[frankenMonkey]

Seems to me that John Boehner is playing right into the Alinsky tactics by putting his (well tanned) mug on TV.

[Ev Reeman]

Obama wanted to set a trap for republicans.

Fortunately, republicans saw the trap but did not take the bait.

[oldbill]

Hold spending? HOLD it?

No. cut it.

Holding means continuing to spend at intolerably and destructively high levels - unsustainable levels. Boehner is showing that he is still in lockstep with establishment RINO thinking. Vote for us, because we are a little less bad than democrats.

And this guy is going to be Speaker? What you will have with Boehner as Speaker is a House acting as the tax collector and financier of Obama’s spending programs.

They still don’t get it.

[Beowulf9]

Most of the Federal budget is Social Security and Medicare, plus interest on the national debt and defense......so is there really enough here to cut to put a dent in the deficit without causing the public to cry uncle or foul???

[Pessimist]

What’s wrong with 2007 levels?

Or 1997 levels?

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Obama knows he is losing this fight, which is why he has refused to commit to vetoing an extension of all the Bush tax cuts should such a bill land on his desk; Boehner’s proposals have offered moderate Democrats a way to oppose the president, thus paving the way for precisely that outcome. A temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts is not the best policy, and we still have a long way to go toward addressing the real sources of our deficit woes. But given the actual viable options on the table, our best bet is to extend the tax cuts while awaiting a sounder government that can reform our tax code and entitlements more broadly.”

Democrats are trying to launch a massive door-to-door get out the vote effort in their base voter districts, such as in Columbia Maryland. But the liberal base is still mad he hasn't raised taxes on ‘the rich’ already and would completely give up if he gave in on this now. So Obama is in a corner on this one, too bad LOL. But in the next congress Obama will likely have a different theme, maybe he will claim Republicans forced him to extend those tax cuts when many Democrats vote for them too.

[tcrlaf]

Biased liberal media has made sure that NO ONE KNOWS who John Boehner is, (Except political junkies), by never broadcasting his responses to Democrat outrages.

Now, as Dems start desperately flailing, they are trying to paint a man no one knows as the “Evil Architect”. It’s quite hilarious, really.

[Southack]

Well-played by the minority party.

[Buckeye McFrog]

but his plan to compromise with Obummer on extending the tax cuts is a LOSER!

[lurk]

Holding spending at a 1955 level would be even better.

[Oldpuppymax]

John is taking a page from the Juan McCain playbook—that is, PRETENDING to be a tough minded, stand up conservative in anticipation of a run for the speakers gavel after Novembers hoped for blow out. Of course, just as actual conservatives know well McCains’ hypocrisy, we are also aware of Boehners’ spineless, sell-out history.