There are some good speeches from the Senators going on right now on C-Span 2 before the 2 votes on taxcut extensions...
taxcut extension speeches
Nancy Pelosi, gotta love her backbone...
The House, with leader Nancy Pelosi, showed some backbone today and pushed through a measure to extend the middle class tax cuts. The measure passed 234-188. This symbolic vote was for show, we all can agree to that because it'll go nowhere in the Senate. But what an oh so sweet vote it was! The republicans came out seething and slobbering all over themselves. Boehner called the vote chicken crap, nonsense and political games playing! HA!! YES BONEHEAD, but it was so much fun for us liberals to watch! House Democrats wanted the American people to see the GOP vote NO for the middle class, but this vote was also to send a message to President Obama. That is a good thing...
“House Democrats are taking a very different negotiating strategy than President Obama,” says Julian Zelizer, a congressional historian at Princeton University in New Jersey. “They are starting with what they want before negotiating with Republicans. President Obama tends to give things away before he negotiates.”
“It’s not just political theater," he adds. Democrats are "trying something different than we’ve seen over the last two years, which is to stand firm before the negotiations."
All revenue bills start in the House, so the whining by the GOP is just pathetic. It's what comes next that will have the liberals in the country whining and complaining. I don't see this ending anywhere near where we want. In the end Democrats and Obama will cave.....ANY vote short of letting the tax cuts to the rich expire is caving. It makes me sick to my stomach....
UPDATE: Harry Reid says there will be 2 separate votes tomorrow, Saturday. One for the middle class tax cuts and one for the richest bastards tax cuts... Can't wait! ;-)
“House Democrats are taking a very different negotiating strategy than President Obama,” says Julian Zelizer, a congressional historian at Princeton University in New Jersey. “They are starting with what they want before negotiating with Republicans. President Obama tends to give things away before he negotiates.”
“It’s not just political theater," he adds. Democrats are "trying something different than we’ve seen over the last two years, which is to stand firm before the negotiations."
All revenue bills start in the House, so the whining by the GOP is just pathetic. It's what comes next that will have the liberals in the country whining and complaining. I don't see this ending anywhere near where we want. In the end Democrats and Obama will cave.....ANY vote short of letting the tax cuts to the rich expire is caving. It makes me sick to my stomach....
UPDATE: Harry Reid says there will be 2 separate votes tomorrow, Saturday. One for the middle class tax cuts and one for the richest bastards tax cuts... Can't wait! ;-)
ASSHOLES
I haven't talked about President Obama's bipartisan meeting yesterday because at this point I'm not sure any of us knows what went on, and what's next for us, the public, remember us??
Look at these ugly stupid men, they don't have a clue what they are doing. They all gag me. The demand this time, to block legislative action on ALL issues to be considered in the lame-duck Congress until the tax cut dispute is settled. Now when they say settled they don't mean debated and compromised, they mean settled as in give us our tax cut extension permanently for our rich fuckin friends or you get NOTHING from us this year! Which by the way is nothing new....
All of the 42 Senate Republican jokers signed a letter to Harry Reid vowing to filibuster EVERYTHING til they get their way. Reid blasted the GOP on the Senate floor today calling them cynical and transparent, their strategy is to delay and obstruct legislation while turning around and blaming it all on Democrats. It will not work. The country will see those thugs for who they are, who they really fight for, and it sure as hell ain't you or I! Fucking whining MF'ers.... the country is watching you and your graves are being dug. They are so brazen, so disgusting....They still call the temporary tax cuts expiring a job- killing tax hike! There was a reason Bush made these tax cuts temporary, the proof is obvious to all of us except the moron righties, these tax cuts to the wealthy did NOT spur job growth. The game is over, the cuts should expire like Bush wanted them to.
So tomorrow, Thursday, House Democrats will move forward with a vote to permanently extend the tax cuts ONLY for families earning 250,000 or less. THIS is NOT about hurting small businesses. When the GOP whines about that they are LYING! President Obama has made sure small businesses had their tax breaks, of which the GOP voted NO on....
All of the 42 Senate Republican jokers signed a letter to Harry Reid vowing to filibuster EVERYTHING til they get their way. Reid blasted the GOP on the Senate floor today calling them cynical and transparent, their strategy is to delay and obstruct legislation while turning around and blaming it all on Democrats. It will not work. The country will see those thugs for who they are, who they really fight for, and it sure as hell ain't you or I! Fucking whining MF'ers.... the country is watching you and your graves are being dug. They are so brazen, so disgusting....They still call the temporary tax cuts expiring a job- killing tax hike! There was a reason Bush made these tax cuts temporary, the proof is obvious to all of us except the moron righties, these tax cuts to the wealthy did NOT spur job growth. The game is over, the cuts should expire like Bush wanted them to.
So tomorrow, Thursday, House Democrats will move forward with a vote to permanently extend the tax cuts ONLY for families earning 250,000 or less. THIS is NOT about hurting small businesses. When the GOP whines about that they are LYING! President Obama has made sure small businesses had their tax breaks, of which the GOP voted NO on....
Democrats are also trying to pass several pieces of legislation before a more Republican Congress is sworn in in January, including the START nuclear arms treaty with Russia, a repeal of the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, and the so-called DREAM Act, which would create a path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants.
"Last month, the American people issued their verdict on the Democrat's priorities," replied Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky. "We need to show the American people that we care more about them and their ability to pay their bills than we do about the special interests' legislative Christmas-list." OMG, the man is delusional! Please people, take the time to listen to the Senators on the floor debating the issues, watch C-Span, you will be amazed. Mitch McConnell and his henchmen DO NOT care about you and your ability to pay your bills! That is friggin hilarious.....ROFLMFAO.......
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