{"id":4519,"date":"2012-12-24T07:57:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T12:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2012-12-24T08:18:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T13:18:18","slug":"georgia-senator-isakson-other-key-republicans-want-fiscal-cliff-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/12\/24\/georgia-senator-isakson-other-key-republicans-want-fiscal-cliff-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Senator Isakson, other key Republicans want &#8220;fiscal cliff&#8221; deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"10\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:600px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8268618372\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\nGood for Senator Johnny Isakson for speaking some plain truths yesterday. His calls for a fiscal deal to prevent a hard fiscal landing in 2013 were echoed by fellow Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/24\/us\/politics\/search-for-deal-in-fiscal-impasse-turns-to-senate.html?hp&#038;pagewanted=all'>Search for Way Through Fiscal Impasse Turns to the Senate<\/a> in the NYT:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMrs. Hutchison, appearing on the CBS program \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Face the Nation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the tax cuts signed into law by President George W. Bush should be extended \u00e2\u20ac\u0153at a reasonable salary level.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let taxes go up on working people in this country,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said, backing Mr. Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s calls for a stripped-down temporary measure. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is going to be a patch because, in four days, we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t solve everything.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The hope is that the less polarized Senate will be different from the House. It is run by Democrats and includes several Republicans who are openly backing a deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The president\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s statement is right,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Isakson said Sunday on the ABC program \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This Week.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No one wants taxes to go up on the middle class. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want them to go up on anybody, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not in the majority in the United States Senate, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the president of the United States.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The truth of the matter is, if we do fall off the cliff after the president is inaugurated, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll come back, propose just what he proposed yesterday in leaving Washington, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll end up adopting it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Isakson continued. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But why should we put the markets in such turmoil and the people in such misunderstanding or lack of confidence? Why not go ahead and act now?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a really broad agreement across the nation and in Washington that taxes should not go up right now for 98 or 99 percent of Americans. That&#8217;s almost certainly <em>not<\/em> the best course for long term fiscal policy (middle class Americans are eventually going to have to pay for the level of government they want), but there are some politically achievable moves that will forestall the potential recessionary effects of too much austerity too soon.<\/p>\n<p>It makes political sense for some Republicans to want us to go past the &#8220;deadline&#8221; so that then any bill they pass is entirely a tax cut. <\/p>\n<p>But Isakson is right: Why create such turmoil and damage Americans&#8217; confidence in the political system even more?<\/p>\n<p>By not taking deals, Republicans in Congress have effectively been backing themselves into corners. Check out Ezra Klein&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2012\/12\/22\/obamas-small-deal-could-lead-to-bigger-tax-increases\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153small deal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d could lead to bigger tax increases<\/a>, with the tagline: <strong>&#8220;We now know Boehner regrets rejecting Obama&#8217;s 2011 deal. He&#8217;s going to regret rejecting his 2012 deal, too.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The president\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s statement is right,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Isakson said Sunday on the ABC program \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This Week.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No one wants taxes to go up on the middle class. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want them to go up on anybody, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not in the majority in the United States Senate, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the president of the United States.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/12\/24\/georgia-senator-isakson-other-key-republicans-want-fiscal-cliff-deal\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,62],"tags":[42,67],"class_list":["post-4519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","tag-federal-budget","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-1aT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}