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Boehner comments show tough road ahead for "fiscal cliff" talks
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Posted on 11/22/2012 8:33:45 PM PST by Arthurio

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1 posted on 11/22/2012 8:33:52 PM PST by Arthurio
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Boehner's comments show it won't be easy to reach a deal on the thorny tax and spending issues, said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Potomac Research Group in Washington.

HorseFeathers!!! Why is it always up to the GOP to "compromise" with Husein the statist. He's taken tax cuts off the table, won't negotiate on 0bamacare or do anything to avert the fiscal cliff, yet it's always the GOP who are obstructionist. He acts like he has a decisive mandate when in reality he skated in by a few percentage points because he won places like Philly with 108% of the vote!!!! (Nothing to see there, move along....)

None of this matters though because the MSM acts as if the community organizer won in a landslide, and sadly so do Boehner and the GOP.

I'm getting to the point where I no longer even debate with liberals, I hope 0boober gets all he wants and we go right over the cliff.

2 posted on 11/22/2012 8:42:41 PM PST by YankeeReb
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-— I’m getting to the point where I no longer even debate with liberals, I hope 0boober gets all he wants and we go right over the cliff. -—

It’s just a matter of time now. Obama fundamentally transformed America, as promised.

On the plus side, he may have converted a slow, 50-year decline, into a rapid five-year collapse, resulting in the death of socialism. That’s my hope.

Never thought I’d live to see this.


3 posted on 11/22/2012 8:50:43 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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It’ll be easy to reach a deal alright.

What won’t be easy is how to position that smoke and mirrors so as to fool the stock, bond and currency traders into thinking something of substance has transpired.

The American public, well, they’re easily fooled so no worries there.


4 posted on 11/22/2012 8:51:16 PM PST by MichaelCorleone ('We the People' can and will take this country back...starting today.)
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To: Arthurio; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; Gilbo_3; NFHale; Impy; ...
Considering that O was re-elected for no good reasons and Bohners history of negotiations with Dems have been disastrous so far I cant helping thinking :

Lets go off the cliff, to hell with it. If GWB was responsible for the bad economy at the end of his term then why try to save O from his? Let him worry about his legacy.

Anyone see a good ending for us here?

5 posted on 11/22/2012 8:51:53 PM PST by sickoflibs (How long before cry-Bohner caves to O again? They took the House for what?)
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The one silver lining of Obama winning, besides not having Romney as President, is it gives us the opportunity to have another huge midterm, take the Senate and start 2016 as the favorites.

It won’t happen automatically GOP must not F up.


6 posted on 11/22/2012 9:02:56 PM PST by Impy (Boehner for President - 2013)
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I predict a tourniquet will be applied at the last day, but in the long run it won’t matter, for the patient will still bleed to death. When, is anybody’s guess. The GOP “leadership” will surely fail us again and again.


7 posted on 11/22/2012 9:12:05 PM PST by Theodore R. ("Hey, they must all be crazy out there!")
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

My father told me over thirty yrs ago that it was a waste of time to try to put sense in a liberal’s head or argue with them Their mind is made up and they refuse to considr anything else,


8 posted on 11/22/2012 9:15:45 PM PST by RightLady
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He was right. I finally figured that out after a few decades.

I tell my wife not to bother.

Just prepare, and let them “return to their vomit.”


9 posted on 11/22/2012 9:19:24 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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RE :”The one silver lining of Obama winning, besides not having Romney as President, is it gives us the opportunity to have another huge midterm, take the Senate and start 2016 as the favorites. It won’t happen automatically GOP must not F up.”

Here are a few basic questions I have been pondering:

How does Obama lose? Bad economy?

How do Republicans help this along without getting the blame?

If GWB got responsibility for the bad economy in 2008 ( not totally unreasonable) then should Bohner get it if it goes bad the next few years or Obama?? (OK, a rhetorical question) .

One important factor I noticed between 2011 (to now) and 2007 to 2008: Polls showed that most Americans thought that Republicans were in control of congress in 2007 and 2008, but most Americans think that Republicans are in control of congress the past two years too. Dems wanted it this way.
This is something totally missed by Republicans (but not by me!).
Dems know that if they don't have absolute power then they need to convince voters that its the Rs who are in charge of the unpopular split congress, not them. Republicans are not that smart.

10 posted on 11/22/2012 9:28:52 PM PST by sickoflibs (How long before cry-Bohner caves to O again? They took the House for what?)
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Boner's busy packin’ his personal parachute for when he helps push us off that cliff.
11 posted on 11/22/2012 10:23:07 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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... GOP must not F up.

I'll be holding my breath...

12 posted on 11/22/2012 10:27:14 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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Anyone see a good ending for us here?

Nope.

13 posted on 11/22/2012 10:29:08 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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By 2008, the Sheeple had already soured on Bush, so it wasn’t hard to convince them to pin everything bad - including a worldwide real estate bubble meltdown - on him.


14 posted on 11/22/2012 11:32:32 PM PST by Arthurio
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Words are not Actions.

Actions are not Results.

Expectation here is only for tears.

15 posted on 11/23/2012 12:44:34 AM PST by jamaksin
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We need to jump over the fiscal cliff. We need to deleverage our debt below the 77% debt-to-GDP on our soveriegn and get out from under the 350% debt-to-GDP on the TCMDO.

This means spending cuts AND more taxes, both of which are in the "fiscal cliff."

Nothing is going to stop the long-wave contraction; the tussling up on Capital Hill is fiddlers playing and rearranging chairs as they try to pretend they didn't hit an iceberg.

16 posted on 11/23/2012 12:47:04 AM PST by TheWriterTX (Riding the Long-Wave Economic Contraction, Baby!)
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Let it burn.


17 posted on 11/23/2012 2:24:11 AM PST by circlecity
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"Boehner's comments show it won't be easy to reach a deal "

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18 posted on 11/23/2012 3:03:56 AM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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19 posted on 11/23/2012 3:04:18 AM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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Boehner will fold like an origamist paper project.


20 posted on 11/23/2012 5:10:35 AM PST by chainsaw ("Two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by Obama")
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