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Harry Reid: It's 'unconscionable' that Speaker Boehner is blocking bipartisan payroll tax cut deal


John Boehner needs to get his act together (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Jed Lewison Tue Dec 20, 2011 at 10:43 AM PST

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's statement on the vote by House Republicans to reject the bipartisan payroll tax cut extension passed by the Senate:

“It is unconscionable that Speaker Boehner is blocking a bipartisan compromise that would protect middle-class families from the tax hike looming on January 1st – a compromise that Senator McConnell and I negotiated at Speaker Boehner’s own request. First Senator McConnell would not let the Senate vote on the House’s payroll tax cut bill because he knew it would fail, now Speaker Boehner won’t let the House hold an up-or-down vote on the Senate’s bipartisan compromise because he knows it would pass.

“As the clock ticks towards a middle-class tax hike, I would implore Speaker Boehner to listen to the sensible Senate Republicans and courageous House Republicans who are calling on him take the responsible path, and pass the Senate’s bipartisan compromise to hold middle class families harmless while we negotiate a yearlong extension. I have been trying to negotiate a yearlong extension with Republicans for weeks, and I am happy to continue doing so as soon as the House of Representatives passes the bipartisan compromise to protect middle-class families, but not before then.”

If House Republicans want to extend the payroll tax cut, all they have to do is extend it. And if they can't even bring themselves to pass a two-month extension to guarantee that nobody's taxes go up, then what is there to talk about?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/20/1047281/-Harry-Reid:-Its-unconscionable-that-Speaker-Boehner-is-blocking-bipartisan-payroll-tax-cut-deal

I just posted this for the PHOTO . .I LOVED IT !!!! .. ;) I know we know all this all ready ! .. but that photo ! .. LOVE HARRY ! ... and just look at that sulk on baby boehner .. !