Boehner Blasts Dems' 'Chickencrap' Tax Cut Vote Gambit

What's the Point of Pelosi's 'Wily' Middle-Class Tax Cuts? (The Atlantic Wire)
WASHINGTON, DC – House Democrats passed Legislation extending the Bush Tax Cuts only for the Middle Class, allowing those for families making more than $250,000 to expire, using "a wily procedural maneuver to tie Republican hands," Talking Points Memo's Brian Beutler reports. But now a deal on the cuts has died in the Senate, and the future of Democrats' favored tax plan looks grim. Majority Leader Harry Reid had forged a "tentative agreement" to hold four votes in the Senate on Democrat...

House Leaders Have Similar Take on Jobs Report, but Contrasting Solutions
ABC News' John R. Parkinson reports: After the Department of Labor reported Friday morning that the Unemployment Rate climbed to 9.8 percent and the country added a net total of only 39,000 jobs last month, the top leaders in the House of Representatives both called on Congress to do more to help regenerate The Economy, but each leader had a contrasting scheme revolving around Tax Cuts to help stimulate the Economic Recovery.  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, stated ...

Welcome to Gridlock: Pols Find Little Common Ground on Jobless, Tax Bills
President Obama today urged members of Congress to extend benefits for the unemployed, which expired Wednesday for about 2 million Americans, and expressed hope that lawmakers will come together on Tax Cuts even though Republicans and Democrats continue to squabble over both issues. More Video House Democrats today passed a bill to extend Tax Cuts for individuals who make $200,000 a year or less and couples who make up to $250,000. But the bill is unlikely to pass the Senate. The president...

Dear Democrats, please, please, please don't eff this up
An artist's rendition of me begging the Dems to not cave. Yes, in real life I am a dog. I'm taking a break from the Opening Bell this morning to write a letter to the Democratic Party. OK, guys, here's the deal. The House yesterday passed an extension of the middle-class Tax Cuts and only the Middle Class tax cuts. Lookit: The House on Thursday passed a bill that would extend the Bush-era Tax Cuts only to the middle class, a mostly symbolic measure that nonetheless allows Democrats to draw a con...

John Boehner And Fox News Go All Chicken Crap On Democratic Legislative Ploy
House Democrats are planning an up or down vote on President Obama ’s plan to extend Tax Cuts and have asked for a straight vote additional Tax Breaks for the wealthy, ostensibly putting the GOP in a political bind. During his Press Conference, House Minority speaker John Boehner took umbrage at this legislative ploy, calling it “chicken crap.” America Live host Megyn Kelly jumped on the Fertilizer friendly foray, had literally shot the shit with guest Eric Bolling. Somewhere t...

Accept Our Compromise, Now, Or Die
Metaphorically speaking, of course: Not even 24 hours after President Obama met with senior Republican Congressional leaders and expressed hopes for a “new dialogue,” renewed partisan fury engulfed the Senate on Wednesday, as Republicans threatened to block any Legislation until a deal is reached to extend the expiring Bush-era Tax Cuts, potentially derailing the Democrats’ busy end-of-year agenda. Unfortunately, the effects of the Grand Old Party of No’s threat to bring all legisla

Frank: White House 'gravely mistaken' in tax cut strategy
The White House is "gravely mistaken" to deal on Tax Cuts while congressional Democrats seek tax cut Legislation that let the breaks expire for the highest earners, a top Democrat said. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, echoed liberal disappointment in President Obama's negotiators for reportedly looking to cut a deal with Republicans on taxes that would allow a short-term extension of Tax Cuts for all income groups. "I`m very disappointed in...

