreadnought, 11/29/2012 11:26:43 PM

Why are Republicans playing the Democrats’ game that the “fiscal cliff” is all about taxation? House Speaker John Boehner already made the preemptive concession of agreeing to raise revenue. But the insistence on doing so by eliminating deductions without raising marginal rates is now the subject of fierce Republican infighting. Where is the other part of President Obama’s vaunted “balanced approach”? Where are the spending cuts, both discretionary and entitlement: Medicare, Medicaid and now Obamacare (the health-care trio) and Social Security? Social Security is the easiest to solve. So you get a sense of the Democrats’ inclination to reform entitlements

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: trapper, 11/29/2012 11:38:42 PM     (No. 9040496)

There is no fiscal cliff. Obama will grandstand it until he gets his tax increase, and then when nothing happens he will point to the tax increase and say "See!" Republicans in the Houkse should hold the line on taxes. Pass a bill making the current rates permanent and go home.


Reply 2 - Posted by: smcchk, 11/29/2012 11:51:56 PM     (No. 9040507)

This nightmare never ends......


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: sunsong, 11/30/2012 12:02:57 AM     (No. 9040515)

Agreed! And the pubbies should ask over and over on all the shows: "Why is Obama willing to go over the fiscal cliff over $85 billion?" (taxing the rich rasies a whopping $85 billion)


Reply 4 - Posted by: NotaBene, 11/30/2012 12:15:59 AM     (No. 9040520)

Yes, give Obama the full Clinton.

George W. Bush was a great president yet Hussein is still campaigning against him. Tax increases for all. 50% don´t pay any income taxes!


Reply 5 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623, 11/30/2012 12:30:57 AM     (No. 9040532)

No lemmings here for his fiscal cliff.

Take Shillary´s money bag away.


Reply 6 - Posted by: steveW, 11/30/2012 1:04:03 AM     (No. 9040556)

Democrats are looking forward to pushing the USA over the cliff and watching it fall. The crash is what will give them the justification to impose Socialism, with the eager cooperation of the MSM defining the problem, in classic Marxism, as a "tyranny of the rich". "See, we told you so - free enterprise doesn´t work, the American system has never worked!" will be the rallying cry behind President Jim Hussein Jones. As of this writing, far too many in the GOP seem willing to "compromise" with this treasonous plan, as if a one millimeter parachute would lessen the crash. I say, let the world see who the Democrats really are, and the destruction they really intend.


Reply 7 - Posted by: redink, 11/30/2012 1:22:26 AM     (No. 9040565)

Speaker Gingrich was on Greta tonite and he laid out an incredibly concise and common sense plan on what the house GOP can do. He also carefully explained why this "fiscal cliff" is a fantasy concocted by Obama to keep the Republicans running around in fear and disarray.
Boehner is a coward and falling over himself trying to get the media to "like" him on facebook.

Greta gave Newt almost 20 minutes of talking time and he didn´t waste one second. Remarkable man with a fearless disposition. It was a relief to listen to him. I hope the House listens also.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: TXknitter, 11/30/2012 2:09:13 AM     (No. 9040595)

I too saw the nice long segment Greta gave Newt. I think she too really wanted to talk to one Republican who really knows the score and can clearly articulate precisely what is going on. He did a masterful job.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Country Boy, 11/30/2012 2:09:47 AM     (No. 9040596)

#7 Newt interview is here

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gingrich-slams-dem-scare-tactics-on-fiscal-cliff-it-is-an-artificial-invention-of-washington/

Gingrich is a moment of sanity. Obvious why the Dems wanted him out of Washington in the late ´90s never to return.

Mitch McConnell has already stated that nobody can negotiate with obama -he just can´t stop lying long enough to be the part of any deal.


Reply 10 - Posted by: doctorfixit, 11/30/2012 2:40:53 AM     (No. 9040604)

You cannot deal with Democrats. I can´t understand why Boehner is talking to Geithner, he´s a stooge. Why are they talking at all? Tell Obama to present a plan that will pass the House, then walk away. Let Obama figure it out.


Reply 11 - Posted by: beamer, 11/30/2012 3:09:38 AM     (No. 9040611)

I sure wish Boehner had Newt´s brains and experience. We need a new Speaker. I wonder how much he has been offered?


Reply 12 - Posted by: Spidey, 11/30/2012 3:19:23 AM     (No. 9040612)

Remember when Bush asked for more money,how Pelosi went around crying about a blank check all the time? Obama has taken the blank check even further wanting $50 billion more in stimulus type money and an end to debt ceiling haggles. Geither just said last week the debt limit should be infinity. Does that sound like anyone with a sense of responsibility?

We all knew the second Obama got re-elected(with foreign votes) that the next 4 years would be unsurvivable hell.

Birth rates are at a near all time low except immigrant women,most of whom have to be latino.We live in a "hook up" world and these people are "hooking up" with the welfare colony and a permanent voting base for the dems.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: saguni, 11/30/2012 11:25:14 AM     (No. 9041293)

I wish there were even one elected Republican with any testosterone, any backbone, any gonads!

Whenever any DhimmicRAT mentions "tax increase", some Republican should whip out the video of the 0bama/Clinton primary debate in 2008, where the moderator asked about raising taxes, and 0bama acknowledged that every time tax rates increase, tax revenues decline and the opposite, but he wants higher rates for "fairness" to the poor.

Then, after listening to 0bama´s voice admit he wants to lower revenues, that same Republican should ask "How will lowering revenues help solve this fiscal crisis?? Give us some serious spending cuts, then we will discuss possible tax revenue increases."



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