White House Hands GOP Victory In Jobs Bill Shadow Boxing Match

[phantom power]

Republicans just won a round of jousting over President Obama’s jobs bill.

President Obama supports passage of House GOP legislation that would eliminate a tax compliance rule affecting big government contractors and pay for it by limiting Medicaid eligibility, the White House announced Tuesday.

You can read about the legislation — contained in two separate bills — here. Republicans crafted the legislation by pairing two conservative measures the White House proposed as part of their jobs and deficit reduction proposals. That in effect boxed Democrats in, despite its questionable implications for economic growth, and a pay-for that scales back Medicaid, instead of increasing taxes on wealthy Americans.

The administration announced its support in terse statements of official policy, which makes it more likely that Democrats will back it in the Senate. That would give the GOP cover to claim they’re working productively and seeking common ground to pass elements of President Obama’s jobs bill.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/white-house-hand-gop-victory-in-jobs-bill-shadow-boxing-match.php

[Autumn]

1. He really works hard to give those bastards

all the political cover he can.:wtf: K/R

[KoKo]

2. This is serious and it's from Talking Points Memo...hardly an Anti-Obama site...

It's serious and disturbing. Why would he do this? What does it mean going forward for our party?

[phantom power]

4. I don't think the 99% are currently represented by a party.

Our choices are "The party that hates us and wants us to die" or "The party that half-heartedly represents us and thinks it's a great idea to endlessly compromise with the other party"

[Mass]

3. How does such a measure create jobs?

[ProSense]

5. That TPM report

jumped the gun. This is Boehner trying to create the impression that they're willing to work with the President by repackaging his proposals.

TPM: House GOPers Were For Withholding Biz Tax Before They Were Against It

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The Cantor tweet and subsequent Boehner release also are a bit puzzling because President Obama has long made clear his support for getting rid of the 3 percent withholding tax, and turns out, Republicans were the first to try to impose the tax burden on government contractors in May 2006, although it’s been delayed ever since by both the 2009 Stimulus Act and the IRS.

In May of that 2006, 229 House Republicans, including GOP leaders John Boehner (R-OH) and Eric Cantor (R-VA), voted to implement the withholding tax on government contractors, as well as Medicare and farm payments, as a way to ensure that some tax-cheat contractors paid their fair share.

The provision was included in the conference report of the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005, which passed by margin of 244 to 185 despite http://majorityleader.gov/floor/weekly.html">strong opposition by the Associated Builders and Contractors.

That bill extended about $70 billion in tax cuts over a five-year period, including reduced tax rates on capital gains and dividends through 2010 and a patch for the alternative minimum tax, but the 3 percent withholding tax on government contractors was also tucked into the final version of the bill with Republican support.

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[Inuca]

7. We posted this at the same time :

but you are much faster :-)

[Inuca]

6. OTOH, and also from TPM

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/house-gopers-backed-withholding-biz-tax-before-they-opposed-it.php?ref=fpb House GOPers Were For Withholding Biz Tax Before They Were Against It

It's a tax that was enacted by a R controlled House under Bush.

While a good baby step, the White House said GOP leaders need to do far more to create jobs immediately.

“If Republicans think passing the smallest part of the American Jobs Act is a get-out-of-jail-free card to do something real on jobs they are 100 percent wrong,” a White House official told TPM. “As the President has said from the beginning, our response is simple: where’s the rest?”

The Cantor tweet and subsequent Boehner release also are a bit puzzling because President Obama has long made clear his support for getting rid of the 3 percent withholding tax, and turns out, Republicans were the first to try to impose the tax burden on government contractors in May 2006, although it’s been delayed ever since by both the 2009 Stimulus Act and the IRS.

[opihimoimoi]

8. The GOPers will spin anything at this point...in the end, they will lose their asses

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. And the professional left are more than willing to assist them. At last we have bi-partisanship,

Both groups hate this president, and both groups are well funded to do so. :eyes:

[opihimoimoi]

10. Me thinks The GOPers are desperately try to stave off a complete Rout nx year

Indications of a landslide exist....

The AARP Group is pissed at the GOP

They gonna be the FORCE to wipe the floor with GOPers

[CakeGrrl]

11. Touche.

With a little help from Grover Norquist and the Cato Institute, the PL raises a lot of..."concern".

[stevenleser]

12. First time since OWS began that Obama has violated OWS principles. I do not support this

There is no need to do this now. There is a grass roots movement supporting him.

[ieoeja]

13. Eliminate a rule originally enacted in 2006 when GOP held White House and both bodies of Congress.

Subject should have read:

White House Laughs at 2011 GOP Victory Over 2006 GOP In Jobs Bill Shadow Boxing Match