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Eric Cantor floats year-end trigger bargain

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Compromise is in the air...lets hope so.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is quietly working both sides of the Capitol to build support for a plan to scale back automatic spending cuts and combine the proposal with a wide range of critical year-end tax and spending measures.

Cantor has spoken to senators from both parties — including a Thanksgiving morning phone call to the Stamford, Conn., home of Sen. Joe Lieberman — as he gauges support for a potential package that would include up to $133 billion in spending cuts in exchange for delaying the first year of slashes to defense and nondefense programs slated to begin in 2013. That package could also include a reform and a yearlong extension of jobless benefits, a payroll tax break and the Medicare reimbursement rate for physicians.
 
I hope it fails.
 
I hope it fails.

I knew you would along with many others....for the good of the country I hope some kind of compromise gets worked out...perry we cant continue this unbending we want what we want and nothing less and we want it now routine on both sides....were sinking while they are all puffing their chests out talking out of their posteriors and doing nothing.
 
Compromise is in the air...lets hope so.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is quietly working both sides of the Capitol to build support for a plan to scale back automatic spending cuts and combine the proposal with a wide range of critical year-end tax and spending measures.

Cantor has spoken to senators from both parties — including a Thanksgiving morning phone call to the Stamford, Conn., home of Sen. Joe Lieberman — as he gauges support for a potential package that would include up to $133 billion in spending cuts in exchange for delaying the first year of slashes to defense and nondefense programs slated to begin in 2013. That package could also include a reform and a yearlong extension of jobless benefits, a payroll tax break and the Medicare reimbursement rate for physicians.

Come on, we can't have Cantor thinking for himself...
 
Come on, we can't have Cantor thinking for himself...


Thats the point hes not thinking for himself...there is a tug of war going on in the gop behind the scenes...moderate and traditional republicans are starting to stand up and wanting to be heard....this has been going on for awhile and its starting to come to a head.
There are moderate GOPers that believe the stonewalling by the teaparty is losing the Jobs message for the GOP...Elections are coming..if the members believe the teaparty hard right stance is hurting them...they will turn on them and quick too...have to see how it all plays out
 
Republicans love to spend and put off paying for it. They've demonstrated it over and over.

It's time to take away the irresponsible child's credit card.
 
I knew you would along with many others....for the good of the country I hope some kind of compromise gets worked out...perry we cant continue this unbending we want what we want and nothing less and we want it now routine on both sides....were sinking while they are all puffing their chests out talking out of their posteriors and doing nothing.

how is congress not acting sinking us? From what I can tell, when congress is active and not gridlocked, all they do is pass massive amounts of spending on programs with fiscal multipliers close to zero, ie flush money down the toilet.
 
how is congress not acting sinking us? From what I can tell, when congress is active and not gridlocked, all they do is pass massive amounts of spending on programs with fiscal multipliers close to zero, ie flush money down the toilet.

Tell that too the millions of people that cant find a job or pay their bills and as far back as I remember most everything in congress gets down through compromise...only in the rare occaisions when one party has all and always gets drunk with power and screws everything up does things get done one sided...like obamacare
 
There are more compromises in the works....McCaskill<D> missouri and Tunney <R> Pa are working on a compromise bill...both were on morning joe this am..and talked about common sense compromise being paramount to getting anything done in congress and I TOTALLY AGREE....the far right and the far left must be rejected by the mass's then and only then can we get on a road to recovery..
Neither side has dibs on whats the right thing to do...its a combination of both that is the only thing that will work
 
Simply let the scheduled cuts take place along with the expiration of the 2001 and 03 Bush tax cuts. That goes a long way to solving the problem.
 
Simply let the scheduled cuts take place along with the expiration of the 2001 and 03 Bush tax cuts. That goes a long way to solving the problem.

That goes a long way towards improving unemployment? Please explain that mechanism to me.
 
Tell that too the millions of people that cant find a job or pay their bills and as far back as I remember most everything in congress gets down through compromise...only in the rare occaisions when one party has all and always gets drunk with power and screws everything up does things get done one sided...like obamacare

How is congress acting going to help people get a job? Congress can't force companies to start hiring.
 
That goes a long way towards improving unemployment? Please explain that mechanism to me.

It actually does something in the right direction. Any other agreement is likely to be smoke and mirrors.
 
So let me get this straight. The TP got their way and got massive automatic cuts. Now "Mr. TP" Cantor is getting cold feet.

Show of hands, who saw this coming a mile away?

:2wave:
 
So let me get this straight. The TP got their way and got massive automatic cuts. Now "Mr. TP" Cantor is getting cold feet.

Show of hands, who saw this coming a mile away?

:2wave:

As someone once said, they are only entitlements if someone else is receiving them. When it's you, they become "rights".
 
Compromise is in the air...lets hope so.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is quietly working both sides of the Capitol to build support for a plan to scale back automatic spending cuts and combine the proposal with a wide range of critical year-end tax and spending measures.

Cantor has spoken to senators from both parties — including a Thanksgiving morning phone call to the Stamford, Conn., home of Sen. Joe Lieberman — as he gauges support for a potential package that would include up to $133 billion in spending cuts in exchange for delaying the first year of slashes to defense and nondefense programs slated to begin in 2013. That package could also include a reform and a yearlong extension of jobless benefits, a payroll tax break and the Medicare reimbursement rate for physicians.

I have to agree with Perry on this Ipast, which always makes me a little nervous, but I think he is right, if maybe for different reasons than my own. This move by Cantor and Lieberman avoids cuts to the military industrial complex where I feel they are most needed.
 
If you were all OLD and retired like me :p and were middle of the road and watched and read the news from both liberal moderate and conservative sources...you would find that more and more republicans are coming out and calling for compromise and working together.
The moderate GOP are feeling the stonewalling and hardlining is going to hurt them not help in re elections...and I agree...
I said earlier there is a tug of war going on in the GOP behind the scenes...and I predict the moderate traditional gop will win out in the end...
 
I have to agree with Perry on this Ipast, which always makes me a little nervous, but I think he is right, if maybe for different reasons than my own. This move by Cantor and Lieberman avoids cuts to the military industrial complex where I feel they are most needed.

I'm good with cuts to defense. They are a part of the automatic cuts right?
 
I'm good with cuts to defense. They are a part of the automatic cuts right?

Yes, half of the cuts are supposed to come from military spending.
 
So we agree.

We definitely agree on cuts in military spending, I am concerned though in what cuts they might make in education.
 
We definitely agree on cuts in military spending, I am concerned though in what cuts they might make in education.

I believe cuts can be made that do not cut programs. We unfortunately might find where programs get cut though because someone decides to keep a program they are personally benefitting from that is completely unneeded though.
 
I'm good with cuts to defense. They are a part of the automatic cuts right?

I am only good with cuts to defense if they in no way hurt the personel in all the branchs...and what ive read and heard from military professionals...is that it will hurt readiness...and thats that for me..Politicians opinion mean nothing to me...
 
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