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Anatomy of a Flop: GOP "Cliff" Counter-Offer Fizzles

garin Wrote: Dec 05, 2012 7:53 AM
Two of the most Conservative Republicans in the House have been kicked off of the House Budget Committee by Speaker John Boehner. Reps Tim Huelskamp of Kansas and Justin Amash of Michigan - both favorites of the anti-tax Tea Party movement - are among those Republicans voting most often against House Speaker John Boehner. Huelskamp and Amash, who both will begin second terms in the House next month, voted against last year's deal to raise the federal debt limit and staunchly oppose any tax increases. Boehner has now included new revenue in his latest offer to avert the "fiscal cliff" of yr-end tax hikes and automatic spending cuts. Given their voting records, GOP RINO's won't win support from Huelskamp and Amash for such a compromise.
Tea Party in Wisconsin formerlyTea Party Wrote: Dec 05, 2012 2:57 PM
I called their offices and the member from Arizona to encourage them and ask them to continue to be thorns in the slimey Barack Boehners side..you know the Squeaky Wheels of the House. In fact I hope the entire Tea Party Caucus starts making a lot of noise next year.
So someone explain to me why John Barack would go after Michelle Bachmann and the other four Congressmen who supported her letter asking for investigation of Hitliaries girl friend, daughter of Muslim Brotherhood/Sisterhood members and the infiltration of Muslim Brotherhood members within all the halls of our government. One would expect Boehner to
also support them BUT instead he went after them..WHY? Methinks there is more to his
attack on them than meets the eye.

Yesterday evening we reported the details of House Republicans' "fiscal cliff" compromise offer to the White House, which offered real ideological concessions, to the tune of $800 Billion in new revenues.  The plan -- originally conceived last year by the Democratic co-chairman of the debt commission, Erskine Bowles -- also calls for the reduction of both discretionary and mandatory spending, making needed (albeit small-ball) reforms to the largest drivers of our debt.  Unlike the president's risible, widely-panned proposal last week, Republicans' new negotiating posture offers genuine compromise: (a) It has bipartisan origins, (b) it achieves "balance," (c) it...

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