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Next. The word this afternoon was that Democrats would block it. According to Robert Costa’s GOP sources, they’re not bluffing. “Harry Reid will happily blow this up, and the president won’t accept Boehner’s terms,” predicts a GOP
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They were for it, until they were against it. Ostensibly, what we’re all meant to be working toward in preparation for the fiscal cliff is a “balanced approach” (which also happens to be fundamentally trivial, but I digress) at which emphatic Democrats keep telling us we’
From Conservative News Source- dailycaller.com
Boehner’s plan would allow tax rates to rise for families making over $1 million per year
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Dems reject Boehner offer to hike taxes on millionaires only
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Reactions from House Republicans following their caucus on House Speaker John Boehner’s backup plan to avoid the fiscal cliff.
From Conservative News Source- redstate.com
So Boehner plans to introduce a bill on the House floor that increases the top marginal tax rate on those earning more than $1 million per year. Most likely, Boehner and Obama will ultimately agree on a deal that splits the difference between $400,000 and $
From Conservative News Source- dailycaller.com
Plan would extend tax rates for income under $1 million
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
“Up in the air.” There’s lots of chatter about a deal forming between John Boehner and Barack Obama on the fiscal cliff, but it’s no sure thing yet, either. Carl Cameron reports that the Speaker is still working on a Plan B
From Conservative News Source- redstate.com
On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Conn Carroll to discuss the latest proposal in the never-ending Fiscal Cliff negotiations, whether Republicans would except a tax hike as part of a deal
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
The White House wants to extend relief from the alternative minimum tax and other frequently expiring tax breaks, but extending those breaks could complicate the math of any deficit deal.
From Conservative News Source- dailycaller.com
But the deal may fall apart, partly because it contains much pain for each political faction
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The latest fiscal cliff proposal by Speaker of the House John Boehner (R–OH) is infuriatingly frustrating to conservatives, again. In exchange for $1 trillion in tax hikes—including the President’s immediate tax rate hike on the wealthy—Boehner asked for just $1 trillion in spending cuts. And, to sweeten the pot for
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
Keeping mum. Christmas is only one week away, and the clock is winding down on the fiscal cliff. Over the weekend, Speaker Boehner reportedly offered some concessions to President Obama in the vein of tax hikes on actual millionaires and a temporary debt-ceiling hike, in exchange for some
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
“There could be a deal by the middle of this week.” Has the “logjam been broken” on the fiscal cliff? Yes, says Major Garrett, now at CBS News, although a deal hasn’t been finalized. His sources at the White House says that
From Conservative News Source- redstate.com
What is worse than striking out? Grounding into a double play. Not only is Boehner prepared to raise taxes – both through capping deductions and increasing marginal rates – he is now prepared to preemptively surrender our last point of leverage in one fell swoop.
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
House Speaker Boehner’s proposal to raise tax rates on income above $1 million brings into the fiscal-cliff negotiations a frequent target for proposed tax increases.
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
Obama still passes Let’s all get together now and pretend that nobody saw this one coming. Negotiations over the fiscal cliff haven’t stopped just because the media’s attention has been drawn elsewhere, and it sounds like John Boehner has served up a new
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
FILE – In this July 18, 2012, file photo, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack talks about the drought during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. The fear that federal crop insurance subsidies are becoming fertile ground for big spending cuts in negotiations over the
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
House Speaker John Boehner announced in a brief statement that there would be no Republican radio address this weekend due to the shooting in Connecticut. Traditionally President Obama and a Republican leader each deliver a brief address for radio every weekend.
