obama is a sniveling phoney. Incapable of leading he tries to rule by intimidation and deceit.

If NBC weren´t this stupid, they would have countered with " how can you explain the millions that you got out of these millionares and billionares for your campaign?". Hypocrites, all of them.

Socking it to the rich is a diversion from the real issue - the debt will crush us and leave the country as we know it in ruins. Then, it´s the despots.

Obama lies. The Democrats have never shown any willingness to compromise, any more than the Republicans. And where has he been all this time, until right on the verge of the deadline, to try to broker an agreement? The whole bunch up there need to be fired for incompetence and dereliction of duty (including Zero).

And not cutting any free Obama-bucks spending is the top priority of the Administration. They haven´t passed a budget in three years because, in the word of Harry Reid, it wouldn´t be politically favorable to Democrars. Screw them. No deal.

Pardon my French but this is f****** bull crap. He has taken a $160 bill deficit he inherited from W and raised it to $1600 bill. Expense savings plans (that´s only plans not actual) total to $38bill. And he is talking about tax rates. This is truly disgusting and utterly risible.

It is impossible to believe anything published by ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN and very little written by FOX.

First off our
"Kenyan King" should get on his good buddies in the Senate to pass a budget. It has been over three years since the morbid Harry Reid full filled his duties. Why is there no penalty for this lawfully required job not being done?

Let´s remember "It´s the spending stupid" - not the Republicans

who have created the mess we are in.

The deafening response from the GOP should be: Obama´s insistence on out-of-control spending and borrowing for non-producers in stopping fiscal cliff deal. Where is the GOP? Fight back, you spineless cowards.

The headline could just as easily have read, "Obama´s insistence on taxing the job creators is stopping the fiscal cliff deal". But the media is setting up to blame the Republicans and specifically the tea party for the impasse.

If you´ve noticed that O´bummer is lying through his teeth,you´re not part of the article´s intended audience.

I dont have high expectation for )bama or for the MSM so I find this a bit boring as it is predictable. And I dont expect truth and substance from either.

If the Repugs want to continue as a viable political party they need to take a moral stand on deficit spending. They have failed miserably in the past and have no relevance today if they do not.

POS liar.

Wait a minute, the deal was approved by Congress and signed by the president. It calls for taxes to go up for everyone and spending to go down a tiny little bit. All that´s happening now is that the Democrats want a new deal. All you Republicans stand up and say, "We are not changing the deal you voted for and signed." People who stopped looking for work won´t pay taxes. But we don´t have to pay them extended unemployment insurance or low income tax credits.

After the "Rich" get whacked who will Obamas next boogeyman be?

Bohica middle class taxpayers....Bohica!

You´ll be the only ones left and this "Rich" whack that has barries panties all damp ain´t gonna pay for any of the spending mess he´s caused.

So you are next.

Obama is the Tiny Tim of politics. One annoying song to sing.

Tax the "rich" GOP. You can´t win this battle. Then when Obama comes for the middle class, folks will know. Maybe.

Let me get this straight. If Obama can´t tax the rich he will tax everyone. Yeah this is typical Dem/commie logic. And the left believes he is looking out for them.
Note to Repubs . send bill over to the senate raising taxes on the rich but also include a tax cut measure for the middle class below what is in the bush tax plan. See how fast they turn that down. But I don´t believe the Repubs have the sense or guts to do this

I´m about to go to church. I plan to dedicate today to praying for my country. We´re pretty much in lost hope territory now.

I don´t recall the Republicans campaigning on a no tax for the rich platform, but I do seem to recall the Bummers platform of no tax increases on anyone making less than $250,000. Did he lie? s/o

The sooner you all realize the fix is in and we are already a ´captured´ country and people, the sooner we can and will fight back and quit relying on some moral, principled politician to save us.

By every measure we the people are screwed and unless you are okay with your children being raped by evil power-mongers you better wake the hell up.

Let it all happen, and maybe the pubs will not continue to allow the admin to spend, spend, and then maybe the deficit will actually go down a little bit.

Obama and NBC = Stage Craft at it´s best!

Boehner should simply state, "Obama wants spending increases that amount to more than what is projected to be received from the top 2% he demands pay more."

It´s obvious the president isn´t serious about reducing the deficit, or paying down our national debt. And that tax increase on the top 2% would only cover about 8 days worth of Obama gov´t spending.

