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By Karoun Demirjian (contact) 
Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 | 11:39 a.m.
Harry Reid
John Boehner
Sen. Harry Reid responded to House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to call off a vote on his so-called Plan B proposal to avert the “fiscal cliff” last night with a heaping dollop of I-told-you-so.
“It couldn’t pass the Senate. Turns out it couldn’t pass the House, either,” Reid said Friday. “It’s too bad Speaker Boehner wasted a week on this feudal, political stunt.”
Reid called on Boehner to put the Democrats’ preferred plan, which would allow tax rates on income above $250,000 to rise, on the House floor and let House Democrats carry the vote.
Reid stressed that no plan — not even in the Senate — can pass without bipartisan compromise. Short of that, Reid pressed Boehner to return to the negotiating table with President Barack Obama, saying “we never left.”
Republican Leader Mitch McConnell came to Boehner’s defense.
“Democrats in the House vowed they wouldn’t vote for this bill [Plan B], the majority leader vowed he’d ignore it and the president vowed he’d veto it...So, Democrats spend all day yesterday, literally all day, defeating a bill that would have made American tax rates current,” McConnell said.
“This isn’t John Boehner’s problem to solve. He’s done his part, bent over backwards,” McConnell said. “It’s the president’s job to find a solution.”
In response, Reid defended Obama and offered his most direct praise yet of the president’s latest proposal, which he presented to Boehner earlier this week.
“My friend complains the president hasn’t done enough. He put forward a proposal that has received criticism from Democrats because he was too generous with Speaker Boehner,” Reid said, calling the president’s plan “pretty good.”
“To blame us for the travesty that took place over there? That’s incredible,” Reid said.
Reid is fly to Hawaii today for vacation. So much for a crisis
Exactly what has Reid since Nov 6th
Nothing
Reid sits over in his huge senate office doing nothing
Reid can not get any Democrats to reduce any spending
No bill can pass the House without spending cuts and Reid will vote for it and he can not get any Democrats to vote for it
Reid is an absolute joke
Reid is stating the obvious. Boehner may go down in history as the absolute worst speaker of the house ever. He is totally spineless and has done huge financial damage to the country during his tenure, largely because of it.
Heads ARE going to roll! Yes they will be rollin', rollin', rollin' on the Potomac river! RINO Rep. LaTourette (R-Ohio) head will be one of them for defending Boehner's Plan B: "It weakens the entire Republican Party"It's the continuing dumbing down of the Republican Party, and we are going to be seen more and more as a bunch of extremists that can't even get a majority of our people to support our own polices that we're putting forward!" I can't believe LaTourette doesn't thing Boehner should be replaced: "It's like saying the superintendent of an insane asylum should be discharged because he couldn't control the crazy people. That's nuts!" How dare LaTourette say we TeaPublicans ARE insane, nuts and dumbing down the Party! And that guy Boehner couldn't even get his plan past his own caucus! It was a "No Confidence" vote on Boehner! We just neutered him! Boehner is toast! And we will also make sure LaTourette NEVER holds a leadership post in our Party! We TeaPublicans WILL pick Eric Cantor as the new Speaker of the House! It will be a wonderful Christmas present to America!
Heads ARE going to roll! Yes they will be rollin', rollin', rollin' on the Potomac river! RINO Rep. LaTourette (R-Ohio) head will be one of them for defending Boehner's Plan B: "It weakens the entire Republican Party"It's the continuing dumbing down of the Republican Party, and we are going to be seen more and more as a bunch of extremists that can't even get a majority of our people to support our own polices that we're putting forward!" I can't believe LaTourette doesn't thing Boehner should be replaced: "It's like saying the superintendent of an insane asylum should be discharged because he couldn't control the crazy people. That's nuts!" How dare LaTourette say we TeaPublicans ARE insane, nuts and dumbing down the Party! And that guy Boehner couldn't even get his plan past his own caucus! It was a "No Confidence" vote on Boehner! We just neutered him! Boehner is toast! And we will also make sure LaTourette NEVER holds a leadership post in our Party! We TeaPublicans WILL pick Eric Cantor as the new Speaker of the House! It will be a wonderful Christmas present to America!
Whats incredible Senator Reid is you haven't passed a budget in 4 years as is your duty.
Since Plan B wasn't acceptable to House teabaggers, Boehner should continue through the alphabet until he finds a letter that GOP loons aren't offended by.
Caution is still warranted however as some letters could be construed as promoting the liberal gay agenda.
The Teabaggers will force Boehner to deal with the Democrats on their terms to save this economy. The Teabaggers are willing to destroy this country for their idiotic political agenda.
Reid, Bohner, and Obama share EQUAL blame so man up, Harry, for your part in this. Just once, Harry, man up and admit YOUR failure.
Obama told everybody to sing Xmas carols and when congress comes back they will want to do he offer?
Really
Senility at it's finest.
It's amazing the left loves Boehner(that's why they never beat him up in the press). He's no threat to them working right along with them.The right better vote him out and get a viable leader to take charge.I don't see this happening as the republican party doesn't have any real leadership they should just turn it over to the tea-party way better moment. The left is always bashing them that means they are doing their job.
Nobody in Washington DC is upset or anticipating any problem. Some pundits think if the market tanks again that they'll get off dead center. NO NEED TO WORRY. After 1/1/2013, whatever they want to do will be done--if anyone acted now it wouldn't be good enough--UC, payroll tax holidays, income tax partial, spending cuts on anything--all would have arguments that it's not enough. So AFTER 1/1, when technically tax rates are higher, any action becomes acceptable or a step in the right direction. So don't stress yourselves out.
Roselenda:
Isn't this supposed to be done by 12/31?? Many things are going to automatically expire on that date, many involving income taxes retroactive from January 1, 2012. So you better be ready to pony up your share. NO ONE is exempt.
PS The IRS is so unsure on what is going to happen that the agency has not even provided tax tables to employers yet for 2013. It was said the first few checks people will receive in 2013 will not have the proper taxes taken out but it will catch up to everyone later in the year, especially when doing 2013 taxes.