The Rules Are Different For Obama

Jonathan S. Tobin Commentary Magazine 2/21/2013

Republicans are experiencing a serious problem as they attempt to stand up to President Obama’s pressure to give in and raise taxes again in order to avert the sequester budget cuts. In spite of the fact that the idea for the scheme originated in the White House and that […]

Senate Passes Fiscal Cliff Deal

Pact Moves to House

Newsmax 01 Jan 2013

Hours past a self-imposed deadline for action, the Senate passed legislation early New Year’s Day to neutralize a fiscal cliff combination of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that kicked in at midnight. The pre-dawn vote was a lopsided 89-8.

Senate passage set the stage for a […]

Sen. Grassley: GOP Has 'Leverage' Over Obama on Fiscal Cliff

Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter Newsmax 26 Dec 2012

Longtime Sen. Chuck Grassley tells Newsmax that Republicans have a “great deal of leverage” on President Obama because they can refuse to raise the debt ceiling unless he agrees to spending cuts.

The Iowa Republican also says the president wants the nation to go over the […]

Caddell: Obama's Arrogant Overreach--and the Republican Opportunity

Patrick Caddell Breitbart.com Big Government 3 Dec 2012

In the “fiscal cliff” negotiations, the Republicans are in desperate need of a game-changer. That is, the current dynamics in Washington DC are so bad right now for Republicans that they are likely to go off a political cliff. President Obama and the Democrats have always been […]

Cliff-jumping with Barack

Charles Krauthammer The Washington Post 11/29/2012

Why are Republicans playing the Democrats’ game that the “fiscal cliff” is all about taxation?

House Speaker John Boehner already made the preemptive concession of agreeing to raise revenue. But the insistence on doing so by eliminating deductions without raising marginal rates is now the subject of fierce Republican […]

Krauthammer: Obama’s Not Trying to Fix Our Fiscal Problems, He’s Trying to Destroy Republicans

Jim Hoft GatewayPundit 11/27/2012

Charles Krauthammer weighed in on the ongoing fiscal talks in Washington DC on Special Report:

“Obama’s proposal to raise rates on the rich is a triviality…It would reduce the deficit from $1.1 trillion to $1.02 trillion. Eight cents on the dollar. It’s nothing. It’s lunch money. It’s a rounding error. And […]

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