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Boehner: Debt Limit Increase Is Obama's Problem
CNSNews ^ | 7/12/11 | Susan Jones

Posted on 07/12/2011 12:14:57 PM PDT by CNSNews

(CNSNews.com) - President Obama "talks a good game," House speaker John Boehner said at a news conference on Tuesday, "but when it comes time to actually putting these issues on the table and making decisions, he can't quite pull the trigger."

Boehner, speaking about the ongoing negotiations to cut government spending as a prelude to raising the nation's debt limit, noted that Republicans have a plan -- they passed a budget in the spring -- but the Democrats don't:

"Where is the president’s plan? When’s he going to lay his cards on the table? This debt limit increase is his problem, and I think it’s time for him to lead by putting his plan on the table -- something that the Congress can pass,” Boehner said in a news release.

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1 posted on 07/12/2011 12:14:58 PM PDT by CNSNews
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That’s it! Keep reminding the public that Obama has not offered a budget since he was innaugurated!


2 posted on 07/12/2011 12:18:44 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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“talks a good game,”

!!!!!!!!!! Talks lies is all!


3 posted on 07/12/2011 12:19:30 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: CNSNews

Finally!

Our narcissistic ruler will surely resent being challenged openly. Be prepared for another one of his sanctimonious “addresses”.


4 posted on 07/12/2011 12:22:27 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: Cheetahcat

OK guys, keep up the pressure...this guy is going to blow anytime soon. Just keep tossing his own words back in his face.

Now he is talking about how is not going to pay social security...time to come on and say, the choice is yours, Mr. Pisadent...bring the budget into balance and we will cover you...otherwise, it is your decision, either balance the budget by agreement or we do it fiat.


5 posted on 07/12/2011 12:23:24 PM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: Cheetahcat

OK guys, keep up the pressure...this guy is going to blow anytime soon. Just keep tossing his own words back in his face.

Now he is talking about how is not going to pay social security...time to come on and say, the choice is yours, Mr. Pisadent...bring the budget into balance and we will cover you...otherwise, it is your decision, either balance the budget by agreement or we do it fiat.


6 posted on 07/12/2011 12:23:30 PM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: CNSNews

Obama’s plan is the Cloward-Pivin plan combined with the Marxist plan of destroying the integrity of the American constitutional government. Overwhelm the system!


7 posted on 07/12/2011 12:24:56 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Is Boehner trying to tell us that Obama was merely "present"??? Darn right!!

Just another photo op.

8 posted on 07/12/2011 12:36:25 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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The House GOP should just take the budget they proposed earlier and add a debt ceiling increase slightly less than the savings created by that budget, pass it and send it to the Senate. Say here is the only deal on the table. No one else will put anything in writing. Senate, if you vote it down you create the crisis. 0bama, if you veto it you create the crisis.


9 posted on 07/12/2011 12:42:44 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts so good.)
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To: Mouton

GOP congressmen need to act like parents of teenagers, obama being the sulky petulant teenager


10 posted on 07/12/2011 12:45:54 PM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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If they just keep saying NO to this guys face, he is going to look like Robbie the Robot in Forbidden Planet when given an order to kill a human.

If not, maybe he will at least vapor lock and do the entire country a favor.


11 posted on 07/12/2011 12:48:34 PM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: CNSNews

I have yet to hear a Republican or MSM (well Duh) blame Obama’s massive spending spree last congress for the huge debt we find ourselves looking at.

Somehow the Repubs will find a way to snatch defeat from the hands of victory.
Sorry, I don’t trust Boner and McConnell. Hope I’m wrong.


12 posted on 07/12/2011 12:50:45 PM PDT by Vinnie
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Trike Boy
13 posted on 07/12/2011 12:53:15 PM PDT by FrankR ("If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat." - R. Reagan)
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To: FrankR

I love your stuff.


14 posted on 07/12/2011 12:54:42 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: CNSNews

The president just wants compromise. Meaning, Republicans do exactly as he wants. Problem solved.


15 posted on 07/12/2011 12:59:22 PM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: Vinnie

How come Boehner and McConnell never make a peep about ObamaCare? Medicare, yes, but never ObamaCare. What’s with that?


16 posted on 07/12/2011 1:18:21 PM PDT by BusterBear
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To: Erik Latranyi

The sheeple have no idea what the significance of him not offering a budget has. All they know is so long as oblabla gets his way the trinkets will keep coming. There is also a class of this country that relies on distribution and their personal aggregation of those trinkets for their wealth. They will not give that up either.

I really don’t know which is worse, the welfare class and their ignorance, lack of honor and dignity and ambition or the trinket accumulators and their deceit and underhandedness.

At the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter, they are winning and they are worthless sacks of crap.


17 posted on 07/12/2011 1:21:16 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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To: Sacajaweau

I read once that if all the decrectary spending were elimiated, it would barely make a dent in the Fed. budget. Yet the Marxists keep agruing over which to cut. Somebody is full of Shite!!!


18 posted on 07/12/2011 1:59:41 PM PDT by Waco (Nominate Palin or forget 2012 you lost)
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