senate majority leader reid returned to the floor to encourage speaker boehner to take the deal president obama offered before boehner tried to pass his disastrous plan b. again, the speaker can t take yes for an answer. the president has presented him something that would prevent us from going over the cliff. it was in response to something the speaker gave to the president himself. but again, i guess with the dysfunctional republican caucus in the house, even the speaker can t tell what they re going to do because he backed off even his own proposal. i know i need one, so here s one for you. here s a friendly user s guide on who has offered real solutions to each of the fiscal cliff issues. on taxes president obama s offer compromise, agreeing to $400,000 as the new cutoff point. speaker boehner tried to sell a million as the dividing line but couldn t get it past his own party. president obama is therefore offering his original position, $250,000 and below.
returned to the floor to encourage speaker boehner to take the deal president obama offered before boehner tried to pass his disastrous plan b. again, the speaker can t take yes for an answer. the president has presented him something that would prevent us from going over the cliff. it was in response to something the speaker gave to the president himself. but again, i guess with the dysfunctional republican caucus in the house, even the speaker can t tell what they re going to do because he backed off even his own proposal. i know i need one, so here s one for you. here s a friendly user s guide on who has offered real solutions to each of the fiscal cliff issues. on taxes president obama s offer compromise, agreeing to $400,000 as the new cutoff point. speaker boehner tried to sell a million as the dividing line but couldn t get it past his own party. president obama is therefore offering his original position, $250,000 and below.
constitution and precedent and all the things the supreme court is supposed to be our guide on, and to smack a sitting president that way, i really can t think of another example of a justice doing something that outrageous. and it s really as though he cast off his judicial robes and revealed himself today to be a partisan hack. i mean, there have been decisions before. he is the man who gave us george w. bush. he did use the 14th amendment, which had been passed to give rights to freed slaves. he used that to make george bush president, and in the process, disenfranchised a lot of black people who didn t have their votes counted. that was a special one. and said there could be no precedent. so we ve got a lot of history of scalia doing this. but this was the worst. michael medved, did scalia embarrass the court on this one? i don t think scalia embarrassed the court. what he was doing to an extent was stepping beyond a normal judicial role, but remember, the
you watch the vas lation and the legal theory changing with the ideology and you have to go, wait a minute. there isn t legal consistency to support the reputation he has. joan walsh, what is wrong with what scalia said? well, first of all, i mean, to just jump out of the world of law and the constitution and the constitution and precedent and all the things the supreme court is supposed to be our guide on, and to smack a sitting president that way, i really can t think of another example of a justice doing something that outrageous. and it s really as though he cast off his judicial robes and revealed himself today to be a partisan hack. i mean, there have been decisions before. he is the man who gave us george w. bush. he did use the 14th amendment, which had been passed to give rights to freed slaves. he used that to make george bush president, and in the process, disenfranchised a lot of black people who didn t have their votes counted.