Posted on 10/28/2010 10:41:10 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
Resurgent GOPers "in no mood for compromise"...
Contrary to some of the nonsense re. Republicans making nice with Obama out there, listen to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) quoted in The Hill today:
Boehner, the party leader who would likely become Speaker in a GOP-controlled House, distanced himself from a senior senator's suggestion last week that trying to repeal the new healthcare reform law wasn't in Republicans' best interest.
"This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise on our principles," Boehner said during an appearance on conservative Sean Hannity's radio show.
Whether — or to what extent — Republicans will look to compromise with President Obama and congressional Democrats is a major issue for the party on the verge of Nov. 2's elections. Republicans are within striking distance of winning the net 39 seats they need to take back the House, and are expected to win back seats in the Senate.
Boehner seemed to cast his lot with some of the more aggressively conservative members of his party by vowing not to compromise. Some more centrist figures in the party have urged the party to work with Democrats on some issues, though. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Tuesday that Republicans should work with Obama on Social Security and other issues, while Gregg said last week that repealing healthcare reform — the GOP's long-stated goal — was not a good idea.
"I love Judd Gregg, but maybe he doesn't get it," Boehner said Wednesday in a rebuke to Gregg, the top Republican on budget issues in the Senate who's set to retire at the end of his term in January. "We're going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can."
Boehner did open the door to working with Obama, though he said it would have to be on Republicans' terms. "To the extent the president wants to work with us, in terms of our goals," the Ohio Republican explained, "we'd welcome his involvement."
Likewise from Mike Pence (via HotAirPundit)...
"What I said was, there will be no compromise on ending this era of runaway spending, deficits and debt , there will be no compromise on repealing Obamacare lock, stock and barrel" ...Pence was on the highly rated Parker Spitzer program on CNN
Sounds great- here's two aware that they will be held to it... more at Reaganite Republican
No prisoners!
Good to hear Boehner gets it... encouraging
Yes, it is.
We need to reduce spending. We need budget cuts. For me, NPR is the test (highlighted by Juan Williams, the egregiously biased nature of NPR cannot be denied).
If Republicans cannot succeed in defunding a small, unimportant, and unpopular program like NPR, then we have no hope of cutting anything at all. NPR is the low-hanging fruit of budget cuts. If the 2011 congress cannot touch it, then we will see bigger deficits and higher taxes in out future, even after the big Tea Party Tsunami of 2010.
Does "no compromise" mean holding fast and blocking everything? That won't get us very far, and it won't look good ("Party of No").
But if we take a principled stand and try (at least try) to cut, cut, cut, cut -- then maybe we can get somewhere.
With Obama and the LSM, it gets so hard to tell reality from parody.
“Pence was on the highly rated Parker Spitzer program on CNN”
ORLY?
“Pence was on the highly rated Parker Spitzer program on CNN”
Highly rated compared to what?
Boehner knows that a Republican tsunami on Nov. 2 will not be a call for Demonrat Lite.
You will be taking office just in time to get blamed for the economic crash.
If you do not take the immediate offensive you will get creamed in 2012. No compromise. Make sure O is hobbled and immobile, unable to do a thing for the remaining two years of his term of office.
Start immediately to audit Fannie Mae, and nail down for the public record exactly what caused the collapse. Considering that the head of it pocketed $90 million in bonuses while the whole thing was coming apart at the seams, it looks like someone should be in jail right now or else we owe Madoff an apology.
And start an honest campaign for energy independence, which should be our theme in 2012. That, along with radically reducing the size of the central government, is what we need to turn this country around. We can’t do it while O occupies the office, but we should start beating the drum and start the 2012 campaign on November 3.
Joy Behar.
Then again, my YouTube channel with exactly 0 vids gets a better viewership than Joy Behar.
A new word. I like it.
i bet the fake fireplace video gets more viewers when they play it...
Hold their feet to the fire!
He will THEN get the BLAME not a do nothing Congress..
As one bill get vetoed, they should pass another one like clockwork..
Keep them busy shagging the de-engineering crews efforts..
NOT omnibus bills/laws but separate bills that must be vetoed..
Tire them out.. overwhelm them.. i.e. Anti-Cloward-Piven..
If they make a mistake.. VIOLA!... one less bureaucracy...
GO TO (A)..
that was just the quote from the source, shouldn’t have ...’d that out in retrospect LOL
Stuff all the rinos in the basement and lock the basement door, NO COMPROMISES! DEFUND, ROLLBACK AND PROSECUTE
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