If the Republicans stick to their guns and actually do something for US rather than
Washington, people will FINALLY have some one to vote FOR.
and stick to the agreement..his history...well :-(
Posted on 02/25/2013 7:24:37 AM PST by illiac
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- House Speaker John Boehner will hold a press conference at 4 p.m. Eastern to discuss the across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester, his office said. Without a deal, $85 billion in gradual budget cuts will begin on Friday,
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Sadly, I expect another 11th hour agreement. The reason? Because in reality the parties are in this thing together. Their differences are mainly theater at this point. Both parties are all about the status quo.
This was made clear when we had a republican president and the R’s controlled the house and senate. They still spent like the drunken sailors they are.
I hope I am wrong. We’ll know in a few days.
The trouble is that noboby(not even here on FR)wants it to come out of THEIR wallet.
It’s worse than that. The reason we are in this mess is that so many people on BOTH sides have been voting their wallets for many decades.
I too am hopeful Boehner will do the right thing. And I believe he will.
McConnell and Boehner have made little effort to prep the battlefield. Nothing really different than what they have done in the past. Sorry but don’t get your hopes up this time is any different.
Yep. They dance together. Two steps forward, one step back.
The left pushes ahead two steps. They go too far. They demand an agreement. The Republicans agree, and the two come up with a bipartisan agreement. The left gets half of what it wanted. The right gets nothing.
That's -2 for liberty (because the issue should have been moot in the first place and not even acknowledged), +1 for "bipartisan" socialism. The left is still one step ahead every time.
The incramentalism adds up. That's how we got into the mess we're in today.
Is it true he has been saving up tears all this week ? bOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I remember when $85B was a lot of money. Who would have thought that it is now chump change. We can survive with this modest “cut” which really isn’t a cut in the first place. The history of the Obama Administration will be found in the fiction section of the Library of Congress.
Well put....something in the 2% area is what I think I’ve heard...
Will he cry and then cave?
Yep. Not to sound too negative, but when Bush Jr. was elected in 2000, I could see the way the country was headed. Ridiculous concepts were being discussed as though they had one whit of merit, and sometimes actually being embraced by the majority. I said then that Bush’s election merely put off the inevitable for four more years.
Fast forward to today. The stuff being argued and allowed is beyond the comprehension of people living 50 years ago. It’s insanity on parade. And it will not end well, as is already apparent to anyone paying attention.
But it is happening as described in so much of biblical prophecy. The good news is that in the end the good Guy wins.
Will he cry and then cave?
Sen. Rand Paul
Louisville Office
600 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Pl
Rm 1072B
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: 502-582-5341
Hopkinsville Office
1100 S. Main St, Ste 12
Hopkinsville, KY 42240
Phone: 270-885-1212
Sen. Min. Ldr. Mitch McConnell
601 W. Broadway
Room 630
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 582-6304
No Lexington Office listed.
It's always this way.
In a very true sense, Boehner is worse than Obama.
Let’s watch all the hate fired at Boehner...
Who hates Boehner more, Obama or the screechers on Free Republic?
How about calling this guy’s office and encouraging him?
How about calling our local media, and telling them we are voters who KNOW Obama is responsible for this sequester?
How about telling our neighbors and low information voter friends and co-workers that the REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE HAVE PASSED TWO DIFFERENT ALTERNATIVES to the across the board budget cuts—targeted cuts—and that the Senate Democrat party refused to vote on them?
How about doing something PRODUCTIVE instead of lashing out at Boehner, who SO FAR has held his ground?
Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. Wet blankets don’t fold too good. More likely he’ll fold like an accordion, seeing as how he’s got pleats worked into him from folding so often. Probably practices in a mirror.
I expect to read that Boehner will agree to everything the Dems want while saying that it’s the right thing for the country and he’s not really agreeing to everything they want because yadda-yadda-yadda. Later this evening he and the Dems will have an expensive dinner together.
It wouldn't matter who was Speaker. One false word and "RINO" would be his/her moniker ever after.
I had to laugh when Gingrich was the White Knight on FR (newly minted for those who weren't around when he fell from grace years ago) until he made his weak gay marriage statement recently. LOL!
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