Two-Month Payroll Tax Holiday Passed By Senate, Pushed By President, Cannot Be Implemented Properly,

[UltimateHoboW/Shotgun]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/two-month-payroll-tax-holiday-passed-by-senate-pushed-by-president-cannot-be-implemented-properly-experts-say/

Officials from the policy-neutral National Payroll Reporting Consortium, Inc. have expressed concern to members of Congress that the two-month payroll tax holiday passed by the Senate and supported by President Obama cannot be implemented properly.

Pete Isberg, president of the NPRC today wrote to the key leaders of the relevant committees of the House and Senate, telling them that “insufficient lead time” to implement the complicated change mandated by the legislation means the two-month payroll tax holiday “could create substantial problems, confusion and costs affecting a significant percentage of U.S. employers and employees.”

ABC News obtained a copy of the letter, which can be read HERE. Isberg agreed that it would be fair to characterize his letter as saying that the two-month payroll tax holiday cannot be implemented properly.

The NPRC is a non-profit trade association that does not take positions on policy. The group represents organizations that provide payroll processing and services to more than 1.5 million employers, impacting one third of the private sector.

“We’re neutral and we’d be happy to do the work,” Isberg told ABC News.

“The concern is really for those who don’t use a payroll service provider,” he said. Americans will have different outcomes, he said, causing confusion “because they’ll have different outcomes. Some will have it done on time, some won’t, some will have adjustment notices later in the year.”

The two-month payroll tax holiday, which the president has said should be extended throughout 2012, will mean that wages would face a Social Security tax of 4.2 percent during January and February, but it would increase to 6.2 percent in March.

Isberg wrote that “many payroll systems are not likely to be able to make such a substantial programming change before January or even February. The systems affected tend to be highly complex, normally requiring at least ninety days for a change of this magnitude for software testing alone; not to mention analysis, design, coding and implementation.”

Part of the issue has to deal with Congress’ desire to make sure “that highly compensated employees not enjoy the full benefit of the 2% tax break because of bonuses or other high compensation falling into the first two months of the year,” Isberg wrote, saying “there simply is insufficient time to implement this major change in withholding requirements.”

UPDATE: Asked about this letter, White House press secretary Jay Carney said today that “because Congress was so slow to get its work done, last year this was an issue when the payroll tax cut was extended — that it was so late in the year that it had — it created complications, A. But it — those were worked out. B, you know, this president is committed to make sure that his administration — the Treasury Department and his administration works with American businesses to ensure that this tax cut is extended for American taxpayers, wage earners, people who get a paycheck, 160 million. You know, he would far rather ask this administration to work overtime during the holidays to make that happen than ask Americans to spend the holidays worrying how they’re going to make ends meet with a thousand dollars less in their pockets.”

At the Treasury Department Jenni LeCompte, said, “Everyone agrees that a full-year extension of the payroll tax cut would have been preferable, which is why the Administration has long advocated an extension for the entirety of 2012. Unfortunately, in the waning days of this session of Congress, Members were unable to reach agreement on the details of a year-long extension that could generate strong bipartisan support. The best they could do was the two-month extension passed by a vote of 89-10 in the Senate on Saturday. While any short-term extension is bound to create some administrative complications, it is feasible to implement the bipartisan Senate bill, and the Treasury Department will work with employers to ensure the smoothest possible implementation. In the current economic situation, any such complications will be outweighed by the economic benefits of ensuring that taxes do not go up on 160 million Americans starting on January 1st.”

[UltimateHoboW/Shotgun]

Shy?

[ant1999e]

The Senate is full of a bunch of worthless crooks. They all need to go.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

If this is true, then why would you two give a sh*t anyway?

Your party is against tax cuts - unless they're for the already-wealthy.

[ant1999e]

If this is true, then why would you two give a sh*t anyway?

Your party is against tax cuts - unless they're for the already-wealthy.

