John Boehner Calls Vote on Middle-Class-Only Tax Cut 'Chicken Crap'

[EV_Ares]

Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner did not mince words Thursday as the House of Representatives prepared to vote to extend the expiring Bush tax cuts for families with income under $250,000 -- but blocking the Republican effort to permanently extend the cuts for all Americans.

Although no Democrats have agreed with Republicans to make the Bush tax cuts permanent for everyone, 31 moderate House Democrats signed a letter this week calling for a temporary extension of the tax cuts for higher incomes while the country continues to fight its way out of recession.

"I'm tying to catch my breath so I don't refer to this maneuver that's going on today as chicken crap. But this is nonsense, right?" Boehner said. "The election was one month ago. We're 23 months from the next election and the games have already started to set up the next election."

The source of Boehner's ire was a House vote earlier Thursday that will prevent Republicans from offering their own bill to make all of the Bush tax cuts permanent for all Americans, including the highest earners, when the full chamber considers the middle-class cuts later in the day. The House voted 213 to 203 to vote only on the middle-class tax proposal, with 32 Democrats voting with the Republicans to keep the process open.

Rest of the USA Today article @ link: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/12/02/john-boehner-calls-vote-on-middle-class-only-tax-cut-chicken-cr/?icid=maing%7Cmain5%7C1%7Clink2%7C28908

[laughingliberal]

1. Now if we had a nice, strong advocate in the WH, he could frame this nicely as Boehner calling...

relief for the middle class, "chicken crap." Doubtful he will as looks in all the corners to find more common ground.

[EV_Ares]

7. Exactly., eom.

[LisaM]

2. I don't understand why they don't (if they can) just double the 250K

It wouldn't make much difference overall - still tax the super rich - and it would sound like, and in fact be, a compromise on the part of the Dems.

[Uncle Joe]

3. That should be in every campaign ad of 2012.

Thanks for the thread, EV_Ares.

[Kadie]

4. What Boehner thinks of middle class America....

we are nothing but fertilezer.... We are the shit that works hard to put the blossoms in his and his friends gardens.

What an idiot.

Mr. Boehner

[EV_Ares]

8. You would think the dems would be all over Boehner's comment, start the ads on

TV now, this is our problem, they don't fight.

[LawnLover]

5. Anything that pisses that asshole off

makes me VERY happy. :fistbump:

[malaise]

6. Funny he's the same color

as chicken shit.

[FrancisTreptoe]

9. No he is the same color as an Oompa-Loompa

[tanyev]

10. No, no, John, that's healthcare. Chickens for Check-ups.

You need to find a different mascot for tax cuts.