Obama is NOT A SERIOUS PERSON. Boehner agrees to Obama’s request for another $400 Billion in Revenue with Tax Rates going up for the “Rich” by saying NO but we’ll allow certain loopholes or deductions that only the very rich can avail themselves of (think Corporate Yachts and such) to reach your $400 Billion in Revenue, but WHERE ARE THE CUTS??! You (President Obama) must specify the cuts you are going to make AND we want a budget (the last part about the budget wasn’t reported by the MSM).
And Obama comes back with $1.2 TRILLION in New Revenues from tax rate hikes on the rich (Individuals making $200K a year) and I GET THE authority to raise the debt ceiling by myself and we’ll discuss spending cuts next year. Boehner says NO, McConnel says Hell No and all the MSM say is that the GOP won’t negotiate with Obama.

Repubs continue to drive on the bridge to nowhere, another of their great inventions. And we all suffer as a result.

Yes, the left leaning idiots like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and all those great capitalists don’t understand our economic system…

bayam on December 4, 2012 at 3:52 PM

This sarcasm is actually a true statement.

It’s hilarious that you always think these guys understand macroeconomics. They don’t. Do you have any other argument?

bayam, do you want House Republicans to vote present on Obama’s plan and send it to the Senate?

Do you think Obama’s plan is good?

chumpThreads on December 5, 2012 at 7:21 AM

Do you support Obama’s plan?

Would you like the House Republicans to vote present on Obama’s plan and send it to the Senate? Would that make you happy?

Punishing the rich is just that: punishing the rich.

It has nothing to do with an ‘income gap’.

If you were serious about closing the ‘income gap’ then you would put forward that we need to teach the poor how to succeed, not punish the successful.

Man, it is hard for we who care about our country here at HA to bear this Obama-scum’s victory.

For it is really no victory for Americans no matter what their party or beliefs.

Those of you who believe otherwise are in for a big nasty surprise.

What I have written here along with many HA brethren is true: no more no less.

It is troll-proof.

One hundred percent troll-proof.

It is a sorry day for our Republic.

Sherman1864 on December 4, 2012 at 11:10 PM

Since the election the Hot Air comments section has become nothing but a huge crying towel for sour-grape-juice-swilling cry babies. Stop auditioning for “Doomsday Preppers – Hot Air Edition”! You’ve gone beyond sounding stupid to just being flat-out embarrassing!

You guys need a diaper change and a pacifier.

Cindy Munford, please come back!
All is forgiven!

justltl on December 5, 2012 at 12:09 AM

Thank you for your comment and comment.

I think you know I appreciate your sentiments very well!

The media do make me quite ill!

Clinton tax rates for Clinton spending, or nothing. That should be his one and only offer.

Do it on the second day of Obama’s vacation so that he and America can stew on it or interrupt his precious vacation to address it.

They have to either take the gloves off and fight or just let it burn and explain why.
Half measures will not work with this petty tyrant.

It is pretty clear the public wants spending cuts. And it is time for Boehner to make that point clearly. Tell O that if there’s no deal with spending cuts by 1/1/2013, then there’s going to be no deal by 1/1/2015.

I wrote this on some other thread in response to a good post by IceCold, part of which is:

A president with 1/10 of Obama’s gaffes, weirdness, failures, and alien sensibilities would have been flushed out of the WH by a landslide, not long ago.

IceCold on December 4, 2012 at 10:22 PM

Thanks to the disreputable, despicable and treasonous media.
Unless we conquer the media, the country is lost.
Will anyone have the guts to even significantly call them on their subterfuge? (Such as prominent Republicans laying out the case to the American people.)
Not a chance.
Will the remaining patriots in this country work against the media in some organized and substantial way?
Not a chance.

So we are left with a wretched, lying, traitorous, Marxist farce of a president who can basically do whatever he wants and in the most brazen manner possible- in essence, we are left with a malignant, anti-American tyrant.
And clearly what he wants is to punish America and bring it to its knees.
We are well on our way to the end.

When we get there fully, maybe there will be a relatively few patriots remaining who will give their all to restore a once great and benevolent nation.
Don’t hold your breath.

justltl on December 5, 2012 at 12:03 AM

For it is really no victory for Americans no matter what their party or beliefs.

Those of you who believe otherwise are in for a big nasty surprise.

What I have written here along with many HA brethren is true: no more no less.

It is troll-proof.

One hundred percent troll-proof.

It is a sorry day for our Republic.

Frankly, I am in the let it burn camp, Americans are not going to learn until they experience the real pain of it all blowing up. The point I was making is that the gop has much more pull in these negotiations than they seem to think. The problem is we are just wasting time talking about $100 billion in revenue increases when we are running trillion dollar defecits. If Obama wants higher rates he needs to pay large.

You are just plain full of crap, and you must really be stupid, too. You seem to be unaware that the Senate, led by the hideous Harry Reid, has not put up a budget in four years now. The House has. You are a liar.

Night Owl on December 4, 2012 at 8:52 PM

Budget? We don’t need no stinking budget…

Why not just keep the middle class tax rates and recut the the top rates in a debt ceiiling deal.

Ellis on December 4, 2012 at 10:15 PM

Do you understand who creates jobs in USA? Seems RINOs like you have no idea about reality.

No wonder we’re getting screwed each and every time.

…Bill Gates…

bayam on December 4, 2012 at 3:52 PM

Drink!

rogerb on December 4, 2012 at 9:09 PM

LOL!