Evidently the Republicans in Congress, and especially in the House of Representatives, have learned nothing from their massive defeat in November -- they have gone straight back to the irresponsible, unpatriotic obstructionism the voters punished them for in November.

Damaging as their behavior is in the short run, perhaps in the perspective of two to four years ahead, it will turn out for the best. In 2014 and 2016 the coalition that defeated Willard "Mitt" Romney and Lyin' Ryan, mouthpieces for the worst of America's billionaires, like Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Brothers, will be stronger still; and even many of the ignorant old white men who represented most of the votes for Romney and Ryan will have learned from experience that Democrats like President Obama and Elizabeth Warren are not, in fact ogres, whatever hate propaganda from "Fox" and "Limbaugh" claims. Indeed, many of the ignorant old white men may well have seen how the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a "Obamacare") benefits their families: some of them they may even have figured out that it's the Democratic Party, not the Republican party, that's looking out for their best interests.

All this is likely to mean that in 2014, or in 2016 at the latest, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives will be swept away, and the Republican Party in its present form will become a thing of the past.

The sooner the Progressive's are in authority, the better.

Its time to send peelosi and reid to the poor house they have almost ruined this country along with obama WE NEED LESS TAXES AND LESS SPENDING SMALLER GOVERNMENT

lol

American Democratic Marxist

The sooner the Progressive's are in authority, the better.

lol

I'm sure they will do a great job managing the decline

spend till it runs out, then spend more, start over,

"get used too it" LOL

I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, "WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEBATE AND DISAGREE WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION!"

Taxation is theft.

Dissent is patriotic.

The middle class is dissapearing so it makes perfect sense to extend the tax cuts for people who need the extra money. Without a strong middle class the economy will shrivel up and die. What part of that is so hard to understand. The wealthiest Americans who have been benefiting form low tax rates and loopholes should be taxed more accordingly. They have been getting away with murder and should be called on it. Simple math

The GOP/Tea Beggers are not going to 'compromise' with the President. "Mickey Mouse Mitch McConnell," and his "Mickey Mouse Club" in the US Senate. Think that the President is a "Political Joke," and is an "Economic Hack." He made it very clear that the GOP only political and economic goal is too destroy the President at all costs. On Janruary 20, 2009. At the "Tea Begger Caucus Conspiracy." Which was lead by "Richie Rich Ryan," and his poltical cohort in economic crime "Crazy Cantor." On this evening at the Caucus Steakhouse Restaurant in Washington D.C. The "Tea Begger Conspirators" took their "Blood Oath" to destroy the US Economy, and the American People. This means taking the US Economy over the 'fiscal cliff!' It was made clear by "Nutty Newt." That the economic and political 'seeds' of 'treason' were planted tonight for 2012. He admitted this clearly on the Tom Hartman Show, and then "Nutty Newt" tried to down play it by using the examples of US Political History. What a joke America! "Bonehead Boehner" has never taken the President seriously, and he never seriosly took the President's Eocnomic Policies as practical. What is interesting about this whole situation. Is that President Reagan would be on the economic side of President Obama. That is fact!

There should be "fairness" for all income levels. Let ALL the OBAMA TAX CUTS expire. No one should carry ,more of a burden than any other income group. Class Warfare is idiotic and juvenile. Successful people work harder, and smarter, less successful people do not.

Everybody wants to help the middle class. Obama and Congress do want to help the middle class, but Obama will not compromise. He wants to tax the wealthy to no end. So how is it that someone making $250,000.00 is wealthy? Why not start at $1 million instead. A lot of small businesses do make 250K, and that's hardly making ends meet. It is very clear that this President did not pass economics while in college. Why hasn't this President passed a budget since he was elected the first time around? The Democrats love raising taxes on everyone. They need to raise taxes for their spending money on failed programs. They do not like people being successful. They want to spread the wealth to those that do not like to work but like to live off those that do their jobs and are responsible. But really, do you think any politician wants to help the American people? No, not really. Government has gotten way out of control and wants to take control of everybody. Some of these politicians are dinosaurs. They have been on DC far too long and should be replaced every 6 years. Being in DC for 20 to 35 years is way too long. They have become ineffective and useless. We The People do not need some radical politician running this country or our lives. But, unfortunately that's what we have now. Their using scare tactics to get everyone worked up. Why is the President out campaigning again? He is incapable of making any good decisions to help this country. He does the only thing that he is good at, campaigning. Lots of hot air. Now you know know where global warming comes from, politicians. Think about it. Why are we in this mess? It's because of the politicians and it's not just one party of politicians, it's all of them. So blame them all and start at the top. None of them are exempt from blame.

