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Don't Blame Boehner

wdwrkr Wrote: Dec 22, 2012 10:35 AM

Larry, the 50% of Americans who pay federal income taxes are sick and tired of the shenanigans in Washington. We balance our personal finances and are responsible in managing our debt. We expect this of the federal gov't. The ONLY way out of our fiscal mess is to REDUCE SPENDING! Tax increases can be considered, but, the focus must be serious spending cuts. Boehner should pay more attention to reducing gov't spending/borrowing rather than any meaningless tax increase on "the wealthy".

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Don't Blame Boehner

When you lose an election, you get frustrated. When you're sitting in a subpar 2 percent economy, and are faced with tax hikes rather than marginal rate reductions, you get even more frustrated. And when you're staring at $47 trillion in spending over the next 10 years, and $8.6 trillion in deficits, your frustration levels climb even higher.

These are among the frustrations that led a number of House Republicans to pull back from Speaker John Boehner's so-called Plan B. Nobody looked good on the Republican side when Thursday night's vote fell through. But you have to understand their frustrations....