So why didn't house Democrats want to vote to increase taxes on the 1%, the so called plan B?

Dumbazz repubs didn't want to pass it in the House.

Please don't be disingenuous. The proposal put forward by the Speaker has too many sacrifices proposed for the unemployed and underpaid and not enough by the privileged.

The rest of us are not stupid, you know. We are fully aware that the new year will bring a saner Congress into office with a greatly reduced Republican majority. Thirty of the worst extremists, the people who made it impossible for the Speaker to sell his own plan, will be back working at Wendy's and UPS. Alan West will no doubt be working for Fox News as a token black Conservative.

The new Congress will than do the job this one could not. It will have the power to act retroactively and the nation will find that the fiscal cliff was mostly illusion. The markets may oscillate, but the nation remains sound and will recover quickly under better governance.

The Democrats are not stupid. They know that the new Congress will provide them with a solution that has more balance and some equity. What you have been hearing over the last month was the last quack of the lame ducks, who the People in their wisdom have rejected.

The vote was never called because it didn't have enough *Republican* votes to pass. The question now is whether the more moderate Republicans will do a deal with the Democrats that leaves the hard-line conservatives voting nay.

yes, one partial aspect of a bill being good must mean that the entire proposal is great. You must be great to sell used cars to. If I throw in AC (with a blower that doesn't work on all speeds), doesn't matter to you that the engine needs to be rebuilt, I suppose. you would immediately sign off on that junker.

democrats are rich...

how rich are they?

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Senator John Kerry_______________$193.07 Million

Senator Jay Rockefeller__________$81.63 Million

Senator Mark Warner______________$76.30 Million

Representative Jared Polis_______$65.91 Million

Senator Frank Lautenberg_________$55.07 Million

Senator Richard Blumenthal_______$52.93 Million

Senator Dianne Feinstein_________$45.39 Million

Representative Nancy Pelosi______$35.20 Million

Senator Claire McCaskill_________$17.00 Million

Representative Nita Lowey________$15.46 Million

Senator Tom Harkin_______________$10.28 Million

Representative Carolyn Maloney___$10.14 Million

Senator Olympia Snowe____________$9.88 Million

Representative Shelley Berkley___$9.29 Million

Senator Herb Kohl________________$9.23 Million

Representative Lloyd Doggett_____$8.53 Million

Senator Jeff Bingaman____________$7.41 Million

Senator Kay Hagan________________$7.06 Million

Senator Ben Nelson_______________$6.56 Million

You are a little "slow", apparently, so I will be nice about this...

Who do the preponderance of American voters currently blame for our (largely imaginary) "fiscal woes"?

Why would Democrats want to do ANYTHING to change that?

Boehner's plan was killed by wingnuts of his own party. Even Norquist said it wouldn't raise taxes. You really don't know what you're talking about. Leave adult discussions to adults.

Hahahahaha - the Cons are beginning to put their Big Whine together.

House Republicans are the reason Plan B didn't pass.

Democrats want everyone depending on the government. More control more money for them to spend any way they want

does it matter?

the cons can do whatever they want without a single vote from the dems

you need to ask why the cons wouldn't vote for plan b