Comments on: Liberals squandered a lot of their leverage on the fiscal cliff

By: MelonCollie

MelonCollie — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:01:52 +0000

I’ve been spewing this blatant lie in threads all day. YOU WON. Quit your complaining. ~~libfreeor~~die on January 2, 2013 at 3:19 PM

FTFY, libtard.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:20:33 +0000

BTW, I think that the fact that 98% of the tax rates re now permanent with no expiry date probably justifies any deal the Republicans made. Allowing this to be up for a vote every few years was downright idiotic.

Rocks on January 2, 2013 at 1:52 PM

Exactly right. No, nothing in legislation can truly be described as “permanent,” but allowing the rates to expire every so often just created that many opportunities to hold the Republicans over the barrel and force them to accept bad deals.

The bill is bad in a lot of ways, but making the tax cuts permanent and adding a permanent fix to the Alternative Minimum Tax for the first time ever probably makes this overall a very good bill. We’re still kicking the can down the road on spending, the “doc fix,” and sequestration, but at least something was accomplished. Which is honestly much better than I expected.

By: libfreeordie

libfreeordie — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:19:13 +0000

I’ve been saying this in threads all day. YOU WON. Quit your complaining.

By: claudius

claudius — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:07:31 +0000

Behold yon Obama:

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

Julius Caesar
Act 1, Scene 2

By: Dusty

Dusty — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:30:24 +0000

This is ridiculous.

The Dems print leverage, like the Federal Reserve prints money. The only difference is in the presses they use.

By: DarkCurrent

DarkCurrent — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:29:36 +0000

American politics will now take an immediate conservative turn to sanity.

Heh.

By: Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Arkadin — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:24:02 +0000

Levin gets it. This is a decent win for the GOP, but a huge loss for the left. I’ll take that.

By: Fenris

Fenris — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:14:48 +0000

Clark1 on January 2, 2013 at 2:08 PM

What makes you think raising taxes will have any effect at all on the deficit?

By: thurman

thurman — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:09:10 +0000

they still can demand defense cuts

They “balance” will be 1:1 tax increases to defense cuts

By: Clark1

Clark1 — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:08:11 +0000

Frankly, if the GOP is going to continue to do absolutely nothing to cut back spending, I’d rather see taxes go up. $1.6 trillion in deficit spending every year is a freaking time bomb with a very short fuse.