Cantor Opposed Short-Term Debt Ceiling Increase, Now Calls Obama's Opposition to Short-Term Increase 'Indefensible'

Cantor, Mconnell, Boehner and several republicans first touted no short term deal. Now the are for it? Playing games like these will backfire. What's up with these guys are they schizoid?

Not a bad description, 4 Real

Rampant HYPOCRISY thy name is Cantor!

,” the Virginia Republican told reporters. “It is my preference that we do this thing one time. … Putting off tough decisions is not what people want in this town.”

And we would be right, the republicans want to make this a election issue even though they raised the debt ceiling 13 times during past presidential (Bush) terms with no problem. This is the reason they won't pass a long term "FIX" that would also raising taxes on the rich 2%'ers, don't want to piss off their PIMP.

Cant'or has it exactly backwards. A month ago, a short term deal to avoid this circus might have still made sense. Now, however, after all the posturing, the painting into the corners, stirring the financial market unrest into a hornet's nest, is exactly the WRONG time to talk about a short term deal. It does nothing for stability. It sends no message of resolution or calming of the waters.

This Congress has made it very clear that nothing happens unless there's an unmoveable deadline, so why would anyone agree to just moving a deadline at this point! Wong Cant'or, wrong. C'mon, Virginia, we can do so much better than this guy!

Given the actions of (Gov)McDonnell and (AG)Cuccinelli, they seem to thrive in VA (and in a myriad other places as well).

I am coming to the conclusion that the biggest single requirement for Virginia higher elected office, has to be looking reasonably good in a business suit. With a white shirt, of course. Thinking all the way back to Gov. Wilder and up through current Gov. McDonnell, both Senator Warners (Mark and John, AG Cucinnelli, and, yes, Rep. Cantor, I realize that we Virginians still look for gentility and we think a good suit and a white shirt are the hallmarks. We have got to start looking beyond the clothes, and identifying when they mask a narrow minded, hateful, and non-representative candidate. I am to this day glad that George Allen gave himself away with his Maccacca moment.

As someone born and raised in northern Virginia, I deeply apologize to the rest of the states for McDonnell, Cuccinelli, and Cantor. They make me ashamed to be a Virginian.

Hang in there, dc. I am a Texan, my list of loonies is longer than yours.

Yellow,

YA got that right buddy! Not only do we have the Guv, we've got Hey Abbott!, Dewhurst, Cornyn, Smith, Goehmert, Barton, Olson, Carter and many, many, many more!

I think I'm in fine company with the disgusting political representatives, I have demental, graham (and is he NOT gay), haley and mulvsney. Mys skin crawls to write their names.

I love how the GOP say Dems want to push this past the 2012 elections for political reasons when their stance on doing a short term increase is completely political in itself. The only difference is the GOP is still willing to hold the debt limit hostage once again to try and gain political points for 2012. When will the madness stop?

When we vote them out, Ike.

harry reid has sold out to the highest bidder. DINO @!$%#!

Yellow Dog D.,

One can only hope! I know I'll show up at the polls just like I have for the past 30 years.

As a good American should,Ike. Thank you.

Like a slimy catfish on a muddy bank of the Ohio River!

Good one Navy! NEVER liked catfish. Used to wathc my grandma skin them....

Well, Boehner is flip flopping...

I think the act of flipping and/or flopping would require a vertebrae - which Boehner does not have.

He is simple melting like an ice cube in TEA.

Well said Brian, I don't think I could have said it any better!

Everyone needs to understand that in the end, Obama is letting the GOP roll out the rope to hang themselves. He's playing chess and everyone else is playing checkers. As jbird said, he has the executive order up his sleeve so it's the GOP who will end up looking like morons if they can't pass routine legislation without guarantee's that their ultra-rich buddies won't see high tax rates. Obama will look like a hero and the GOP won't stand a chance.

They're not even playing checkers, they're playing marbles without a full deck.

