House GOP agrees to Senate’s two-month payroll-tax bill; Update: Does Boehner have the votes?
"Now it looks like even more of a capitulation than it is. Merry Christmas from the GOP, champ. Exit quotation from Philip Klein: “So instead of story being ‘Obama caves on Keystone’ it’ll be ‘GOP caves on middle class tax cut’ Great work!” "....
"The House Republican conference call on the bill is set for 5 p.m. Serious question: If he can’t muster enough GOP votes to pass this thing despite overwhelming support from Democrats, is he done as Speaker?"
More at RealClearPolitics: GOP Goes Into Damage-Control Mode
Below are posts from early on Dec 22nd:
Video: Gleeful Sen. Schumer appears on Fox News Special Report
Republicans in the House are standing on principle just as we elected them to do; Democrats are standing on politics and, unfortunately that is what is making them look good to the masses.
How Does the Payroll Tax Cut Standoff End?"Jon Karl: "My prediction: House Republicans will eventually cave in and accept the two-month extension of the payroll tax cut passed last week by the Senate. I base this on conversations with House Republicans who know they are losing the public relations battle and losing it badly. They know they are taking the blame for a stand-off that threatens to raise taxes on 160 million Americans. And they cannot let that happen.""
I cannot bear to hear what the Demagogue-in-chief has to say about this. Oh, by the way...
Obama's First Hawaiian Vacation Dilemma "Unreported by the Hill is that this is not the first Hawaiian vacation dilemma Obama has faced or the most difficult. Nor, as shall be seen, is it the first vacation dilemma he will have dissembled his way through.
"In late December 1999, while on vacation in Hawaii, Illinois State Senator Obama missed a critical vote on a gun control measure. He had missed votes before -- many of them -- but now he was challenging former Black Panther Bobby Rush for his congressional seat."
All three caricatures by donkeyhotey
"The House Republican conference call on the bill is set for 5 p.m. Serious question: If he can’t muster enough GOP votes to pass this thing despite overwhelming support from Democrats, is he done as Speaker?"
More at RealClearPolitics: GOP Goes Into Damage-Control Mode
Below are posts from early on Dec 22nd:
Republicans in the House are standing on principle just as we elected them to do; Democrats are standing on politics and, unfortunately that is what is making them look good to the masses.
How Does the Payroll Tax Cut Standoff End?"Jon Karl: "My prediction: House Republicans will eventually cave in and accept the two-month extension of the payroll tax cut passed last week by the Senate. I base this on conversations with House Republicans who know they are losing the public relations battle and losing it badly. They know they are taking the blame for a stand-off that threatens to raise taxes on 160 million Americans. And they cannot let that happen.""
I cannot bear to hear what the Demagogue-in-chief has to say about this. Oh, by the way..."In late December 1999, while on vacation in Hawaii, Illinois State Senator Obama missed a critical vote on a gun control measure. He had missed votes before -- many of them -- but now he was challenging former Black Panther Bobby Rush for his congressional seat."
All three caricatures by donkeyhotey
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