This. ^^Purplehood wrote:Obama has absolutely nothing to lose by not signing off on a Tax-compromise of any sort.
He gets additional tax revenue and he gets to point the finger at the Republican boogey-man. That more than makes up for the cuts that are triggered.
The press will completely bury that he rejected several republican offers, that he fecklessly on his own completely broke down the prior negotiations a few months ago, that he told Boehner the other day that he gets NOTHING in exchange for the 842 billion bump in revenue—actually using the term "I get that for free" (as if WE weren't going to pay for it
). They'll bury what his tax on $250,001 of income will do to small business owners—a demographic that he actually despises because A) they're not the SUPER-rich who fund his campaigns and share his globalist vision; and B) because they tend to be republicans. They'll bury what effect that will have on employment, small businesses being the nation's primary employers. They'll bury it because to them, there are only three honorable jobs: anything in a union, anything in the press, and anything in government. They'll bury his trampling on the Constitution because they hate all of it too......except the First Amendment, which they cynically use to tear down the rest of it..... They LOVE taxes.....because they don't pay them. Anybody who thinks that subscription prices is what keeps the print media afloat doesn't know the industry, and the broadcast media don't have to keep presses running. The people who buy their advertising product pay those taxes, and then those advertisers pass that increased cost on to THEIR consumers. That's you and me. So the media gets to stick it to us TWICE—once in taxes on our income, and a second time in taxes on their income. What could be better than that?Wait! THERE'S MORE! The liberal press (but I repeat myself) cares nothing for national security, hates the military (which largely votes conservatively) and would like to see it "brought down a peg or two," so they LOVE that the lion's share of the cuts to the federal budget will be to military spending.
There are so many documented cases of high-level White House meetings behind closed doors attended by Obama, with big name media "professionals," at which the topic for discussion was exactly how best to sell an administration initiative to the public, that we can count on all their reporting to be critical of republicans and in praise of Obama and his "fairness." It is indisputably true that with the lone exception of FoxNews (and even they are pretty squishy on gun rights) the major media are 100% supporters of Obama. If not for NewMedia, we would not have access to information which contradicts the official administration position. THATs how far the media's nose is inserted up the administration's posterior.
And the funny thing is, the "fiscal cliff" is the ONLY way to force the administration to cut back spending, and it is STILL going to cost everyone in higher taxes. If the Founders were alive today, they would be stockpiling AR15s and private stores of 5.56 ammo and getting ready to restore that which they created, because what we call "government" today has strayed FAAAAAAR from what they intended. This administration, and democrats in general (which includes 90% of the media) use the Constitution for toilet paper. And who do we have to blame for that?
Republicans. That's right, republicans, because republican politicians are only marginally less irresponsible for the current state of affairs.