33 Dems vote against Pelosi tax-hike procedural stunt; Boehner on Pelosi move: Chicken crap
Call it Weaker Pelosi’s last gasp. This morning, the Dems forced a rule-making vote on the Obama Tax Increases that will, as Rob Bluey reported, prevent Republicans from offering an amendment to stop ALL the Obama Tax Increases scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2011. GOP Leader John Boehner blasted the maneuver: House Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-OH) has called today’s tax hike vote a “Washington stalling tactic with job-killing implications,” and with good reason: *

Tongue-in-cheek Boehner refers to Dems' tax cut vote as 'chicken crap'
Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-Ohio) called the House Democrats' vote on extending certain Tax Breaks "chicken crap" on Thursday. "I'm trying to catch my breath so I don't refer to this maneuver going on today as chicken crap, all right," the top-ranking House Republican said sarcastically, "but this is nonsense! We're 23 months from the next election and the political games have already started trying to set up the next election. "We have an honest conversation at the White House about th...

Chicken crap?
House Majority Leader John Boehner has a reputation for being colorful. No, I’m not talking about his orange skin — I’m talking about his blue language. See, yesterday, Mr. Boehner got really frustrated with the fact that he’s still in the minority. The Democratic majority in the House did today what they should have done months ago — and repeated once a week until they prevailed — when they forced a vote on extending President Obama’s middle-class Tax Cuts while

House Democrats pass Middle-class tax cuts while Republicans cry fowl
I wrote in my last article how Republicans in Congress were making a mistake in favoring the extension of the Bush-era Tax Cuts for the 2 percent of Americans who make over $200,000 ($250,000 for families) instead of extending Unemployment Benefits. Now that Republicans have succeeded in blocking that extension, leaving 2 million Americans this Holiday Season without those benefits by the end of the year, they are free to again focus on their highest priority: giving more money to the wealthy. A...

The Plum Line: In defense of the White House on Bush tax cuts
With everybody beating up on Obama's handling of the Bush Tax Cuts fight, it's only fair to note one crucial thing in the White House's defense: It isn't Obama's fault that Congressional Democrats punted on holding a vote on just the Middle Class Tax Cuts before the election. Indeed, the White House appears to have wanted just the opposite. As many commentators have noted already, the failure to do that vote left Dems with precious little leverage in the current lame-duck showdown over the ta...

Obama tax hike passes House - Unemployment hits 9.8 percent
Ohio Unemployment numbers are 9.9% as of October. The national Unemployment Rate has just been announced at 9.8% for November. In a vote of 234-188, the Democrat led House voted to implement the Obama tax hike, the misnomered Bush Tax Cuts. The Bush tax cuts took place in 2001 and 2003, 9 and 7 years ago respectively. Of the 234 yea votes, 3 were Republicans. Of the 188 nea votes, 20 were Democrats. All 20 Democrats voting in favor of the American People are facing re-election in the coming term...

The relative ease of finger-pointing
THE RELATIVE EASE OF FINGER-POINTING.... That Democrats have managed to royally screw up the fight over tax policy is no longer in doubt. The remaining questions are what they'll end up with in terms of the final deal and knowing who's responsible for the breakdown. I started to put together some notes last night on this -- here's a preview: there's plenty of blame to go around -- but I'm inclined to hold off until the issue is entirely resolved. Questions of culpability may be even clearer wh...

Krugman Points Out the Obvious
This is a depressing read: Mr. Obama’s pay ploy might, just might, have been justified if he had used the announcement of a freeze as an occasion to take a strong stand against Republican demands — to declare that at a time when Deficits are an important issue, Tax Breaks for the wealthiest aren’t acceptable. But he didn’t. Instead, he apparently intended the pay freeze announcement as a peace gesture to Republicans the day before a Bipartisan summit. At that meeting, M...

Boehner Calls Dem Tax Cut Shenanigans 'Chicken Crap'
House Democrats are planning an up or down vote on President Obama’s plan to extend Tax Cuts and have asked for a straight vote for additional Tax Breaks for the wealthy, ostensibly putting the GOP in a political bind. During his Press Conference, House Minority speaker John Boehner took umbrage at this legislative ploy, calling it “chicken crap.” You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attemp...

Grand Old Plutocrats
The House voted by an overwhelming margin Thursday for tax fairness -- extending Tax Cuts for the middle-class, while requiring individuals earning more than $200,000 and families earning more than $250,000 to pay a taxes at the same rate they did during the boom years of the 1990s. Well, to be precise, House Democrats voted overwhelmingly for tax fairness. House Republicans voted overwhelmingly against any change in tax policy that did not take care of Millionaires and Billionaires. The actual ...

