MSNBC just reporting that Dems had successful procedural vote for tax cuts for the middle class...

[Skidmore]

Boehner said that what happened was "chicken crap."

[WinkyDink]

1. Obama should respond in kind.

[frazzled]

5. Obama isn't a member of Congress and does not vote

Weird of you to call upon him.

[glitch]

9. What part of bully pulpit do you not understand?

Weird of you to discount it.

[pnorman]

16. THIS is a Bully Pulpit!

Any questions?

[Bluenorthwest]

25. That's funny. The term 'Bully Pulpit' comes from the other

Roosevelt. Teddy. And he did not have that sort of a sweep into office. It is the Presidency itself that is the Bully Pulpit, not the electoral map that places one there. Win by a hair, you hold the Bully Pulpit. That is just how it is.

[pnorman]

28. Understood!

But it's not an inexhaustible asset, and needs to be used with some discretion to be of any use.

Winning by a shut-out or a hair's breadth, tells a WISE President just how much "political capital" he has at his disposal. And to be "overdrawn" in that department, would make that Pulpit a TOXIC Pulpit!

[Kalyke]

2. And Boehner ought to know about both chicken and crap.

Why is the Orangeman mad? Did Nancy one-up him again?

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Yes

[Skidmore]

4. They showed a video clip of him saying this and he was

sputtering. Guess it interrupted his measuring of the drapes in Nancy's office.

[WingDinger]

6. Wouldnt that be DUCK crap? Hope the dems fed the goose, more to come.

[Tatiana]

7. VERY clever move on Pelosi's part!!! Rethugs got outsmarted.

More at DKos:

And thus, we're getting a vote in the House on extending current tax rates for all but the top two percent. The tricky rule that allowed for this has passed, and with another procedural vote on the debate rules, the House is off to the races on doing the right thing with this vote. It'd be the simplest thing in the world for the Senate to take this bill, offer it on the floor, and dare Republicans to vote against it. Presuming that it passes the House, of course. Stay tuned.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/2/924881/-The-House-gets-clever-on-tax-cuts-debate

[WCGreen]

10. Perhaps president Obama is standing to the side to let Nancy be the

bad cop in this deal...

If that is the case and this goes through, I will take back a lot of what I said about him playing regular chess while we thought he was playing star trek chess...

K&R

[TwilightGardener]

15. I do think there's some good cop/bad cop that goes on between

Nancy and Obama--her seat is safe, she can be outright progressive while he stays near the middle. Harry Reid is in a tougher position because he's from Nevada (and we all watched him barely squeak through this time).

[Tatiana]

17. This isn't chess, IMO. This is the House going their own way.

If the bill makes it out of the Senate (where Republicants are threatening to filibuster, as usual), we can at least rest assured the President will sign the bill.

Other than that, I don't think Obama deserves much credit.

[WCGreen]

22. We he is standing off to the side to let her do her thing....

Some bad cop good cop stuff is probably not out of the question...

Although, in the end, I think you are right.

But then again, there is a maneuver to vote on certain financial bills at a 51 majority in the Senate.

If that is in place, then I will really take back a lot of what I said about the democratic leadership...

[laughingliberal]

8. K & R nt

[damntexdem]

11. Well, Boehner knows his chicken crap, being made of it.

But I think he's projecting on this one. ;-)

[GoCubsGo]

14. You beat me to it.

K & R.

[yellowcanine]

12. Boehner would know chicken crap.

[pampango]

13. the House voted to move on to debate of a tax cut measure to individuals making less than $250,000

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/131671-tongue-in-cheek-boehner-refers-to-dems-tax-cut-vote-as-chicken-crap

Moments earlier the House voted to move on to general debate of a tax cut measure that would extend current rates, set to expire at the end of the month, to individuals making less than $250,000. A vote on the final bill will take place later Thursday afternoon.

On Wednesday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) announced that the House would vote on permanently extending the tax cuts, enacted in 2001 and 2003, for American families earning as much as $250,000 a year. But that would not address the income tax rates for the highest earners, which includes a number of small businesses.

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), however, said that the bill would be dead on arrival in the Senate.

"Forty-two Republican senators, which is all of us and an indeterminate number, significant number of Democrats, don't think we ought to raise taxes on anybody. So regardless of what the majority forces House Republicans to do, it's not going to go anywhere. We're going to extend the current tax rates, we're not going to raise taxes on anybody. The only thing we're discussing right now is how long that extension will be," the top-ranking GOP Senator said Wednesday night following a meeting with newly-elected GOP governors.

[thereismore]

29. "a number of small businesses" crap again. nt

[stopbush]

18. It takes a shithead to recognize chickencrap.

:)

[Uncle Joe]

19. They should use Boehner's statement in 2012 political ads.

Thanks for the thread, Skidmore.

[Segami]

20. K&R

:rofl:

[Winterblues]

21. Was there any doubt the House would vote this out?

The House has been very good over the last couple of years. They have passed hundreds of very good bills only to have them die in the Senate because Republicans have had a permanent filibuster going on since 2007 when they became the minority...

[Liquorice]

23. I read that this was nothing more than a political maneuver to placate

us, even though it has no chance of passing the senate.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101202/ap_on_bi_ge/us_tax_cuts

[pampango]

27. Rather have the House pass progressive legislation and force Senate repubs to kill it, than

for the House to just give up and let Senate repubs win without a paying a political price.

Would it be better if the House didn't bother to pass continued tax cuts for the middle and working class and reinstating higher taxes for the wealthy? We'll see if Reid and Obama make the repubs make fools of themselves, but the House will have done its job.

[joeybee12]

24. Is it possible that this might get the senate to act if the House comes through...

I mean they've gotten other bills through only to have the Senate do nothing, but hope springs eternal!

[pampango]

26. No chance according to Mitch.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/131671-tongue-in-cheek-boehner-refers-to-dems-tax-cut-vote-as-chicken-crap

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), however, said that the bill would be dead on arrival in the Senate.

"Forty-two Republican senators, which is all of us and an indeterminate number, significant number of Democrats, don't think we ought to raise taxes on anybody. So regardless of what the majority forces House Republicans to do, it's not going to go anywhere. We're going to extend the current tax rates, we're not going to raise taxes on anybody. The only thing we're discussing right now is how long that extension will be," the top-ranking GOP Senator said Wednesday night following a meeting with newly-elected GOP governors.

[Kolesar]

30. then pass the bill through "reconciliation", requiring a 51 vote majority

Were not the bush tax cuts passed through reconciliation in the last decade?

[katnapped]

31. Boner can go fuck himself

No, actually he and McConnell can do it to each other.

(free brain bleach available at the door for those that need it)