WaPo reports it – a surprise.

At any rate, to reiterate what I have said in this forum before – Obama holds all the cards right now on the tax issue, in addition to having been reelected after campaigning on raising taxes. The taxes will hurt – but not kill – our nation. Give him what he wants. Sign into law a bill to make all tax cuts for people under $250k permanent and send it to him yesterday. Let the left own all the rest of the tax hikes.

Where to hold the line is on the debt ceiling. The accumulation of debt really could kill our nation. Demand Obama and the left come up with a plan to reduce the deficit by 25% by the end of his term, and send us over that cliff, refusing to authorize any increase until he submits a plan that passes both houses and is signed into law – attached to which is the REINS act to stop Obama from going around Congress to govern America.

Actually that last bit might be the most important of all, as it would go along way to restoring the Constitutional balance between Congress, who is supposed to have sole legislative authority per Art. I of the Constitution, and the regulatory agencies under executive control, which are run amock.

trying to figure out what he means by “balanced”

Obama knows that the word “balanced” polls well.

But it polls well because people want a “balanced” budget.

When Obama uses the word “balanced”, you won’t ever hear him follow that with the word “budget”. Obama almost always follows it with the word “approach”.

But to Obama, a “balanced approach” does not mean a balanced budget, and it does not even mean a balance of tax increases and spending cuts.

To Obama, a “balanced approach” simply means that he will not accept anything that doesn’t increase taxes on the “rich” and redistribute wealth to his constituencies.

PERIOD.

If a plan doesn’t take from the “rich” and give to his voters, then Obama will say that that plan isn’t “balanced”.

Who knows, maybe the bammer will figure out a way to pull Buffet’s plug too

The Democrat Party is the face of Communism and has been for over 70 years. Regular patriotic people never thought it would get to this. The Democrats have their own people afraid of Republicans and that is why we lost. We never, ever fought back. Bush didn’t do it and our candidate didn’t do it. Now we are fighting for our lives and still no one will do it.

So we are stuck with trillions of dollars in debt that Bronco spent just in less than three years. He’s claiming that it’s Bush’s and the Republicans’ fault. Everything is the Republicans’ fault and nary a Congress Critter will stand up and truthfully asses the situation. They depend on Rush, Levin, and Hannity to do it. Actual Republicans need to do it. Where is our propoganda machine?

This is about Democrats returning to what they are all about – tax and spend. Obama and the Democrats simply want new revenue to buy more votes.

Instead of Obamaphones, he will buy new votes with Obamapads, while forcing the rich to pay for them because, gee golly, 60% of people not effected by the tax increases should naturally be able to force a voiceless minority (and make no mistake, in today’s electoral climate, even though the rich have money, their voices are drowned out) to pay for their crap.

But, then again…..

Basically what WAPO is saying is, “Hey, Obama, if you want us to keep covering your a$$, we’re gonna need a little help from you, even if our readers are just useful idiots.”

lea on December 14, 2012 at 11:22 AM

Hey! I’m seldom useful.

Barack Obama keeps claiming that he wants a “balanced” approach to deficit reform, but the editors of the Washington Post have a little difficulty trying to figure out what he means by “balanced

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I’m sure the lights were burning late at the WaPo building on 17th Street trying to find a way to explain “balanced.” That they failed to carry the water for the rat-eared wonder further convinces me that the GOP should suggest where the commie should stick his plan. Balanced is going to include cutting entitlements now- not some future plan down the road that will never happen.

FACT: Tax revenues went UP, not down, after the passage of the 2003 Bush Tax Cuts.

FACT: FY 2007 revenues were a whopping 44% larger than FY 2003 revenues!

FACT: Employment increased from 62.0% of the civilian non-institutional population age 16+ in September 2003 to 63.4% in December 2006 (the last month that Republicans controlled the House, Senate, and Presidency).

FACT: In the wake of the 2003 Bush Tax Cuts, both employment and revenues improved every year for serveral years.

FACT: It was not until Democrats took majority control of Washington, D.C. that employment and revenues decreased.

FACT: Employment has been below 59% since September 2009, and shows no sign of improving (it was actually down a tenth of a point last month to 58.7%).

OPINION: If employment and revenues both improved in the wake of the 2003 Bush Tax Cuts, isn’t it logical to assume that reversing any of those cuts will have a reverse outcome? I.E., if tax rates are allowed to go up, then both employment and revenues will get worse, not better.

Typical of a Harvard tourist whelped by dysfunctional alcoholic swinger parents whose wanton excesses quickly caught up with them via the dirt nap early in life. Much the same reason Clintoon turned out as he did.

cause i pull while others are content being pulled.

sesquipedalian on December 14, 2012 at 10:40 AM

Only fair since you and your ilk created those who need to be pulled.

…why is there a picture of you here…pulling a cart?

KOOLAID2 on December 14, 2012 at 10:37 AM

cause i pull while others are content being pulled.

Dear Liar wants to crash the system, so he can impose his own marxist one.

rbj on December 14, 2012 at 10:25 AM

Chavez Lite will have to get busy – only 2 years left to bring the system down….
2014 elections will be a repeat of 2010…..then total gridlock until 2016.
Hopefully a 20% unemployment rate and 10% inflation will shock enough people
to resist Obummers Marxism….Nah!!! Who am I kidding…..

i attribute this zany rant to the feeling of powerlessness.

sesquipedalian on December 14, 2012 at 10:35 AM

…why is there a picture of you here…pulling a cart?

It’s clear that the White House isn’t interested in balance. They’re not interested in fixing the budget deficits, either. They are interested in punishing success and maintaining the ability to redirect funds for their own political benefit.

i attribute this zany rant to the feeling of powerlessness.

Don’t even get me started on his use of “our values.”

Obama may not really be serious about this whole deficit-reform idea.

Doi.

It’s clear that the White House isn’t interested in balance. They’re not interested in fixing the budget deficits, either. They are interested in punishing success and maintaining the ability to redirect funds for their own political benefit. That’s unbalanced, and not just in the ledger sense, either.

Dear Liar wants to crash the system, so he can impose his own marxist one.