Shit and run

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The GOP just took a giant shit on America, and then they fled DC...

By refusing to honor the wishes of the voters, Republican Tea-rorists in the GOP-dominated House have made taxes go up for working Americans and left the unemployed destitute.

Happy Republican Holidays.

Remember next November.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...rown_faults_house_gop_for_rejecting_tax_deal/

 

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John Boehner, told that Obama had sought his help on a compromise, replied, "I need the president to help out." His voice rose as he said it, and his words were cheered by dozens of Republicans lawmakers who have pushed him and the rest of the leadership to pursue a more confrontational strategy with Democrats and the White House in an already contentious year of divided government.


This time, it wasn't a partial government shutdown or even an unprecedented Treasury default that was at stake, but the prospect that payroll taxes would rise and long-term unemployment benefits end for millions of jobless victims of the worst recession since the 1930s.


Yet another deadline has been entangled in the dispute, this one affecting seniors, but the administration announced it had finessed a way around it. Officials said paperwork for doctors who treat Medicare patients in the early days of the new year will not be processed until Jan. 18, giving lawmakers more time to avert a 27 percent cut in fees threatened for Jan. 1.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...YHO3Hw?docId=e3d75fbe5bf34740aed1e55233cf7b75

 

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The standoff was sowing confusion in business, running out of days to adapt to any new payroll tax regimen. Even the Senate's proposed two-month extension was creating headaches because it contained a two-tiered system geared to ensuring that higher-income earners paid a higher rate on some of their wages.


"There's not time enough to do that in an orderly fashion," said Pete A. Isberg, president of the National Payroll Reporting Consortium, a trade group. "We're two weeks away from 2012." He wrote a letter to congressional leaders this week warning that the Senate bill "could create substantial problems, confusion and costs."


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...YHO3Hw?docId=e3d75fbe5bf34740aed1e55233cf7b75