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Boehner: GOP House majority means 'no mandate' for tax hikes
The Hill ^ | 11/06/12 10:13 PM ET | Russell Berman -

Posted on 11/07/2012 12:57:27 PM PST by RC one

In a warning to President Obama, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday night that the reelection of the House Republican majority means that there is “no mandate for raising tax rates” on the American people.

“The American people want solutions — and tonight, they've responded by renewing our House Republican majority,” Boehner said. “With this vote, the American people have also made clear that there is no mandate for raising tax rates.”

Congress must move immediately from the election to confront looming tax hikes and spending cuts set to take effect at the end of the year. Boehner’s remarks on taxes serve as a warning shot to Obama, who, if reelected, would likely push to allow the George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy to expire.

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1 posted on 11/07/2012 12:57:31 PM PST by RC one
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To: RC one

We’ll see if the Weeper can hold firm on this.


2 posted on 11/07/2012 1:00:18 PM PST by SharpRightTurn ( White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: RC one

I’d like to know why the House Turds funded Obamacare last year.


3 posted on 11/07/2012 1:01:20 PM PST by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "p" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: SharpRightTurn
We’ll see if the Weeper can hold firm on this.

He's already caved....

Here.

4 posted on 11/07/2012 1:04:13 PM PST by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: RC one
John John, John.

You know whats going to happen as well as I - the administration will offer some BS bill - offering to extend the cuts for people who don't pay fed taxes anyway or something similarly stupid - which will have the effect of making the GOP House look so intractable that there will be no choice but to allow the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year.

A majority will believe that its actually your fault their taxes are shooting up.

And you will have no effective response.

5 posted on 11/07/2012 1:04:16 PM PST by skeeter
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To: SharpRightTurn

My bets are he will fund any and everything for Obama. He has enabled this fool for two years. What’s another 4? The Rinos will not allow a shutdown over funding....He will fund.


6 posted on 11/07/2012 1:04:16 PM PST by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: RC one

let them expire. let that little 2% social security tax expire too. be careful what you vote for. I won’t like paying it but I’d like to see “some” of those that voted for O pay them.


7 posted on 11/07/2012 1:05:45 PM PST by Qwackertoo (Romney/Ryan 2012 The Future of Our Children and Their Children are at stake.)
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To: RC one

There’s a big problem here. They are all in a small room and Obama is holding a grenade with the pin pulled.

Bush tax cuts expire this year for everyone, including middle class. Obama’s payroll tax cuts expire at the end of the year as well. Lastly, sequestration kicks in at the end of this year which will devastate the defense budeget. On top of all that, Obama never has to run for re-election.

So you have Boehner looking at a tried and true socialist, Obama, that has the power to raise income taxes on everyone, raise payroll taxes on everyone and destroy the defense budget by doing NOTHING. He doesn’t have to pass a bill, he doesn’t have to sign a thing. He just has to wave his veto pen.

And it doesn’t matter if we make Obama own it or not. Deep down, he WANTS all those things to happen and since he has no more elections to worry about, he’s the suicide bomber in the room.

Ugg, Boehner needs to tread lightly, so so lightly or we are all ****ed.


8 posted on 11/07/2012 1:06:31 PM PST by jackmercer
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Oh, screw you, Boner! The American people have re-elected obama. Sequestration was his idea so it must be best for America. He wants tax hikes so let him have them. And I mean all of them. Let all the Bush tax cuts expire. They were Bush’s tax cuts so they must be bad for the country. Give the people what they want, John. And stop blowing smoke up our asses.


9 posted on 11/07/2012 1:07:00 PM PST by Terry Mross (Once again I wasted my vote. But I have learned my lesson.)
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To: SharpRightTurn; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar
We’ll see if the Weeper can hold firm on this.

Boner can huff and puff he wants less than 24 hours after the election was stolen - the results do not pass the smell tests - remember you had a few polling firms leaving Florida, NC, and Virginia 10 days before the election because Romney had won them - but when Barry and Harry start pointing their fingers at the obstructionist GOP for causing the USA to default on it's debt and Social Security checks not going out, Boner will fold like a cheap lawn chair. with maybe some weeping along the way.

Michele Bachmann for
10 posted on 11/07/2012 1:09:30 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: RC one
PROPERTY OF GEARY GRAPHIC AND DESIGN
11 posted on 11/07/2012 1:26:18 PM PST by baddog 219
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To: SharpRightTurn

What a joke!! When Obama says “raise the debt ceiling” Boehner says “How high?”


12 posted on 11/07/2012 2:05:30 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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