How much will you bet that the Democrats and OBama will screw We the People, again, thanks to the GOP gullibility??????

"But he (McConnell) downplayed the disagreement over Obama’s demand for extra 2013  spending. After passage of the tax deal, he said, legislators can work “on  smarter ways to fight spending.”"

 Fiscal Cliff Deal: $1 in Spending Cuts for Every $41 in Tax Increases

Bait and Switch: In face of fiscal cliff, Obama demands spending boost for  2013

 

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President Barack Obama smashed a completed fiscal-cliff deal with a  last-minute demand for increased spending in 2013, according to an e-mail from  the GOP’s Senate leader, Mitch McConnell.

Under the deal, planned tax increases on middle-class Americans would be  cancelled, but Obama insisted on raising tax rates on Americans earning more  than $400,000 per year.

“They’re holding that [deal] hostage” to boost 2013 spending, GOP Sen. Bob  Corker said shortly after Obama lauded the pending agreement.

 

“The tax piece is complete and done as of last evening at 1:45 a.m. I thought  the entire deal was sealed. Early this morning, the White House called demanding  that we also turn off the sequester,” said the email, signed “Mitch.”

The sequester refers to scheduled cuts in spending during the first nine  months of 2013. Half of the $109 billion in cuts are to be imposed on the  Pentagon.

Republicans are seeking budget cuts to reduce the federal government’s annual  deficit of $1 trillion, and also to trim the size and reach of government.

In response to Obama’s last-minute demand, McConnell offered to find other  spending cuts, according to the email.

“I have recommended that we look to find offsets to buy down two months of  the sequester and have offered several ways to pay for this,” McConnell  wrote.

However, “the White House has yet to find a way to agree to any of $100  billion of various proposals that I have suggested but we are continuing to  talk. I intend to bring us all together as soon as this issue is resolved to  talk in greater detail.”

Obama’s demand for removal of the sequester — which he first proposed in 2011 — is likely to antagonize GOP leaders who want to trim federal spending.

In contrast, progressives want to increase spending that broadens the reach  of government.

The president’s negotiating position may also torpedo the pending fiscal  cliff deal, in part, because that deal raises taxes by roughly $700 billion over  10 years, but does not trim federal spending.

In a brief floor speech at 2:50 p.m., McConnell urged quick passage of the  tax deal, saying the Senate should not “hold up protecting Americans from the  tax hike that will take place in about 10 hours.”

But he downplayed the disagreement over Obama’s demand for extra 2013  spending. After passage of the tax deal, he said, legislators can work “on  smarter ways to fight spending.”

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  • Article 2, Section 7 of the Constitution limits, "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills."

    Why the House of Representatives does not kill this bill on the grounds that the Senate did not follow Constitutional procedure, I don't know?

    If the House of Representatives had killed ObamaCare on the grounds that Senate did not follow Constitutional procedure, then that monstrosity would have never been passed.

    Of course, if we had been following Constitutional procedure during the last 5 years, Harry J. Bounel, Barack Hussein Obama or Barry Soetoro, what ever his real name is... would have been locked up for identity theft and fraud.

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