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bucheon bum
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 Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:02 pm Post subject: GOP Says it Will Block All Bills Until Tax Cuts Extended |
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| WASHINGTON � Senate Republicans threatened Wednesday to block virtually all legislation until expiring tax cuts are extended and a bill is passed to fund the federal government, vastly complicating Democratic attempts to leave their own stamp on the final days of the post-election Congress. |
I really hope Obama and the Democrats don't cave into this crap. If they do, then I don't see a point in voting in federal elections. |
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mises
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/12/01/republicans-pull-the-plug-jobless-help-dies/
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At the stroke of midnight last night, some 800,000 workers who have been looking for jobs for more than six months lost their unemployment insurance (UI)�2 million will be without help by the end of December. Why? Because congressional Republicans have chosen to side with the nation�s millionaires instead of the jobless.
They chose to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy as their top priority this lame-duck session and essentially have told workers struggling to find work in an economy with five job hunters for every opening: �Tough luck. |
Class war. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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| And yet many of the people getting screwed over the most by the GOP continue to vote for them. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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| How is this anything new? They've spent the last two years blocking anything they possibly could. Hell, they're even blocking a nuclear arms treaty. If they disagree with something, they block it, and if they agree with something, they block it because they don't want the Democrats achieving anything if they can help it. All this letter says is, "By the way, nothing's changed, except perhaps we'll even start blocking totally trivial things just to prove a point." |
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northway
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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GOP: 1
Effective Governance: 0 |
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conrad2
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| How did we get to the point where America's elites don't even feel the need to hide their selfishness and disdain for the common man? At least they used to try to hide their true colors. |
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Caffeinated
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| bucheon bum wrote: |
| And yet many of the people getting screwed over the most by the GOP continue to vote for them. |
And yet many Democrats keep getting screwed over by GOP promises of bipartisanship and cooperation. |
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northway
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:29 am Post subject: |
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| Caffeinated wrote: |
| bucheon bum wrote: |
| And yet many of the people getting screwed over the most by the GOP continue to vote for them. |
And yet many Democrats keep getting screwed over by GOP promises of bipartisanship and cooperation. |
I'll preface this by mentioning that I was a field organizer on the Obama campaign, BUT: the Democrats' ability to legislate was somehow handcuffed while having a super-majority in both the House and the Senate. Someone wasn't doing their job. If anything, the Democrats keep getting screwed over by making their tent being so big than any Blue Dog self-titled Democrat can run on the Democratic ticket, even if they only Democratic value they actually agree with is populism. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| Caffeinated wrote: |
| bucheon bum wrote: |
| And yet many of the people getting screwed over the most by the GOP continue to vote for them. |
And yet many Democrats keep getting screwed over by GOP promises of bipartisanship and cooperation. |
I'll preface this by mentioning that I was a field organizer on the Obama campaign, BUT: the Democrats' ability to legislate was somehow handcuffed while having a super-majority in both the House and the Senate. Someone wasn't doing their job. If anything, the Democrats keep getting screwed over by making their tent being so big than any Blue Dog self-titled Democrat can run on the Democratic ticket, even if they only Democratic value they actually agree with is populism. |
YES! Caffeinated, spare me. If the dems got a backbone or didn't do everything and anything to support candidates that were left-of-center on just a couple issues, maybe they would be able to overcome GOP objections. And I'm not exactly sympathetic to someone who gets screwed over in the same way repeatedly. That's just being dumb.
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| How is this anything new? They've spent the last two years blocking anything they possibly could. Hell, they're even blocking a nuclear arms treaty. If they disagree with something, they block it, and if they agree with something, they block it because they don't want the Democrats achieving anything if they can help it. All this letter says is, "By the way, nothing's changed, except perhaps we'll even start blocking totally trivial things just to prove a point." |
True, but on the other hand this congress has passed more legislation than any since the LBJ administration. It will be hard to even come close to that level of activity in the next two years. |
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mises
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http://politics.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2010/12/2/delaying-tax-vote-could-crash-stock-market.html
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Delaying Tax Vote Could Crash Stock Market
Failure by Congress to extend the Bush tax cuts, especially locking in the 15 percent capital gains tax rate, will spark a stock market sell off starting December 15 as investors move to lock in gains at a lower rate than the 20 percent it would jump to next year, warn analysts. [See who gets the most money from the financial industry.]
While it is unclear how bad the sell off could be, it could wipe out the year's gains, they warn. |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| bucheon bum wrote: |
| True, but on the other hand this congress has passed more legislation than any since the LBJ administration. |
Yeah, it's too bad the GOP couldn't block more. Congress should be repealing laws instead of making more. |
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Fox
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| So Republicans have filibustered compromise bills that keep the tax cuts for people earning up to $250,000, and for people earning up to a million. Why aren't Democrats just circumventing this and passing their proposed bills through budget reconciliation, just like the original tax cuts were? |
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northway
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
| So Republicans have filibustered compromise bills that keep the tax cuts for people earning up to $250,000, and for people earning up to a million. Why aren't Democrats just circumventing this and passing their proposed bills through budget reconciliation, just like the original tax cuts were? |
Because they're cowards. |
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