If that were true it wouldn’t have taken months and months to pass it.
Reminder: most people’s taxes were cut.
Because they couldn’t get it through Congress! Surprise! Even majorities weren’t enough, and it wasn’t because Democrats were opposed to his ideas.
Yes. You might recall that when he took office the economy was shrinking and hundreds of thousands of jobs were being lost every month, and now the economy is growing slowly and jobs are being added. And the U.S. is doing much better than Europe, where governments slashed the hell out of their budgets.
So was Boehner. Obama has won two elections while campaigning on the idea of raising these taxes, and the Republicans got no encouragement Tuesday night. Boehner knows that. The deal might include some other tax reforms and that could be a good thing, but those tax increases are going to be part of any kind of deal.
And I’d like to address this statement of yours: I wonder, if, for the sake of the argument, Republicans won two elections while campaigning on banning abortions, do you think that in that case Democrats should just vote together with Republicans to ban them?
I don’t like arguing by analogy, and that’s a poor analogy. If the situation were reversed and Republicans had won two elections while campaigning on the idea that some tax increases needed to expire, the Democrats would look pretty stupid if they said the results proved that the public wanted the tax increases to be extended. Particularly if they’d spent a couple of years arguing about fiscal responsibility and the Republicans had already agreed to extend some of the tax increases.
You don’t like the analogy because you think that the Republicans’ objection to tax increases is situational and not principled. Try to imagine you’re wrong.
For once, possibly the only time ever, I agree with what you are saying Terr. If republican members of the house signed a pledge saying they would never increase taxes, and were re-elected on that promise, then they should continue to block any and every attempt to raise taxes. And I’m being sincere when I say that. If that’s what people voted for in their representatives, that’s how their representatives should vote, regardless of how the nation as a whole voted.
The problem is that Obama wants blue and the Republicans want Red, so Obama came out with a suggestion if purple to which the Republicans refused, so then he went to maroon and the Republicans are still saying no, demanding the shift to Rose. Of course if he did that they would say that he was being partisan for not agreeing to scarlet.
Obama has won two elections while campaigning on the idea of raising these taxes, and the Republicans got no encouragement Tuesday night. Boehner knows that. The deal might include some other tax reforms and that could be a good thing, but those tax increases are going to be part of any kind of deal.