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[QUOTE](CNN) - Prominent tea party voices are calling for action following the fiscal cliff votes this week in Washington. [B]Amy Kremer, leader of the group Tea Party Express, said Thursday she is "outraged" over the deal, which was struck between Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Joe Biden.[/B] It allows tax rates on wealthy earners - families earning over $450,000 and individuals earning over $400,000 - expire while extending the tax breaks passed under President George W. Bush for earners below those thresholds. "We elected the House of Representatives - we have the majority, the Republicans have the majority there. [B]We still control part of the government and the House controls the purse strings," Kremer said on CNN.[/B] "At some point we're going to have to come together and do what's right for America, but do the Democrats have a mandate to go and just do whatever and just spend into oblivion? No," she said. "And that's evident because the Republicans still control the House." President Barack Obama made increasing the tax rates of the wealthy a central part of his re-election campaign, and a series of polls have shown Americans support his view. In the November House elections, Republicans posted a net loss of 8 seats. Another conservative group, Tea Party Patriots, urged the new House to select their speaker through a secret ballot "so members can vote their conscience without fear of retribution from leadership." "Through this 'fiscal cliff' crisis Congress has demonstrated once again its incapability of actually cutting government spending and preventing tax hikes," the group's head, Jenny Beth Martin, said in a statement. [B]"Republicans who stood on principle, and did not cave to political pressure instead should not be impeded from voting for a speaker with whom they have confidence will help take the country in the right direction."[/B] While negotiations between House Speaker John Boehner and the White House were often at a stalemate, Boehner did offer a compromise on taxes, laying out a plan which included tax increases for earners of over $1 million in exchange for GOP-backed elements, including a change in entitlement benefit calculations. Rep. Steve LaTourette, R-Ohio, who is seen as a moderate in the GOP, said on CNN tea party conservatives have held "a feeling after the 2010 election that leaders of both parties weren't doing enough to rein in the deficit and the debt. [B]"So as a result, they have laid obstacles in front of the speaker for the last two years," he said, including the "fight on the fiscal cliff" and over a bill with appropriations for the states impacted by Superstorm Sandy.[/B] The final fiscal cliff compromise passed the House 257-167. It was supported by 85 Republicans and opposed by 151 Republicans. After the vote, Kremer posted on Twitter, [B]"I'm extremely disgusted with what happened in the House tonight. There will be consequences."[/B] It passed the Senate 89-8 with a majority of Republicans - 42 of them - casting yes votes. In particular, Kremer has singled out Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the Georgia Republican who has spoken out against the Grover Norquist-backed pledge against raising new taxes. "I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge," Chambliss said in a post-election November interview with WMAZ, a CNN affiliate. "If we do it his way, then we'll continue in debt and I just have a disagreement with him about that." Kremer has promised the two-term senator will face a primary challenge in 2014. "I live in the state of Georgia and Saxby Chambliss is going to be 'primaried,' our own senator," she said in the CNN interview. "It's unacceptable to have somebody who votes with the Democrats more than they do with the conservatives, and he has proven time and time again he is all about the spending. And we're a red state, we deserve a conservative senator." Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican and tea party favorite, was elected this year to the seat held by retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. He said Thursday morning that he was disappointed with the agreement. [B]"I think it was a lousy deal," he said. "I think it raised taxes by $620 billion, which is going to hurt the economy, it's gonna kill jobs. And to combine that not with spending cuts but with spending increases, $330 billion in additional spending - that doesn't solve the problems we've got."[/B] Besides raising revenue through increased taxes on wealthy earners and limiting tax exemptions for the wealthy, the law spends by extending long-term unemployment insurance and averting a scheduled pay cut to doctors who provide Medicare services. The Congressional Budget Office said the deal would spend $332 billion over ten years.[/quote] Source: [url]http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/03/calls-from-tea-party-for-consequences-of-fiscal-cliff-vote/?hpt=hp_t2[/url]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHwegwXwwHs[/media] This is my view on their opinion.
The cancer of America. We already have more debt than GDP, do they think we can cut like one third of our spending with no tax increases? But we can't touch the military I bet. The military is like 45% of the discretionary spending. You can't not raise taxes.
These people would rather have a guaranteed US recession and potential worldwide financial downturn rather than to tax the top 2 percent? OK then... And then they'd blame it on Obama.
[quote]And we're a red state, we deserve a conservative senator.[/quote] lmao
[QUOTE] And we're a red state, we deserve a conservative senator[/QUOTE] For people who hate entitlements, they sound awfully entitled.
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;39081659]lmao[/QUOTE] It seems the republicans have been infested with commies trying to take away our blue freedom!
Better dead than red
who are those guys again?
