House Democrats defy Obama on tax cut bill

John Marshall: Democrats Vote to Rewrite Obama
Subject to revisionism WASHINGTON (AP) - In a closed-door Caucus meeting, House Democrats voted to reject President Barack Obama "as currently written." The House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said changes would need to be made to the president's narrative before she would allow his tax proposals to come to the floor. "We are going to vote on an amendment to increase Obama's anger levels," said Ms. Pelosi. "For our part, we are agreeing to a ten-year reduction in sanctimony, although that won't take ...

House Democrats Insist on a Tax Increase
From the Associated Press : House Democrats voted Thursday to reject President Barack Obama’s tax deal with Republicans in its current form, but it was unclear how significantly the package might need to be changed. By voice vote in a closed Caucus meeting, Democrats passed a resolution saying the tax package should not come to the House floor for consideration as written, even though no formal House Bill has been drafted. Rep. Peter Defazio, D-Ore., introduced the resolution. Said Rep. ...

House Democrats revolt, reject unemployment compromise
The Democratic Caucus in the U.S. House voted this afternoon to reject the Compromise deal negotiated between President Obama and the Republican leadership to extend both federal Unemployment Benefits and the Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthiest Americans. The House Democratic Caucus voted to oppose President Barack Obama’s tax plan, throwing into flux weeks of negotiations on an issue that has turned many congressional Democrats against the White House. Oregon Rep. Peter Defazio offered a res...

House Democrats institute 'martial law' to speed ambitious lame duck agenda
Jonathan Strong, 27, is a reporter for the Daily Caller covering Congress. Previously, he was a reporter for Inside EPA where he wrote about environmental Regulation in great detail, and before that a Staffer for Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA). Strong graduated from Wheaton College (IL) with a degree in Political Science in 2006. He is a huge fan of and season ticket holder to the Washington Capitals hockey team. Strong and his wife reside in Arlington. House Democrats Wednesday passed a resolution all...

House Democrats in open revolt over tax-cut deal
Reporting from Washington — House Democrats erupted into open revolt Thursday over the tax-cut deal negotiated by President Obama and Republican leaders, threatening to undermine GOP support and rekindling the prospect of a Tax Increase for virtually every American worker. During an angry and emotional meeting of their Caucus, Democratic lawmakers voted overwhelmingly against bringing the Obama package to the floor without substantial modification. "Just say no!" many shouted in the Dem...

Hostages, (The American People), Change HandsPelosi, Extreme Left Now Threatening to Raise Taxes on Everyone
Nancy Pelosi, the outgoing Speaker of the House and a small coalition of the liberal left have decided to keep President Obama’s tax relief package from passing in the House. With much of the nation not knowing what their Tax Rates will be in January, Pelosi, (and the Party that promised bi-partisan cooperation in her “new direction” Congress), have decided to put American jobs and the state of The Economy in jeopardy to cater to their Far Left liberal constituency. Even some i...

Democrats defy Obama, oppose tax deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Angry Democrats in the House of Representatives defied President Barack Obama on Thursday and rejected a deal he struck with Republicans to extend low Tax Rates that are set to expire in three weeks. While unlikely on its own to derail the tax plan, the House Democrats' rebellion gives Obama another political Headache just over a month after he took a beating in mid-term Elections. In a raucous, closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill, mutinous Democrats chanted "Just say no!...

House Democrats Defy Obama For the Moment
Remember John Kerry’s most famous flip flop? In October 2003, the year after voting to support the use of force in Iraq, Kerry voted against a supplemental funding bill for U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” It looks like House Democrats now are going to take an “I voted for it before I voted against it” stance on the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts. (CNN) - Defying President Obama, House De...

House Democrats Defy Obama- For the Moment
By Proof Remember John Kerry's most famous flip flop? In October 2003, the year after voting to support the use of force in Iraq, Kerry voted against a supplemental funding bill for U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” It looks like House Democrats now are going to take an "I voted for it before I voted against it" stance on the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts. (CNN) - Defying President Obama, House Democrats vote...

House Democrats: "Just Say No" to Tax Bill
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. Despite intense White House lobbying, House Democrats - who still control the chamber through the end of the year - voted Thursday morning not to take up the Tax Cuts "framework" worked out by President Obama and top Republicans. "This bill in its current form will not be voted on," Brendan Daly, spokesman for speaker Nancy Pelosi, told CBS News following the closed-door vote. A House Leadership aide tells CBS News that the voice vote shows just how upset Democrats ...

House Democrats Reject Obama's Tax Cut Deal
Still furious over the Compromise that President Obama struck with Senate Republicans on the expiring Bush Tax Cuts, House Democrats voted Thursday not to take up the negotiated package and instead work to find a measure that they could support. Although it was a nonbinding voice vote cast in a closed Democratic Caucus, it was nonetheless designed to send a message to the president that House Democrats remain unhappy with the concessions he made in his efforts to avoid the expiration of the Bus...

Wow: House Democrats say, Thanks, But No thanks to Tax and Unemployment Bill
Shocking, but not entirely surprising really. (CNN) - Defying President Obama, House Democrats voted Thursday not to bring up the tax package that he negotiated with Republicans in its current form. “This message today is very simple: That in the form that it was negotiated, it is not acceptable to the House Democratic Caucus. It’s as simple as that,” said Democratic Congressman Chris Van Hollen. “We will continue to try and work with the White House and our Repu...

