We´ve voted in this mess of an economy...I´d just as soon we started paying for it.

If the precious middle-class/working-class is so careless as to take a few minutes out of their reality TV watching to re-elect this bozo, then, yes, let them feel the pinch of starting to pay for it.

The House controls the spending. Without their approval, government shuts own. Boehner was owned. He believed the democrat threats.

Schwab says that investors got the best of this deal, but down the road, someone´s going to have to pay. The problem of course is spending, not a lack of revenue and ways to extract it. That is why The Won´s reelection is truly a tragedy for our country.

Good article. Boehner and McConnell did better than expected. Have some patience and hang in there folks. Things are not all black and white, there are a lot of shades of gray. It´s going to be a long road back for us conservatives and we have to stop fighting each other.

Agree with #4 the GOP managed to establish much of the "Bush" Tax Cuts permanent taking this cudgel away from the mendacious lying libtards who have maintained they only benefited the rich for the last 9 years. Plus the estate tax is set at 35% for most estates(40% for very large ones) with a $5 million exemption for single and $10 million for married couples´ estates. Now, finally, folks can make informed decisions in their estate planning and small business owners, farmers and ranchers can hand down their hard earned estates to their children without selling them to pay off Uncle Sam.

Seems to me they miss the point. I do not mind so much paying more taxes if it helped with debt. It does not. All this does is give Obama and corrupt pols more to give away. Stop saying the gov NEEDS more money. It does not. It NEEDS to cut spending. We give well enough to fund a good government. Unfortunately we are funding a corrupt government that no amount of higher taxes can satisfy. That is the main reason I dislike our leaders..they do not tell the public about the debt and spending and corruption. They enable Obama: Boehner/McConnel just made is possible for Obama to pay more to his supporters not rid us of debt. That is the point. Stop supporting those who are no better than Democrats. We need to cut spending. Not pay more.

Well the problem I have is that Republicans are now on record as agreeing with the Democrats that the "rich" need to be taxed at a much higher rate. When was the last time a "poor" person offered you a job? We need more "rich" not less. The real problem is the continuing spending resolutions that the House passes which results in Trillion dollar deficits and the Senate not having to pass a budget. The tax fix is just a band aid on the real problem. A trillion dollars a year and no one in the House has the guts to turn the spigot off. Any proposed spending cuts are so far out in the future they are meaningless. We´ll see how well McConnell and Boehner handle this spending madness. I doubt much will be done.

Thank you #4.

Nice that some of you don´t mind paying more taxes. Guess those folks making it from paycheck to paycheck can simply suffer???

As for those parroting Rush´s mantra about how the repubs have agreed that the rich need to be taxed more. How about thinking for yourself.

Bush tax cuts were preserved for most of the working people. Obama´s tax cuts are gone!!!!

Well, maybe it´s not all gloom but it´ll mean there´s $1,400 I´ll never see this year.

Thank you #9. I´ll need your $1400 a year in about 4 years...

As a business man whom would I rather have leading negotiations? Any fifth grader who knows that saving money now only to add 6 trillion in new debt to be paid later isn´t really a good deal!

Not Boehner! How many Dems did he have to beg from Pelosi to retain his speakership?

Ms. Goldberg, the kool-aid drinkers are taking over.

Nice post #6, I agree completely. Spending is the problem. They have wasted trillions of taxpayers dollars in the past couple of decades.

The country went over the fiscal cliff quite some time ago. The recent deal does little, if anything to change the trajectory of the country´s economy. It is the excess government spending and regulation that´s killing the economy.

I was looking forward to seeing the bottom of the cliff and seeing if we, as a nation, could survive it or would start anew. As it is now, we´ll live with one foot on and one foot over, with no way to pull ourselves back up.

Purgatory is not a happy place.

It´s going to be most exciting to see what Boehner and his troops do with the debt ceiling issue. If Barkey makes good on his threat to take over their purse, will they fight back? I´d like to think so but I´m not betting on the House to stand up for the constitution- if they do, it should result in a beginning of a sincere dialogue of impeachment .

"The deficit exists not because the American people are taxed too little but because their government spends too much". Where have you heard that? It is the spending. The real test is if Boehner/McConnell can hold together the caucus against threats of stopping SS checks and Medicare payments that are coming.

I´d prefer to have had us go over the cliff. It is time the rubes see the cost of big government, and Boehner/McConnell once again played Kabuki theatre, then roled over. They then could have passed tax reform, and made zippy and the senate vote against lowering tax rates.

As long as the repubs let zippy and the Dems slow roll the destruction, no one will wake up. We need a viable third party.

ROTFLOL. Who are they kidding?

Locking in the rates and fixing the AMT--- partially disarming the neomarxists in charge. Now the focus can only be on spending cuts, which people understand.

How about just for once let´s try NOT compromising. Compromise has landed this country in 17 trillion dollar debt territory, soon to be more.

If they had not bent over for Zero, then maybe when EVERYONE´S taxes went up, the majority would have gotten mad enough to do something about it.

As it stands now, only 2% of the people, minus imbeciles like Warren Buffett, are "mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore". That´s not enough. This was nothing more than another game of kick the can.

Here´s my question for Human Events -

Why aren´t Republican leaders fighting tooth and nail to eradicate Title 26 of the United States Code?

Why aren´t Republican leaders fighting tooth and nail to eradicate any spending beyond what balances the Budget?

Why aren´t Republican leaders fighting tooth and nail to eradicate this hideous malformation known as earmarks?

Why aren´t Republican leaders fighting tooth and nail to eradicate pork?

Why aren´t Republican leaders fighting tooth and nail to eradicate Bills which are other than one Law at a time?

Eh, Human Events? Eh?

Thought so

The problem with this whole premise by Mr. Ryskind is that he appears to believe that Obama is capable of compromise.
There is no compromise with Obama, and this was evidenced by Obama´s comments immediately after the House vote was taken. He´ll be going after more, and more, and more.
What´s pitiful is that he has four full years in which to do it. If the House falls to the Left in 2014, we are doomed as a country.

It appears that Mr Ryskind has not taken a peek at the National Debt clock recently. or the percentage of the deficit to our GDP. We HAVE to STOP SPENDING.

Boehner could have at least gotten a higher bracket for the top rate -- like $800,000. He just wasn´t courageous enough to hold out a few more weeks. Weaklings should not be in positions of power.