One way to do that is to write a tax code that taxes at 75% all the profit money these corporations are sitting on with the condition that if they produce good paying jobs in country they can get a 'tax credit' of 50% off that 'profits tax' (the US will still see a positive revenue) ... Another thing is to write a tax code that puts the Capital Gains tax at 50%-and any 'bonuses' at 50% tax rates....Cut out and close all the loopholes.

In other words tax them and tax them hard...

I am sure the American Public is tired of this useless debate and have no desire to go through this debacle again in six to eight months.

Word....We are all tired of this BS...Get it done, get it done correctly, get it done for the long haul, with no 'temporary' or short-term steps...

dcstone: I can just see them establishing companies overseas, then marketing them as independent contractors or professional fees. There would be no payroll; ergo, only American "employees" would exist. Hands would be held out for the credits they don't deserve.

But this will never happen, because Corporations can practically vote already.

we gave them a 100% payroll tax cut for all new highers in the US.

many of them wont use it as they think it helps the socialist marxist obama.

But for a majority of them.. it really doesnt matter if you cut taxes to zero, you dont hire employees based on taxes, you hire employees based on business.

the problem isnt taxes the problem is the people have no money to give business for business so that they can hire. Which is why we need a public works program.

In germany they were sorta smart and didnt feel the recession as hard and came up with a sorta right wing friendly solution.

The offered to pay up to half of a workers salary if corps didnt lay them off until business returns.(and they have regulations in place to make sure they arent just subsidizing employment forever)

This had a few good effects. It keeps people working, so people dont get up set at the unemployed getting a paid vacation. It is cheaper than UE. It keeps trained labor at corps. And last it keeps corps customers pockets full so they can give business to corps.

and the right cant complain they are just lazy bastards living off the tit of the rich. The rich cant complain too much as they are getting labor at half price. Everyone wins.

The offered to pay up to half of a workers salary if corps didnt lay them off until business returns.(and they have regulations in place to make sure they arent just subsidizing employment forever)

This had a few good effects. It keeps people working, so people dont get up set at the unemployed getting a paid vacation. It is cheaper than UE. It keeps trained labor at corps. And last it keeps corps customers pockets full so they can give business to corps.

looks like a win/win option true...but there will be those that call it 'socialism' etc...lobbyists, PR firms and the media, would be all over that...

Woodie...

dcstone: I can just see them establishing companies overseas, then marketing them as independent contractors or professional fees.

They already do that now...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-13/rich-americans-save-money-from-tax-cuts-instead-of-spending-moody-s-says.html

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s1288.pdf

Well, between 2001 and 2009 privately owned assets abroad went from 6.03 trillion to 14.38 trillion. The Bush tax cuts helped create jobs all over the world

most of the 'jobs growth' during GWB's terms were overseas...if we were to 'us tougher restrictions' like the requirements I suggested to only US companies IN COUNTRY...all others should be higly taxed/higher import fees regardless...Make it a condition to do business here...Not only to hire US citizens, but pay a higher tax if your company is from out of country...no matter from where or what 'tax shelter' they have...I mean to make it hard for those business's that want to 'cheat'...

This will keep money in country, it will also help our fellow citizens looking for decent paid work...

But, until that is a reality...BUY AMERICAN...

Support your local Mom & Pop stores...don't shop at 'corporate' big boxes anymore...what we 'the people' have right now is just our wallets to send the message...Make every dollar you spend count.

@dc.....there was a jobs bill that the gop blocked that would give tax breaks to small businesses so they could hire people HERE, IN THE US. The gop doesn't WANT to help the economy. Have ya figureed out why yet! Goodle American Made and there is a site showing American made companies and products. I post the site myelf but NV won't let me without jumping through way too many @!$%#ing hoops!

Yes, I've heard of it...I've been to the site many times...

And I do understand that the GOP has stopped many jobs bills...for the simple reason that it would have helped...The corporations don't want anything to succeed, since they want to keep control in their hands...The don't want anything that will cut off their 'power' to influence the writing of laws or the tax code...

