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White House won't accept new tax offer from Republican leader

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(Reuters) - President Barack Obama is not ready to accept a new offer from the Republican leader of the U.S. the House of Representatives to raise taxes on top earners in exchange for major cuts in entitlement programs, a source said late Saturday.The shape and details of Boehner's offer were uncertain Saturday night, as was the exact reason the president was prepared to reject it.
The source said Obama sees the offer made on Friday by U.S. House Speaker John Boehner as a sign of progress, but simply believes it is not enough and there is much more to be worked out before Obama can reciprocate.

White House won't accept new tax offer from Republican leader | Reuters


This crap out of the Obama lying White House is such Bull **** it is inexcusable. Obama tells you that it is Boehner and repubs holding up the talks because they won't give in to demo demands, yet when repubs do indeed cave, and ask that entitlement reform be tied to the plan Obama balks....

We are negotiating with ourselves people. Obama has NO sign that he is willing to negotiate in good faith at all, it is his way or the highway....I say pass a tax cut on the three bottom tax tiers, and keep the top two the same, pass it in the house, dump it on Reid's desk, and go home.
 
Obama's idea of transparency is "do it my way or no way."

Republicans have proposed numerous plans yet Obama rejects them time and time again. Of course our alleged "non-biased" media turns around and reports that republicans have proposed little to nothing.

Obama and the Senate are asses and the MSM are a bunch of liars.
 
This crap out of the Obama lying White House is such Bull **** it is inexcusable. Obama tells you that it is Boehner and repubs holding up the talks because they won't give in to demo demands, yet when repubs do indeed cave, and ask that entitlement reform be tied to the plan Obama balks....

We are negotiating with ourselves people. Obama has NO sign that he is willing to negotiate in good faith at all, it is his way or the highway....I say pass a tax cut on the three bottom tax tiers, and keep the top two the same, pass it in the house, dump it on Reid's desk, and go home.



If there were both spending cuts and a non-severability clause, I would enjoy that immensely!
 
So, J-mac, you don't know the details of the offer but Obama is definitely wrong for rejecting it.

Interesting.
 
I didn't vote for a single incumbent so, Thelma meet Louise; Louise meet Thelma

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What gather from the article is that we don't know what was offered or why it was rejected. While we may want more transparency, we really don't have enough information to make any judgement beyond that.

BTW j, republicans ave been playing their way or the highway for a long time. I wish you were as upset then as you are now.
 
Obama's idea of transparency is "do it my way or no way."

Republicans have proposed numerous plans yet Obama rejects them time and time again. Of course our alleged "non-biased" media turns around and reports that republicans have proposed little to nothing.

Obama and the Senate are asses and the MSM are a bunch of liars.


Oh God, the crap is so thick here. "Oh no, hide everybody, it's the MSM!" Good to see you acknowledge that Fox are a bunch of liars though.


This OP is doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING as Obama is accused of "Obama won't take every proposal from Boehner and sign it into law!"
 
BTW j, republicans ave been playing their way or the highway for a long time. I wish you were as upset then as you are now.

He's never upset about Republicans doing anything. It's only evil if it's a Dem.
 
This crap out of the Obama lying White House is such Bull **** it is inexcusable. Obama tells you that it is Boehner and repubs holding up the talks because they won't give in to demo demands, yet when repubs do indeed cave, and ask that entitlement reform be tied to the plan Obama balks....

We are negotiating with ourselves people. Obama has NO sign that he is willing to negotiate in good faith at all, it is his way or the highway....I say pass a tax cut on the three bottom tax tiers, and keep the top two the same, pass it in the house, dump it on Reid's desk, and go home.

There will be no Social Insurance reform as part of the tax increases on the wealthy, they are off the table. They have not added one penny to the debt and the Republicans lost the election. Besides I have not heard one Republican propsal to reform SS or Medicare since the Romney/Ryan plan was soundly defeated by the voters. They are afraid even to mention what they want to do to destroy the saftey nets of the middle class. I wonder why?
 
So, J-mac, you don't know the details of the offer but Obama is definitely wrong for rejecting it.

Interesting.

Obama was given almost everything he wanted yet he (and his progressive robots) still rejected the proposal.

Obama and his progressives want everything done their way, and want all their demands met or they will play "victims" of "unreasonable republicans" (which the media will gladly spin for their master party)..

Honestly, I don't think Obama wants to do anything - he knows his policies are failures and he has no desire accepting any republican proposals because he's just that partisan. What he wants is four more years of lavish vacations and endless rounds of golf while he blames his own lack of economic progress on republicans - which the lying mainstream media will gladly help him portray.
 
This crap out of the Obama lying White House is such Bull **** it is inexcusable. Obama tells you that it is Boehner and repubs holding up the talks because they won't give in to demo demands, yet when repubs do indeed cave, and ask that entitlement reform be tied to the plan Obama balks....

I am not aware of any Republican or Boehner proposal on entitlements.

Can anyone produce that?
 
Obama was given almost everything he wanted yet he (and his progressive robots) still rejected the proposal.

That's a strange declaration given that you know virtually no details of the offer.
 
Oh God, the crap is so thick here. "Oh no, hide everybody, it's the MSM!" Good to see you acknowledge that Fox are a bunch of liars though.


