Why would Republicans even consider saying yes when no has worked so well? When so many extremists from their hard right wing were elected on a platform of HELL NO by wingnuts who might settle for more obstruction if they can't refight the Civil War?
Big media, for its part, will no doubt continue to expect President Obama to compromise without any corresponding expectation of the GOP.Republican Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, who is expected to become the new House majority leader in January, questioned on "Fox News Sunday" whether there was any benefit to compromising with President Barack Obama.
The question was not whether Obama was willing to work with Republicans, as he stated last week, but, "Are we willing to work with him?" Cantor asked.
"I mean, first and foremost, we're not going to be willing to work with him on the expansive liberal agenda he's been about," Cantor said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, told the CBS program "Face the Nation" that agreement exists on some specific provisions, but he refused to signal any willingness to compromise.
CNN will continue to screw up the most basic facts about, for example, the debate over keeping the rich from paying progressive taxes:
Obama wants to extend the lower tax rates for incomeYes, they printed it without the strike-through.abovebelow $200,000 a year for individuals and $250,000 a year for families, saying that means 98 percent of Americans won't be subject to a de facto tax increase.
And Mitch McConnell will prove over and over and over again that Republicans only pretend to care about the deficit when caring about it hurts those of us who are non-rich:
Note of course the thoroughly Republican framing: no one should pay more (never mind the trillions saved by the rich and the corresponding crumbs the rest of us get).McConnell, however, made clear that Republicans believe no one should have their tax rates return to the higher levels of the 1990s.
"We don't have a revenue problem; we have a spending problem," McConnell said, repeating a line parroted by Republicans on other shows.
And big media will never, ever notice that Republicans are hysterically hypocritical on deficits. Noticing the bullshit is against the rules of the reigning kleptocracy.
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More reality:
The lost chairmanships:
Barney Frank's chair on the influential Financial Services committee
Frank's and Edward J. Markey's chairs on the energy and the environment committee
John Olver (D-Amherst)'s chair of the subcommittee on transportation, housing and urban development
Jim McGovern's chair of the subcommittee on rules and organization of the House
John F. Tierney's chair of the subcommittee on National Security and foreign affairs
Steven F. Lynch's chair of the subcommittee on the federal workforce.
Too happy to stay on topic, eh, gia?
The always hypocritical GOP will exploit its chairmanships to give us 2 years of "criminalization of political differences" in service of their sole two real objectives: succoring the rich and stopping everything else useful that a government might do.
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