Posted on 07/15/2011 5:24:33 AM PDT by tobyhill
There are “too many people” in the room to work out a deal to raise the debt ceiling, House Speaker John Boehner complained on Thursday night as negotiations between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans stay stuck in a stalemate.
“Whatever gets suggested, it gets debated to no end,” the Ohio Republican said on Fox News’s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.”
“The room’s too big. You know, too many people are in there trying to negotiate what is a very difficult — could be and will be a very difficult agreement. And there’s just too many people in there pouring cold water on virtually every idea that gets thrown on the table.”
The negotiations, Boehner said, have left the president “frustrated” and “the rest of us are frustrated, too.”
“I’ve been pushing the president all year to address this in a big way,” he said. “I don’t want to do some half-hearted thing. I don’t want to do some half-baked gimmick. We’ve got a problem. The American people sent us here to solve the problem. So why don’t we do what we’re supposed to do, solve the problem?”
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Sounds like a shot at Cantor to me. My pure speculation is that WH would tell Boehner that he needs to get rid of Cantor before getting anything meaningful out of them...pure speculation though.
Agreed. Tell Mitch McConnell to STFU and leave.
Or George Soros. That's who the regime answers to, anyway.
“Why the House just doesn’t pass a budget and move the fight to the Senate and on to 0 is beyond me. A straight forward passed budget from the Reps three months ago would of put this in a whole other light. Something is very wrong.”
Trying to avoid a veto at the 11th hour.
His policies and decisions over the past two years have been subversive. They know what they’re dealing with, up close and personal (though his malignant tendencies are now quite apparent to the casual observer).
They’re trying to avoid being saddled with the blame for his intransigence by “negotiating”.
No one but a marxist idealogue benefits from a US financial meltdown.
“Whatever happened to committee hearings and open meetings with “debate” leading to the proposal of a bill. How old fashioned, I guess.”
That was when we had employees of the people,Now they are our rulers!
I would like to hope he is talking about Pelosi, but fear that he’s actually talking about Cantor...
The house should send a bill to the senate this is BS...the GOP will cave...Sarah is the only one with any balls..Wall street is going nuts saying this must be done...
The house should send a bill to the senate this is BS...the GOP will cave...Sarah is the only one with any balls..Wall street is going nuts saying this must be done...
“Meanwhile the Reps continue to lose the PR war”
They could kiss his a$$ all day and the leftist media troops would still paint them as ogres.
Take McConnell
Leave the cannoli
Fine. Then just bring Urkel’s budget up for a vote as-is. Let the RATS and RINOs own the consequences.
Can America stand up against the Democrat/communist juggernaut? Stay tuned...
Boehner is the consummate ,double acting, self promoting, dandy of a personal and political decadent class of citizens. That the people who elected this man never gave him lessons/ instructions as to being a defender of the Constitution against all enemies shows to what level the electorate has sunk. That people like Boehner and McConnell can slip into the leadership during lean years for Republicans shows vigilance by elected persons is lacking.
John Boehner is part of the problem, not the solution. We should have known that he didn’t get the message of the 2010 mid terms by his selection of committee chairs. The GOP is about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and guarantee the reelection of Obama. God help us.
I'm having a little problem with the premise here.
How about, "to work out cutting spending so that we do not need to raise the debt cieling"?
The Republicans should have from the very beginning said no negotiations until the Dems produce a budget. In essence, the Reps are negotiating against themselves. They are the only ones with a real budget, passed by the House, on the table. The Dems have not produced a budget in over two years. Refusing to negotiate until that is done would force the MSM to focus on that fact.
Boehner tells them what can pass the House but they don't want to work within that universe.
The House should ignore obstinate bad faith negotiations and pass what it can pass and dare the Senate and White House to cause default.
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