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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitch McConnell goes public on how this whole fiscal cliff debacle is all the Democrats fault.
Youll excuse me if Im a little frustrated at the situation we find ourselves in. But last night, President Obama called Congressional leaders from Hawaii and asked if there was something we could do to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
I say Im a little frustrated because weve been asking the President and Democrats to work with us on a bipartisan agreement for months months. A plan that would simplify the tax code, shrink the deficit, protect the taxpayers, and grow the economy. But Democrats consistently rejected those offers.
The President chose to spend his time on the campaign trail instead even after he got re-elected and Congressional Democrats sat on their hands.
Democrats have had an entire year to put forward a balanced, bipartisan proposal. If they had something that fit the bill, Im sure the Majority Leader would have been able to deliver the votes the President would have needed to pass it here in the Senate. And we wouldnt be in this mess. But here we are, once again, at the end of the year staring at a crisis we should have dealt with months ago.
Make no mistake: the only reason Democrats have been trying to deflect attention onto me and my colleagues over the past few weeks is that they dont have a plan of their own that could get bipartisan support. The so-called Senate bill that the Majority Leader keeps referring to passed with only Democrat votes. And despite his repeated calls for the House to pass it, he knows as well as I do that he himself is the reason it cant happen. The paperwork never left the Senate, so theres nothing for the House to vote on.
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Ah. So now we know why we are in trouble. The Democrats fell down on the job.
So this is what the public will hear and a great many will believe in spite of what the reality is.
The GOP sure gets a lot of mileage out of that old standby, the blame game.
They create a problem, blame it on the Democrats and from then on it's the Democrat's problem.
Works every time.
Sheesh.
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)What a thorough jerk and joke.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)How about passing a bill first? Yer buddy orange man can't seem to do it. Neither can you. So shut your beak.
appleannie1
(5,067 posts)warrior1
(12,325 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)to the President's remarks on just about everything?
It wasn't Mitch, but it was a Republican ... I have no doubt that, if Obama came on to rebut the rebuttal, the "liberally-biased media" sure as hell would have let the Boner have the last word.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)He says the Democrats has not worked with them and says they passed a bill with only Democrats voting for it. Sounds like the Republicans are not working with the Democrats. They have gotten too comfortable doing nothing. What is wrong with McConnell speaking to Boehner about a reasonable bill in which will pass the House and Senate? The answer is any bill which gets passed in the House will require Democrat support to get it passed because of hard headed TP's. Congress is pathetic, I might add Texan representatives are a big part of the problem. I write them on regular basis but they just are unable to governor just obstruct.
cbrer
(1,831 posts)Yeah... the GOP has been soooooooo helpful!
Make7
(8,543 posts)Who is in charge of the House?
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)that a "balance, bipartisan" approach is impossible - because of Republicans.
Republicans refuse to raise taxes on the rich. Boehner certainly proved that. Republicans will not even increase taxes on people making more than $1,000,000.
TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)And it's even more unbelievable that the people he's playing to by giving it believe it, too.