Schieffer Asks Dem Guests: Why Is Your Party So Mad They're Saying F-words About the President?

First Senate Vote Expected Monday on Tax Compromise Bill
Monday, December 13, 2010 By Hope Yen, Associated Press White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod talks about Tax Cuts on CBS's Face the Nation in Washington on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher) Washington (AP) - Senators get their first chance Monday to vote on the tax-rate deal struck by President Barack Obama and Republicans, but whatever the outcome of the test vote, the White House expects the bill to pass by year's end. "Everybody understands what it would mean fo...

On the Sunday Political Scene
This morning on CNN’s State of the Union, senior Obama adviser David Axelrod scoffed at the conventional wisdom that, chastened by recent Republican gains in Congress, President Obama is “tacking back to the center.” According to Axelrod, the president never left. In his post-partisan way, Obama remains “who he has always been.” Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.) and former Governor Howard Dean (D., Vt.) told CBS’s Bob Sch...

History will prove us right, Hoyer insists
House Democratic Leader Steny H. Hoyer says that despite his party's massive losses in last month's congressional Elections, history will prove the Democratic agenda is the correct path to lead the country out of its economic doldrums. The Maryland lawmaker, during a Speech Monday at Washington's National Press Club, also warned that Republican tactics that pushed the party to retake the House come January will leave a toxic legacy on Congress and the country. "It's easier to stir up culture...

House Dems try to pull back estate tax compromise
House Democratic efforts to change the tax deal struck by President Obama and congressional Republicans are focusing on an amendment to the Estate Tax provision, according to senior party sources familiar with a Monday leadership meeting. But it's not clear that the proposed amendment, which the House passed as a stand-alone bill a year ago, would attract the support needed for Adoption. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset POLITICO 44 Utah Rep. Jim Matheson, a leader among moderate Blue Do...

When do papers print the F-word?
Can we quote you on that?In a front-section story by Helen Dewar and Dana Milbank today, the Washington Post quoted an intemperate remark that Vice President Dick Cheney made to Sen. Patrick Leahy Tuesday on the floor of the Senate. (The vice president reportedly said, "Fuck yourself.") The Post printed the F-Bomb verbatim, while other Newspapers that reported on the argument cloaked the veep's "fuck" in classic newspaper-ese: Sheryl Gay Stolberg in today's New York Times wrote that Cheney used ...

House Blue Dogs Hold Key To Tax Vote
ABC News’ Amy Walter reports Although the focus has been on liberal Democratic opposition to President Barack Obama’s Tax Cut deal, the reality is that he doesn’t need that many Democrats to vote with him in order to get his Compromise bill - which easily cleared a legislative hurdle in the Senate this afternoon - through the House. Instead, it’ll be up to the Blue Dogs and New Democrats, those moderate Democrats who suffered the most significant losses to their ranks

Hoyer: The House will pass a bill to extend Bush-era tax rates (Daily Caller)
A proposal to extend the Bush-era Tax Rates for two years will pass in the House despite unease among Democrats, House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer said Monday. “I think we will pass a bill,” Hoyer said. “As opposed to simply not passing anything.” The Senate today will begin the process with a test vote on President Obama’s proposed deal, which includes an extension of all the Income Tax rates, a 13-month continuation of federal Unemployment Benefits and an e...

House Democrats will bring tax cut deal to the floor
Despite tough talk by House Democrats on the $858 billion tax deal brokered between President Barack Obama and Republicans, it appears that it will come to the floor for a vote after all - though they are taking issue with the plans to knock the increase in the Death Tax from 35% instead of the planned increase to 55%: The assistant to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that President Obama’s tax Compromise with Republicans will come to the House floor, despite House Democrats vow...

US House to approve tax deal despite doubts: lawmaker
Source: AFP The US House will approve a deal reached by President Barack Obama and Republicans that would avoid a major New Year's tax hike but was rejected by majority Democrats last week, a senior Democratic lawmaker said Sunday. "In some form it will come to the floor of the House for a vote," assistant Speaker of the House of Representatives Chris Van Hollen told Fox News Sunday. "There are some House Democrats who will refuse to go along with any deal (but) most of us understand we've got t...

In Tax Benefits to the Middle, Political Lift for Obama
WASHINGTON — With the Senate poised to hold a key vote on Monday on the Tax Cut deal between President Obama and Republicans, the political jousting has focused on what the agreement does for the wealthy by extending all of the Bush-era Tax Rates, and for the unemployed, by continuing jobless aid. Representative Chris Van Hollen, left, represented House Democrats in Debates on the tax deal. The latest on President Obama, the new Congress and other news from Washington and around the nati...

House Democrats will bring tax cut deal to the floor
Despite tough talk by House Democrats on the $858 billion tax deal brokered between President Barack Obama and Republicans, it appears that it will come to the floor for a vote after all - though they are taking issue with the plans to knock the increase in the Death Tax from 35% instead of the planned increase to 55%: The assistant to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that President Obama’s tax Compromise with Republicans will come to the House floor, despite House Democrats vow...

Michael Steele Will Be Missed
Michael Steele, the holy clown prince of the RNC, will render unto us mere mortals a very important verdict today (or that's pretty much everybody is speculating, anyway.) On this blessed day, it is hoped and expected that the Exalted One will tell us if he is going to run for a Second Term as RNC chariman. Tell us more, Talking Points Memo! In an email sent to RNC voting members last night, Steele announced a "private Conference Call" for the GOP leaders nationwide who will det...

