Allen West = Bad Ass
Posted on 07/12/2011 9:25:29 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Speaker John Boehner told a closed gathering of House Republicans on Tuesday morning that he was “pissed” over being unable to reach a “grand bargain” with President Barack Obama to make sweeping entitlement changes in return for an overhaul of the U.S. tax code.
But Boehner also accused Obama of failing to lead on the impending crisis over boosting the $14.3 trillion debt limit, according to people inside the GOP meeting.
But while Boehner was trying to rally his Republican troops Tuesday morning, he did warn them that they will quickly lose leverage in the debate as the country grows closer to the Aug. 2 debt default deadline and Wall Street and business leaders pressure them to cut a deal.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who opposed Boehner’s efforts to cut a “grand slam” deal with Obama, was just as blunt as the speaker. Cantor told rank-and-file Republicans that unless Democrats drop their insistence on tax increases as part of an agreement to raise the debt ceiling, there may be no compromise possible with Obama and Democratic congressional leaders.
“If the Democrats continue to insist on tax increases, there is no viable path forward,” Cantor warned, according to sources.
The overwhelming sentiment from House Republicans, according to those present in the room, was that even $2 trillion in cuts over 10 years — roughly what is being discussed at the White House meetings — isn’t sufficient. Republicans want even more cuts, and they want them immediately. Moderate Rep. Cliff Stearns of Florida, a 22-year veteran of the House, stood up and said $2.5 trillion wasn’t enough for a deal.
Florida Rep. Allen West emerged from the meeting to say that he didn’t want “fairy dust spending cuts” that are projected over the next decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
You’re right!
Then, I hope we can get Sarah Palin to schedule an “important LIVE press conference”. When the media creeps show up, hoping she will announce her campaign for President, she should instead blast President Obama for trying to play a “dirty trick” on Seniors, military dependents, the middle-class etc by holding up their checks — while keeping funds gushing to his pals at GE, Government Motors, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs etc.
She should ask, “How DARE he?”
Call the demons bluff! PERIOD.
“Florida Rep. Allen West emerged from the meeting to say that he didn’t want “fairy dust spending cuts” that are projected over the next decade.”
Just another reason for my tagline!
“Florida Rep. Allen West emerged from the meeting to say that he didn’t want “fairy dust spending cuts” that are projected over the next decade.
Damn straight, Mr. West! DEEP CUTS — BRUTAL CUTS — NOW!!! Not in ten years. NOW!!!”
All righty now you’ve got it!
Now lets make sure the rest of our reps in the House get it too!
AMEN!!!!! John Boehner better stop weeping at every move and take a strong stand and grow some dam guts! Obama has blown the budget from 2.7 Trillion dollars in 2008 up to 4.0 Trillion for 2011 and that number is highly suspect to rocket severely upward before the end of the year!!
REPUBLICANS BETTER START GETTING THE MESSAGE AND GIVING THE REAL MESSAGE TO REAL AMERICANS!!
SHUT THE GOVERNMENT PARASITES DOWN!! Pelosi spent over $100,000 in one year just on Booze for her Gubermint Supplied Air travel! and the Media didn’t make a stink nor did Our republican socalled Representatives!!
“Well, I, for one, haven’t ... but I still think Boehner is a weak, GOP elite (with a drinking problem). He got the leadership position because it was his turn.”
East Coast moderate Republican of the type running the RNC.
Vote em out. Vote em all out (RINOs)
Big C Conservatives only...Don’t have one in your district? Nothing out there to prevent YOU from running! Just do it!
“Exactly right. I wrote Boehner just that today”
Except the Democrat Senate will give Obama the cover he needs.....
We need to muscle some of those “conservative” (ahem) Democrats to get the Senate on the same page as the Republican House. That and tying up Senators like Collins, Lugar, Hatch, MacCain, Graham, Snowe, et al.
To all you say, I agree.
“Like, I said. Believe what you want. Boehner has issues.”
Honey, being in the Congress/Senate....They All have issues, every single one of them. Even your favorite congresscritter.....(mine too)
To all you say, I agree.
Allen West = Bad Ass
I agree all of them live like kings and get cost of living raises while no else does and I am sure drink like JR Ewing when Sue Ellen run’s off while I’d also bet a lot of them were also on the DC madame’s book of frequent clients.The only exception I know of would be West.
We can profitably produce much of what China produces.