What Progressive Power does support is a raise to the Capital Gains Tax up to 39% immediately. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are off the table. The Medicare and Medicaid Programs are too critical to those citizens that are medically vulnerable. Questions of hunanity need to be carefully answered. When discussing Medicare and Medicaid. "Mickey Mouse Mitch McConnell" just loves to laugh at individuals that are unable to defend themselves right now. Like our brave injured military veterans. The "Brainless Bush Tax Cuts for the top 1% must expire right away. All Corporate Tax Loop holes that send US Jobs to nations like China and India must be closed right away. This would be a good starter. The GOP/Tea Beggers need to do less laughing and more serious and fair negociations. Progressive Power is reluctant to put to much forward yet because, the Tea Beggers are still so far 'gone' mentally.

Mr. Geithner delivered an offer of a "fair & balanced" proposal. On the revenue side, federal income tax rates will rise on the wealthy, capital gains, and dividends. (Higher rates on dd's are bad for retirees seeking a safe stream of income as the Obama administration's monetary policy has interest rates so low.)

The proposal is to increase tax revenue $1.6T over 10 years, or $160B per year. The proposal also includes extending the Payroll Tax Holiday, which LOSES $100-110B per year.

So as it stands, President Obama is risking tax raises for everyone to hold out for a $50-60B increase in revenue and a spending cut of .85%.

Really?

NEWS FLASH

Obama Administration showing signs of being corrupt.

Costco co founder and CEO, Jim Senegal, a large supporter of Obama even speaking at the Democrat national convention get a special tax break. They were awarded a special dividend to avoid the Mr. Obama’s dividend tax increase

NEWS FLASH

Obama Administration showing signs of being corrupt.

Costco co founder and CEO, Jim Senegal, a large supporter of Obama even speaking at the Democrat national convention get a special tax break. They were awarded a special dividend to avoid the Mr. Obama’s dividend tax increase

NEWS FLASH

Obama Administration showing signs of being corrupt.

Costco co founder and CEO, Jim Senegal, a large supporter of Obama even speaking at the Democrat national convention get a special tax break. They were awarded a special dividend to avoid the Mr. Obama’s dividend tax increase

NEWS FLASH

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SHOWING MORE SIGNS OF BEING CORRUPT.
Costco co founder and CEO, Jim Senegal, a large supporter of Obama even speaking at the Democrat national convention get a special tax break. They were awarded a special dividend to avoid the Mr. Obama's dividend tax increase

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news.yahoo.com/costco-pay-7-special-dividend-december-18-145925944--sector.html

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NEWS FLASH

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SHOWING MORE SIGNS OF BEING CORRUPT.

Costco co founder and CEO, Jim Senegal, a large supporter of Obama even speaking at the Democrat national convention get a special tax break. They were awarded a special dividend to avoid the Mr. Obama’s dividend tax increase

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news.yahoo.com/costco-pay-7-special-dividend-december-18-145925944--sector.html

foxbusiness.com/on-air/willis-report/blog/2012/11/30/tax-fairness-obama%E2%80%99s-friends-what-about-rest-us

While the Country is falling into the abyss, both Parties and the Media will have us focused on who's fault this mess is. They expect that the Voters will have the opportunity to clean this up in two years and before the next election cycle.

D.C. a cesspool of corruption.

American Democratic Marxist

Right on brother

left off sister...

Boo, I know, ADM I Know your identity...

Lets get real, the problems of today are the result are inevitable and just a repeat of the fall ofevery Republic in history ... dispite the checks and balances put in place to prevent the very situation of today.