Obama is truly a demogogue extraordiaire. Boehner has already indicated the tax on the wealthy that Republicans are ready to reluctantly accept even though Obama has no iterest in really cutting the spending. If only a majority of Americans realized that we are a bankrupt country and Obama is making the possibility of recovery more difficult by the day. One day, this will all explode and, of course, Obama and the press will loudly proclaim it is the Republicans fault. We the people has become, we the government and it appears that is all that matters to this president.

The Senate already has a bill to avoid the fiscal cliff. The House passed it months ago.

Bayrock Obama creating the class of "New Jews"

When he stops giving loan guarantees to Solyndras, favoring unions over auto industry bond holders, and sending expensive military hardware to places like Egypt, maybe- just maybe- we can consider some of his other ideas.

Blah, blah, blah ..

Anyone who believes our Liar in Chief or his LSM lackeys is a lost cause anyway.

Just do what is right for the nation - long term - and blame be damned. IMO the cliff is looking "least bad" the closer we get to it.

The american people overwhelmingly want tax increases. Give it to them, as we all know tax revenues will decline, and Obama and the dems will be forced to come after them.

´Meet The Press´ is today´s version of 1984´s Two Minutes Hate.

Let us go over the "cliff". Let everyone feel the APIn zippy and the Dems are causing.

Then, elect a new House Speaker in January who has some cojones.

Then pass a tax reform bill that changes the tax system to something less complex, lower and more fair.

Then let the Dems and zippy veto it.

Think back to 1997, when Nancy Pelosi led an all Democrat contingent onto the Capitol steps to protest Republican effort to impeach Bill Clinton. Since media loved BJ, the demonstration received big press coverage. While press coverage for a Republican event will be far less than today´s NFL scores, the Senate and House Republicans need to do the same today or Monday morning. Will hopefully produce a unified response of "it´s better to go off a relatively small fiscal cliff today than to push our children off an enormous one in 3 to 5 years." Such a protest would surely lead the Congressional Black Caucus to claim "those racist Republican Tea Baggers spit on us".

How about a headline that reads, " Obama´s Insistence On Hiking Taxes For "Wealthy" To Fund Only TEN Days of Government Spending Is Stopping Fiscal Cliff Deal?"

Given the circumstances and the well-orchestrated public relations trap that Obama is setting for them, Republicans should turn the table on Progressives and out-trump them by proposing even higher taxes on the very wealthy than Democrats are demanding. We all know that top earners can afford it or will find loopholes to avoid the additional hit on their incomes.

Afterwards, when even the “low-information” public is forced to acknowledge that Obama got even more than he wanted and the economy remains flat, or worse, goes into another recession and is hit with another credit downgrade because of continued reckless borrowing and spending, Obama and his Democrat cronies will get the blame they deserve the next couple of election cycles. Republicans can then begin to repair the damage Democrats have wrought.

We can’t possibly tax our existing earner-base enough to achieve national prosperity. Our government has to grow our economy by fostering a business environment that Obama disdains in which investors have sufficient motivation to fund the expansion of existing domestic business and lend to entrepreneurs to create new private sector jobs in the U.S.

i am so sick of obama and he hasnt even been sworn in...the man is no leader...never has been and never will be...THE BLAMe preSIDENT......that is all he knows........this is what you voted for america....get ready to PAY

I don´t care Stinky. You can´t convince me its not your fault. Now sit down and shut up !

Today´s WH talking points in full bloom...
Good news = Even the under-informed are getting suspicious of POTUS pointing fingers.

It´s About A Budget, Stupid !

Go ahead and increase taxes on millionaires. They all support scumbama anyway. But it´s pointless, since millionaires don´t actually have earned income.

Enjoy the brown banana, America. No, that´s not a scumbama joke. Look up Dominic Flandry:

"The Empire is currently in the early stages of decadence, which is the most
agreeable time to inhabit: peace and pleasure, and the society not yet rotted so
far that chaos sets in. One might say the Empire is a banana just starting to
show brown spots."

Actually that was on the table...but you keep upping the stakes!

Why wasn´t he asked how raising taxes on the "wealthy" would solve our fiscal problems? Or what he was going to do to reduce spending?

Singling out ONE group of Americans for punitive action is NOT the American way.
So, today it is the rich, next week will be the Christians, then the middle class, then the Jews, then married people....talk about a slippery slope.

Bow-Boy´s "wealthy" is the U.S. middle class.

Go to hell Bow-Boy and take Harry and Nancy and all of Hollywood with you.