Does Nigeria Have A Case Against Dick Cheney?
Nigerian officials have indicted former Vice President Dick Cheney for bribing the Nigerian government in the ’90s. The accusation stems from Cheney’s reign as CEO of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000. Last year, a subsidiary of Halliburton, plead guilty in U.S. courts to paying bribes from 1995 to 2004 in order to build a liquefied Natural Gas plant in Niger Delta. While a number of Liberals are salivating at the notion of Cheney locked up in a Nigerian Prison, few predict that the U.S....

Bob Schieffer blames people for World Wide "debt' Issue
The Villagers never point out why there's so much anger and resentment targeted at governments around the world after we're witnessing so many riots take place because of cutbacks to their services that do not target the wealthy, only that they need to be more serious on how to handle the "Debt" problem. CBS' Bob Schieffer is the latest to echo these views on Sunday as he talked to David Axelrod. BOB SCHIEFFER: Let me just ask you this question, we saw these riots in London last week when people...

Nadler: On Taxes GOP Are a Bunch of Gangsters
Like this Story? Share it: Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and former Governor Howard Dean (D-VT) gave Bob Schieffer their stance on the nature in Washington, D.C. as President Obama's tax deal approaches reform. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., on "Face the Nation," Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. (CBS) (CBS) Progressive Democrats today blasted the framework of a tax agreement negotiated between President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders, calling it the product of "Republican Blackmail."...

McConnell-Obama Tax Cut Deal Heads for Key Votes
The reason some of us were insistent that what Bernie Sanders was doing on Friday was not really a Filibuster was that it did nothing to stop or even slow down the advance of the Tax Cut bill. Today, the Senate will hold the first Cloture vote, on the motion to proceed, and it’s expected to pass with up to 70 votes. As for the House, which was seen as a possible roadblock when the Democratic Caucus voted (in nonbinding Fashion) not to bring the bill up in its current form, Chris Van Holl...

Axelrod: Obama Won't Be a One-Term President
White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod on CBS' Face the Nation, December 12, 2010. (CBS) (CBS) As President Barack Obama's Tax Cut Compromise with the Republicans anger more liberal members of his own Democratic Party, Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that he's not worried about the president losing support and becoming a one-term president. Axelrod predicted that the tax Compromise will be able to pass before the end of the year. But some Democrats ha...

Axelrod sells a brighter future
David Axelrod took to the television Talk Shows Sunday to assuage House Democrats and other Liberals infuriated by a deal to extend the Bush-era Tax Cuts, saying Democrats might score a more palatable deal in 2012. "The Economy will be stronger,” the senior presidential adviser told Christiane Amanpour on ABC's "This Week," one of three shows on which he appeared Sunday morning. “We'll have gone through a big debate on — on how we have to — what we have ...

Senate Poised For Key Test Vote On Tax-Cut Deal
A deal to extend Tax Cuts and President Obama's new willingness to Compromise with Republicans were both on the line Monday as the Senate prepared to hold its first test vote on the package. The Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, said a "good cross-section" of senators from his party appear ready to accept the deal that President Obama cut with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. It would renew lapsed long-term Unemployment Benefits for 13 months in exchange for extending al...

First Senate vote expected on Obama-GOP tax deal
(12-13) 07:42 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says the House will follow the Senate in taking up the tax-cut deal worked out by President Barack Obama and Republicans, but that House Democrats unhappy with the Compromise will get a chance to amend it. Hoyer says there was "much consternation" in the House over the deal because it extends Tax Cuts for the wealthy and gives breaks to those facing estate taxes. He suggested possible amendments could address the Estate Tax...

Senate moves forward with Bush-era tax rate extension (Daily Caller)
The Senate floor is still open for votes, but the chamber has reached the 60 votes needed to move forward with President Obama’s $858 billion plan to extend the current Income Tax rates. The proposal will extend the Bush-era Tax Rates for two years in return for a 13-month extension of federal Unemployment Benefits. The package also will set the Estate Tax rate at 35 percent for assets beyond $5 million. Eight Democrats cast dissenting votes, including Vermont independent Sen. Bernie San...

The Rehabilitation of George W.: A Bush League Affair. What Book Will be in His Library: "My Pet Goat"?
This column is dedicated to the late Rev. Andrew J. Weaver, an ordained United Methodist minister, a research psychologist, and a kind and gentle man who was one of the key organizers of the campaign to keep the Bush Library off the SMU campus. With his new book, 'Decision Points,' heading the New York Times best-seller list and the building of the George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU now underway, inquiring minds want to know: Will Bush escape the harsh judgement of history? First the memo...

Steele Trying To Decide
RNC chair Michael Steele will supposedly make an official decision to run again for the position or not public tomorrow. In an email sent to RNC voting members send last night, Steele announced a "private conference call" for the GOP leaders nationwide who will determine who leads the RNC for the next two years. Steele has yet to announce whether he'll seek a Second Term as the field of Republicans interested in replacing him fills up. Politico reports "key supporters" of Steele expect he'll dec...

Michael Steele Could Announce Bid For Second RNC Term Tomorrow
According to multiple reports this morning, embattled Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele could finally make it publicly known whether or not he intends to seek a Second Term. In an email sent to RNC voting members send last night, Steele announced a "private Conference Call" for the GOP leaders nationwide who will determine who leads the RNC for the next two years. Steele has yet to announce whether he'll seek a second term as the field of Republicans interested in replacing hi...

'Boys and Their Toys': The US Befriends Azerbaijan's Corrupt Elite
Azerbaijan is rife with Corruption and comparisons to European feudalism in the Middle Ages are hardly a stretch. But with vast reserves of oil and Natural Gas at stake, the US is willing to risk the embarrassment that comes with courting the country. The women had dressed up for the special evening. The wife and two daughters of Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, were awaiting the arrival of Lynne Cheney, the wife of then-US Vice President Dick Cheney. She had accompanied her husband ...