Repubs wanted to extend the cuts for a year not two months.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Ha ha ha! :laugh:

A bitter defeat for the tea baggers.

We all know how they love their taxes.

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/xsQu5R02os8PwFs5cjVXuw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2011-12-22T232435Z_1_BTRE7BL1T1100_RTROPTP_2_USA-TAXES.JPG (http://news.yahoo.com/speaker-boehner-surrenders-tax-showdown-023308973.html) Boehner surrenders in tax showdown (http://news.yahoo.com/speaker-boehner-surrenders-tax-showdown-023308973.html)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Speaker John Boehner caved in to growing criticism from within and outside his Republican Party, agreeing on Thursday to a short-term deal to extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans. In a dramatic reversal that appeared to end a standoff with Democrats, Boehner told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid he would set a vote in the House on a Senate-passed two-month extension of the tax cut and jobless benefits - key supports for a fitful U.S. economic recovery. ...

[ant1999e]

Ha ha ha! :laugh:

A bitter defeat for the tea baggers.

We all know how they love their taxes.

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/xsQu5R02os8PwFs5cjVXuw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2011-12-22T232435Z_1_BTRE7BL1T1100_RTROPTP_2_USA-TAXES.JPG (http://news.yahoo.com/speaker-boehner-surrenders-tax-showdown-023308973.html) Boehner surrenders in tax showdown (http://news.yahoo.com/speaker-boehner-surrenders-tax-showdown-023308973.html)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Speaker John Boehner caved in to growing criticism from within and outside his Republican Party, agreeing on Thursday to a short-term deal to extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans. In a dramatic reversal that appeared to end a standoff with Democrats, Boehner told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid he would set a vote in the House on a Senate-passed two-month extension of the tax cut and jobless benefits - key supports for a fitful U.S. economic recovery. ...

Did you even read the article dipshyt? Repubs wanted to extend it for a year not two months. Congrats on your team kicking the can down the road. Now we can do this again in two months.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Americans Against the Tea Party (https://www.facebook.com/NoTeaParty)


So letting tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires expire is a tax hike, and something to defend to the death - but letting tax cuts for the poor and middle class working Americans expire isn't a tax hike and is something to use to hold the whole country hostage? The suffering of the middle class is a play-thing for them. The hypocrisy of these a$$holes was on full display in the last few weeks. They've sealed their fate I believe. The TEA/GOP will be forced into the political wilderness in 2012.


https://s-external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQBUtlCf48JCMiKA&w=90&h=90&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftalkingpointsmemo.com%2Fassets_c% 2F2011%2F05%2Fboehner-flags-chagrined-fullwell-cropped-proto-custom_6.jpg (http://tinyurl.com/3emmfjq)Boehner And Grover Agree: Letting Bush Tax Cuts Expire ‘Would Be Raising Taxes’ (http://tinyurl.com/3emmfjq)

Grover Norquist has walked back his claim to the Washington Post that allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire would not count as a tax increase, and now the Speaker of the House suggests Grover’s views are neither here nor there — he opposes letting even some of the Bush tax cuts to expire.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Did you even read the article dipshyt? Repubs wanted to extend it for a year not two months. Congrats on your team kicking the can down the road. Now we can do this again in two months.

Wow - you really have nothing but sh*t between the ears.

Your boy Boner was against extending the cuts at all - until just now.

[ant1999e]

Americans Against the Tea Party (https://www.facebook.com/NoTeaParty)


So letting tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires expire is a tax hike, and something to defend to the death - but letting tax cuts for the poor and middle class working Americans expire isn't a tax hike and is something to use to hold the whole country hostage? The suffering of the middle class is a play-thing for them. The hypocrisy of these a$$holes was on full display in the last few weeks. They've sealed their fate I believe. The TEA/GOP will be forced into the political wilderness in 2012.


