If we could have a cease fire on the name calling for a moment – think Spirit of Christmas, people – events in corporate congress are turning out just as predicted by the Huff Post:
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate won't renegotiate a bill extending payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits unless the House first approves a bipartisan version that House Republicans strongly oppose, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday.
The Nevada Democrat's remarks seemed to put the Senate on a collision course with the GOP-run House. Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters earlier that he expects the House to reject the Senate bill Monday evening and then request talks.
"This is a question of whether the House of Representatives will be able to fulfill the basic legislative function of passing an overwhelmingly bipartisan agreement in order to protect the economic security of millions of middle-class Americans," Reid said in a written statement.
The Senate passed a two-month extension of the tax cut and unemployment benefits on Saturday with overwhelming support from senators of both parties and the backing of President Barack Obama. It had been negotiated by Senate leaders of both parties after the two sides could not agree on how to pay for a more expensive, year-long measure.
After that vote, House Republican lawmakers told their leaders that they strongly opposed the Senate bill, complaining that it lacked serious spending cuts and was too short. Boehner and other top House Republicans then said they opposed the Senate-approved bill.
Monday morning, Boehner told reporters that the House would reject the Senate-passed bill but said he didn't think it would be hard for the two sides to bridge their differences.
Unless Congress acts, 160 million workers will see a 2-percentage-point increase in the Social Security payroll tax that is deducted from their paychecks and benefits for millions of long-term unemployed people will start to expire.
"It's time to stop the nonsense. We can resolve these differences and we can do it in a way that provides certainty for job creators and others," Boehner said at a news conference, although he provided no estimate on how long it might take to produce a compromise.
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Again with the “job creators” thing. It IS time to "stop the nonsense." Why do we continue to let Boehner and the rest of the corporate sycophants get away with this blatant misnomer? The rich are not and have not been creating jobs in the US for quite a while now. Why do people continue to pretend that they do? How many are simply ignorant and how many Congressmen are simply paid off?
Frankly, I agree with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's proposal that the Senate continue with its holiday recess as planned and leave House Republicans to stew in their own venom.