Reid: GOP has walked away from negotiations

[babylonsister]

Must be because of all that caving Obama is doing.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/273513-reid-gop-has-walked-away-from-fiscal-cliff-negotiations


Reid: GOP has walked away from negotiations
By Alexander Bolton - 12/18/12 02:48 PM ET


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Tuesday that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has effectively walked away from fiscal cliff negotiations.

Reid said Boehner's Plan B proposal to extend the Bush-era tax rates for family income under $1 million will not pass Congress.

"Today, House Republicans have threatened to abandon serious negotiations," Reid said. "Boehner's proposal will not pass the Senate."

Reid said the Senate Democratic caucus is unified in opposition to Boehner's "Plan B."

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Reid said President Obama has not heard from Boehner since making a new counteroffer Monday.

"He hasn't heard a word from him," Reid said.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) said he would support Boehner's plan as it would shield the vast majority of the nation from tax increases. He said his preference, however, is that taxes not go up on any subset of the public.

[elleng]

1. THANKS, b'sis!

[ChangeUp106]

2. Just means

when they return Obama will cave even more

[babylonsister]

4. lol! nt

[forestpath]

6. Or act like he's caving...when he's really getting what he wanted.

[aquart]

15. I do hope that SS cuts are not what he wanted.

Sorry, but he still has the Chicago School economists on his team and they're idiots.

[Cha]

9. It means no such thing.

[savalez]

21. Pfff. Moron.

[PoliticAverse]

3. Reid declined to say whether he could support ... a new formula for calculating Social Security COLA

"Reid declined to say whether he could support the proposal reportedly considered by the White House to use a new formula for calculating Social Security cost-of-living adjustments, noting that he will not be asked to vote on just that provision but instead on a broad package."

[forestpath]

5. Whatever happened to Give 'Em Hell Harry? Now we have Weasel Words Harry.

[Myrina]

18. He's got 7-year-old powder to keep dry ...

[discharge]

7. His name isn't, ''Give 'em Hell Harry.''

It's, ''Give 'em Whatever They Want Harry.''

[Cha]

10. No, it isn't.

[villager]

8. Good! No more caving to get them to walk back!

A brief "cliff dive," then restorative legislation in early January...

[Cha]

11. ..

[Neon2012]

12. What would you anti-cavers do?

Probably unrealistic, whatever the answer.

[appacom]

13. Thanks, Neon, they're making me crazy

[aquart]

16. Well, when they say Chained CPI, Obama should say....

39% from all sources over $250,000. 85% from all sources after $7 million until Bush's wars are fully paid for.

It was insane for a nation to go to war and cut taxes instead of raise them.

When they say age 67 for Medicare, Obama should say, age 55 for Medicare.

THEN they can discuss meeting in the middle.

They played politics with the full faith and credit of the United States. That is not forgivable.

[Myrina]

19. I like your plan.

n/t

[democrattotheend]

14. Hopefully that means I am right

That the president leaked the offer everyone's freaking out about because he knew the GOP wouldn't take it, and this makes them look unreasonable.

[Cosmocat]

17. This makes no sense

there is NOTHING contrived you need to do to make the Rs look unreasonable. That is like trying to do something to make a zebra look like it has stripes.

He moved signifiantly toward their direction and they did what they have done with him every time, with health care reform, the expiration of the bush tax cuts, the last credit ceiling deadline, he met them and the moved the bar on him.

I like Barrack Obama a lot, but he just will not draw a line in the sand at a reasonable place with these jackasses.

[mac56]

20. I think you are right.

[savalez]

22. Boehner is looking like more of a dumbass than usual these days so

I think the plan is working rather well.