Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Republican/Teabaggers kill middle class tax cut
But because doing so is a hazardous political action, they cobbed up a rickety political facade to try and fool voters into thinking they voted for the tax cut.
However House Republicans are aware of the political peril that will come with killing a bipartisan plan to extend the payroll tax cut, and they know they’ll likely be held responsible if the tax holiday expires. So they’re structuring the votes in a manner that’s designed to give their members cover from that charge and, perhaps, preserves their right to reconsider the Senate bill in the coming days.The plan was probably conceived by Kosher Mouse. It has the requisite weaselyness about it. The Orange Boner was probably too hammered to think of anything. Regardless of authorship, the Republican/Teabaggers think you will be fooled by their clever ruse. Just remember, the Republican/Teabaggers killed the middle class tax cut after agreeing to it. Yes, they are like that.
Specifically, they’re not actually going to vote down the Senate bill directly. Instead they will vote on a single measure that rejects the Senate’s plan and simultaneously calls for a conference with Senate negotiators to iron out the (significant) differences between the two chambers’ plans.
“We will have a motion to reject the Senate amendment and go to conference,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told reporters at a Monday press briefing. “We expect the minority to have a motion to instruct conferees. And then we will have a majority resolution that will lay out our House position that is consistent with the bill that we passed last week.”
In other words, House GOP members will get to vote “yes,” but in a way that says “no” to the Senate bill. This bears some resemblance to the health care reform-era controversy over so-called self-executing rules, when Democrats briefly considered tying two votes together into one, thus “deeming” unpopular legislation passed. Under the GOP’s plan, there’s no way for a vote to result in passage of the Senate bill.
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