Taxes: Anyone who thinks the fiscal cliff deal will end President Obama’s soak-the-rich campaign isn’t paying attention. Even before the ink had dried on his $620 billion tax hike, Obama was talking up his desire for more.
Obama hinted at this on Sunday on “Meet the Press,” when he told David Gregory that “you are not only going to cut your way to prosperity” and that “one of the fallacies” was that “deficit reduction is only a matter of cutting programs.”
But as the fiscal cliff agreement looked increasingly likely, Obama started talking more specifically about additional tax hikes. On Monday, he told a White House rally that “revenues have to be part of the equation in turning off the sequester.”
Translation: If Republicans want to prevent devastating defense cuts from automatically kicking in two months from now, they’ll have to choke down another round of tax hikes.
And he made it clear any future deficit cuts will have to include still more new taxes. “If Republicans think that I will finish the job of deficit reduction through spending cuts alone,” he said, “then they’ve got another thing coming.”
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So when are we gonna “oust” this guy?
Obama has done a masterful job of playing the Republicans. He locked that “stimulus” spending into the budgets of the Federal Agencies, knowing the Republicans would start squawking about the deficits. He also knows the Republicans don’t have the nerve to really “cut” any spending, as was proven by this latest vote. So he’s going to stare down “Boehner and crew” during the next “crisis” about Sequestration. Either they let the deficits continue or the military budget gets the largest “cut” (which the Republicans get blamed for) OR they vote for a “tiny” tax increase (which the Republicans get blamed for). He has stated exactly what he wants (which, of course, still isn’t enough) and my guess is he will probably get it.
He just needs to go. Why does everyone who could do anything just keep lingering and wasting time while he continues to destroy this country? Tell me congress isn’t that stupid somebody, please. Why on God’s earth has he not been removed already? He’s clearly not eligible to hold the office. He’s done so many things contrary to the Constitution and our laws that alone should have gotten him evicted. It’s almost like they are waiting to see what he will do next and the violations of the American people just keep piling up. I never loved Clint Eastwood so much as the night he poked a little fun at him. No one else has the guts to stand up to him.
Holding party above patriotism has prevailed for 200 years with all pretending to be broadly popular far beyond any merit based on common sense worth either the ink required or the paper used to record their obscure malicious intent. Their primary goals have always been to indirectly provide revenue with legislation named with prose appearing as benefit for the elect. The election of yet more deceptive party members is thereby justified in their personal greed among others with the same affliction enjoying a common neurotic mindset bound for psychosis.
Could it possibly be that their opinions are based on the TV media agenda of undeniable complicity in the total Islamic takeover picture? His total background is rooted in the audacity of being raised among conspirators of both parental blood and imam philosophy of deceit. He has served his purpose of treason well right under the noses of the same TV media that provided only candidates from both parties operating far past the trust limit long before the stolen election was consummated with only token media contest. Their blare of third party candidates electability concern still echos in their waste heap of media’s blame game for their concerted two party guaranteed failure.for true representation.
All true enemies of patriots of the republic must be identified by the agenda of their spin with only highly diluted bits of truth required to purport some semblance of respect required to maintain their share of advertising market. With all their money trails converging in the same arena with the chosen orators on the hill, their identification as an even greater enemy than all the others cannot continue to be ignored in the minds of those that practice eternal vigilance for patriotic intent. Otherwise the rage of both whistle blowers and those that appreciate them can be expected to exercise another “Plan B” more violent than whatever it was that Boehmer spoke of in lieu of required gonads.