{"id":24994,"date":"2015-02-15T22:15:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T03:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24994"},"modified":"2015-02-15T22:15:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T03:15:33","slug":"based-on-past-history-there-wont-be-a-deal-on-homeland-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24994","title":{"rendered":"Based On Past History, There Won’t Be A Deal On Homeland Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Signal<\/a> today posted an article about President Obama’s<\/a> negotiating style–he doesn’t.<\/p>\n

The article reminds us:<\/p>\n

Obama rejected the convention of reaching across the aisle from the very start. In his first two years in office this White House<\/a> never moved an inch in the GOP\u2019s direction and passed his major bills on stimulus and Obamacare<\/a> without a single Republican vote. Those bills were written with zero input from Republicans and when asked why, he haughtily lectured \u201cwe won the election.\u201d Then he pouts the Republicans were no help.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obamacare could have been a really good thing–there were three or four things that could have been included which would have make it less expensive and more efficient. Unfortunately, those things were not on President Obama’s radar (insurance able to be sold across state lines, tort reform, insurance that was portable from job to job, etc.). Any one of those things probably would have brought in some Republican votes.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

Now Republicans are learning another harsh lesson about this White House: on those rare occasions when a deal is reached, Obama routinely breaches it. Consider the recent evidence:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Death tax<\/a>. One of the few bipartisan of recent years was to set the death tax at 40\u00a0percent. Now two years later, he says in his State of the Union he wants to raise taxes at death to closer to 60\u00a0percent. This would be nearly the highest tax penalty at death in the world.<\/strong>
\n \u2022 Capital gains taxes<\/a>. Obama entered office with these rates at 15 percent. Then he said repeatedly he would \u201conly raise them to the rate of the Clinton years.\u201d That was a lie from the start because the rate under Clinton was 20 percent, but he raised it to 23.8\u00a0percent\u00a0including the surcharge imposed under Obamacare. Now he says he wants to raise the rate to 28 percent, which he says was the Reagan-era<\/a> rate. And if he gets that he will no doubt say he only wants to raise it to the Nixon rates\u2013of more than 36 percent.<\/strong>
\n \u2022 Taxing college savings plans. Obama said he would only raise taxes on the rich. But then he proposed taxing the build up of money in college savings plans and that would club the middle class. The plan was so unpopular, the White House dropped it, but anyone with a Roth IRA<\/a> or build up in a pension plan better be on guard. You\u2019re next.<\/strong>
\n \u2022 Budget caps. The 2011 Budget Control Act<\/a> set strict caps on discretionary spending. But Obama keeps proposing piercing those caps\u2013which he himself proposed in the first place. His new budget for 2016 wants to crash through the spending ceilings to the tune of $74 billion this year.<\/strong>
\n \u2022 Paid family leave<\/a>. When liberals sold the idea of parental leave back in the 1990s, they stressed over and over that this was only \u201cunpaid\u201d leave and so employers wouldn\u2019t face undue costs. Now Obama and the Democrats want paid leave. Give an inch, they want a subsidized mile.<\/strong>
\n \u2022 Keystone XL Pipeline<\/a>. Obama first said he was holding up Keystone because of environmental concerns in Nebraska with respect to water issues. But those issues have finally been resolved by the courts. Obama is now inventing new excuses for getting to \u201cno.\u201d<\/strong>
\n \u2022 Immigration. Obama\u2019s executive actions\u2013of questionable legality\u2013legalizing millions of illegal immigrants seems to Republicans to be intentionally designed as a poison pill for immigration reform.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At some point, Congress has to stand up against executive overreach. I hope they do it soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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