Boehner's GOP Problems Complicate Deficit Negotiations (Stop "negotiations" and let it crash)

ABC ^ | 11/10/2012 | By JOHN PARKINSON

[tobyhill]

House Speaker John Boehner is about to begin another attempt at a grand bargain deficit reduction deal with President Obama, a high wire act in which he will be buffeted by demands from the White House as well as from House Republicans.

The difficulty of keeping in step with the hard line approach of his fellow Republicans has been on view since the presidential election.

On Thursday, Boehner told ABC News' Diane Sawyer that repealing Obamacare was no longer his party's strategy saying, "Obamacare is the law of the land" and the election settled the dispute over repeal.

Shortly after his comment was aired, Boehner put out a tweet saying, "ObamaCare is law of the land, but it is raising costs & threatening jobs. Our goal has been, and will remain, #fullrepeal."

During that interview, the Speaker also told Sawyer that comprehensive immigration reform is a top priority in his legislative agenda during the next Congress. Republicans within his conference, like Rep. John Fleming, were livid.

[mike_9958]

Ray - welcome back. What happen to “no time for you”

Ya lost me on this one: “How about effectiveness?”

or I’m just tired.

And no I’m not trolling for argument - I’m just not backing down from one.

[WOSG]

Letting something happen IS becoming a part of the disaster. That’s how.

It would be one thing if we held to a Republican position (eg ‘no tax hikes for now’) and a failure to come to agreement because Obama insists on some tax hikes meant tax hikes for all.

It’s another to simply have NO position other than “we want all the tax hikes to happen.” That would put Republicans in favor of middle class tax hikes. Great way to lose the House next election. That’s ‘stupid’ in my book.