Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama is considering at least a short delay to the start of his holiday vacation in Hawaii so he can try to work out a deal with congressional Republicans on the Bush tax cuts that expire December 31, CNN has learned. WOW! Sacrificing his Hawaiian Vacation for the Little People. He's all heart.
Two senior administration officials tell CNN the White House has been getting signals that the lame duck session of Congress could drag on past December 18, when the president is scheduled to depart for Hawaii. Catch a wave and your sittin' on top of the World. Gotta work on his tan.
Obama has privately said he is willing to stay in Washington until Christmas Eve if necessary to finish the contentious debate over taxes, the officials said. How about staying in Washington doing the job for which you were elected.
While administration officials do not expect that Obama will have to stay in town until Christmas Eve, which he did last year because of health care reform, they believe there could be a delay of at least a couple of days.
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"The last thing we can afford to do right now is raise taxes on middle-class families," Obama said at an event in Kokomo, Indiana, on November 23. "If we allow these taxes to go up, the result would be that a lot of people most likely would spend less, and that means that the economy would grow less. So we ought to resolve this issue in the next couple of weeks so you've got the assurance that your taxes won't go up when that clock strikes midnight." Most likely spend less? I think his addiction to Hopium is showing.
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Run along to Hawaii, Barry. Let the grownups handle this one.
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A food safety bill that has burned up precious days of the Senate's lame-duck session appears headed back to the chamber because Democrats violated a constitutional provision requiring that tax provisions originate in the House. Harry Reid at work again.
By pre-empting the House's tax-writing authority, Senate Democrats appear to have touched off a power struggle with members of their own party in the House. The Senate passed the bill Tuesday, sending it to the House, but House Democrats are expected to use a procedure known as "blue slipping" to block the bill, according to House and Senate GOP aides.
The debacle could prove to be a major embarrassment for Senate Democrats, who sought Tuesday to make the relatively unknown bill a major political issue by sending out numerous news releases trumpeting its passage. This is the Bill that will eliminate Farmers' Markets.
Section 107 of the bill includes a set of fees that are classified as revenue raisers, which are technically taxes under the Constitution. According to a House GOP leadership aide, that section has ruffled the feathers of Ways and Means Committee Democrats, who are expected to use the blue slip process to block completion of the bill. This isn't the first time Harry Reid has tried to get tax bills started in the Senate. He tried to pass a tourism promotion bill that was key to his re-election hopes.It was temporarily halted earlier this year because the Senate passed a version with revenue raisers similar to those in the food safety bill.
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I hope the kill this bill deader than a doornail. Its a bad bill.
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Sat across from an owner of a $40,000,000.00 ($40 Million) company today. She is a very smart business woman in a man's business, the construction industry.
She told me that earlier this year she called all her employees into a "State of the Union" meeting where she told them there would be real losses for the industry and some major surprises. She did not know what those surprises would be but she knew they would not be good. As this year progressed she say some very so-called strong companies collapse like a house of cards. Then she asked me what they could do to keep them out of trouble. Of course she is about to purchase some software development support that will give her a lot of analysis. But I turned the question around to her...
...And she replied, "We are TOAST. If we can get the right people in to DC, they can tax me, tax me, tax me because that is the only way our future generations can survive and get those generations out of serious financial trouble now. But at the same time they better actually hang the politicians that are there now for what they are doing to our children. And I am DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT THE HANGINGS!"
She started out 25 years ago as a receptionist there. She nows owns the company and was the one who built it.
But to get back to my response to her it was "Build the best possible fire wall around you and your company that you hope can handle the next great depression. In other words, fill the barns with corn." And she replied, "Yes, for the seven years of famine."
[Washington Examiner] An effort by Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., to place a temporary ban on earmarks was defeated. The tally was 39 in favor and 56 against.
There were eight Republican votes against the earmark ban: Bennett of Utah, Cochran, Collins, Inhofe, Lugar, Murkowski, Shelby, and Voinovich.
Seven Democrats voted in favor: Bayh, Bennet of Colorado, Feingold, McCaskill, Udall of Colorado, Nelson, and Warner.
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They need to keep up the pressure for the next two years on the supposedly moderate Democrats that are up for reelection in 2012.
Oh, and who is "Cochran"? Not familiar with that one.
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same sh*t as usual. Why did Brownback not vote? If he and the other non-voting repub votes along w/the 8 no's switching it goes 49-47 in favor of the ban.
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Brownback is a loose cannon, likely will abstain from DREAM as well. If he votes for scream, he will be in real trouble from day 1 in his next job of governor of KS.
The question I have is why is that a question, why not voting for the ban?
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Bennet of Utah demonstrates why he was dumped in a primary. Mukowski shows how stupid the people of Alaska are by voting her back in. Voinovich - good riddance Rino.
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