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Title: Obama may delay Hawaiian vacation over tax fight
Source: CNN
URL Source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11 ... a.vacation.tax.cuts/index.html
Published: Dec 1, 2010
Author: Ed Henry
Post Date: 2010-12-01 08:28:49 by noone222
Keywords: None
Views: 583
Comments: 14

Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama is considering at least a short delay to the start of his holiday vacation in Hawaii so he can try to work out a deal with congressional Republicans on the Bush tax cuts that expire December 31, CNN has learned.

Two senior administration officials tell CNN the White House has been getting signals that the lame duck session of Congress could drag on past December 18, when the president is scheduled to depart for Hawaii.

Obama has privately said he is willing to stay in Washington until Christmas Eve if necessary to finish the contentious debate over taxes, the officials said.

While administration officials do not expect that Obama will have to stay in town until Christmas Eve, which he did last year because of health care reform, they believe there could be a delay of at least a couple of days.

The reason is that Democrats and Republicans have made little progress in the tax debate so far, and White House aides went into Tuesday's long-awaited "Slurpee Summit" believing that both parties will need a lot more negotiating time beyond this one meeting to come up with a compromise.

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'Slurpee Summit' lands on RidicuList Senior Republican aides scoffed at the idea that a tax cut deal could not be worked out before December 17, suggesting that perhaps the White House talk of a vacation delay may just be a negotiating ploy to push Republicans into a quick compromise since they have vacations waiting for them as well.

"There is absolutely no need for that," a senior Republican aide said of a possible delay of an end to the lame-duck session. "Once they make a decision, it's done in a couple days. I hope it doesn't take the Democrats until Christmas to make up their minds."

At issue is whether the current tax rates should be extended just for families earning $250,000 or under per year, or should be extended to include Americans with income above $250,000 a year.

In the midterm election, Republicans hammered the message that failing to extend the Bush tax rates for wealthy Americans would hamper the already-slow economic recovery. Obama staked out the position that only the middle class tax rates should be extended because extending tax cuts will result in a huge drain on the federal treasury.

"The last thing we can afford to do right now is raise taxes on middle-class families," Obama said at an event in Kokomo, Indiana, on November 23. "If we allow these taxes to go up, the result would be that a lot of people most likely would spend less, and that means that the economy would grow less. So we ought to resolve this issue in the next couple of weeks so you've got the assurance that your taxes won't go up when that clock strikes midnight."

The president and his aides have also signaled since the election that he might be open to a compromise on a one-year or two-year extension on the tax rates for the wealthy if the tax rates for the middle class were permanently extended.

But in remarks on the Senate floor before Tuesday's summit meeting at the White House, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a hard line in suggesting that his party will accept only extending all of the tax rates, including those for the highest-paid Americans, without caveats.

"We've heard a lot of chatter here in Washington lately about the negotiations that are expected to take place on this looming tax hike in the weeks ahead -- on how to prevent it," McConnell said. "How about we start with this: the beginning and end of any negotiations shouldn't be what's good for any political party. It should be what's good for the economy and for the American people. And if we leave the politics aside, if we look at the facts, the answer here is simple: no tax hikes on anybody -- period."

Last year, Obama and his family remained in Washington until the Senate finally passed health care reform legislation on Christmas Eve. They left for Obama's home state of Hawaii a few hours later.

The president, first lady Michelle Obama and their two daughters are again planning to go to Hawaii for a vacation that will last until the beginning of January.


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#1. To: noone222 (#0)

Vacation?????

This is becoming obscene.

Millions more Americans dumped on unemployed lines and this SOB takes a vacation?????

Cynicom  posted on  2010-12-01   8:32:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Cynicom (#1)

Millions more Americans dumped on unemployed lines and this SOB takes a vacation?????

One can hardly ignore the sting caused by the slap across the face until after countless slaps the numbness sets in.

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Revere God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man".

noone222  posted on  2010-12-01   8:36:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: noone222 (#0)

Obama may delay Hawaiian vacation over tax fight

Does the Kenyan cs ever do anything other than plan and take vacations? I mean when he isn't thinking of more and better ways to destroy America and whitey.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

James Deffenbach  posted on  2010-12-01   8:39:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: noone222 (#0)

NERO fiddles after striking the match !

That's an explosion hazard, given the huge lingering flatulence in the wake of every Obama departure from town.

Was it on this forum that someone posted an article that suggested that we need a chief operating officer to run the day to day operations of the administration since Obama is on perpetual holiday?

He's becoming a figurehead. Queen Obama.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

randge  posted on  2010-12-01   8:43:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: randge (#4)

He's becoming a figurehead. Queen Obama.

Queer Obama said it would be painful in trying to balance the budget.

On us, not on him.

Cynicom  posted on  2010-12-01   8:56:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Cynicom (#5)

He doesn't give a s**t about the budget. He has to stay in town for the DADT food fight.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

randge  posted on  2010-12-01   9:11:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: randge (#6) (Edited)

This will be the third year in a row I have lost income..

And what can I do about it???? Nothing, not a thing.

Wealth and power is gravitating at the speed of light to the few at the top.

Whining??? Yes, and the numbers of whiners joining me daily are INCREASING.

Cynicom  posted on  2010-12-01   9:18:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Cynicom (#7)

That's why scanners are going in everywhere.

There might be a rock in your pocket the next time you visit a gov't office.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

randge  posted on  2010-12-01   9:24:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Cynicom (#7)

Whining??? Yes, and the numbers of whiners joining me daily are INCREASING.

Armed whiners - "UNITE" !

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Revere God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man".

noone222  posted on  2010-12-01   9:26:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Cynicom (#1)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin

Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-12-01   10:52:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: noone222 (#0)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin

Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-12-01   10:54:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Eric Stratton (#11)

It would make my year if AF1 exploded and disintegrated with the chimp in chief and his wookie wife and as many fellow pig goons as possible on it.

Fate has never been on the side of the serfs of this world.

Cynicom  posted on  2010-12-01   11:04:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Cynicom (#12) (Edited)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin

Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-12-01   11:28:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Cynicom (#1)

I would rather have him on vacation than on the job.

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2010-12-01   15:11:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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