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This clown show on the House floor just got more hilarious. At some point in the last four hours or so, Freedomworks, a key tea party group, abandoned their support of Plan B, this Boehner proposal to create what looks like a conservative wish list. They wrote a long encomium to Plan B at 9am this morning, and by 1:30pm, they added this:
[Update 12/20, 1:30 p.m. ET: After review of the Boehner Plan B legislation, pending in the House today, FreedomWorks has found it must oppose the legislation, and will be urging House members to vote NO on the bill. We will post our formal opposition letter on our site, soon.]
Hysterical. There’s been no reason given for this change of heart. Meanwhile, RedState continues to oppose the bill as a tax hike. It actually cuts taxes on many rich people relative to current law, while raising taxes relative to current law on the middle class and working poor.
I wonder how long they’ll have to keep this vote open to get their desired result. And meanwhile, Senate Democrats reiterated they won’t even bother to bring Plan B up for a vote. So the entire big lift here is completely meaningless. No wonder Republican numbers are tanking.
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Family Research Council has bailed as well.
I don’t think this is going anywhere.
Isn’t this Obama’s cue to offer more concessions? Just asking.
why do people expect those that do not believe in government to be effective,fair,useful,patriotic members of government. the only thing republicans believe in is corporate power which is a core prerequisite to being a fascist
Spin this into a win by blaming Obama for conceding too much too early on in negotiations thereby making tea party crazies think they can get more thereby scuttling Boehners Plan B. Diabolical.
Right you are bom. Goes without saying.
Are you and bom related?????
I’ve seen rat’s leaving a sinking ship more organizaed that this whole mess. People are trying to “analyze” the strategies.
“We dun’t need no stinkin’ strategies.”
Hot Mess, Clusterfuck, monkey fucking a football; all appropriate.
Government by the people, for the people has perished from this Earth and it is not even the 21st yet.
all this proves is what a vile creature obama really is.
not content in screwing the weakest section of the population with cuts to SS and medicare (who most likely were a majority of his voters) he pretends that bargaining with the likes of boner (who if he had his way would make the poor and the middle class pay for INCREASED TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH)is a nobel thing to do!
not a single word from obama to rally the people about what boner and his tea bags really want!
and to top it all off….no where does boner ask for SS CUTS!
SO now when this deal is done with just a few republican congressmen needed to cross over in the house the ENTIRE REMAINING REPUBLICAN PARTY can run against democrats as the party that not only increased taxes but CUT SOCIAL SECURITY benefits!!!!!
this is exactly the reason i maintain obamas goal ALWAYS paramount is in destroying the democratic party!
All this is a smokescreen while the number crunchers score Obama’s original sell-out deal. Remember they need three days before they can vote. The right wants to make sure the media focuses on them and not chained CPI in the interim.
Yes, exactly.
Remember Obama’s number one rule of negotiation – when the opposition doesn’t accept your offer, then lower it AGAIN. Especially if it’s something the vast majority of Americans of ALL political parties DOES NOT support.
Are the Mayans right?
Was Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg ominously foreboding?
Is David Letterman REALLY deserving of a Kennedy Center Honor?
Will John Boehner cry after his plans are killed by his own party?
B B B B Buuut, but, but but CPI!
Solvency!
Future!
SaveTheSolvency!
*spits*
Bastids, all of them.
i wonder if there was a plan to scuttle Boehner, get him to offer his plan then renounce it, no time left so we hit the cliff, no one has to “raise taxes” and the dodge a bullet and Boehner loses the speakership to one of the younglings.