Ahhhh….Just enough to get us by until next year’s “one year” debt ceiling increase.

Does anybody still believe there is a difference between the Democrats and Republicans?

dom89031 on December 18, 2012 at 3:27 AM

There is one key difference. When the Democrats lose elections, they only become more and more emboldened to their hardcore Socialist ideology. When Republicans lose, the leadership and elites at the top fall apart like a wet napkin and try to assimilate with the winners like battered women coming back to an abusive husband/boyfriend.

a. do you think weepy can get the GOP to go along with it…

b. do you think weepy will keep the gavel ….

conservative tarheel on December 18, 2012 at 12:29 PM

Pray to God that A doesn’t take place. Speaker BOHICA obviously wouldn’t be optimistic if he had to pull that ‘litmus test’ garbage to punish those in the conservative faction. They **should** be totally roiled over that alone… and ought to raises holy hell over it and causes the deal to collapse. If that happens, then B will likely not take place.

But even if he retains the position, Speaker BOHICA will have been badly damaged over the whole mess by which he created.

Needless to say they were shocked after Pearl Harbor when they encountered the rest of America. How the hell were they supposed to know? I think this is why the rest of the world is sometimes confused by America.

William Eaton on December 17, 2012 at 10:45 PM

Yamamoto knew EXACTLY what they were getting into ….

b. do you think weepy will keep the gavel ….

I’m with you. I can’t believe what wimps we get stuck with in the name of the GOP. The GOP wants to know why its not winning? Look to this type of crap. $1 trillion spending, $2 billion on future cuts.

Does anybody still believe there is a difference between the Democrats and Republicans?

davidk on December 17, 2012 at 9:57 PM

Love it.

This “compromise” is a joke– Obama may be the most pathetically inept negotiator I’ve seen in politics in my lifetime, and yet this is the best kind of deal we can extract?

thurman on December 17, 2012 at 11:07 PM

More than a little frightening, isn’t it?

If the GOP can’t beat a complete moron like Obama like a rented mule, WTF are they good for?

The problem is that over $400k is going to generate far less tax revenue. When you hit that income group with higher taxes, you’ll see more income diverted to cap gains which is still taxed at 15%. In other words, it’s hard to see much on the revenue side unless cap gains are increased as well, esp. if the goal is to restore fed tax revenue to its historic level of about 18.5% of GDP.

bayam

Where did you get that capital gain is staying at 15%? It is going up to 20% and dividends going up to 39.6% for those making above $ 200,000 a year (or may be $ 400,000 if this stupid deal goes through)… Add to that 3.8% Obamacare tax on capital gain tax…

mnjg on December 17, 2012 at 10:02 PM

I believe there’s also a 1% additional Medicare surtax on income above 250K or whatever else crap they baked into Obamacare

Plus Maobama is pushing for limits on various deductions as well as the rate hike

So actually my effective tax rate will be significantly above the Clinton rates, but I wouldn’t expect a socialist who doesn’t understand his daughter’s 8th grade math homework to consider that

This “compromise” is a joke– Obama may be the most pathetically inept negotiator I’ve seen in politics in my lifetime, and yet this is the best kind of deal we can extract?

Just go home and don’t come back until 2013.

Cuts over 10 years. Recommended targets. What bullshit.

Boehner would have given Hawaii to Japan as part of their unconditional surrender

TexasDan on December 17, 2012 at 10:22 PM

Well in the Japanese defense most of the kind Americans they had contacts with before the war were people like Boehner. You know political hacks, diplomats, Washington folks…

Needless to say they were shocked after Pearl Harbor when they encountered the rest of America. How the hell were they supposed to know? I think this is why the rest of the world is sometimes confused by America.

Boehner is like an awful defensive coordinator. You keep hoping for a better performance and some improvement, yet in the end you know the other team is going to score in the 4th quarter and win the game. Obama is already practicing his little touchdown dance.

And like always Obama did not really have to do anything…it really is amazing.

The GOP has not principles to speak of, and those who defend the actions of the GOP are, at the very least, content that the political parties stand for no principles whatsoever.

Scott H on December 17, 2012 at 7:41 PM

When you got to choose between evil and stupid, you end up choosing stupid. I agree that both parties feel like a mafia.