rethuglicans say America can't afford $250 for seniors...two-hundred and fifty dollars!!!

Another typical day in the life a Rethuglican. Even after President Obama gave them what they wanted in the tax cut extensions, the rethuglicans came back today and stopped the Democrats efforts to give an eeeensy teeensy weeeensy $250.00 check to seniors, Social Security recipients who will face 2 years now without a cost of living increase. Well, hell sure Obama and dems urged Congress to approve this, saying seniors are facing hardship without their increases. I guess that's all the rethugs had to hear before throwing down the gavel!  NO MORE INCREASES FOR YOU!!  OFF with their heads, Damn it! Those damn lazy seniors, how dare they say they need a cost of living increase EVERY YEAR!!  Don't they know we have a deficit problem? Don't they know we need to extend tax cuts to the filthy rich so it can trickle down?? How ungrateful of those seniors, they got a SIGNIFICANT increase in '09!!
I'm gonna check with my poor elderly mother tomorrow incase I need to make a correction, but I think she got $16.00. That my friends is sixteen dollars a month raise. Wow stop the presses..... So because of this astronomical raise, unfortunately the resluglicans opposed another raise this year and next.  I guess that makes them deficit hawks. I think it makes them chicken livers I want to feed to my cats...


The measure was brought up under a fast-track procedure in the House that required a two-thirds majority for passage. The 254-153 vote in favor of the bill fell short of that.Twenty-six Republicans voted for the bill, while 141 opposed it. Democrats were in favor, 228-12.

The Compromiser

In the final question of today's press conference, President Obama was asked by Jonathan Weisman of the Wall Street Journal how he would respond to Democrats who think he's compromised too much in agreeing on a two-year extension of all the Bush-era tax cuts -- even for the wealthiest Americans -- and that they have a hard time figuring out his core principles on what issues he would go to the mat for. Obama then responded forcefully, saying that the positions of such people on the left would result in getting nothing done, except having a "sanctimonious" pride in the purity of their own positions.

"Sanctimonious pride in the purity of their own positions"......Sounds like conservative republicans to me. President Obama is describing republicans. Yes indeed the republicans take pride in the purity of their positions and they fight with everything they have. WHY is it wrong for democrats to fight? Why is it wrong for democrats to be arrogant and show a forceful pride in their core beliefs? They seem to fear the big fight against the big bad republicans.

President Obama says he will visit the tax cut extension for the rich in 2012. That is a joke! No way will he put himself in that position during a campaign....
Democratic caucuses are meeting tonight and again tomorrow. The shit is hitting the fan, stay tuned, this is far from over...

UPDATE: Shaw breaks it down beautifully, please read her post!!

The Deal.........but is it Done?

So, I have surprised myself, I'm feeling more numb than angry.  President Obama just spoke on the tax cut extension decision.  ALL tax cuts are to be extended, he has agreed to extend ALL because of Republican DEMANDS. The Republicans were willing to allow unemployment benefits to run out for 2 MILLION people, they were willing to allow MILLIONS of Americans taxes to go up by $3,000 in January. They demanded permanent tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires but got a temporary 2 year extension, and in exchange for the extension of ALL tax cuts the Republicans have agreed to extend unemployment benefits for 13 months. How giving of them.....

Other details include a temporary two percent reduction in payroll taxes to replace Obama's "Making Work Pay" tax credit from the 2009 stimulus bill, and a compromise on the estate tax, which will be set for two years at 35 percent, with a $5 million exemption amount.

 source:CBS

 
The stupid GOP are still tonight saying the American people stand with them on these extensions for the wealthy!! WTF! This is what makes me angry, the LIES coming from the moron GOPers...

This is the presidents compromise with Democrats and Republicans, but according to Bernie Sanders there might not be 60 votes. Bernie says he intends to work hard to make sure there are not 60 votes to pass this piece of legislation.  What will happen then? Who will get the blame if the vote fails and taxes go up on the middle class, and more importantly what will happen if the unemployment benefits end for 2 million Americans? If the people are paying attention it is 100% positively on the shoulders of the GOP.  Do Not Forget, the GOP stood in the way for middle class tax cuts and voted NO until and unless the wealthy got their tax cuts extended.  They are hypocrites to cry about the deficit, they caused our huge debt and deficit problems in the first place but will fight to add to it while trying to pass the blame for it onto President Obama and Democrats.

I believe the American people are awake and paying attention to this tax cut debacle.  The suffering and the unemployed have a stake in these decisions being made by Congress, these decisions are having an immediate and personal effect on the people. They are paying attention!

Make no mistake, the Republican Party is fucking the American people and in 2012 they will get theirs....

My Conclusions

I've come to the conclusion the liberals are wasting their time debating the issues with close-minded conservatives. It's the Democrats who constantly bend over backwards to appease the Republicans in Washington (it makes me ill just to write those words), and here in blogland the conservatives say they are debating but I'm through listening to their crap which will NEVER sway me, NEVER make me second guess my liberal views.  I will NEVER understand how they think, where they get their points of view from, and how they come to their conclusions on how this country should be governed.  We were subjected to 8 years of incompetent governing by the Republicans yet they have managed to convince a large portion of our population that somehow they have learned from their mistakes and deserve another chance. But to get this chance they have lied and manipulated the people. What happened yesterday on the Senate floor is proof they have not changed one bit. Yes, those votes were symbolic, but how else can we get it through the peoples heads their precious GOP are NOT standing with you the middle class and poor? Their top priority is to make sure the rich stay rich at the expense of all the rest of us, 98% of us.

So to you Rational Nation who calls the democrats demothieves, and to you lisa and Linda who call Obama a socialist marxist dictator who is hell bent on destroying America ON PURPOSE, I'm not gonna debate you, I'm also not gonna call you names and cuss, I'm just gonna ignore you because we are very different people with very different world views and nothing will change that. Nothing.
Peace

taxcut extension speeches

There are some good speeches from the Senators going on right now on C-Span 2 before the 2 votes on taxcut extensions...

I think we know the outcome of the votes, but the speeches are always interesting to listen to. The GOPPERS are showing America their true colors today!!

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! ;-)

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....

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.......