President Obama slams GOP 'priority' as fiscal cliff hours away

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With the "fiscal cliff" so close that its arrival is now measured in hours, President Barack Obama sent a clear message to the country Sunday: Republicans are responsible for the stalemate and must be pressured to do the right thing.

"They say that the biggest priority is making sure that we deal with the deficit in a serious way. But the way they're behaving is that their only priority is making sure that tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans are protected. That seems to be their only overriding, unifying theme," Obama told NBC's "Meet the Press" in an interview broadcast Sunday.

If nothing is done before Monday night at midnight, when the new year kicks in, the series of tax cuts that expires will hike up middle-class tax rates, damaging the economy and costing the average family about $2,000, he said, repeating the term "middle-class" numerous times throughout the interview.

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"It is time for everybody to be all in," Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Michigan, said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," calling for the wealthiest to pay higher tax rates. "This is common sense. This is about everybody participating to solve the problem."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/30/politics/fiscal-cliff/index.html

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1. The GOP want to jump the cliff.

They simply want to be seen as voting to cut taxes and not to raise them. Exercise in semantics.

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2. I Guess They Think That In The Short Time For Us To Go Over The Fiscal Cliff And The Bill To Cut ...

taxes for the middle class that will be introduced as soon as the new Congress convenes - that the American People will forget that they didn't prevent going off the fiscal cliff in the first place.

How anyone can believe the BS that they will be throwing around that they voted to cut taxes in the new Congress - is beyond me.

Are they that stupid to think that they American People will believe them? Are the American People that gullible to believe that the Repugs voted to cut taxes after they had a chance to prevent us from going over the fiscal cliff?

How anyone can vote Repug in any future election defies logic.

I think the Repugs will have sealed their fate with this fiscal cliff fiasco. And I think if they believe they can hold the country hostage in the upcoming debt limit fight. In my opinion it will just be another nail in the coffin of the Repug party.