GOP leaders ignore Obama’s deadline

The Hill ^ | 7/16/11 | Alexander Bolton

[Evil Slayer]

House Republican leaders have missed a 36-hour deadline President Obama set during a Thursday meeting for lawmakers to give him a plan to avert a national default.

The deadline came and went Saturday morning without a response from House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Instead, Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) plan to move the Cut, Cap and Balance Act on the floor next week, which would require passage of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution before the debt limit is raised.

A House GOP leadership aide said at noontime Saturday that Boehner and Cantor did not send Obama a revised proposal to raise the debt-limit, as the president requested.

[andyk]

LOL, they missed an arbitrary deadline set by someone who has no authority over them.

[Xyz22]

The deadline came and went Saturday morning without a response from House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when Sat came and went and Obozo got nothing. I bet his kids learned some new words!

[MestaMachine]

He is having a huge birthday gala on Aigust 3. HE wanted this by August 2 so he wouldn’t have to cancel it, but it looks like he won’t get it and I bet he has the party anyway.

[HChampagne]

Force the DEMs to vote on CutCap&Balance.

[InterceptPoint]

The legislation would cut $111 billion in fiscal year 2012, cap spending at 18 percent of gross domestic product by 2021 and would authorize a $2.4 trillion increase in the debt limit after Congress passes a balanced budget amendment.
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Is this some sort of a GOP joke? $111 billion cut in 2012, some future target that will be quickly forgotten and a balanced budget amendment that will get zero Dem votes. And Obama rewarded with authorization to keep right on spending $1.6 trillion a year for the next year and a half.

Some deal. I expected better,

[InterceptPoint]

The legislation would cut $111 billion in fiscal year 2012, cap spending at 18 percent of gross domestic product by 2021 and would authorize a $2.4 trillion increase in the debt limit after Congress passes a balanced budget amendment.
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Is this some sort of a GOP joke? $111 billion cut in 2012, some future target that will be quickly forgotten and a balanced budget amendment that will get zero Dem votes. And Obama rewarded with authorization to keep right on spending $1.6 trillion a year for the next year and a half.

Some deal. I expected better,

[InterceptPoint]

The legislation would cut $111 billion in fiscal year 2012, cap spending at 18 percent of gross domestic product by 2021 and would authorize a $2.4 trillion increase in the debt limit after Congress passes a balanced budget amendment.
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Is this some sort of a GOP joke? $111 billion cut in 2012, some future target that will be quickly forgotten and a balanced budget amendment that will get zero Dem votes. And Obama rewarded with authorization to keep right on spending $1.6 trillion a year for the next year and a half.

Some deal. I expected better,

[InterceptPoint]

Oops. I guess I haven’t quite mastered posting from my iPad.

[livius]

Deadline for what? The GOP has already submitted a budget to the COB, and it was reviewed. Obama and the Dems are the ones who have submitted absolutely NO budget.

This is a violation of the law and nobody is calling Obama on it.

It’s insane that he is suddenly accusing the GOP of not submitting a budget. They did, he didn’t.

[Atlantan]

More about the BD party. With a poll—How much would you spend to go to Obama’s BD party?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/07/14/2011-07-14_president_barack_obama_to_throw_50th_birthday_party_in_chicago_a_fundraiser_for_.html

[tutstar]

Muslimessiah

[dandiegirl]

Love those poll results! I hope his party is half empty like that auditorium he spoke in recently.

[mark3681]

$25 6%
$50 4%
$100 7%
$300 2%
$500 4%
$1,000 4%
I’d pay more than $1,000 9%
Nothing. I wouldn’t go even if someone paid ME. 64%

[TheOldLady]

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[dusttoyou]

Precisely!!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Evil Slayer.

Instead, Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) plan to move the Cut, Cap and Balance Act on the floor next week, which would require passage of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution before the debt limit is raised.

Zero, about your bluff -- shove it up your ass.

[Publius Maximus]

If I were Boehner, I'd say,

"Sorry, we've given up on the lecture sit-ins. We're just going to move forward with solutions as we see them. The President is welcome to lead from behind on this, too, if he wants."

[RockinRight]

Instead, Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) plan to move the Cut, Cap and Balance Act on the floor next week, which would require passage of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution before the debt limit is raised.

So instead of giving Obama some bogus bullshit proposal today, they're taking real action this week and sending him a bill. Which he'll promptly veto. Sounds like he's the loser in the room to me.

By the way, what are the chances the GOP in the House and Senate could get enough Dems on their side to override and Obama veto? I'd pay good money to see his reaction if they did that!

[B.O. Plenty]

Maybe Boehner et al have finally come to their senses and are moving the Constitutional authority to set the financial policies of the US back where it belongs...to the Congress of the United States.

The White house is not mentioned in art.1 sec 8......so Zer0 has no business in any of these "negotiations"

[RockinRight]

No worries, I do it from my Android all the time, I think I broke the FR record of multiple posts.