Your taxes are going up in 11 days, and you'll have Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, and the rest of the Republicans in the House to thank. When 89 Senators vote for a bill, and a small faction of the House Republicans block the legislation, it qualifies as perhaps the most blatant example so far of activist lawmakers blocking the will of the people.
Boener's gleeful...that tone should perk the ears of all Democratic strategists.......
Sound bites that will surely come....already kick-the-can-down the-road is bouncing around (again...oldie but a goody) .....add this to the voter suppression going on.
This bunch couldn't give a rat's a$$ about the 160, mil. & what they're going through, but they're sure gonna use them. (include myself amongst the 160.)
Mr. Fargo
12/21/2011 3:22:05 PM
Message from ND Democrats:
Rick Berg who is currently in the House of Reps & is running as 2012 Republican Senate candidate is "more interested in playing hyper-partisan games than standing up for middle-class North Dakota families."
An average of 40.00 per paycheck for middle class families isn't even enough to purchase a glass of table wine for the average Republican Legislator. Attacking the middle class family over several $350.00 glasses of wine................then publicly stating as Opponents of the payroll tax cut dismissing its impact by insisting $40 isn't a lot of money, while laughing at many families who are already working hard to make ends while the opponents of extending the tax cuts are drinking their expensive table wine. $350.00 a glass = out of touch GOP
Rex, Moorhead
12/21/2011 2:59:16 PM
The House GOP may very well be committing political suicide over this issue. I personally would not want to be a politician who raised taxes $1,000 during this recession. If the national debt has to go up a little bit to keep 160 million Americans going in this rough economy too bad because that is why you raise the debt limit. We can worry about the deficit when the economy is better and we do not have 24 million unemployed/underemployed workers who want to find a full time job with benefits but can not do so. The two month extension of unemployment benefits and the middle class tax cut should have been passed in the House immediately after it passed the Senate by such a strong bipartisan agreement. The radical Tea Party/GOPers need to put country first as President Obama said comparing the sacrifices that service members make in a war zone. Service members work as a team and we didn't care about Democrat or Republican but making sure we got our mission and job done for the country.
The GOP/Tea Party caucus needs to pull its head out of its rectum and start acting like mature adults. If those tax cuts and unemployment benefits don't get passed the fragile economy could go into a recession. President Obama asked for this extension months ago. If the Senate needs more time to come up with a CLEAN BILL not one with a pile of GOP riders on it fine they can have two months. But the House not passing this two month middle class tax cut and unemployment extension bill is TOTALLY UNCONSCIONABLE AND ANTI-AMERICAN. The public needs to learn that when you vote in extremists and radicals you get an unworkable political process that fails to get anything done. Perhaps this is the last suicidal hurrah of the Tea Party. Can you say "Speaker Pelosi" in 2012?
Mr. Fargo
12/21/2011 2:41:30 PM
Tax Cuts for the middle class a gimmick? Really?
Michelle Bachmann publicly stated the word gimmick when it comes to extending the payroll tax cut extension.
I guess Bachmann feels that extra money that will be taken out of your paychecks because the Republicans in the House just can't vote for an extension is just a gimmick. Message to Bachmann, that is real money to most Americans, it is not a gimmick when families struggle just to afford the every day living expenses.
Mr. Fargo
12/21/2011 1:07:47 PM
typo
savings
just one of those days busy working while trying to type
Mr. Fargo
12/21/2011 1:07:00 PM
typo:
John Boehner & Eric Cantor are telling hard working Americans to suck it up acting like $1,000.00 tax extension for the middle class that will lead to an increase in taxes is just too hard to vote for while they sit at a table consuming over $700.00 worth of wine in less than 90 minutes. That tax increase is just one nights table wine to the Average Republican legislator.
Some examples
Eric Cantor & his lobbyist buddies drank several $350.00 glass of wine with their meal
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who complains about entitlement spending & the architect of the plan to privatize Medicare, spent an evening sipping several $350 bottles of wine with two like-minded conservative economists at the swanky Capitol Hill eatery Bistro Bis.
..........can anyone say out of touch..................................whats a thousand dollars...........?
Mr. Fargo
12/21/2011 1:04:57 PM
John Boehner & Eric Cantor are telling hard working Americans to suck it up acting like $1,000.00 increase on the middle class is just too hard to vote for while they sit at a table consuming over $700.00 worth of wine in less than 90 minutes. That tax increase is just one nights table wine to the Average Republican legislator.
Some examples
Eric Cantor & his lobbyist buddies drank several $350.00 glass of wine with their meal
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who complains about entitlement spending & the architect of the plan to privatize Medicare, spent an evening sipping several $350 bottles of wine with two like-minded conservative economists at the swanky Capitol Hill eatery Bistro Bis.
..........can anyone say out of touch..................................whats a thousand dollars...........?
Stephen, N.E. Tn.
12/21/2011 1:04:42 PM
Bohener sounded almost half sober!
Mad Dog -- Can't stand a DRUNK,
Bob Bobonde, Minto ND.
12/21/2011 1:03:37 PM
Like Ed said, when your taxes go up because the GOP is protecting the rich, thank the job killers in congress; the ones with the "R" by their names!
Rob, Oregon
12/21/2011 11:28:43 AM
DugFmJamul
12/20/2011 6:58:12 PM
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Finally hang yourself Dug? Don't let the door hit your azz on the way out.
I agree with Linda S. We are going to see a heck of a turnover in Congress next year. Boehner is a puppet, and the teas? they gotta go. The blatant serve the wealthy only politics of these recycled Birchers is bad for America.
