Posted on 01/26/2013 6:52:47 PM PST by RummyChick
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is sharing his regrets about his "fiscal-cliff" strategy, less than a month after the House bitterly swallowed a last-minute deal hatched in the Senate.
In a private speech to the Ripon Society on Tuesday, Boehner said that he should have taken a different course after the November election by immediately demanding that the Senate produce a bill to avert the worst parts of a combination of tax increases and spending cuts that were due to hit on Jan. 1.
Instead, Boehner delivered a formal speech at the Capitol on the day after President Obama won a second term, in which he offered a major Republican concession – new tax revenue as part of a broader fiscal deal.
“Looking back, what I should have done the day after the election was to make it clear the House has passed a bill to extend all of the current tax rates, the House has passed a bill to replace the sequester with cuts in mandatory spending, and the Senate ought to do its work,” Boehner said. “We’re ready, able and willing to work with the Senate as soon as they produce a bill. It should have been what I said. You know, again, hindsight is 20-20.”
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My goodness, it’s only about the 20th time he’s made the same “mistake.”
Did he cry when he said it?
Every body told you that before hand and you didn’t listen Dumb A.
A strategic mea culpa, nothing more.
Talk of his voting record is irrelevant. People don’t distrust him because he doesn’t believe conservative things. Maybe he does maybe he doesn’t. Our contempt is because he refused to fight for those beliefs.
If he can’t understand that, he will never be able to do what needs to be done.
Well step aside and let the nig boys play.
He’s like a cancer and as long as he and others like him are in power the Republican party will be nothing more than complacent pawns.
“What difference, at this point, does it make?!”
I BEG the voters in Ohio’s 8th district to get rid of this A-HOLE.
A libtard, leftwing, socialist Democrat would be better.
While he’s crying about this, he is rolling over on his back for criminal invader Amnesty. I detest this puke and the worthless lemmings that voted for him as speaker.
Shoulda woulda coulda...
This guy Boehner can make some friends if he finds a way to smack the sneer off that African communist scumbag’s face.
What a Freudian slip.
Well step aside and let the big boys play.
He is a liar.
Yeah, "originate". The senate still needs to pass what is called a "budget resolution". And then the president needs to sign the final budget deal.
What a liability. Go drown your sorrows yet again dumbbell and then, for the love of God, let somebody who has a clue take over as Speaker.
Uh huh.
So what about THIS?
Boehner Facing Unrest in Caucus Over Payroll Tax Cut Deal (December 2011)
Or THIS?
Boehner Booed at Convention as Chaos Erupts on Convention Floor Over Ron Paul Delegates
or THIS?
Right ballistic over John Boehner ‘purge’
Or THIS?
Boehner re-elected House speaker (after threatening his caucus)
And he wonders why nobody trusts him...
So Bonehead’s hanging out with the ultra-liberal Ripon Society. Figures.
j. boehner, obama’s essential liberal republican. getting ready to duck conservatives while pulling his next fast one, i trust. may God direct him.
Why should he step down? Hillary “accepts full responsibility for Benghazi,” then gives the House the finger and goes back to her office.
He should resign his speakership and go off for a good cry!
There must be a reason OH has not produced a president since Harding!
Thanks John.
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