The GOP and their lobbyists are doing what corporations did to Carter...They want to do anything including tying the hands of the US's ability to force corps into helping 'the people'...They can stir up the masses into voicing our opposition to the Dems platforms, by keeping them unemployed, and working those who are employed shamelessly...the media is in on this too, keeping the people ignorant and not 'telling the truth'...this will then allow the GOP to further write laws/tax codes that benefit the corps even more...Had the people not caved in the last time, by voting out Carter and others who were doing the right thing in the long run...we might have had a better country now...all it did was get RR elected and we know what happened then...

So, while it may hurt, while people may be hungry, and go homeless....we have to stay strong...This may be the last chance we have for 'the people' to have any say as to what happens...and we have to think of what is right for the long run...we can not cave...then the corporations win...look at what is happening in Michigan, SCOTUS is allowing a company to poison the water systems...shameful. That is just a taste of what is to come...think of all the changes currently being made to the EPA...platonium mining by out of country companies at the Grand Canyon...and many other distasteful goings on...This is it folks...

dc, I am going to do my best to stand in the way. Armies need privates also. I went to my first protest today.

Well........... I did.

I ♥ my first protest...LOL

Good for you Yellow, stay safe though...(and wear dark sunglasses and a hat...some organizations/people 'take pictures' of protesters)

Definitely Sun Block too....at our age sighhhh can't afford the Dermtology office visit

It is sunny on the Gulf Coast, we only stayed an hour so I was good there, thanks , mstanley.

dc, the local news came by and filmed. We, about 10 of us, are just trying to get organized. this used to be a dem stronghold, but a bagger snuck in last time. I have questioned him at the townhall meeting. I talked to him as plain as here on the vine. He had voted for the Ryan plan, so i asked him him how much money he was going to make on the tax cut that was hidden in the plan since he was worth about 6 Million. He had to admit he would profit from the plan, but quickly changed the subject. But Lord willing and the creek don't rise , i will be on his ass like ignorance on bachman.

i will be on his ass like ignorance on bachman.

EPIC line :)

Storm, it just rolled out.

I plan to....so should everyone else. THEY afre to blame. Send it to your congressmen and then the talking heads that are intenet on tanking our country!

I like the ending, but understand I find the scenario psychologically draining overall.

It is draining. And it should be completely unnecessary. This is what the American people get for voting the republicans into the house in 2010.

We'll see how close my prediction is in a few days. I'll be out of the country then - I wonder if I'll want to come back :)

That, compiled with a terrible GOP presidential candidate in 2012 will ensure a 2nd term for Obama and possibly a new Democratic majority in the house. Then the real work begins on immigration and deficit reduction.

That's what I'm seeing. The more polarizing and far end of the spectrum they are, the easier it will be for the Democrats to score wins in 2012; we're watching it now in Wisconsin, and Arizona is heading for it's first ever recall election of a member of the legislation.

That's my take too Ike, but sadly, I think it'll be a short term one.

Despite all the "drama" and handwringing, the GOP played this wrong from the start, and showed just how ridiculous and extreme they are. First there was the insistence of extending ALL tax cuts (even after Boehner stated that he'd be willing to vote only for the lower ones, but then held unemployment benefits hostage to get the high-end ones done), then the "roadmap" without numbers, then the Ryan plan which would end Medicare AND raise the deficit and debt over the next decade, then this fiasco, capped off with "Cut, cap and balance", where Boehner and the leadership KNEW that it had no chance of passing the Senate, and that a Balanced Budget Amendment never had a chance of being adopted - and that it wouldn't work, would hamstring the government and IF it passed, would cause irreparable harm. Add on top of these, what the GOP have done in WI, FL, AZ, NJ, OH, ME, MN, MI, TX, GA and other states, and you have to wonder. I know the GOP base and "faithful" are loyal no matter what, and often dumber than a box of rocks (no offense to any rocks out there), but you can only screw so many people so many times before they get wise.....and not ALL AT THE SAME TIME!...whoever calculated this political gamble screwed up big time, and I HOPE those of us that warned of it last year will be vindicated next year.

NOOOO! Now you put me off on waffles and ham, bse!