Every civilization in histort has only succeeded with the small number of wealthy, a small number of poor that will always exist, and a massive niddle-class. Post-clinton "new economy" the Republic is a small number of wealthy, a very small almost extinct middle-class and a massive growing poor (displaced midle-class and the always present small number of those who can not or will not work). When 2/3s of the deficit is from mandatory federal spending social welfare programs what is the logical thing to do? When 25% of the population is paying over 87% of the bills how much more can you steal? When the lowers 75% of the workforce is paying less than 12% of all tax revenue, not their fault a "new economy" destroyed their future, just how do you expect to increase tax and make a sustainable economy. It is time for YOUR representative put the citizens of the Republic first ... not be a candidate for future U.N. post, but as an advocate for YOU and your childrens future and the Republics very existence.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury." - Alexander Tyler

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that, my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." -- Dr. Adrian P. Rogers

"A culture of entitlement without responsibility is not just a consequence of the welfare state, it is pretty much the objective of the welfare state." Perry De Haviland

"Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the totalarian state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals." Lew Rockwell

"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." -- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare… The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America". Alexander Hamilton

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to selfishness;
From selfishness to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage" Alexander Tyler

Do some research people. let the people you put in a position to represent YOUR interests and your childrens interests that you are no longer little children to be bought with a free lunch, you want real tangible change that is constructive and does not destroy your childrens future. Think about why the founders of this Republic put everything on the line so you could not be subjected to what is happening today and why,despite their sacrifices we are just repeating the very same mistakes of every form of Democracy in recorded history.

"We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions." Adolph Hitler

Obambi to Boehner mimics Wimpy to Popeye. John, Obambi the snake oil salesman says, give me a couple of trillion in tax increases for the wealthy. On Tuesday, next year, I'll give you a few bucks in spending cuts.

This arrogant twit hasn't a clue about how the wealthy work. If he thinks they will stand idly by and take this, he is the fool I take him for. Money can be manipulated boys and girls. And the rich know how to do it masterfully. The public trough feeders are in for a huge surprise. Priceless.

The GOP in Congress have two very good reasons for not agreeing to extend the tax cuts for those families making less than a quarter of a million dollars a year.

(1) It might look like some kind of "victory for Obama, which they are anxious to prevent.

(2) It would deprive them of the leverage needed to get tax cuts for the extremely wealthy who backed them during the campaign and will do so in the future.

I can't understand why so many working-class and poor Americans seem to love the few very rich among us. According to the UCSB site, "Who Rules America," the upper 20% of us own 96% of the country's wealth after taxes. The rest of us share the remaining 4%.

The disparity between rich and poor has been increasing since 1979. It's easily Googled.

The very rich aren't all "job creators", at least not in America. For the most part they buy bonds and live off the dividends, or they buy stocks (or short sell them) and live off the capital gains and interest. Those taxes are capped at 15%.

How many of us who hate Obama and everything he stands for live off dividends and take advantage of tax shelters designed specifically for us?

Math lesson, Debt divided by Population Times Average people in Household Divided by Mean Household income =

16,000,000,000,000.00 / 330,000,000 X 4 / 50,000.00 per year = 3 years 7 months 6 days to pay off the US debt.

SO the proposed cuts are 1,200,000,000,000.00 over 10 years??? Tax hike is only 800,000,000,000.00 but debt is 1,400,000,000,000.00 a year???

Therefor 1,400,000,000,000.00 X 10 is 14 trillion in 10 years added to 16.2 Trillion - 1.2 Trillion = 29 Trillion in debt in just 10 years. Obama's plan to do this involves giving Tim the power to raise the debt Ceiling at will without congress? Never going to happen.

Obama's plan of $29,000,000,000,000.00 in debt in 10 years = $90,000.00 in debt owed by EACH American. Using the formula above...is 7 years 2 months and 12 days to pay off the debt giving every cent every American earns up to $50,000.00 a year.. Um I only make 26,000 a year so it will take me 14 years 4 months and 24 days to pay the principal. This does not include interest!

So tell me please how we are not over the fiscal cliff and bankrupt already?

Boehner and the House should offer to make permanent the Bush tax cuts. This is not a "middle class tax cut". It keeps in place what REPUBLICANS did for the middle class. The increased taxes on the so called "rich" will do nothing to decrease debt. Only cutting the gigantic welfare State of Medicaid, unemployment benefits, food stamps, housing subsidies, education spending and school lunch programs and SSI ( all of which are at least 1 trillion a year and growing) will balance the budget and start creating jobs. That is the dirty secret. The problem is not Social Security or Medicare. It is true welfare. People receiving "STUFF" that is paid for by taxpayers. That is what is not fair. We the producers having to support the Takers. It is also unConstitutional.

I am getting tired of paying for oil barons, CEO's, homeless people, single mothers, drilling, wars, Israel, bailouts, etc. It is MY money, and I should decide how to use it. No government should tell me what to do with it. How about we end the IRS and end taxes, and we the people can put that money back into the economy.

Signed, a Libertarian.