Boehner backs Obama tax cut deal:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/12/AR2010091201419.html
After being castigated by Obama all week, he turns around and does what Obama wants. What a piece of shit.
B_C
Can’t rely on either party to do whats right, and Republican’s have turned out to be spineless weasels yet again. I’d be proud of them if they only hammered Obama half as much as dems did to Bush but nope.
Look man, give them a chance to contain and repeal. We do not have any other choice at the moment. If they fail again, then we can take more action to strengthen the Rep Party with true conservatives. We win in a piece meal fashion, that is what the lefties have taught me. Take ever win and add to the base, eventually you will change the look of America.
The GOP has always been part of the problem not the solution. They may lessen the impact Obama has had if they take back Congress but thats not a solution. Thats just going down the same path in a VW Beetle instead of a corvette. They aren’t going to reverse course. Even now they are still touting the stimulus plan they put forward last year, and about how it was only HALF as expensive as the dem plan that passed. I don’t have HALF of Obama in charge. I want a reversal, and the GOP has made NO indication they are planning to do that. Many in the GOP are into trillions in social spending, and they added on to Medicare.
Conservatives (fiscally) may get a voice but we are not going to turn the spending around in any meaningful way. A big part of the debt is from the GOP years even as far back as Reagan.
He is thinking big picture and not “party of no”
Savvy move actually
Big picture? In order to have confidence in something they have to have some form of merit to garner the confidence. The GOP has not shown any merit they will turn the country around from the entitlement/welfare stranglehold we are in now, make gov more efficient with money, and take all the garbage out of the budgets. In fact they have done quite the opposite, and show no signs of doing anything different if put back in charge.
There is a reason people were luke warm at best with McCain during the last election, and his mentality is very similar to the GOP’s in general. The senior GOP leadership sets this mentality, and if the GOP wins big in Nov they will be the ones in charge NOT the conservative side. Boehner, McCain, Graham, ect.
Hardly. The streets are, right now, filled with tea party activists demanding they stop the spending in Congress. What more clear message does he need to stay the course as the party of no more tax and spend policies?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hyLHQe7VrBQXTLSDuX2K8JIUSzlwD9I6F3D00
B_C
The average voter doesnt give a shit about the top 5%, that includes “tea party” types.
After TARP and telling 99er’s to pound sand the GOP leaders know well that they cannot afford to continue the path of “let them eat cake”
The only reason the GOP is getting a shot is because POTUS has made huge mistakes not because there is any love for them.
the big picture of destroying America !
party of no ? I guess those who believe the lefties and wont listen to the other side ? typical
Doesn’t matter when you are campaigning. It’s easy as hell to kick GOP candidates in the stomach when they’ve got no real agenda and nothing but party line votes.
The GOP leaders know this. This tax compromise gives them some ammunition. They can claim to be for shrinking the deficit and supporting the middle class. This will play well in the midterms.
Here is a clue: if you don’t win seats your party is DOA.
There are much better ways to shrink the deficit than raising taxes on the people who supply the jobs. Very few people get jobs from people/businesses who make less than 250k a year, and even then those businesses under 250k a year are already seeing higher costs due to ObamaCare.
Its silly to say the reason we have a deficit is because taxes arent high enough. We have a deficit because our government spends more than it takes in, and government spending in the last 10 years has gone WAY up (most notably 2009 and 2010 3.5 trillion added to the debt since 01/20/09). And even Obama admitted it would only be 700 billion over the next decade. Thats 70 billion a year which is barely 1/20th of the deficit at this rate of spending.
So suck up 70 billion a year from the people who actually provide jobs, and let the government distribute that out?
ETA:
I also find it repulsive to hear about a tax cut as the government spending money. That implies it was the government’s money in the first place, and them not taxing you is them spending money that YOU earned. It was never theirs to begin with but I guess with commies in charge thats not the case anymore. Now everything you earn was really theirs, and they are paying you.
So let me get this straight? You’re only a true Republican if you’re in favor of a tax increase for the middle class?
Reagan is doing half-gainers in his grave. :rolleyes:
Variable has got it right…since you can’t get them extended for everyone (which Boehner wants and every Republican agrees with but they lack control of either House to force the issue) you get the ones you can get done…done. Then move on to the others when you’re in power.
That doesn’t make you a RINO, it makes you smart.
No. Anything is better than nothing.
There needs to be a litmus test for anyone wanting to run as a conservative. Then they need to sign a contract stating they will not deviate from those core values. Until that happens we will always have this problem.
It never ceases to amaze me how people believe there is any real difference between either party and get all agitated about one side or the other. All either wants to do is maintain the balance between getting campaign bribes, I mean contributions, while maintaining the illusion that they are throwing us a bone or two in whatever our particular likes or dislikes are. It’s bad enough when people buy into the politicians but when you buy into the Beck, Palin, Olbermann or other hucksters that requires some serious ignorance and cognitive dissonance. Notice I said ignorance not stupidity. Ignorance is different. So you know, rant away if it makes you feel batter.
Politic realism is what got us to where we are now. Signalling a deal on a Sunday show is just stupid and weak.
B_C
Exactly!
So political fairy-tales are better? I gave up on fairy-tales years ago and Sarah Palin is a latter-day Mother Goose.
Real conservatives used to view the world as it was, not as it would be in their wildest dreams if the sun rose in the west and set in the east.
At the end of the day, who is going to complain about a middle class tax cut.
And the Bush tax cuts sunsetting for the top 5% was never meant to be permanent. The lawmakers agreed on a 10 year sunset, and that’s what they got. The GOP has no control over that. They do however have the ability to still get tax cuts implemented.
Or should Boenher stand up on the floor and say “If there are no tax cuts for wealthy people, than the middle class should get screwed”
Indeed.