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Senate Passes Fiscal Cliff Compromise
posted by Ed Staff | Tuesday, January 01, 2013

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The Senate came to a last-minute agreement on the fiscal cliff last night, just before the ball came down to ring in 2013. The House has yet to ratify the deal. Watch this report via the Today show on NBC.

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linda, virginia
1/2/2013 6:46:03 PM
Mr. Fargo...you are right... the president needs to take The Debt Ceiling on the road. Hit the rural areas and explain how George W. Bush defaulted on his defense loans & his Medicare ( doughnut hole) loan. How Bush spent like a drunk sailor before he left office.

Bush left his dung debt for the next fellow.

We hired President Obama to make an estimate and repair our fractured country. Out of necessity, President Obama has added to the debt... to put us in good condition again. The Debt Ceiling needs to be abolished.........
Mr. Fargo
1/2/2013 5:01:08 PM
The Republican Party leadership does not give a damn about the American Middle Class. The GOP stands for one thing & one thing only & that is Protectors of the Filthy Rich Top 2% off the backs of the middle class & working poor............& linda you describe the Radical Republican Party perfectly "Soulless...without spirit, courage, or noble feelings".............it is fun to watch the Republican in disarray & let the GOP infighting begin..............I always said if the Democrats can stay united & fight for the middle class watch the Republican Party self destruct because the are actually in complete disarray!!!!........if the low information voters could just figure it out?????..........a majority of them don't understand the Debt Ceiling.............so the White House needs to fill them in on what it really is & what it really means "defaulting on paying your bills for money already spent"..........that is critical that the public understands the debt ceiling........
linda, virginia
1/2/2013 4:44:52 PM
Soulless...without spirit, courage, or noble feelings....Sounds like republicans in the senate and congress....mathematical logic...
Mr. Fargo
1/2/2013 4:06:43 PM
I wanted the White House & President Obama to politically go the jugular when it came to the Fiscal Cliff deal, but we did get some good things for the middle class out of the deal. My personality would have been to push the Republicans around & make them concede their stance as the "protectors of he super rich" at the expense of the middle class....that is why I am critical at times.......I have high expectations.
Mr. Fargo
1/2/2013 3:59:55 PM
When John Boehner Told Harry Reid 'Go F--- Yourself' Outside the Oval Office & when Reid didn't get pushed around by McConnell you know Harry Reid was winning the battle & standing strong as Senate Majority leader "especially when he burned the White House's list of willing concession in the process"............What would have happened if Biden didn't cut a deal? Yes the Democrats & the White House won the battle & the Republican's did the most caving, but in my opinion the Democrats could have even got a better deal if we went over the cliff for a few days, especially since the Bush Tax cuts sunsetted so that really did not need to be put back on the table "we could have had a stand-alone deal for the middle class that included unemployment benefit extensions"............but it is still a victory for the middle class without going for the jugular.........
blueb
1/2/2013 10:33:06 AM
souless=>,without conscience=>, sociopaths...

i think by the mathematical law (?)

gop can logically be described as sociopaths...( SOME not all) (some are misplaced dems just haven't realized it yet)



did you see the movie Lincoln? If you didn't i highly recommend it..



this reminds me of that part where lincoln says by mathematical law if 2 things are both equal to a third item, then they are equal to each other.,

linda, virginia
1/2/2013 12:12:38 AM
blueb....God saves our soul, which by the way doesn't show up on an x-ray. Our conscience is a concept of right and wrong, which is either taught to us by our parents, our soul, or we are born with an innate ability to know right from wrong. A good soul tells a person when he or she is doing right or warning him or her of what is wrong. I don't think the repubs have a conscience. Nan Hayworth (R) New York, said she was voting for the fiscal bill because of the people, the mid-terms and the national election.. Her conscience told her.. if she wants re-elected she has got to let the people of her district believe her vote on the fiscal cliff was for them. I have talked with some people who believe our soul is our eyes....
blueb
1/1/2013 9:34:22 PM
hey linda, GOP jon huntsman past GOP presidential canidate, called this GOP souless.



is that the same as having no conscience?



read his remark on huffington post this morning actually what he said...

Jon Huntsman: GOP 'Devoid Of A Soul'



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/31/jon-huntsman-gop_n_2387879.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular



i call that bipartisan agreement
linda, virginia
1/1/2013 7:21:00 PM
Now the house has decided to vote on the fiscal ......you should hear Dana Bash making excuses for weeper Boehner Vote somewhere around 9:00pm
linda, virginia
1/1/2013 6:47:08 PM
GOP adds $300 billion in spending cuts in their considered amendment....Might end up just an up or down vote......What principle do these republicans have? Do they even have a conscience? This bathtub full of repubs that got elected to congress, do not speak for the majority of the American people. President Obama has been re-elected ...the people have spoken....why does he have to even talk to these dumba$$e$?
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