Boehner Press Conference any moment now

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[RummyChick]

going on now

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Yep! Got Duke Nukem Forever last week so I will continue to kill martians in Las Vegas. Probably accomplish much more than our representatives.

[McGruff]

What emerges from the Senate will be much closer to Boehner than what Reid’s plan currently is.

My I wish I could foretell the future like you can.

[chris37]

WHOOT!

Long time battlefield vet here...since BF 1942 :DD

[ohioWfan]

Yes. JYO.

And IMO, wrong.

Not the place for this discussion, but the things you listed reflect different opinions and not a lack of concern for the country he loves.

It's important to make that distinction, even when discussing politics among fellow conservatives. Political views shouldn't trump actual character assessment. Ever.

[Prokopton]

The Republicans, again, have been briar patched. All the Dems want is to be able to spend more money without restraint. Boehner is handing that to them.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"I wonder how tea partiers would feel about this for starters.... Repeal the 1943 Current Payment Tax Act..."

Heck yeah. A large part of our problem is that people don't know what they're paying in taxes. In fact, come April 15, you'll hear all sorts of folks saying "I'm not paying anything this year, in fact I'm getting something back!" Idiots all.

Withholding was a huge enabler for the socialist machine.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Whatever happens on the bill is less important than who wins the spin. Neither side has the power to pass what they want.

[potlatch]

[clintonh8r]

I don’t understand how it remains Boehner’s bill after Reid has marked it up. Certainly if it went back to the house with tax increases it could no longer be called Boehner’s bill.

[RummyChick]

I am going to ask you a question. This is not a sarcastic question. It is made to make you think.

Let’s say Boehner’s bill cuts 50 Billion in 2012.It is actually lower than that but lets just use 50 billion as a figure.

Let’s say Boehner’s bill let’s Obama raise the debt ceiling 1 TRILLION dollars right now.

Is that enough of a spending cut for you???????????????????

Yes or no.

Because, those men you say you respect cannot force any future Congress to make those cuts.
It is against the law.

And if they haven’t made those cuts now..what makes you think they will in the future???

Listen to this rap song.

Remy: Raise The Debt Ceiling Rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoS52fVtVQM

Do you really really think THIS congress will do the right thing in the future if they wouldn’t do it now?

[Spunky]

LOL! Did you notice the day after Obama said “Eat your peas.” Google helped him out by making their Google image all out of peas in pods.

[casinva]

If I understand it all (and please someone feel free to correct me if needed), I believe the Senate could edit the Boehner bill, heck even gut it almost completely with just something small still intact, and so long as it got voted in, they could then send it back with it still being considered the Boehner bill since that was the foundation of which they had to work with. Reid would say he’s “incorporating” some changes into it. It would have Boehner’s name on it.

Now while that bill might not represent Boehner’s bill at all, and I believe the House has the right to reject it, he’s still rejecting something with his name attached to it, and the Dems will have a public relations hey day with that. “Well,” I can hear them saying, “The Republicans can’t even accept their own leader’s bill now!”

Kind of like a buyer who puts an offer on paper to buy a house. The seller gets the offer in writing then changes the price, adds additional downpayment amount, deletes any concessions like a carpeting allowance, and scratches off the part asking for some closing cost assistance, and then hands it back. While the offer is not the same, the paper it was written on is.

[MNDude]

great point. It is pure smoke and mirrors.

[mewzilla]

EVOLUTION OF FEDERAL INCOME TAX WITHHOLDING: THE MACHINERY OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE

A national effort needs to start to starve the beast.

[mewzilla]

And I'll throw this in for anyone who missed it...

Baseline Budgeting Makes Real Cuts Impossible in Washington

[potlatch]

Yeah, I did! They put up some cute images, except for omitting important patriotic ones sometimes.

[Spunky]

"Kind of like a buyer who puts an offer on paper to buy a house. The seller gets the offer in writing then changes the price, adds additional downpayment amount, deletes any concessions like a carpeting allowance, and scratches off the part asking for some closing cost assistance, and then hands it back. While the offer is not the same, the paper it was written on is."

I don't know if that could ever be done, but I do know not to ever accept an offer and then back out. Because if you do the Realtor that brought the buyer still gets his commission. I know of a person who did that and the seller even went to court thinking he had the right to back out and he lost and the Realtor got a whopping $40,000 commission anyway.

[clintonh8r]

Yes they would certainly attempt to tar Boehner with refusing to support “his own” bill, but that would be so transparently disingenuous that I don’t think that even the most dense mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging non-voter would fall for it.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Whatever happens on the bill is less important than who wins the spin. Neither side has the power to pass what they want.

If the GOP doesn't pass something in the House, it will be a lot easier for Obama to blame the pending higher interest rates on them.

Yes, I know that the real problem is spending, but it appears politically impossible to do much about that while the Dems have the senate and presidency.

[casinva]

Hey, the most dense mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging non-voters believed in “Hope and Change” too though. LOL