We can’t produce it profitably when their currency is pegged to undercut our costs.
We can’t produce it profitably when we’re adhering to laws and regulations that they do not.
And we can’t produce it profitably when we’re observing intellectual property laws that they do not.
Bush might have campaigned upon it, but the GOP leadership in the House broke the House rules to hold the vote open until they twisted enough arms to pass the bill. The bill would have failed without this tactic.
Simply not raising taxes isn’t going to restore jobs. Why aren’t we seeing jobs created now that the Bush tax cuts have been extended, hmmm?
As I was saying. The only thing Perry has to do is announce, go to the Aug 11th debate and pick a VP down the road.
Needed saying again, and louder.
he did warn them that they will quickly lose leverage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A52337-2001Dec16
Long Road to Reform
Negotiators Forge Education Legislation
By David S. Broder
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 17, 2001; Page A01
EXCERPT
“We had 30 to 60 of our own [conservative Republican] members who would not follow the president's path,” Boehner said. (In the end, 33 Republicans, along with six Democrats and two Independents, voted against the bill.) Boehner himself was ready to follow Bush, having become convinced that Republicans needed to do more for schools. He had come to share Miller's belief that too many poor children are consigned to academic failure simply because no one knows or cares that they are slipping behind. Boehner was the only child, in a family of 12, to receive a college degree.
Boehner and Miller met alone the day after their first Oval Office session and agreed they would try to write a bill together while resisting pressure from the powerful education lobby groups. Vouchers were off the table, they agreed. Bush had proposed them only as a final option for pupils in chronically failing schools and had signaled that if states wanted a voucher program, they should pay for it themselves.
But “Straight A's” was a potential deal-breaker. As Boehner put it, it was “the Holy Grail” to many Republicans “but White Lightning to Democrats.” Before the House committee voted, Bush called Miller and asked him to support at least the scaled-down, seven-state demonstration program of block grants that Kennedy had agreed to put in the Senate bill. Miller said no.
But the House Republican leadership prepared to offer what they called “Kennedy Straight A's” as an amendment on the floor. Boehner warned that it would end Miller's cooperation and drive off Democratic votes. The three top GOP leaders, plus Boehner, trooped down to the White House to present the issue to Bush. They said conservatives were upset at losing vouchers and would rebel if “Straight A's” vanished, too. Boehner argued adamantly for keeping a bipartisan coalition.
“I'm with Boehner,” Bush said, once again challenging his own party's governors and his conservative base.
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BOEHNER MELDED PARTIES ON BILL - Differences set aside to aid failing schools
Dayton Daily News (OH) - Monday, January 7, 2002
Author: Mei-Ling Hopgood Washington Bureau
EXCERPT
Passage of the bill, the 1,080-page manifestation of the president's top domestic priority, was much more difficult and complex than the simple stroke of the president's pen. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act had not been renewed in 1999, doomed mostly by partisan bickering. This time, according to interviews with legislators, aides and media accounts of negotiations, patience and a willingness to compromise on the part of the president and legislators ultimately led to passage of the $26.5 billion plan.
Many believed that negotiation pertaining to the plan would never end, Kennedy said on the Senate floor in December.
“In fact, it was always quietly moving forward,” he said. “We could not have succeeded in this effort without a great deal of support from both sides of the aisle.”
The political massaging began in December 2000, when Bush met in Austin with several legislators of both parties about education reform. Gregg, who was set to sit next to the president, switched his namecard so that Miller could sit next to and get to know Bush, according to accounts in the Washington Post and USA Today .
Kennedy was excluded from that visit. But soon after, Bush called Kennedy , tracking him down on a vacation in St. Croix, a staff member recalled. They talked about their families, and the conversation led to meetings, and ultimately, friendship.
Early in 2001, shortly after Boehner leapfrogged over a more senior member to be elected House Chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee, he and Miller, the committee's ranking minority member, met in Boehner ‘s office.
The way things are going, Boner & Mcconnell will cave, as usual, and Obama will run against another RINO, like Perry or Romney, and he will squeak out a victory. America will be destroyed by 2016 over cowardice,deceit and self interest.
I’m not in a good mood today.
Wasn't that done two or three months ago? Nothing ever changes or happens with the DC elites "in charge".
Yes, one of our big problems is our own little uninformed Republican primary voters. And when our own go third party, it just strengthens the GOP establishment.
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