Conservative Dems: Progressives are holding tax deal hostage
I think we officially have an official analogy fad now, thanks to President Obama: Although the resolution solidifying the revolt was approved by House Democrats Thursday “nearly unanimously,” in the words of sponsor Rep. Peter Defazio (D-Ore.), a handful of moderate members are already up in arms. Rep. Dan Boren (Okla.), among the most conservative Democrats on Capitol Hill, said he’s “extremely displeased” that the White House-GOP deal might not come to the floo...

House Democrats Demand Changes to Tax Deal
WSJ: [...] he House Democratic Caucus was brimming with fury at being excluded from the negotiations that produced the agreement. In a closed-door meeting Thursday, the Caucus passed a resolution stating that the tax-cut deal would not be brought to the House floor for a vote unless it was changed. “Just say no!” Democrats chanted before the vote, according to an aide in the meeting. Despite the angry Caucus vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) signaled that she did not pl...

House Democrats Urge Leaders to Block Tax Vote
By MARTIN VAUGHAN And COREY BOLES WSJ WASHINGTON—House Democrats continued to voice opposition to a tax deal between the White House and Republicans on Thursday and urged leaders not to bring the agreement up for a formal vote. House Democrats, in a closed meeting, voiced near-unanimous opposition to extending Bush-era Tax Cuts for two years. It was unclear if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) would prevent the bill from coming to a floor vote because of Democratic opposition. For now,...

Jackson Jr. likens Obama to Reagan
A co-chairman of Barack Obama's 2008 campaign compared the president's economic agenda to that of Republican President Ronald Reagan on Friday. "If we cut taxes for the wealthy, while maintaining massive Military Spending in support of two wars, then the new Republican Congress will be empowered to cut social programs in order to reduce the Deficit," Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., a longtime friend and sometimes critic of the president, said in a statement. "So it will be a choice bet...

Democrat: 'Obamanomics' like 'Reaganomics'
President Obama's economic plans seem too similar to President Reagan's, a Democratic critic of the president charged Friday. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) criticized Obama's plan to extend all Tax Rates for two years as following in the vein of "Reaganomics," the Free Market-oriented policies sought by the GOP president when he was in office in the 1980s. "If we recklessly cut taxes for the wealthiest 2 percent, then Obamanomics will look an awful lot like Reaganomics," Jackson said in a ...

Democrats' Tax Rebellion Shows They Don't Live in the Real World
Democrats, and House Democrats in particular, are bent out of shape because of the tax Compromise President Obama made with Republicans. With all their screaming, you would be forgiven if you forgot they won a key concession from Republicans--extended Unemployment. Republicans were no saints when they were in the majority. And because of their own unsportsmanlike conduct, Democrats will be relegated to minority status come 2011. Democrats lost more than 60 seats in the House. They re-elected N...

Democrats: Say, Lets Change Rules to Push Our Agenda FASTER in Lame Duck Session
There is nothing more dangerous than a party that is about to lose power but still has temporary control of the reins of government. That is, of course, what we call the Lame Duck session of Congress — more like a zombie congress; dead men walking… or sitting as the case may be. It has gotten so bad that Democrats are even throwing away the rules in order to indulge a bacchanalia of a left-wing agenda, the same sort that got them kicked out of office. Attempting to indulge every activit...

Change for tomorrow starts when we change leaders today
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learnt something from yesterday.” - John Wayne’s grave inscription The recent Elections say Americans want new eyes on the problems old leaders got us into. Albert Einstein wrote, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” In Congress, ...

Obama predicts tax bill passage, possible changes
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is predicting congressional approval of the tax-cutting Compromise he has reached with Republican leaders, but he's not ruling out that unhappy Democrats will make some changes in the mammoth Legislation. In an interview with NPR released Friday, Obama said that despite a rebellion by many Democrats against his tax deal, it will pass because "nobody — Democrat or Republican — wants to see people's paychecks smaller on Jan. 1 because Cong...

Obama in a position of strength
It took a month for President Obama to make clear what he has learned from the Midterm Election ``shellacking,'' but the time has not been wasted. Future political historians are likely to trace his recovery -- and re-election, if that's what happens -- back to decisions made in December. In these last few days, he has regained the economic initiative from the victorious Republicans, separated himself from the left of his own party and staked a strong claim to the territory where national electi...

House Democrats say Obama caved on tax-cut deal. Are they wrong?
By one analysis of the deal on extending the Bush Tax Cuts, Obama got more than the Republicans did. The measures he sought cost three times more than those the GOP sought. But can that help him change the minds of Democrats on Capitol Hill?...

House Democrats Reject Obama Tax Cut Deal In Non-Binding Vote, Demand Changes
WASHINGTON -- In a meeting on Thursday morning, the House Democratic Caucus rejected the president's proposed deal on the Bush Tax Cuts but did not fully Submarine the possibility of its passage, multiple sources tell The Huffington Post. Members, by voice vote, passed a motion to reject the deal as currently written. The motion had been put forward by Reps. Peter Defazio (D-Ore.) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.) and was seconded, informally, by Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) ...

House Democrats May Block Tax Cut Bill
House Democrats met Thursday and overwhelmingly voted to block the Bush Tax Cut extension Compromise announced earlier in the week by President Obama and Republican congressional leaders. Like what you see? Click here to sign up for Accounting Today's daily newsletter to get the latest news and behind the scenes commentary you won't find anywhere else. House Democrats were later reported to be planning to introduce several changes in the deal, including in the Estate Tax, which has provoked par...