This OP is doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING as Obama is accused of "Obama won't take every proposal from Boehner and sign it into law!"

No, this is a perfect example of how the media lies and claims republicans come up with nothing, when they do all the time but Obama just shoots down the proposals.

Obama's not willing to compromise on anything - it's his way or no way.

Hell the republicans could probable draw up a plan identical to his own and he would still deny it because it was presented by republicans. What Obama wants is for the democrats to draft proposals and wants republicans to say "yes master."

Obama is seriously a psychopath. "you don't offer me a cookie - I offer you a cookie" that is pretty much his pathology. He want's to look like a great savior and when his stupid plans fail he goes blaming everyone but his own remedial self.
 
No, this is a perfect example of how the media lies and claims republicans come up with nothing, when they do all the time but Obama just shoots down the proposals.

Obama's not willing to compromise on anything - it's his way or no way.

Hell the republicans could probable draw up a plan identical to his own and he would still deny it because it was presented by republicans. What Obama wants is for the democrats to draft proposals and wants republicans to say "yes master."

Obama is seriously a psychopath. "you don't offer me a cookie - I offer you a cookie" that is pretty much his pathology. He want's to look like a great savior and when his stupid plans fail he goes blaming everyone but his own remedial self.

Let me re-iterate this.

You don't even know what was rejected. You have no ability to declare he was offered everything he wanted.
 
That's a strange declaration given that you know virtually no details of the offer.

Oh I know plenty, most notably Obama wants a higher tax rate on anyone making $250,000 a year, while republicans argue (and rightly so) it should be $1,000,000 a year.

That is pretty much the meat of the differences.

There are several problems with the 250,000 proposal by Obama. Hell there are dozens of problems with our tax code that make both proposals semi-retarded.
 
This crap out of the Obama lying White House is such Bull **** it is inexcusable. Obama tells you that it is Boehner and repubs holding up the talks because they won't give in to demo demands, yet when repubs do indeed cave, and ask that entitlement reform be tied to the plan Obama balks....

We are negotiating with ourselves people. Obama has NO sign that he is willing to negotiate in good faith at all, it is his way or the highway....I say pass a tax cut on the three bottom tax tiers, and keep the top two the same, pass it in the house, dump it on Reid's desk, and go home.

This is the right wing attitude we should all embrace if we are moderates or liberals. It's the kind that will lead the Republicans to eventually going the way of the Whigs. Don't Ever Change!
 
Oh I know plenty, most notably Obama wants a higher tax rate on anyone making $250,000 a year.

So do the american people.
 
This crap out of the Obama lying White House is such Bull **** it is inexcusable. Obama tells you that it is Boehner and repubs holding up the talks because they won't give in to demo demands, yet when repubs do indeed cave, and ask that entitlement reform be tied to the plan Obama balks....

We are negotiating with ourselves people. Obama has NO sign that he is willing to negotiate in good faith at all, it is his way or the highway....I say pass a tax cut on the three bottom tax tiers, and keep the top two the same, pass it in the house, dump it on Reid's desk, and go home.
Obama has no reason to negotiate to get what he wants, he gets what he wants--a tax hike on the rich--on Jan 1, 2013. Boehner should publically say he is prepared to accept the tax hikes on the rich if Obama comes up with his promised 'balanced approach' of $800 billion in spending cuts. If Obama refuses, then we go over the cliff.
 
So do the american people.

That would be utterly stupid.

Republicans want to keep the same rate on those making LESS THAN $1,000,000 a year to continue at the same tax level then up taxes on those who make a million or more.

Then of course democrats have the audacity to claim republicans are at war with the middle class, when the republicans are tying to keep the tax rate on those making less than a million the same? while democrats want to increase those taxes.
 
It becomes more obvious each and every day that obama wants us to go off the cliff. He needs panic and chaos to implement his true socialist agenda and he needs to destroy the Republican party in the process.
 
Obama has no reason to negotiate to get what he wants, he gets what he wants--a tax hike on the rich--on Jan 1, 2013. Boehner should publically say he is prepared to accept the tax hikes on the rich if Obama comes up with his promised 'balanced approach' of $800 billion in spending cuts. If Obama refuses, then we go over the cliff.

Obama isn't interested in cutting spending - he is interested in spending more and taxing more.

What a realistic solution would be is cut all the pork you can and temporarily raise taxes on those making over a million - which is exactly what republicans want to do, however democrats have no desire to keep on giving their voting base free taxpayer money in the form of benefits or grants.
 
Obama was given almost everything he wanted yet he (and his progressive robots) still rejected the proposal.

You have no idea whatsoever what was offered, so you saying this is just ridiculous.
 
Obama was given almost everything he wanted yet he (and his progressive robots) still rejected the proposal.

Obama and his progressives want everything done their way, and want all their demands met or they will play "victims" of "unreasonable republicans" (which the media will gladly spin for their master party)..

Honestly, I don't think Obama wants to do anything - he knows his policies are failures and he has no desire accepting any republican proposals because he's just that partisan. What he wants is four more years of lavish vacations and endless rounds of golf while he blames his own lack of economic progress on republicans - which the lying mainstream media will gladly help him portray.

How do you know that?
 
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