Boehner is a first-class idiot. He kept "negotiating" one-on-one with the man who had no interest in negotiating - "in good faith" would be redundant, since Obama was not negotiating, period - Obama was simply stating what he wanted House / Republicans to agree to. You can't negotiate with someone who doesn't think he needs to negotiate with you.
Instead, House should have just isolate Obama by working with the Senate (if possible) and/or passing their plan (if, of course, House Republicans could agree on a plan) and putting the Senate Dems in the very uncomfortable position to vote on it - or let the Senate Dems AND Obama be blamed for letting the taxes rise and "draconian cuts" to their constituents take place.
Maybe they now can start this "regular" course of business - even if it takes the place of CRs, essentially approving piecemeal what executive branch can and cannot spend the money on, instead of budget - basically, putting Obama on a fiscal leash. This way, House can assert its priorities instead of Obama's.
All that is, of course, assuming that they are at all interested in cutting deficit and debt to any kind of "reasonable" level... or just "thinking about their own future" and the "welfare" of their friends and relatives.
In a New Republic interview--Obama says "he" has all the answers to the pressing issues facing America and therefore he need not compromise BUT that Republicans should compromise. And if those Republicans don’t compromise, Obama suggested the fault would lie at the feet of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh – and that the calculus had to be changed to force Fox News and Limbaugh to "stop{" holding Republicans accountable to conservatism. (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
So, how you gonna do that, Ohaha? Like this?
“We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as the military.” - 2008 candidate Barack Obama on his plans for America.
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Obama is setting his sights high----wants to be another Abe Lincoln (who was a Republican). Better not coin that penny just yet.
Chances are Abe would not approve of Obama's dream of a tax-funded "US govt civilian security force." In 2008 candidate Obama's own words: “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as the US military.”
(Cackle) But first Obama better confiscate all the guns----b/c the citizenry might not like having their neighborhoods patroled by gun-slinging tax-funded "US govt security forces."
Heck, gun confiscation is a MUST----b/c the citizenry might be tempted to fire a few rounds upon seeing a tax-funded "US govt civilian security force" slinging tax-funded guns in their neighborhoods (/snix).