Oh you poor Repubs! The President is calling you on your BS and now you want to cry about it.
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In the process, the president irked several Republican aides, who suggested that the entire fiscal cliff deal had been complicated because of his tone and criticism.
“Potus just moved the goalpost again. Significantly. This is new,” tweeted a top aide to McConnell.
Doug Heye, a spokesman for House Majority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.), tweeted, “If Obama’s goal was to harm the process and make going over the cliff more likely, he’s succeeding.” Another Cantor spokesperson said, “So…I’m confused…does POTUS want a deal or not? Because all those jabs at Congress certainly sounded like a smack in the face to me.
They didn’t fail to vote today because Obama said something mean. They didn’t vote today because they don’t have a deal and because they might want to claim they sorta kinda technically cut everybody’s taxes.
Are you seriously surprised that House Republicans lack the emotional maturity of a 5-year old? 'Cause if you are, you haven’t been paying attention for the last 4-6 years. They’re a bunch of spoiled fucking brats.
Remember when the kids would all get sat on the couch to ‘calm down’ and it would break out in a round of “He’s looking at me!”; “He looked at me first!”; “Moooommmmmm, he touched me!”
I wish we could have a taxpayer voting system and each day, if over 2 million taxpayers vote against a congress critter’s pay, then they get sent to their office with no pay for the day. I’m so sick of this pansy cry-baby stuff.
I sat in open-mouthed disbelief throughout this mess. McConnell actually said that it would be more politically advantageous to wait until after the first of the year because then the Rs would be seen as cutting taxes, rather than raising them on the wealthy. Right, because Americans are not-too-bright children who are easily fooled by bullshit like this.
They do go and put their big boy pants on but they are too big for their britches. But with the clear landslide mandate they were given in the last election, its to be expected. All the real Americans are on their side, so its a moral victory. President Obama’s refusal to accept that is clearly the behavior of a sore loser.
I like John “Yelling at Clouds” McWhinyPants McCain complaining that Obama’s words damaged talks. Does he listen to even 1/10th of the shit his own party says?
Damn, I should have put the fucker on my deathpool list. 76 years old and has been on the mental decline for a few years now.
Exactly. Pubbies can only vote to cut taxes, regardless of what the context is. What I want to know is how it is legal to discharge the duties of the House to the likes of Grover Norquist via oath.
So, now that the Senate has reached a compromise and is sending a bill to the House, do you think this will allow the Tea Partyers to nullify the tax increases as illegal at some later date because, you know, the spending didn’t originate in the House?
Or will the willfully petulant follow Rep. Huelskamp and stomp on the gas and yell “Wheeeeeeeeee!” as we fall over the cliff?
Remember when House Republicans were acting like Obama had offended them? Anyway House Republicans can and will make their own changes to the Senate bill. At this point the question is if those changes will be intolerable and if they will be deliberately intolerable- because some Representatives are saying the Senate bill is worse than the Boehner proposals they rejected last month.
Anyway House Republicans can and will make their own changes to the Senate bill. At this point the question is if those changes will be intolerable and if they will be deliberately intolerable- because some Representatives are saying the Senate bill is worse than the Boehner proposals they rejected last month.