Political Quotes

“last night the House of Representatives proved what we have known for quite a while: Speaker Boehner's plan to raise taxes on 25 million middle-class taxpayers while handing out $50,000 bonuses to millionaires and billionaires was dead on arrival. We said that yesterday. We knew the so-called Plan B was no plan at all. It couldn't pass the Senate. It turns out it couldn't pass the House either. It is too bad Speaker Boehner wasted 1 week on this futile political stunt, and that is all we can call it. But at least now House Republicans have gotten the message loudly and clearly that any comprehensive solution to the looming fiscal cliff will need to be a bipartisan solution. No comprehensive agreement can pass either Chamber without both Democratic and Republican votes, which means any solution will have to ask the most fortunate among us to pay a little more to reduce the deficit and ensure partisanship doesn't take the Nation to the brink of default. Nothing that has passed the House of Representatives fits that test-- nothing. A few days ago President Obama and Speaker Boehner appeared poised to strike a grand bargain, but we have heard that before. Instead of making hard choices of compromise, as President Obama has been willing to do, the Speaker retreated to his corner and resorted to political stunts, but that stunt fell flat. It is time for the Speaker and all Republicans to return to the negotiating table. We have never left.…”