Good news. President Barack Obama today in a joint appearance with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said "no deal" to the Republican plan to approve the Keystone pipeline in exchange for the payroll tax cut.
“Any effort to tie Keystone to the payroll tax cut, I will reject. So everybody can be on notice,” Obama said in a warning to Congressional Republicans.
"If the payroll tax cut is attached to a whole bunch of extraneous issues, not related to making sure that the American people's taxes don't go up on January 1, then it's not something that I'm going to accept. I don't expect to have to veto it because I expect they're going to have enough sense over on Capitol Hill to do the people's business and not try to load it up with a bunch of politics," Obama said.
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I like this a lot. No deal to Republican attempts to destroy the environment. This issue (payroll tax cut) is destroying the Republicans with the 99%. About time.
They only want tax cuts for the rich.