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OBAMA AND REID SAY TAKE US OVER: GOP MUST PASS TAX CUTS FOR ALL
Regardless of how you felt about the offers Boehner made to Obama, none were accepted. With a few days remaining before the fiscal deadline, passed legislation from the House still sits in Reid’s ‘desk drawer’. Obama’s back in DC to save the day and Reid just submitted another brief statement. Reid: “It is time for […]
BENGHAZI COVER-UP: BIGGER THAN WATERGATE…
December 23, 2012
Last spring the Obama team was more than willing to sign off on a weapons package shipment to the Libyan rebels. If Hillary’s concussion did not affect long term memory maybe she can recall her input, a UN embargo to restrict weapons to the government. Following protocol Obama followed everyone else in the regime as […]
OBAMA: WHAT IS HALFWAY?
December 22, 2012
Before boarding the Hawaii holiday (Christmas) plane yesterday Obama spent a few minutes in front of the camera: “Good afternoon, everybody. Over the last few weeks I’ve been working with leaders of both parties on a proposal to get our deficit under control, avoid tax cuts — or avoid tax hikes on the middle class, […]
FARM BILL STALLED: MILK PRICES COULD HIT $8
December 21, 2012
America became what it did from the start by breaking away from the remainder of the world and daring to evolve. Risk was rewarded with change and success determined our future. Liberalism does not evolve, it has no motivation for what has always been the ‘American Dream’. It lives in the past. It’s dreams are […]
SCREW PLAN B: ANOTHER REAGAN DECISION
December 21, 2012
Boehner, like too many of the DC GOP, have been believers for too long. There has never been liberal compromise, conservatives always get screwed. Spectator: “Moments in American history when, under extreme pressure, Ronald Reagan simply refused to buckle. Against all the chorus shouted from the media and congressional bleachers — that he had failed […]
BOEHNER PLAN B: WHO DO WE SCREW?
December 20, 2012
Obama responded yesterday to Boehner’s offering of Plan B (the Pelosi Plan): “If you look at what the speaker has proposed, he’s conceded that income tax rates should go up, except right now he only wants to have them go up for millionaires. If you’re making $900,000, somehow he thinks that you can’t afford to […]
NEW TAX LAWS FOR SUCCESSFUL WHO LEAVE BANKRUPT STATES?
December 18, 2012
France recently announced a 75% tax rate for the successful and one of their most best known business executives, now paying a total of 85%, uprooted to Belgium. Gérard Depardieu, CEO: “I started working aged 14, as a printer, as a warehouseman, then as an actor, and I’ve always paid my taxes. I am neither […]
BOEHNER’S PELOSI PLAN REJECTED: UPDATE- PELOSI SAYS IT’S A TACTIC
December 18, 2012
The tax increase Boehner returned to bargain, Plan B, was the Pelosi Plan. Obama rejected it immediately. Carney spoke about it later: “He is not willing to accept a deal that doesn’t ask enough of the very wealthiest in taxes and instead shifts the burden to the middle class and seniors. The president is hopeful […]
BOEHNER OFFERS OBAMA $1 MILLION: RETREATS ON PRINCIPLE
December 17, 2012
Speaker Boehner, in his role as head House GOP, has told Obama he can raise taxes on the successful. Reuters: “Sources familiar with the Obama-Boehner talks confirmed that Boehner proposed extending low tax rates for everyone who has earned less than $1 million, and rates would rise for wages above that. Obama wants that threshold […]
OBAMA AND BOEHNER SET FOR FACE TO FACE AT 5PM EST: UPDATE
December 13, 2012
The House has voted out and left. Last minute has arrived for any opportunity to alter the oncoming taxmageddon and the announcement has been made for the Obama, Boehner face to face. The area of greatest division is spending, Obama’s refusal to make any cuts. His focus remains of tax hikes for the successful in […]
December 27, 2012
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