AP
Breaking: We’re going over the cliff
The House will miss the midnight Monday deadline lawmakers set for voting to avoid the “fiscal cliff.”
House Republicans notified lawmakers that the chamber will vote Monday evening on other bills. They say that will be their only votes of the day…
It remained unclear whether the Senate would vote Monday.
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The Notorious G.O.P on December 31, 2012 at 5:03 PM
So this afternoon’s photo op by President Present didn’t stop it. Shockah.
apostic on December 31, 2012 at 5:04 PM
Wheeeeeeee
Sekhmet on December 31, 2012 at 5:05 PM
Good, the “fiscal cliff” propaganda is really only one small step toward a balanced budget and is the best we can hope for for the time being from our intransigent, profligate, corrupt government.
FloatingRock on December 31, 2012 at 5:05 PM
Good. Burn it down.
davek70 on December 31, 2012 at 5:06 PM
I guess this means we’re all going to die, right?
Mark1971 on December 31, 2012 at 5:06 PM
Good thing I’m wearing a parachute!
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 31, 2012 at 5:10 PM
Wednesday news flash
“Obama instituted the biggest tax cut in history”…
Today they go over the cliff…then comes tomorrow
“We worked in a bipartisan fashion to cut taxes”.
May their brains all splatter into a million pieces.
Schadenfreude on December 31, 2012 at 5:11 PM
Make sure you hit something hard. I don’t wanna limp away from this piece of sh*t
JamesSeanMcKeane on December 31, 2012 at 5:17 PM
Blood Clot Cocktails for everyone!
Pork-Chop on December 31, 2012 at 5:19 PM
90% of Obama supporters think a fiscal cliff is a cheap mailman who appeared on Cheers.
fogw on December 31, 2012 at 5:20 PM
Good. Now maybe the country will be ready to make some tough choices. Eh, who am I kidding?
Othniel on December 31, 2012 at 5:21 PM
Let. It. Burn.
sauldalinsky on December 31, 2012 at 5:23 PM
Good. The GOP should then agree to a compromise proposal which scales back just the defense cuts and returns the lower brackets to the Bush rates, permanently, while agreeing to a temporary hike on the evil rich. Any deal that doesn’t include REAL spending cuts should be a nonstarter.
changer1701 on December 31, 2012 at 5:26 PM
Good `ole Ronnie White!
ThePrez on December 31, 2012 at 5:27 PM
Step one being: if the Democrats want to cut taxes, how are they going to pay for it? That was one of their arguments against the Bush tax-cuts 10 years ago. There should be lots of footage of Democrats making the case to raise taxes to use against them. Holding them to their own standards they will need to defeat themselves in order to lower taxes.
FloatingRock on December 31, 2012 at 5:27 PM
We are a an aging, bankrupt nation, we can’t afford to lower taxes. Our industry has been outsourced, lower taxes isn’t going to help anything. If we’re going to do anything tax related to help the economy is should be to scrap the corrupt income tax and replace it with the fair-tax, IMO.
FloatingRock on December 31, 2012 at 5:29 PM
Nice going, Obama.
The Count on December 31, 2012 at 5:30 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF7WUe9nNdI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
wolly4321 on December 31, 2012 at 5:31 PM
The Presstitute Organs are all too eager to blame the Pubbies when it’s Dingy Harry who’s the roadblock.
Of course, Cantor’s staff obliged the Presstitute frenzy by saying they would go home before it became clear Reid wouldn’t allow a vote on the Cliff, and the subsequent Cantor reversal is underreported.
Steve Eggleston on December 31, 2012 at 5:35 PM
RAISE TAXES!!! RAISE EM ALL!!!
El_Terrible on December 31, 2012 at 5:35 PM
..so then, the Mayans were right after all?
The War Planner on December 31, 2012 at 5:35 PM
*throws confitti into the air*
Happy New Year!
BigGator5 on December 31, 2012 at 5:36 PM
Lets have one tax rate, across the board.
100%. No loopholes, no deductions.
Just give it all to the government.
I’m ready to stop making payments on everything at this very moment.
Free electricity, gasoline, food, vacations, etc for everybody.
I’m ready.
BobMbx on December 31, 2012 at 5:42 PM
WELL THERE you have it folks. Packaged blame on the republicans. To think this makes the country stronger your fooling yourselves. This will only empower the liberals more to get more independent voters to side with them.
watertown on December 31, 2012 at 5:48 PM
And yes, look at the internets people who are talking about it, there are a lot of people blaming the republicans already.
Enjoy being in the minority again for another decade.
watertown on December 31, 2012 at 5:54 PM
“We just didn’t have enough time to work out a deal.”
Yeah, two years is such a short time.
L.i.B.
davidk on December 31, 2012 at 6:13 PM
Better to be hanged for a sheep, than for a lamb.
OldEnglish on December 31, 2012 at 6:28 PM
All posturing by a bunch of ugly stars jockeying for camera position. There is still a chance for Boehner to sell us out on Wednesday.
ironked on December 31, 2012 at 6:29 PM
No, but we’re going to wish we’d died.
SagebrushPuppet on December 31, 2012 at 6:56 PM
Care to explain what isn’t going to empower the liberals right now?
SagebrushPuppet on December 31, 2012 at 7:02 PM
Funny, if something came up at work I’d have to be there until it was resolved. It wouldn’t matter if it was the weekend or a holiday. I spent one hunting season pulling 12-14 hour days, 7 days a week, to complete an important computer system changeover. In Montana that’s the supreme sacrifice. If you’re in charge of the federal government things are different. Sacrifice is cutting your lavish Christmas holiday one day short to play at something that should have been resolved months ago —and you get to blame someone else for the inevitable failure!
claudius on December 31, 2012 at 7:13 PM
It has to be staged so Obama can do a grand rescue, with good photo ops.
We have to cross the deadline, so they can blame the House for any irreparable damage that happens in the next four years.
When he finally gets the call, Reid will take his meds, and free the Senate to sign some crap that raises taxes, so Obama can interrupt tv programming and announced he is interrupting the programming because the others made him do it.
We will get two weeks of MSM panel discussions on the problems inside the GOP, and both parties will focus on the Tea Party
Then, Obama will dig in again and demand more money while he hires more and spends more, by fiat.
Congress will not turn down the pay raise Obama just granted them, being the craven scum they are, and the MSM will return to crisis mode, over the debt ceiling, which has been pushed aside for the next photo op
To understand Rome, study the Romans. Tacitus:
Julius Caesar:
entagor on December 31, 2012 at 7:23 PM
The fair tax is a fools errand, call it what it really is VAT, Value Added Tax, the reason it will never work is that politician are addicted to power, power comes from taxation. They will insist on implementing the “Fair Tax” before eliminating the current Tax Code, and then, we will be saddled with a VAT on top of income Taxes, with the “Fair Tax” being just like the Democrat promised spending cuts, that never ever arrive.
SWalker on December 31, 2012 at 7:48 PM
Having the House refuse to allow the next continuing Resolution to come to the floor. Bragging rights and talking points get their asses kicked when nobody gets paid.
SWalker on December 31, 2012 at 7:50 PM