Political Quotes

“it took 4 months, but Republicans are finally realizing their way back from the fiscal cliff has been right in front of them all along. In July the Senate passed legislation to give economic certainty to 98 percent of American families and 97 percent of small businesses, to every American making less than $250,000 a year. For 4 months we have been one vote away from a solution to this looming crisis. For 4 months House Republicans have refused to act. Instead, they have held the middle class hostage to protect the richest 2 percent of taxpayers--people who have enjoyed a decade of blooming income and shrinking tax bills. One has to admire the President, who went out and campaigned on this issue. He did not in any way walk away from the issue. He said: That is how we are going to get our fiscal house in order. And independents by a huge margin, Democrats by a huge margin, and 41 percent of Republicans support what the President asks us to do. So now reasonable Republicans--I think it is very important--are coming around to what Democrats have said all along: Let's reassure millions of Americans that taxes will not go up by $2,200 a year on January 1; that is, those people who are the middle class of America. Prominent Republicans are calling on Speaker Boehner to end the suspense for millions of these American families.…”