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Last week, President Obama issued a request for $60.4 billion for Hurricane Sandy response and recovery. Yet as the fiscal cliff continues to loom nearby, many on Capitol Hill are asking exactly where that money would come from. While House Speaker
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
Lawmakers and other politicians expressed horror at the shooting deaths in Newtown, Conn., with several Democrats saying the incident underscores the need to crack down on gun violence and pushing President Obama to act forcefully on the issue. Here is a roundup
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama at the White House on Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)(CNSNews.com) – Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist defended the leadership of House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday during an appearance on C
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio accuses President Barack Obama of not being serious about cutting government spending, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner is insisting that Obama wants far more in tax increases than spending reductions and appears willing to walk
From Conservative News Source- dailycaller.com
Carney counters troublesome questions with his own version of boxing’s rope-a-dope strategy
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
All of this ‘compromise’ flying back and forth is practically giving me whiplash. As I have said, don’t even think about raising the Medicare age. We are not throwing America’s seniors over the cliff to give a tax cut to the wealthiest people in America. We have
From Conservative News Source- dailycaller.com
‘Congress is never going to give up our ability to control the purse’
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
President Obama plans to give interviews to television anchors from several states to press his case for continuing tax cuts for the middle class, as the White House and Republicans remain at odds over how to avert the fiscal cliff.
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
Republicans are decidedly more negative about their party than Democrats are about theirs, the new WSJ/NBC News poll shows.
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, leaves after a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, following the GOP caucus. Boehner and the other House Republican leaders are calling for Obama to come up with plan they can accept for
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, who conferred with President Barack Obama by phone yesterday, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, following a closed-door meeting with the GOP. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)(CNSNews.com) – House conservatives
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said House Speaker John Boehner shouldn’t avoid a vote to extend current tax rates for most Americans in order to shield Republican lawmakers from casting a vote on a tough issue.
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
Brinksmanship. So much for the holiday deadline, which always seemed a little optimistic anyway. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor emerged from a caucus meeting to declare that the fiscal-cliff negotiations are going very, very slowly — and that Republicans would stick around past Christmas in
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
Here’s a WSJ guide to the numbers surrounding the “fiscal cliff” that is facing the U.S. economy.
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
A top House Democrat said he feared that House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), the top Republican negotiator in talks to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, would be reluctant to reach a deficit reduction deal with President Barack Obama until after he is
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
House Speaker Boehner kicked off the day’s fiscal cliff statements by criticizing President Obama’s latest plan, saying it is unbalanced by focusing too much on tax rate increases.
From Conservative News Source- redstate.com
More than a week since several conservative House members were kicked off their committees, they have finally received a personal note from Boehner. During last week’s conference meeting, Boehner explicitly told members that there was a purge based upon voting records, that he was a part of it,
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
Waiting on you, White House. On the House floor on Tuesday, Speaker John Boehner broke from the mutual semi-silence of what’s been going on between himself and President Obama on the fiscal-cliff negotiations, and informed the Congress that all he’s waiting on are some proposals for
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said Tuesday that negotiators working on a package to avert the fiscal crisis should leave the U.S. borrowing limit out of their talks.
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
Here is the transcript of John Boehner’s brief remarks at midday Tuesday on the House floor.
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) is addressing the House around midday Tuesday about the status of tax and spending talks with President Barack Obama.
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
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From Conservative News Source- dailycaller.com
Fox News senior political analyst says House speaker has little leverage
From Conservative News Source- humanevents.com
The current state of the “fiscal cliff” drama was summed up by the identically-worded statements released by both President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, following their first face-to-face meeting in weeks: “This afternoon, the President and Speaker Boehner
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
Face to face. Breaking the pattern of presumably frosty phone calls only, President Obama and Speaker Boehner continued in their recent it’s-just-you-and-me-now, closed-off-from-the-public communications but actually met in person (and in private) at
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R., Ohio) met at the White House on Sunday. But both sides are being unusually tight-lipped after several weeks of public posturing.
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
FILE — In this file photo taken at Chigi Palace government’s office in Rome, on Dec. 6, 2012, Italian Premier Mario Monti gestures arrives for a news conference at the end of a cabinet meeting. Premier Mario Monti told the Italian president Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, he plans to resign following the sudden loss of
From Conservative News Source- redstate.com
The purge of conservatives from key committees last week was not a natural disaster. It was perpetrated by leadership with the help of the rest of the 31 members on the Steering Committee. They all need to hear from us
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures as he speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, to discuss the pending fiscal cliff. Boehner said there’s been no progress in negotiations on how to avoid the fiscal cliff of tax hikes and spending
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Half a loaf The nation stands at the precipice of a tragedy. Progressive icon Paul Krugman fears that a horrifying vision of the future may come to pass. In this nightmare scenario – and I’d like you all to take