Posted on 12/04/2012 11:11:23 AM PST by filbert00
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s opening bid to Speaker John Boehner, a demand for $1.6 trillion in new taxes, was not meant as a serious offer. It was an ultimatum couched in an insult. Translation:
“We won the election. We have the whip hand. Not only are you going to sign on to higher tax rates and higher tax revenues, we are going to rub your Tea Party noses in your coming capitulation.”
That Boehner did not throw the offer back in Geithner’s face and tell him, “Give me a call, Tim, when you’re serious,” suggests that the speaker feels he is holding a losing hand.
He wants a deal where the GOP agrees to higher revenues and the White House agrees to cuts in future entitlement outlays. But the Obamaites are looking to dictate terms. They want a triumph. If that means casting Boehner as the Neville Chamberlain of the GOP, so be it.
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If there had been a successful effort to make Allen West speaker of the house America would have a different future. Boehner will put the beltway ahead of the country - bank on it.
Even though I gritted my teeth and voted for Newt in the primary I think he would have been roadkill in the GE....but at least he would have put up a fight and that’s more than Willard the wimp did!
Not only does Boner have his knee pads, he’s holding a jar of vaseline and wearing a dog collar.
What a POS that guy is.
“If that means casting Boehner as the Neville Chamberlain of the GOP, so be it.”
Boehner beat them to it long ago.
Perhaps, but I think it is actually the reverse. Obama intends the country to fail. He wants to leave the country in ashes as payback for all the perceived ills of the world he believes the US caused. He is also advancing Islam at every turn and removal of the US would greatly ease the creation of the Greater Caliphate.
“A new Speaker of the House is called for. Someone who can give it back to the socialists in spades as they say. Just because the republicans did not win the election does NOT mean that they have to cave on every issue. Let the VOTING begin. That is why we have voting. See where the power lies.”
If not Newt then someone like him, but Boehner has to go.
It is really silly to be talking about these things as if there are two different ideologies on what is good for America.
They are one of one mind- and they messing with our heads, as if we are making choices. They all stick together and vote themselves hugely expensive perks and comfortable lives, at our expense- ALL while making us slaves to their lifestyles.
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