[QUOTE]"At some point we're going to have to come together and do what's right for America, but do the Democrats have a mandate to go and just do whatever and just spend into oblivion? No," she said. "And that's evident because the Republicans still control the House."[/QUOTE] Obviously the government is more importantly a system of maintaining control rather than a system working to tend to a country's well being.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;39081929]who are those guys again?[/QUOTE]Essentially, they're politically right of the entity that would form if Franco, Mussolini, Hitler and Mr. Blobby merged together.
"fight on the fiscal cliff" I just had a badass thought, it was of Boehner and Obama, both shirtless, physically fighting at the edge of a cliff, one leading to a bottom abyss, while thunder and rain goes on around them. why can't politics be like that
Fistal cliffs. Also, it never ceases to amaze me how there is always one who gets overly outraged over things like this. My dad used to work as a legislative director at Capitol Hill for a congressman. One day he had to help make a decision on a certain matter. His opinion helped with the majority. I remember he said that one lady got so mad at him, she pulled him to the side one day after wards and just started yelling at him and giving him death threats. Working in politics sounds fun.
[QUOTE=TheFishyG;39083249]"fight on the fiscal cliff" I just had a badass thought, it was of Boehner and Obama, both shirtless, physically fighting at the edge of a cliff, one leading to a bottom abyss, while thunder and rain goes on around them. why can't politics be like that[/QUOTE] Because then shit would get done.
[QUOTE=TheFishyG;39083249]"fight on the fiscal cliff" I just had a badass thought, it was of Boehner and Obama, both shirtless, physically fighting at the edge of a cliff, one leading to a bottom abyss, while thunder and rain goes on around them. why can't politics be like that[/QUOTE] because paul ryan would be supreme obviously
I am going to go to congress and pimp slap every single tea partier there until they learn to shut the fuck up, I don't care how long it takes.
Why do these tea party fuckers think going over the fiscal cliff, going into a recession and potential global financial downturn, then blame the President is better than making a deal that prevents it? A good idea is to cut spending, one of them is the defense budget, we spend more than every country combined(I think). I am sure cutting it won't cause thousands of attacks on US soil.
What is a tea party?
[QUOTE=Scrimp;39084188]What is a tea party?[/QUOTE] It's a party where you drink tea and gossip. Little girls are supposed to pretend to have them for some reason. It sounds like some little girls are really pissed off about the outcome of the fiscal cliff negotiations.
[QUOTE=Scrimp;39084188]What is a tea party?[/QUOTE] A party where a group of people sit dow- wait wrong definition.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;39082050]Essentially, they're politically right of the entity that would form if Franco, Mussolini, Hitler and Mr. Blobby merged together.[/QUOTE] Hey man, don't hate on Franco.
I hope there are Tea Party "consequences". More batshit insane people winning primary fights means more Democrats getting elected.
Don't diss Hitler. He at least served in war and had a talent for architecture.
[QUOTE=TheFishyG;39083249]"fight on the fiscal cliff" I just had a badass thought, it was of Boehner and Obama, both shirtless, physically fighting at the edge of a cliff, one leading to a bottom abyss, while thunder and rain goes on around them. why can't politics be like that[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SK0cUNMnMM[/media] I pictured it like this, with Obama as Kirk and Boehner as the Gorn
Well, Boehner already looks like Gorn.
i really hope the tea party primaries a bunch of republicans with even crazier republicans and it backfires horribly
[QUOTE=IKTM;39084604]It's a party where you drink tea and gossip. Little girls are supposed to pretend to have them for some reason. It sounds like some little girls are really pissed of about the outcome of the fiscal cliff negotiations.[/QUOTE] Where do I sign up?
[QUOTE=Scrimp;39084188]What is a tea party?[/QUOTE] Essentially, take the worst aspects of the GOP, put it into a little pot, and toss in some "Atlas Shrugged," some stupidity, and some ultra-conservatism. They are essentially the Republican version of filthy hippies.
[QUOTE=Moustacheman;39086824]Essentially, take the worst aspects of the GOP, put it into a little pot, and toss in some "Atlas Shrugged," some stupidity, and some ultra-conservatism. They are essentially the Republican version of filthy hippies.[/QUOTE] I never understood why Atlas Shrugged is so liked by religious conservatives. It's written by a soviet-atheistic-sleep around women [editline]3rd January 2013[/editline] And she was an immigrant too. [editline]3rd January 2013[/editline] And a jew, but I guess they like Jews now because they kill muslims.
[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;39086843]I never understood why Atlas Shrugged is so liked by religious conservatives. It's written by a soviet-atheistic-sleep around women [editline]3rd January 2013[/editline] And she was an immigrant too. [editline]3rd January 2013[/editline] And a jew, but I guess they like Jews now because they kill muslims.[/QUOTE] Because they don't realize that.
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