https://s-external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQBUtlCf48JCMiKA&w=90&h=90&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftalkingpointsmoemo.com%2Fassets_c %2F2011%2F05%2Fboehner-flags-chagrined-fullwell-cropped-proto-custom_6.jpg (http://tinyurl.com/3emmfjq)Boehner And Grover Agree: Letting Bush Tax Cuts Expire ‘Would Be Raising Taxes’ (http://tinyurl.com/3emmfjq)

Grover Norquist has walked back his claim to the Washington Post that allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire would not count as a tax increase, and now the Speaker of the House suggests Grover’s views are neither here nor there — he opposes letting even some of the Bush tax cuts to expire.
I called out both sides on this bullshyt. They both claimed one was a tax raise and the other not. They're all hypocrites.

[ant1999e]

Wow - you really have nothing but sh*t betw the ears.

Your boy Boner was against extending the cuts at all - until just now.

Bullshyt. That's been the hold up the whole time. It's in your fuc n article. You're suck a partisan fuc stick.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Bullshyt. That's been the hold up the whole time. It's in your fuc n article. You're suck a partisan fuc stick.

Hold on a second, sh*t stain...

You're now denying your boy Boner was against extending the cuts before he was for them?

You take revisionism to the height of crazy. :crazy:

[ant1999e]

Hold on a second, sh*t stain...

You're now denying your boy Boner was against extending the cuts before he was for them?

You take revisionism to the height of crazy. :crazy:

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/20/3330589/obama-blames-gop-for-upcoming.html
Article from a few days ago. I'm not gonna post the text because I'm on my phone but am sure you won't read it. As usual, you resort to personal attacks. You're a joke.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/20/3330589/obama-blames-gop-for-upcoming.html
Article from a few days ago. I'm not gonna post the text because I'm on my phone but am sure you won't read it. As usual, you resort to personal attacks. You're a joke.

You didn't answer my question.

Are you denying your boy Boner was against extending the cuts before he was for them?

You are either dangerously delusional, incredibly uninformed, or both.

[ant1999e]

You didn't answer my question.

Are you denying your boy Boner was against extending the cuts before he was for them?

You are either dangerously delusional, incredibly uninformed, or both.

You didn't answer my question. Did you read your article? Obviously you're the one who is delusional. Like I said yesterday, your proven wrong so you change the parameters of the conversation.

[UltimateHoboW/Shotgun]

Ha ha ha! :laugh:

A bitter defeat for the tea baggers.

We all know how they love their taxes.

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/xsQu5R02os8PwFs5cjVXuw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2011-12-22T232435Z_1_BTRE7BL1T1100_RTROPTP_2_USA-TAXES.JPG (http://news.yahoo.com/speaker-boehner-surrenders-tax-showdown-023308973.html) Boehner surrenders in tax showdown (http://news.yahoo.com/speaker-boehner-surrenders-tax-showdown-023308973.html)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Speaker John Boehner caved in to growing criticism from within and outside his Republican Party, agreeing on Thursday to a short-term deal to extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans. In a dramatic reversal that appeared to end a standoff with Democrats, Boehner told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid he would set a vote in the House on a Senate-passed two-month extension of the tax cut and jobless benefits - key supports for a fitful U.S. economic recovery. ...

Keep digging Dip$h!t. You just admitted that tax cuts work. You just want them for 2 month that CAN'T be Implemented. LOL

[ant1999e]

Keep digging Dip$h!t. You just admitted that tax cuts work. You just want them for 2 month that CAN'T be Implemented. LOL

Backed himself into a corner on this one. Once again, LABF shows his ass. Don't worry, he'll deflect and change the convo somehow.

[UltimateHoboW/Shotgun]

Backed himself into a corner on this one. Once again, LABF shows his ass. Don't worry, he'll deflect and change the convo somehow.

I know! LOL. And he thought "Boner caved" was going to help him. LOL. What we need is for more RINO's like "Boner" out. Then they'll really be shaking in their boots.

[epicSocialism4tw]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/two-month-payroll-tax-holiday-passed-by-senate-pushed-by-president-cannot-be-implemented-properly-experts-say/

Is anyone surprised?

