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Obama to Congress: The Time For Immediate Action on Fiscal Cliff is Now

anonymous3784 Wrote: Dec 29, 2012 9:59 AM
Does no on in the media have any guts? Someone at the presser needed to correct Obama by forcing him to admit that the time for "immediate action on the Fiscal Cliff" is NOT NOW, but was last spring. Actually, it was last year. Oh wait, the time for immediate action was when he first proposed the $787B "porkulus package". The time for immediate action was when the Senate failed to pass a budget for the first time in the history of our nation, three years ago. This bozo in the White House needs to be called out for the mental midget, and manipulated puppet, that he really is!!!
InAmericaSince1627 Wrote: Dec 29, 2012 10:17 AM
There have been too many "Firsts" in our nation with this individual.
A successful Impeachment would be the perfect ending to his record.

So how did the last-ditch fiscal cliff meeting go this afternoon? Not great. President Obama again put forth the scaled-back version of the proposal he pitched last week.

A source familiar with the meeting told CNBC that Obama was not making a new offer; just laying out what he thinks can pass the House and Senate. That includes keeping the tax cut for those making up to $250,000 and an extension of unemployment insurance for 2 million people. He will then ask the participants what they are willing to support, and if they don't have a counterproposal that...

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