As Barry "Almighty" was cutting short his family's Christmas vacation in order to 'resume' discussions as to how to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of automatic year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, his staff of morons over at the White House, on Wednesday, were busy calling on congressional Republicans to not stand in the way of a resolution in the U.S. Congress. So, I guess, now refusing to kick the can down the road and allowing this mess to worsen into something that future generations will be forced to contend with, is being defined as standing in the way? So, if I have this right, unless Republicans simply, and once again, roll over, they're the ones to be portrayed as being at fault for plunging us over a cliff of the Democrats’ making.
"What we need is for the Senate Minority Leader not to block a vote and for Boehner to allow a vote," said, as near as I can figure, some faceless White House official to ABC News. This moron went on to claim, "The hits from our economy are not coming from outside factors they’re coming from Congressional stupidity." Barry supposedly is now seeking a stripped down deal to prevent tax rates from rising on all but the wealthiest Americans and to stop steep across-the-board spending cuts. The White House, in what was described as being a compromise by Barry, last week proposed a broader package that would have let tax rates stay low for those making up to $400,000. Said to be a compromise, I supposed, because Barry's previous threshold had been $250,000.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner was duly unimpressed with Barry’s offer and sought, unsuccessfully, to push his own proposal through Congress, but members of his own Republican Party balked at rate hikes of any kind. Talks broke down after that with Barry and lawmakers leaving town for the holiday. The focus will now shift to the Senate for a deal, where Barry "Almighty" will rely on an ally, Senate Majority Leader 'Dingy Harry' Reid, to work out a bill that the top Senate Republican, Kentucky's Mitch McConnell can agree to. The House must also pass the measure. According to the same buffoon of a White House official said that a broader effort to trim the nation's massive budget deficit will simply have to wait.
Congressional stubbornness risks again damaging the fragile economy, just as the nation's near-default in 2011 - the result of a stalemate over raising the national borrowing limit - dealt a nascent economic recovery a setback, this same administration official went on to say. "If you think about the possibility of Congress failing to act to avert the fiscal cliff, combined with the abomination of what occurred in the summer of 2011, hits to our economy aren't coming from external factors, they're coming from congressional stupidity," the official bellowed. Well that's quite a mouthful. The problem is, though, that it's all nothing but a bunch of political bullshit! Democrats don't want to incur ANY spending cuts, and spending is the root cause for the fiscal cliff.
Look, this White House moron whoever he, or she, is, is nothing but a complete and utter fraud in trying to blame anything on the Republicans. Boehner already caved on taxes once, but it wasn't enough for Barry and his team of political miscreants. If this jerk wants to go around shooting his, or her, mouth off that's one thing, but the fact that they insist on blaming just one side makes it pretty clear, and pretty quickly, that he, or she, is doing nothing more than talking our his, or her, ass as they attempt to score some cheap political points. Republicans were permitted to keep control of the House for one reason, and they must not allow themselves to be bullied into caving by a bunch of brain-dead White House malcontents.
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