We need term limits. Yesterday.

[cutthemdown]

Just more to illustrate how bad the feds are at doing things. They are too stupid to understand computers need to be programmed for that.

Thats why its easier to just cut a check and mail it to each taxpayer. Stupid Obama, stupid Dem controlled Senate, and you know what, stupid friggin republicans also right now. We need a total overhaul of our incumbents.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Backed himself into a corner on this one. Once again, LABF shows his ass. Don't worry, he'll deflect and change the convo somehow.

Still denying your boy Boner was against the extension before he was for it?

And I'm the one who's backed myself into a corner?

That must be some strong sh*t you're smoking.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Keep digging Dip$h!t. You just admitted that tax cuts work. You just want them for 2 month that CAN'T be Implemented. LOL

Tax cuts for whom?

I've always been in favor of tax cuts for those who need them most and tax hikes for those who need cuts the least.

But don't let this inconvenient fact interrupt the Down's Syndrome convention you and your pals have going on here.

[ant1999e]

Still denying your boy Boner was against the extension before he was for it?

And I'm the one who's backed myself into a corner?

That must be some strong sh*t you're smoking.

You're the queen of spin. Glad you're excited that instead of a year long extension, they settled for two months. This bill like yourself is a joke.

[epicSocialism4tw]

Tax cuts for whom?

I've always been in favor of tax cuts for those who need them most and tax hikes for those who need cuts the least.

But don't let this inconvenient fact interrupt the Down's Syndrome convention you and your pals have going on here.

Do you think that this kind of garbage actually convinces people of your propaganda? Hilarious!

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

You're the queen of spin. Glad you're excited that instead of a year long extension, they settled for two months. This bill like yourself is a joke.

Had your boy Boner and your tea party pals had their way, there would have been no extension at all.

Your willingness to ignore this inconvenient fact is what makes you such a laughing stock around here.

[epicSocialism4tw]

Had your boy Boner and your tea party pals had their way, there would have been no extension at all.

Your willingness to ignore this inconvenient fact is what makes you such a laughing stock around here.

Um...don't know if you missed it, but he's not the laughing stock. That's you in the mirror, broseph.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Do you think that this kind of garbage actually convinces people of your propaganda? Hilarious!

Thanks for not offering any sort of evidence to refute anything I said about my position on taxes.

You and the rest of the drooling dullards on this thread are doing more to help Obama score a second term than the DNC could ever dream possible.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Um...don't know if you missed it, but he's not the laughing stock. That's you in the mirror, broseph.

Yours is a mirror that lets you see whatever you want to see, a.k.a., the Internet.

[ant1999e]

Thanks for not offering any sort of evidence to refute anything I said about my position on taxes.

You and the rest of the drooling dullards on this thread are doing more to help Obama score a second term than the DNC could ever dream possible.

The proof was in your article idiot. I guess that answers my question.

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Did you even read the article dipshyt? Repubs wanted to extend it for a year not two months. Congrats on your team kicking the can down the road. Now we can do this again in two months.
Uh, no, Republicans in the Senate agreed after Democrats made concessions, once again, to extend the cut for 2 months to work out a broader plan. Boehner helped orchestrate it and then was blasted by Tea Republicans and flip-flopped on it.
That's why they have been blasted for 2 days running now by their own party, the WSJ, Rove, etc...

The time line is here (http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showthread.php?t=102323).

[ant1999e]

Uh, no, Republicans in the Senate agreed after Democrats made concessions, once again, to extend the cut for 2 months to work out a broader plan. Boehner helped orchestrate it and then was blasted by Tea Republicans and flip-flopped on it.
That's why they have been blasted for 2 days running now by their own party, the WSJ, Rove, etc...

The time line is here (http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showthread.php?t=102323).

Your first link was from an opinion piece obviously tailored to lean left.

