This has to be one of the most idiotic things I have read in ages. Shouldn’t be shocking, coming from a former Bush writer: Barring a last-minute breakthrough, taxes will go up for every U.S. taxpayer on Jan. 1 — and that’s a development conservatives should welcome. Don’t get me wrong: It would be better […]
One thing the payroll tax cut fight has given us is a big fracture in the GOP. Here’s a couple of quotes that caught my eye: Rep. Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican whom Boehner picked to be on the conference committee, summed up the beating his caucus had taken when he said, “I am willing […]
One of the reasons John Boehner has said that his people opposed the 2 month extension of the tax cut is that the payroll processors would have problems with it. That makes we wonder about this: Just under two years ago, House Republicans, including some of the party’s more conservative members, were arguing that a […]
Boehner just announced that they will agree to the two month extension, while he held back tears (seriously – it looked like they were ready to come out!). Here’s what it is: The House will agree to the Senate bill by anonymous consent The Senate will immediately appoint conferees to hammer out the differences towards […]
Gallup is out with a new poll that shows U.S. satisfaction is really low right now. Given the economic state and how broken Congress is, that should come as no shock. Some on the right are pushing this as the “Obama is Carter” meme: The second term of Jimmy Carter is going about as well […]
This week’s drama surrounding the payroll tax cut has reminded American’s of one big thing – Washington is broke! Actually there was one really interesting irony though that happened this week. It used to be people viewed the Senate as being dysfunctional more so than the House. Well we had a bill put out by […]
A little bit ago Steny Hoyer tried to get the House to vote for the payroll tax cut. In doing so he showed how the House Republicans are truly cowards on this issue. Here’s what Hoyer said: “Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask for unanimous consent that we bring up the bill to extend […]
Republicans are getting nervous, and I mean really nervous. They have painted themselves into a corner by opposing the payroll tax cut and are now even fracturing. The nervousness can be seen by what today’s Wall Street Journal editorial board is saying: The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for […]
The House will vote in a bit on a motion to “disagree with the Senate” on the payroll tax cut. Why is that? Because then House Republicans can spin and lie saying they didn’t vote against the tax cut. It’s one of the most cowardly moves by a leader playing whore to the extremists in […]
Yesterday the Republicans again filibustered the payroll tax cut extension. They continued their argument that paying for it with a surtax on millionaires would hurt hiring. NPR decided to look further into that claim and here’s what they found: We wanted to talk to business owners who would be affected. So, NPR requested help from […]