White House claims victory in fiscal cliff deal
White House officials believe Republicans have crossed the Rubicon on taxes, agreeing to — and indeed, proposed — significant revenue increases for the first time in two decades.
“It’s a sea change,” one senior official told BuzzFeed Monday before the final agreement was struck. “It will inevitably make it easier to get [Republicans] on board whenever we ask for new revenues, because they’ve already crossed that threshold.”
“That’s the legacy of this debate,” the official said of the bitter negotiations, which wrecked holiday plans across the capital and ended Obama’s first term on a bitter note…
“There is absolutely no appetite among Republicans to incorporate revenues in raising the debt ceiling,” said a Senate GOP aide, strongly doubting the party’s appetite for any more revenue.
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yeah great.. screw the people.. again.
upinak on January 1, 2013 at 12:02 PM
It pisses me off to no end seeing people cheer destructive actions.
Count to 10 on January 1, 2013 at 12:02 PM
Republicans, the new out-of-the-closet Democrats.
albill on January 1, 2013 at 12:04 PM
Or…it will inoculate them from having to sign on to any future revenue increases. That clown in the White House just can’t stop himself from rubbing the GOP’s face in the dirt over this deal — he’s such a sociopath, as history will show him — but it has been my experience that skinny freaks like him who think they have a lot of muscle in their back pockets end up eating the curb more often than not. The clown is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.
Rational Thought on January 1, 2013 at 12:08 PM
A Pyrrhic victory, I hope.
Joe Mama on January 1, 2013 at 12:09 PM
bull****
Donald Draper on January 1, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Oh please.
The president acts like he got what he said he wanted originally. BS master.
CW on January 1, 2013 at 12:11 PM
The Depression will continue until the electorate improves.
Count to 10 on January 1, 2013 at 12:12 PM
As well they should. Because that’s exactly what it is… a victory for the takers.
Skywise on January 1, 2013 at 12:16 PM
Will the Leftists ever say how much is enough? 50%? 60, 70, 90%?
The Democrats, IMO, are planting the seeds of revolution.
Charlemagne on January 1, 2013 at 12:17 PM
That is the first thing on the JEFs agenda: immigration reform. Don’t like the domestic voters? Import cheap new ones!
Joe Mama on January 1, 2013 at 12:18 PM
Well on the issue of not raising taxes, I voted against Bush 1 for perot because he lied on raising taxes. What we got, some say this isn’t true, clinton for 8 years. bho/d’s/team have played the r’s to a tee and thinks some will be upset? YES we are upset, and now WE have to decide, totally crater and vote d/don’t vote/find another party? I will tell you and I mean this with all my heart, I ha!e bho more than any human in years! That so many believe ‘santa bho’ and want to stick it to anyone who makes a dollar!
I wish I could find a nice little island with water, fish, a coconut tree and move! But alas even that wouldn’t help, me thinks?
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letget on January 1, 2013 at 12:18 PM
The populace has been so dumbed down that nothing will happen.
BallisticBob on January 1, 2013 at 12:21 PM
He wouldn’t import millions of white voters. His goal is to change the demographics because whites tend to be Republicans. The president is a racist.
Charlemagne on January 1, 2013 at 12:22 PM
This is why the House needs to take the dive. Don’t play his game, as any way you play it, you lose, big-time.
Use the Hastert rule. Don’t even bring it up for a vote. Just go home.
petefrt on January 1, 2013 at 12:26 PM
A Senate GOP aide casually employing the left’s euphemistic perversion of the language, further advancing the fraud. Typical. Way to go, squishes.
fitzfong on January 1, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Only a few patriots are required to make a difference.
Charlemagne on January 1, 2013 at 12:50 PM
How is a 41:1 ratio of tax increases to spending cuts a 50-50 proposition? And those cuts are not even defined. And those cuts are probably going to come from the increase they had planned to spend.
duggersd on January 1, 2013 at 12:51 PM
The White House is winning, but they’d claim victory no matter what the outcome.
The Rogue Tomato on January 1, 2013 at 12:54 PM
The White House claims victory and the media nods their heads in agreement.
supernova on January 1, 2013 at 12:58 PM
As much as I despise the progressive agenda of politicians like Obama and Co. it’s the electorate who put him their.
We informed ourselves and we saw the damage coming from the first term and we know what’s coming.
Despite our best efforts, I tend to think if you ask the average Obama voter (and sadly a large number of Republicans most likely) about ‘Fast and Furious’ they’ll tell you which car was their favorite in the movie or how hot they think Vin Diesel or Michelle Rodriguez is.
We live in a nation full of uninformed and/or misinformed sheeple.
As has been said, “let it burn”, because right now this nation needs a cleansing burn even though we’ll get burned with it but there’s not much else we can do other than prepare ourselves to minimize the pain and continue to advocate and hope some ears and minds open to the truth. Sadly, I fear by the time the realization comes as to the damage the progressive agenda will have on this nation after 8 years of Obama, it will be too late.
Yakko77 on January 1, 2013 at 1:07 PM
Lol, despite the WHs rhetoric, a year from now, this deal will be viewed as a bipartisan tax CUT, not as revenues.
tommy71 on January 1, 2013 at 1:08 PM
Exactly as Rush predicted. The GOP is done. The Emperor is quite happy today.
dogsoldier on January 1, 2013 at 1:36 PM
I changed my voter registration from non-partisan to Republican back in 2010 so I could vote in Republican primaries but if this goes through the House as well I may just have to re-register as a non-partisan again.
It’s painful to see my country go down this path. I served my country, I work and pay taxes, I’ve written my Congressmen, I’ve attended a Tea Party rally, I advocate my views, I vote… and still, it seems all for nothing as my country slips away from greatness.
Yakko77 on January 1, 2013 at 2:01 PM
Tax hikes and Obamacare are supported by both DC Republicans and the Democrats. Someone, somewhere, has to pay for both the wars we waged, Obama and Bush’s spending binges, and the Political Class’ new digs in a growing, gentrifying Washington, DC.
Punchenko on January 1, 2013 at 2:02 PM