Democrats pressed Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to bring the House back in session as time ticks away on 2012.
“The House Democratic leadership is calling on the Republican leadership to come back to work and stop stonewalling every effort to get the job done, including making sure that taxes are not raised on tens of millions of middle class families,” Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement today.
“House Democrats have been standing ready and willing to return to Washington to vote on critical issues including the middle class tax cuts, Sandy disaster relief, the Violence Against Women Act, the Farm Bill – all while we continue to work on a bipartisan solution to avoid the fiscal cliff. There are plenty of reasons for this Do-Nothing Congress to get back to work,” she added.
The fiscal cliff is five days away, and lawmakers have not yet received the requisite 48-hour notice from Boehner to return to the Hill.
“Over the past several weeks, Majority Leader Cantor has said that the House would do the work necessary to finish the items we need to get done by the end of the year. I talked to Mr. Cantor today and urged him to have us come back,” Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said at a press conference today. He said the Republican conference would be discussing whether to return on a call this afternoon.
“I hope they conclude, as we have concluded — and I speak for Leader Pelosi, myself, and all the Democratic leadership — that we must come back as soon as possible to work together to reach compromises, to assure that we address the important legislation that is still pending in this Congress, a Congress which I believe has been the least productive, most confrontational, and least compromising Congress in which I’ve served, and I’ve been here since 1981,” Hoyer said.
The Senate was working on FISA reauthorization today. The House met in pro forma session.
“I’ve never seen a public as energized or as knowledgeable about an issue as they are the fiscal cliff. I don’t mean that they know every paragraph, sentence, and ramification of the failure to stop going over the fiscal cliff, but they know it will not be positive,” Hoyer said.
“I just observed on the floor that literally tens of millions of Americans went back to work yesterday from having taken off probably a four-day weekend, four-day holiday for Christmas. And they went back to work on Wednesday. And millions more went back to work today. But their representatives in the Congress of the United States, unlike the United States Senate, did not go back to work and have not gone back to work. And that, correctly, is concerning our people.”
Sen. Scott Brown (D-Mass.) posted on Facebook a couple of hours ago that he was headed back to D.C.: “Just learned that the Pres. reached out to Senate GOP leadership with a proposal. It is the first such proposal to be put forth. Eager to see why it is. How it is serious.”
Followed by: “Correction. Hope it is serious. …I’m rushing to get on plane and thought I would keep you all informed. I will be sure to check my update for grammar next time for those who want it done perfectly. Yikes.”
The White House, though, denied such a deal was in the works.
UPDATE: Eric Cantor tweeted that the House will return on Sunday, with first votes expected at 6:30 p.m.
Yea,just come back so we can trash talk you some more,John..
Typo! Scott Brown would likely be serving instead of Pocahantas for the next six years if he were (D-Mass.)
Boehner put us in this mess by setting up Taxamegdon two summers ago. He and his Republican brothers and sisters have all the tactical intelligence of Hitler at Leningrad.
The 51% want the economy destroyed. I say,have at it. When they finally run out of other peoples money, they will be hopelessly unprepared for what comes next. Right now they are playing at revolution, they don’t have a clue about the repercussions. Our society is rapidly decaying, the 51% aren’t putting 2 and 2 together about what that means in the long term for them. They are completely unprepared. They are too indoctrinated to understand reality.
Taxamegedon is a good 1st step for those of us who have had quite enough of Washington. The only way it can be fixed is for the dysfunction to accelerate. Boehner, Reid and Obama will do a 1st class job of that. A more inept cluster of fools would be difficult to conger.
“conger” = the near mythical ability of congress to conjure up the stupidest situation ever.
I like it.
“The White House, though, denied such a deal was in the works.”
So the President is going with plausible deniability at least until something actually happens whereupon there will be claims that the President wrote the thing himself. Then when the “solution” turns out to be an idiotic trainwreck due to the Won’s anti-midas touch the press will pretend nothing happened ever but the Republicans are to blame for it.
Or maybe I’m just cynical.
No, this is all intended to make it appear that the republicans are at fault. It is designed to steer attention away from the towering debt that the socialists have piled, while using the MSM to continually berate and scold the republicans.
Fact is, every offer Boehner made was rejected by the magic negro. Boehner even offered him exactly what he wanted and has publicly demanded. Denied.
