The MAIN thing Boehner should have done -
On Wed AM when BO started this ‘attack’ on the R’s in Congress the comeback should have been “Mr. President, WE want to pass a workable budget. I understand that you have submitted budgets in the past which, for some reason never made it out of the Senate.
We would be happy to work with you. Have the Senate send us the ‘approved’ budget you submit and we can sit down and work on it”.
“BTW, the same Senate that voted you down with NARY a YEA vote FOR your proposed Budgets, has tabled ANYTHING we have sent up and, in fact, the Leader had vowed before the election to NOT work with us were we successful”.
That should be the message given the American people on a daily basis....Why we may even win over 1 a day....HA....
Got to pull a Reagan with the several wheelbarrows full of paper brought up before his State of the Union address and saying “Ladies and Gentleman, I thought we would have a budget signing today BUT I received this preliminary paper work for last years budget just this morning”.
Worked for Reagan, should work for anyone with a lick of sense and a backbone.
Granted while Reagan didn’t have an ‘enthusiastic’ press it at least didn’t openly act downright hateful.
The Senate is not supposed to send budgets to the House, the House is supposed to write the budget first.