Anyone who thought Republicans were too focused on spending cuts in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations should brace themselves for what's next.Tuesday's votes on the "fiscal cliff" deal divided the GOP: More than half of House Republicans voted against it, primarily complaining about its lack of spending cuts. Yet on the Senate side, all but three Republicans supported the measure.A couple of the Senate's most conservative Republicans say they understand why their House counterparts opposed the bill -- it's littered with special-interest giveaways, was secretly drafted in the dead of night and extends spending on programs like unemployment insurance without paying for them.At the same time, those senators say, those House Republicans may have been too concerned about their outsider, tea party reputations to accept theoverwhelming upside of the bill -- making the Bush-era tax rates permanent for nearly all Americans."This is not meant to reduce the deficit," Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., told CBSNews.com about the "fiscal cliff" deal. "This was meant to reduce taxes. The deficit is a different issue."
this is a warning from the right wing of their intention to re-create 2011 but this time we know what they are up to because it's the same crap just a different day. this is a preview of the change they trumpeted a month ago we see through that as well, they make it very easy.
"I think what the American public is going to see is President Obama's campaign pledge," he said. "He made the rich pay their fair share -- he got that. Now it's very legitimate for Republicans to demand and see what is the other part of his 'balanced approach'... His tax increase, at most, will close 5 percent of the deficit. What's the other 95 percent? What's his plan to save Social Security? To save Medicare?"
A few weeks ago, many hoped the "fiscal cliff" negotiations would result in a balanced, comprehensive approach to the nation's fiscal issues. Everything seemed to be on the table: entitlement reform, the debt limit, strategic spending cuts with which to replace the sequester, and new tax revenue.they make this claim in the midst of a republican civil war just like that change thing they blubbered about ain't that kinda party, they will stick to the smoke a mirror politics that they always have.
still lying and not to be trusted