It’s a lost cause for the republicans while the children in the senate play their little game and act smug and petulant. Meanwhile, D’oh-bama goes and smokes a doobie to celebrate his cleverness. But we know he’s not clever; Just an arrogant ass. So is Reid and the rest of the scumbags who know it’s about stealing more money and getting away with it in order to buy even more votes.
This is how they do it. I truly wish the republicans would just simply call it what it is instead of cowering in fear and letting the socialists continue to beat them down. With that in mind, I can only imagine they WANT our government to fail completely. NONE, save a very few, have any courage to be the one to stand there and accuse the socialists plainly of what they’re doing. No one wants to be the person being ridiculed by the news or the socialists in the government.
Shame. It takes a great deal of courage to face up to liars who have numbers on their side.
Yes, Republicans, just return to Washington and rubber stamp the legislation your betters have written for you. Then go away quietly. Don’t make a fuss.
Let the fiscal cliff come. Realistic progressives will finally get their revenge on Bush’s tax cuts. I’m happily awaiting a return to Clintonian taxation!
If only the return came with Clintonian spending.
– don’t sulk, but you don’t have to be Reid and Pelosi’s stooge either.
SAY SPEAKER BOEHNER, STAY HOME, DON’T COME BACK, ALL YOU WILL HAVE TO DO IS LISTEN
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LET THEM CHECK THEIR “6″
Meanwhile, US troops are training to ‘support’ victims of natural disasters in the U.S..
After everything you own gets destroyed by ol’ Mother Nature, you get to have one of our own pat you down and treat you like an Iraqi insurgent.
http://www.dvidshub.net/news/99258/3-321-far-trains-support-us-army-north
Meanwhile, the Baltic Dry Index has dropped over ten persent over the last month, giving us a preview of things to come, about three months down the road.
Meanwhile, in just a few days, several million Americans will get notice that, very soon, they won’t have a job.
Meanwhile, various and sundry federal, state and local government employee unions are talking about going on strike…because the government doesn’t have enough money to pay them off.
In D.C., the Dems and Pubbies are having pissing contests and blaming everyone but themselves for what’s going on in the nation and around the world.
In other words, the public unions are going to go on strike like the similar unions in Greece. As they go on strike, the anarchists and looters will take to the streets as well. Then government will take that as its queue to really ratchet up assault on civil liberties, just as planned.
There’s a downside to that for our masters. This ain’t Greece with a disarmed bunch of stooges for citizens. Far from it. If the government were to attempt to suspend the Bill of Rights it might be surprised at the reaction. At that point, to quote the song, “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose..”
May 16 2012 Timeline Of Senate Democrats’ Refusal To Make Budget Plans Public
http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/budget-background?ID=b630d3bd-f985-4943-a87a-a746ecec6a51
Harry Reid: ‘Foolish’ for Democrats to offer budget plan May 20, 2011|By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/20/news/la-pn-harry-reid-budget-20110520
But they would have to start with the anarchists and looters (but I repeat myself). More likely they will humor them, or be reluctant to crack down on them because they’re proggies fellow travelers.
See, e.g., Occupy Oakland and the incompetent aging 60s radical (self-styled) Mayor Jean Quan.
Crack down on the looters and anarchists, and lose all “progressive” cred. The Obama administration will be in a bind over that one.
And the I.P address of these urgent requests for Reid is in an Arizona brothel, Pelosi’s is in a San Francisco botox clinic, and Obama’s is a 747 in a holding pattern over Washington, D.C., with a flight plan to return to Honolulu.
Don’t fall for it, John.
Whats the rush Nancy?
Boehner knows the game by now unless he’s as dumb as a stump. All you do is ridicule him – your base gets it – I get it – and I suspect Boehner now gets it. You have no class – neither Feckless Won or Reid have any class. Want to see class? Take a look at Bush one and two. Thats a class act – both have had ample targets (you Nancy) to aim for – stupidity to point out. I’m certain you don’t recognize that – fine – stupid people don’t know they’re stupid so I’ll forgive you that fine point.
In all my life I’ve never seen such petulant ‘ruling class’ politicians. It isn’t about ‘we the people’ with these morons. I suspect the republicans have even forgot what this country is about other than their feeble attempts to protect business from being raided at the tax tables.
Note to Boehner – quit playing their game.
Oh please,please bring the repubics back oh flacid one so the Choom Gang can kick them down the stairs one more time.