“The House did not take up the tax measure today because it did not have sufficient support from our members to pass. Now it is up to the president to work with Senator Reid on legislation to avert the fiscal cliff. The House has already passed legislation to stop all of the January 1 tax rate increases and replace the sequester with responsible spending cuts that will begin to address our nation’s crippling debt. The Senate must now act.” -Speaker of the House John Boehner
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OH: “Only these Republicans could turn the Bush tax cuts into the 2013 Obama tax cuts.”
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) December 21, 2012
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President Barack Obama’s job approval rating reached 56 percent in Thursday’s edition of the Gallup daily tracking poll, the highest mark since October 13, 2009.
Thursday’s release also showed 37 percent disapprove of Obama, the lowest it’s been in Gallup’s polling since the same October 2009 release.
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When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren’t the kind of institutions I had in mind.
– from the gavel, Boy Speaker.
Awww, did those mean ole conservatives make poor little Johnny cry again?
Good Lord, how could the Repubs manage to make Barack freakin Obama look like a fiscal conservative?
Oh mighty Mayans, please start the earthquakes now, there are no intelligent people left here.
As a general comment–My basic beef with the Erick Erickson wing of the Party is this–guys, I applaud you on your steadfastness. I applaud you on your convictions, and your basic good coomon sense. You just aren’t smart enough to win. Not saying Boehner is. Not by any means. Just that you aren’t. You’re not dumb. Not by any means. You are the salt of the earth.
You just ain’t brilliant either, and it may be time for you to recognize your limitations. I’m not gong to follow you, and folks like me are not going to follow you, especially with the “Smart-ass white boy” cutting comments you occasionally deliver, and the 105-level IQ certitude that admits of no other possibilities. So I won’t follow your lead. And you won’t yield, and you have a greater power base, but you can’t win it either, from all appearances. *Ever*. What then?
“Jim: [consoling Bart] What did you expect? “Welcome, sonny”? “Make yourself at home”? “Marry my daughter”? You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”
Have fun storming the castle, boys.
As a general principle–if you decide you are not going to treat a man as man and an equal, he probably isn’t going to forget it. Erickson at least has changed on that in the five years I’ve been observing him, but he may have a ways to go.
At least the reason why the state of Georgia never quite seems to live up to its economic potential is clear. The middleweights always want to make sure they maintain control.