Happy Hour Vid: John Boehner Holds His Breath Trying Not To Say 'Chicken Crap' (The Atlantic Wire)
WASHINGTON, DC – John Boehner couldn't hide his feelings at a Press Conference today when asked about about this afternoon's House vote on extending Tax Cuts to the broader population. According to Talking Points Memo, House Democrats are planning a straight vote on the matter, avoiding regular House voting rules by attaching the tax plan to the Airport and Airway Extension Act which has already passed the house and cannot be resubmitted. In an expression of frustration with the plan, B...

Boehner Attacks Democratic Tax Bill
Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday called Democrats’ effort to extend only the middle-class Tax Cuts “chicken crap” and accused the majority of playing political games with the issue. The Democratic bill would make permanent the 2001 and 2003 Bush Tax Cuts for the Middle Class but would allow cuts for the wealthiest Americans to expire on Dec. 31. House Republicans argue that all of the Tax Cuts should be extended. “I’m trying to catch my breath so ...

Thank Goodness for the Liberal Media
Ezra Klein paints the landscape of not-yet-Speaker of the House Boehner personal “chicken crap” farm. Soon-to-be-House Speaker John Boehner is not happy to see the House Democrats pushing a bill that includes only the Tax Cuts for income under $250,000. “I’m trying to catch my breath so I don’t refer to this maneuver going on today as chicken crap, all right?” There are 238,781 households in John Boehner’s district. There are 2,824 of them with an income above $20

Obama the republican?
On Thursday, the departing democratic congressional majority passed an extension for the Bush Tax Cuts for the Middle Class only. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner called the Lame Duck Congress’ swan song, “chicken crap.” The republican mantra has been an all-or-nothing tax cut policy, which includes extending Tax Breaks for Millionaires and Billionaires, despite a report on MSNBC’s The Last Word that less than 40% of the American People want to give the wealthi...

Labor uses jobless to lean on Congress to extend unemployment benefits
The AFL-CIO pressed lawmakers to extend a "lifeline" to unemployed workers by extending benefits for out-of-work Americans. The labor group pressed Congress to approve another extension of Unemployment Benefits by featuring a video depicting jobless workers. "Congress is debating whether to restore this survival aid," the video says. "This is not a debate. The choice is clear." The Unemployment Benefits expired Nov. 30 and have lapsed since then. Such a situation has played out several times ...

Republicans seize on unemployment rate hike
FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2010, file photo Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConn... WASHINGTON (AP) - With Unemployment rising, incoming House Speaker John Boehner vowed Friday that Republicans will show the way toward extending Tax Cuts in 2011 if the outgoing Democrats fail to do it sooner. Boehner, R-Ohio, made his comment as partisan wrangling in the Senate slowed attempts to pass Legislation ensuring that Tax Cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 don't expire. Boehner blamed President Barack Obama's e...

House Dems Pass Tax Break for Under 250K
The Bush Tax Cuts passed in 2002 almost 8 years ago has giving those high earning Billionaires and Millionaires a huge Tax Break for the wealthiest Americans who represent only 2.1 percent of all Taxpayers but who pay less than the rest of the 97.9 percent of the American tax base. In essence the rich who expect a continuation of the tax breaks and gifts from ex-President George Bush -still have the audacity of expecting them during a Democratic President at the helm. The Republicans may have wo...

Tax Breaks Coming in 2011
Dec. 3, 2010 Who the Bush Tax Cuts will Benefit the most, the Rush Limbaugh’s, the Glen Becks, The Sarah Palin’s….of the Tea Party-Republican Tax Plan as Alan Grayson points out. Thanks for voting in the mid-terms. The difference between giving Republicans a Tax Break is that they will hoard the money.  The difference with giving the Middle Class a Tax Break is that they will spend the money, on food, groceries, pay bills, buy clothing, put their kids through school. Now ...