THEY’RE NOT DONATING MONTHLY!
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 ...
No direct quote? Politico putting words in Boehner's mouth?
If you want to know WHY our guys fold in the first place? Instead of calling them up, contacting them and sending the message of what we want them to do, and giving them support when they deserve it, we complain about them in a forum that cant do a thing about it.
That's tits-on-a-bull useless.
My source is NOT MSM.
You can believe what you want. The guy is a loose cannon with loose lips.
That’s the end of it from me.
The only reason why Boehner has done an about-face on taxes (as of last Friday PM) was the fury that erupted towards the GOP over talk of a possible “deal” that included tax increases.
Boehner isn’t leading. He’s down on his knees every night, praying the Politician’s Prayer:
“Oh Lord, please tell me where my people wish to go... so that I might lead them there... a puff of wind upon my moistened finger is all I ask, oh Lord...”
Boehner has also been talking of pathetically timid cuts, and over “10 year” timeframes, which is utter nonsense. The 10 year projection in ‘98 or ‘99 was that we’d be most of the way to paying off our debt by now. 10 year projections are worse than useless.
We’re running a $1.5+ Trillion deficit right now. We need two things:
1. We need a budget, which the DNC refuses to prepare. Make a budget so we have spending benchmarks again. Duh.
2. We need to be talking about cutting $500B this year, $500B more next year, and $500B the year after that. And part of the cuts has to include entitlements.
RINOS-ON-PARADE
” Boehner has also been talking of pathetically timid cuts, and over “10 year” timeframes, which is utter nonsense. The 10 year projection in ‘98 or ‘99 was that we’d be most of the way to paying off our debt by now. 10 year projections are worse than useless.
We’re running a $1.5+ Trillion deficit right now. We need two things:
1. We need a budget, which the DNC refuses to prepare. Make a budget so we have spending benchmarks again. Duh.
2. We need to be talking about cutting $500B this year, $500B more next year, and $500B the year after that. And part of the cuts has to include entitlements. “
Say it bro!!
He does like to party!
I’ve been watching this cozy crew for 2 years.
Nope. The President doesn’t go to the Congress; the Congress’s Reps and Senators go to POTUS. This protocol was set early on, during Washington’s Presidency.
But Congress can make a balanced budget with deep, deep cuts, and shove it in front of the President and the Democrats. And they don’t have to go to the WH.
I believe they are going to the WH and saying “NO!” to BHO2 because it helps the Republicans politically. Notice, too, how distraught Obama is becoming, and publicly?
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I will defend Boehner and think that the people here that call him BONER are mimicking the left and DUers as it is the cool PC thing-like how everyone thought Bush was what the media painted him to be (see my screen name). (And Heck I may have even slipped and in the past called him BONER) There are some that post on here that think everyone is a RINO but Sarah Palin.
A deal will be devastating for Obama because he will look extremely weak to his left-wing if he does not get tax hikes right now. The Ryan plan is coming up next after this deal and that will involve negotiating more major cuts. If this current deal passes Obama and his leftists will have almost no leverage going into those talks...a good thing.
But go ahead and be pulled by MSM shenanigans...I do believe there are enough people seeing sense on this one that there will be little lasting damage to Repub progress.
“Of course it would international trade INCREASES jobs in both of the trading partners.”
Really?
Care to show me where that’s happened in our trade policy with China?
BTW, last I looked, trade was about 13% of US GDP.
I can put two and two together and I can see for the last 10 years that the GOP has had their head up their posteriors. We already had problems with entitlement spending, so what did the GOP do? Created a whole NEW entitlement, Medicare Part D. We already had problems with deficit spending, so Bush calls for a bailout on the taxpayer’s dime of the bankers and GM/Chrysler. We already had huge problems with illegal immigration, but Bush (and clowns like McCain) encouraged it more. Who bailed out the airlines when they should have failed? The GOP.
On and on and on.
The GOP has no credibility on containing government spending.
The GOP has no plans on how to improve the job situation in the US.
The GOP doesn’t even have a credible plan how to balance the budget.
You are correct...it is very childish to do so and they've picked the sick name up from the left.
And these DU -wannabees here on FR want to be taken seriously? Right.
Boehner is not what the media is trying to define him as. Looks like you get it.
“But go ahead and be pulled by MSM shenanigans”
So, tell, me. How am I being pulled by MSM? When have I ever been pulled by MSM??! You’ve got the wrong individual, FRiend.
Like, I said. Believe what you want. Boehner has issues.
The media does not encourage me to follow what Bachmann is doing and support her. Her words out of her very own mouth do.
All those that have conspiracy theories on the media being kind to Bachmann because they are shaking in their boots over Palin are ridiculous; as well as they must have missed all of the hit pieces on Bachmann some even citing the competition.
The media is eating it up every time they call Bachmann a RINO as divided the media will conquer. The only people directly causing any ‘fracture of unity’ as you say, are the childish people that think that Bachmann is ‘stealing’ Palin’s podium; they even go as far as to say SARAH was there first.I understand them not posting any Bachmann favorable articles but they go out of their way to call Bachmann a RINO and I think they warped from DU or something.Someone needs to tell them that if they encourage Bachmann’s tea party responses and stances they are NOT betraying their self made Palin goddess.Their actions turn people off from Palin.
$2T/yr cuts minimum: stop the hemorrhaging, and start meaningful repayment of principal.
Just walk out upon suggestion of anything under $1T/yr.
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