[mwl8787]

It would be nice if people on this forum who were screaming needlessly last night would now admit that Boehner was on firm turf when he rejected the larger deal: it contained a HUGE tax increase and phantom spending cuts.

So now BO is going to try to raise the stakes and demagogue the entire issue, play the class warfare game. Boehner should tell BO to either STFU or he won’t even schedule a vote on any debt limit increase.

Best realistic scenario: call the Dems bluff and hold out for a $2 trillion deal that is almost exclusively spending cuts, including an immediate down payment of $500 billion in FY 12 alone.

We are all going to have to stick together and back Boehner and McConnell, because the Beltway MSM is in a panic that the GOP will hold firm real for spending cuts, and they are livid.

[skinkinthegrass]

It would be nice if people on this forum who were screaming needlessly last night would now admit that Boehner was on firm turf when he rejected the larger deal: it contained a HUGE tax increase and phantom spending cuts.

Ok, I shall admit it...
until I got on FR today, I thought the GOP Leadership
would cave...(surprised!) but they've not caved.
He's (OBahbah) on The House's Constitutional turf.

[conservativeimage]

I’m actually surprised to hear Boehner grow a bit of a spine and I hope he doesn’t cave. This is a new trend for him since the last election during which time he’s been a weak and whiny leader (”only one of 1/6” and so on). Did someone sit him down and make him listen to Rush or something? So fuBar’s going to tattle on him to the nation in a couple of hours and I hope the country replies, “Nuts to you! You can keep your change.”