Your second:


It's official, the party of NO, now obviously dysfunctional, says......NO again.

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Insight: Boehner leadership in focus in tax cut debate (http://news.yahoo.com/insight-tax-cut-debate-focus-boehners-leadership-002027676.html)
By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro | Reuters – 6 hrs ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In Congress' tense drama over how to extend payroll tax cuts for 160 million Americans, it may be the most intriguing subplot: whether Republican House Speaker John Boehner is losing his grip on members of his own party.

Boehner and many Republicans scoff at the idea.

But the House's rejection on Tuesday of a bipartisan Senate plan to extend the tax cuts for two months has raised questions about Boehner's efforts to lead compromise-resistant House Republicans who have helped ratchet up the tension in Congress.

The House's move drew blistering criticism from President Obama, Democratic leaders and even some Senate Republicans, many of whom called the House vote a symbol of the dysfunction that has plagued Congress this year.

Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said the House vote reflected how Boehner has allowed Tea Party-backed conservative Republicans to overrun bipartisan agreements.

Van Hollen said that has been a constant theme in this congressional session.

And Scott Brown, a Republican senator from Massachusetts, called the House move "irresponsible and wrong."

"It angers me that House Republicans would rather continue playing politics than find solutions," Brown said. "Their actions will hurt American families and be detrimental to our fragile economy."

Criticism of Boehner focused on a key assumption: that in agreeing to the two-month extension on Saturday, Senate leaders in both parties had an indication from Boehner that he would go along with the plan, and push the House to approve it.

Boehner disputes that, and says he never suggested he would support the Senate plan.

However, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, has said the two-month plan came about in part because Boehner asked Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate's leading Republican, to devise a compromise that could pass the House while talks continued on a one-year extension of the tax cut.

Any hope the Senate plan could pass the House evaporated quickly.

One veteran Republican who was on Saturday's conference call in which Boehner described the Senate plan to other House Republicans said Boehner initially urged lawmakers to support the Senate bill.

However, the Republican said, Boehner backed down when other lawmakers started criticizing the deal.

House Republicans, led by Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, made clear they wanted to pass a one-year extension of the tax cut now - not after the first of the year.

Reid, however, has not agreed to call the Senate back to Washington for more negotiations over the tax cut.

As a result, debate over the tax cut - and other budget issues affecting millions of Americans, such as an extension of unemployment benefits and Medicare payments to doctors - are essentially hostages in a game of political chicken between House Republicans and the rest of Congress.

Not surprisingly, Cantor and other Republicans are seeking to pin the blame on Reid and Democrats.

Democrats, meanwhile, are making a point of questioning Boehner's leadership. They say he has lost control of the Republican caucus to Cantor and other aggressive conservatives backed by the Tea Party, which seeks to limit government and steadfastly rejects tax increases.

"We have a bipartisan compromise that would prevent taxes from going up in January," said Rep. Steve Israel, a new York Democrat. "The Senate agreed to it. House Democrats agreed to it. Lots of people agree to it. And now extremist Republicans in the House" are saying no.

'THE WILL OF THE MEMBERSHIP'

As they challenged Obama and Democrats to continue negotiating the tax cut, Boehner, Cantor and other Republicans made a point of showing a united front.

"We're proud of what we've passed," Boehner said.


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So the repubs are experiencing some in-fighting. I have no problem with a few politicians questioning the status quo of Washington politics. I really don't see why wanting to extend the cuts for a year rather than throwing shyt on the wall to make them last two month just to give these idiots a reason to play politics with our money again is so bad.
I did go on record saying that these tax cuts should be extended just like the Bush cuts. I also said that both sides just did a flip flop on their positions.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Your first link was from an opinion piece obviously tailored to lean left.


In other words, you can't refute a single word of it.

Thanks for playing. :wave:

[ant1999e]

In other words, you can't refute a single word of it.

