Speaker John Boehner is going to meet privately with President Obama to try to hammer our a deal on this fiscal cliff. He should take Senator Rand Paul’s advice and let the Democrats do what they want and then own it. Or Boehner can keep doing what he’s doing and lose the speakership.
SEN. RAND PAUL: I have yet another thought on how we can fix this. Why don’t we let the Democrats pass whatever they want? If they are the party of higher taxes, all the Republicans vote present and let the Democrats raise taxes as high as they want to raise them, let Democrats in the Senate raise taxes, let the president sign it and then make them own the tax increase. And when the economy stalls, when the economy sputters, when people lose their jobs, they know which party to blame, the party of high taxes. Let’s don’t be the party of just almost as high taxes.
LARRY KUDLOW, CNBC: Some people have called that the doomsday scenario. Others have said, ‘Look, it’s a strategic retreat on the Republicans’ behalf.’ WWould you vote present for that in the Senate if that came up?
RAND PAUL: Yes, I don’t think we have to in the Senate. In the House, they have to because the Democrats don’t have the majority. In the Senate, I’m happy not to filibuster it, and I will announce tonight on your show that I will work with Harry Reid to let him pass his big old tax hike with a simple majority if that’s what Harry Reid wants, because then they will become the party of high taxes and they can own it.
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@lonelycon Demoncrats would blams any tax increase on Bush
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I sooooooooo FEVERISHLY wish they would do this! You cannot convince good old fashioned Democrats (as opposed to Marxist Libtards) that their party is more than half the problem; the only way you can do that is carve yourself out of the responsibility for the disaster that is going to happen anyway, so WHY WASTE TIME, ENERGY, AND REPUTATION? Let ‘em gooooooo!
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The simple logic to this is great… Problem is we all know the Dems will not take responsibility when it blows up in their faces no matter what.. and ray is probably right… it will be Bush’s fault regardless of what happens.
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But, Mark, they/we have never just stepped aside and let them stand in the light all by themselves and own it; as long as Republicans pretend there is something to be negotiated and stay in the picture, Democrats will point to them as the problem. What if they’re not there?? What if they can just have what they want and it’s proven not to work? That’s what I want to see. Is the country going to go down in flames? Probably not. The pain will not be any worse than the continuing theatre…it will just get here much faster. I say rip the bandaid right off and get to the wound; then you can work on healing. Doesn’t matter if Dems never really take responsibility—matters what the voting public thinks when it’s ALLLLLLLL Obama’s show. Greece, anyone? Cairo?
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The deal was already worked out behind closed doors at the last debt deal 8-02-2011, the Budget Control Act of 2011 with Barry’s MANDATED Sequestration, and the 2010 Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act. Progressives build off of and manipulate for their cause. Fifteen months passed by while republican and democrat leadership twiddled their thumbs and obstructed. The Sequestration cuts from productive programs will go to fund ObamaTaxCare. There is no reduction in spending. Barry campaigned on raising taxes. Now he is “campaigning” after election of being for the underdog middle incomers wanting to protect the tax structure for them, but has the intentions of striking their tax deduction incentives and has a slew of new ObamaTaxCare taxes, regulatory fees, QE continuing devaluation of the dollar, consumption taxes, and other confiscatory schemes of your 401k, IRA, 403b, pension, savings account, property, etc, in the pipeline. What was needed was someone like Newt Gingrich back in the nineties who called out the Clinton-Gore cronyism. However, the progressives in the R party didn’t support him when push came to shove. So this is how we go along to get along.
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I wish it would but it will never happen. The “Weeper” of the House would never let it happen. He wants to save the President from himself. And continue getting invitations to swank, liberal cocktail parties. Funny how Bush raised the debt to a couple of trillion, but this Administration raised it to 6 trillion and beyond and no one notices it! If Bush was bad to raise so much debt, why did you not stop it too?
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