Comments on: White House to Boehner: You should allow a vote on our fiscal cliff bill

By: TerryW

TerryW — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:57:43 +0000

The Repubs have lost their message again. In part thanks to the lame stream media.

The House has passed a couple of bills to avert this ‘cliff’. Harry Reid is sitting on them – won’t let the Senate vote on them.

By: sultanp

sultanp — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:37:34 +0000

I think this Country has had enough.

http://wh.gov/Q71X

This is a petition to the White House calling for the immediate resignation of everyone in Congress and the President.

We have zero leadership in Washington. There are no adults left.

Let us send a message that we need a clean slate, a fresh start, with mature and competant leaders who will actually ACT and do things for the welfare of the Nation, not for the short-term political gains for their party.

Enough is enough.

By: Zaggs

Zaggs — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:34:58 +0000

If they had passed plan B the White House couldn’t try this tactic. But since they didn’t the White House can and it will work. Conservative Republicans, doing the heavy lifting for Obama since 2008.

By: vityas

vityas — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:15:44 +0000

Are they on drugs?!
Wait, they probably are.

By: Skywise

Skywise — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:02:50 +0000

Time to call Obama’s bluff – Republicans should quickly dust off the bill THEY want to pass or at the very least, Boehner’s version of the bill deal as he saw it and pass it.

Then Boehner should point out Obama’s rhetoric and ask him to lobby Reid to do the same for the Senate.

But I’m not going to hold my breath that we’re playing adult games here…

We’re playing kindergarten politics over who’s going to trade the carrot stick for the taxpayers chocolate pie…

By: William Teach

William Teach — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:59:07 +0000

Yeah, perhaps (NMP) Obama should say the same to Dingy Harry, who, if memory serves, called Republican calls to vote on Obama's plan a "stunt".

By: NavyMustang

NavyMustang — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:54:08 +0000

If not blocking votes is so important to the Pres, I kind of think he needs to have a heart to heart with ole Harry Reid.

Hypocrite!

By: tommy71

tommy71 — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:54:01 +0000

N O. No.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:52:10 +0000

Since every plan posed by Obama is effectively worse for us that the so-called fiscal cliff, I’m pretty okay with it. Obama and his news machine will make political hay out of the lack of a compromise trying to blame it on Republicans, but most of us know that himself and Reid are the ones refusing any true compromise.

By: gophergirl

gophergirl — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:44:21 +0000

I say put forth two bills.

1) Extend status quo for 6 months until a deal can be reached
2) WH bill with zero changes