Thanks for playing. :wave:

You've showed your ass all night. Time to put it away.:moon:

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

You've showed your ass all night. Time to put it away.:moon:

L0L @ you thinking you've somehow won here when that payroll tax extension would never have happened had Boner and your party had their way.

The Internet is still the only place where losers like you can get their asses handed to them and still declare victory.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Ha ha ha! :laugh:

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LSuALWNNjjaq2APS8oKPuw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2011-12-23T020733Z_01_WAS953_RTRIDSP_3_USA-TAXES.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/behind-scenes-house-republicans-self-inflicted-wound-221839248.html) Behind the scenes of the House Republicans' self-inflicted wound (http://news.yahoo.com/behind-scenes-house-republicans-self-inflicted-wound-221839248.html)

There was no formal cease-fire. Speaker John Boehner didn’t even call Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to offer up his payroll-tax sword of surrender.

[ant1999e]

Ha ha ha! :laugh:

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LSuALWNNjjaq2APS8oKPuw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2011-12-23T020733Z_01_WAS953_RTRIDSP_3_USA-TAXES.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/behind-scenes-house-republicans-self-inflicted-wound-221839248.html) Behind the scenes of the House Republicans' self-inflicted wound (http://news.yahoo.com/behind-scenes-house-republicans-self-inflicted-wound-221839248.html)

There was no formal cease-fire. Speaker John Boehner didn’t even call Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to offer up his payroll-tax sword of surrender.

Immature child. :thumbsup:

[Blart]

It's so depressing that a Tea Party "loss" is cutting taxes for the common man. And don't sell me the BS that they were just trying to cut taxes for years, if that's true, they wouldn't tie it to destroying our nation's water supply (http://stoptarsands.org/facts), which they know isn't going to pass. The house has only one goal, and that's to make sure Obama is a 1 term president, so they don't want anything remotely good to pass.

Off topic, but here's some more Tea Party hilarity from just last week:

"They just don’t come more charming than Southern California Tea Party knob and failed local politician Jules Manson, previously known for not being elected as a councilman for the City of Carson and also for posting Obama=Hitler pictures. Jules Manson was not done with his Internet fame, however. Because now he has issued a CALL FOR OBAMA’S ASSASSINATION, on Facebook, because the Constitution demands it, that’s why."
http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/uhhh.jpg (http://wonkette.com/458534/racist-teabagger-calls-for-assassination-of-entire-obama-family)
(Right now, roughly 30% of Republicans are thinking, "Sure, Manson's a little unpolished, but at least he's not Mitt!")

"Texas College Republican's current president, Cassie Wright, has twatted out her thoughts in an adorable rhyme format! Maybe if “college education” doesn’t work out so well for Cassie, she can write racist children’s books?"
http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/racistidiot.png (http://wonkette.com/458621/texas-college-republican-would-so-totally-get-an-a-in-racist-twitter-poetry)

[ant1999e]

It's so depressing that a Tea Party "loss" is cutting taxes for the common man. And don't sell me the BS that they were just trying to cut taxes for years, if that's true, they wouldn't tie it to destroying our nation's water supply (http://stoptarsands.org/facts), which they know isn't going to pass. The house has only one goal, and that's to make sure Obama is a 1 term president, so they don't want anything remotely good to pass.

Off topic, but here's some more Tea Party hilarity from just last week:

"They just don’t come more charming than Southern California Tea Party knob and failed local politician Jules Manson, previorusly known for not being elected as a councilman for the City of Carson and also for posting Obama=Hitler pictures. Jules Manson was not done with his Internet fame, however. Because now he has issued a CALL FOR OBAMA’S ASSASSINATION, on Facebook, because the Constitution demands it, that’s why."
http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/uhhh.jpg (http://wonkette.com/458534/racist-teabagger-calls-for-assassination-of-entire-obama-family)
(Right now, roughly 30% of Republicans are thinking, "Sure, Manson's a little unpolished, but at least he's not Mitt!")

"Texas College Republican's current president, Cassie Wright, has twatted out her thoughts in an adorable rhyme format! Maybe if “college education” doesn’t work out so well for Cassie, she can write racist children’s books?"
http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/racis
tidiot.png (http://wonkette.com/458621/texas-college-republican-would-so-totally-get-an-a-in-racist-twitter-poetry)
San Francisco.Hilarious!

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Immature child. :thumbsup:

Perfect description of Boner, his teabagger puppet masters, and the lemmings who cover these morons' flanks, i.e., you.

[ant1999e]

Perfect description of Boner, his teabagger puppet masters, and the lemmings who cover these morons' flanks, i.e., you.

I'm not covering for anyone. Like I've said before, they're all crooks, repubs and dems. I was just calling out your hypocrisy. You're always quick to defend the dems and point all the blame at the other side. I also foung it entertaining that you were excited that instead of a year long extension, they only did it for two months. And you never addressed the Op's main point. But what else should we expect from your stupid azz.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

I'm not covering for anyone. Like I've said before, they're all crooks, repubs and dems. I was just calling out your hypocrisy. You're always quick to defend the dems and point all the blame at the other side.

You mean like the way you're trying to pin the blame for the tax extension fiasco on the Dems instead of Boner and the tea party handjobs who tried to kill it?

Pot/kettle/blackism of the week!




I also foung it entertaining that you were excited that instead of a year long extension, they only did it for two months. And you never addressed the Op's main point. But what else should we expect from your stupid azz.

The only thing I was "excited" about was the fact that your boy Boner was defeated in his attempt to kill the extension.

BTW, the two months is just to keep the cuts in place until Congress is back in session, at which time the cuts will be reviewed again.

I can't help the fact that you're too big of a moron to understand this. Ha!

[Bronx33]

I called out both sides on this bullshyt. They both claimed one was a tax raise and the other not. They're all hypocrites.


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[ant1999e]

You mean like the way you're trying to pin the blame for the tax extension fiasco on the Dems instead of Boner and the tea party handjobs who tried to kill it?

Pot/kettle/blackism of the week!


I said this...
The Senate is full of a bunch of worthless crooks. They all need to go.

And then called you out on your bullshyt.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

^

And then you woke up.

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/TILS_CmHD.6WYQmWkjkaYQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2011-12-23T210704Z_3_BTRE7BM1FST00_RTROPTP_2_USA-TAXES.JPG (http://news.yahoo.com/speaker-boehner-surrenders-tax-showdown-023308973.html) Congress punts hard payroll tax work to 2012 (http://news.yahoo.com/speaker-boehner-surrenders-tax-showdown-023308973.html)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law a two-month payroll tax cut extension on Friday, capping a year of fierce partisan combat over taxes and spending that will resume in January and play heavily in the 2012 elections. The Senate and the House of Representatives, by voice votes in chambers nearly emptied for the holidays, passed a $33 billion (21 billion pounds) bill to keep the payroll tax rate at 4.2 percent through February. It had been scheduled to increase on January 1 to 6.2 percent. Obama swiftly signed the bill.

[ant1999e]

^

And then you woke up.

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/TILS_CmHD.6WYQmWkjkaYQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2011-12-23T210704Z_3_BTRE7BM1FST00_RTROPTP_2_USA-TAXES.JPG (http://news.yahoo.com/speaker-boehner-surrenders-tax-showdown-023308973.html) Congress punts hard payroll tax work to 2012 (http://news.yahoo.com/speaker-boehner-surrenders-tax-showdown-023308973.html)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law a two-month payroll tax cut extension on Friday, capping a year of fierce partisan combat over taxes and spending that will resume in January and play heavily in the 2012 elections. The Senate and the House of Representatives, by voice votes in chambers nearly emptied for the holidays, passed a $33 billion (21 billion pounds) bill to keep the payroll tax rate at 4.2 percent through February. It had been scheduled to increase on January 1 to 6.2 percent. Obama swiftly signed the bill.

Too bad you never will.