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Boehner: 'I Did My Part'
CNS News.com ^ | December 20, 2012 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 12/20/2012 12:59:47 PM PST by Hojczyk

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) said 'I did my part’ in negotiations with President Barack Obama to avert the fiscal cliff by offering a proposal to raise taxes on millionaires.

Just hours before the House plans to vote on the Speaker’s “Plan B,” which will raise the marginal tax rate for people earning $1 million or more per year to 39.6 percent, Boehner said Republicans have done “everything we can” to avoid the fiscal cliff.

The fiscal cliff refers to the expiration of the Bush tax rates and the start of automatic spending cuts (sequestration) on Jan. 2, unless Congress and the White House act. The tax issues also include the child tax deduction; the end of the 10 percent bracket; and the Alternative Minimum Tax.

“President Obama and Senate Democrats haven’t done much of anything,” Boehner said during a Capitol Hill press conference today. “Their Plan B is to slow walk us over the fiscal cliff.”

“For weeks the White House has said that if I moved on rates, that they would make substantial concessions on spending cuts and entitlement reform,” Boehner said.

“I did my part,” he said. “They’ve done nothing.”

“The president’s last offer of $1.3 trillion in new revenue [taxes] with only $850 billion worth of spending reductions fails to meet the test of ‘balanced’ that he continues to call for.”

“Frankly,” Boehner continued, “I’m convinced that the president is unwilling to stand up to his own party on the big issues that face our country. Time is running short.”

“The House will act today and it’ll be up to the Senate Democrats and the White House to act,” he said.

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To: Hojczyk

Democrats (All the time): “Tax the rich!”

Republicans (Plan B): “Tax the rich!”

What’s the difference?


21 posted on 12/20/2012 1:17:07 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile has killed more people than my guns.)
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To: Hojczyk
Good for Boehner.

So the Senate is adjourning.

The House will remain tomorrow after tonite's vote and work on the sequester.

So we have the days ahead to say "we're working still on this and the Senate is vacationing."

Good strategy IMO.

22 posted on 12/20/2012 1:18:42 PM PST by what's up
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To: sickoflibs

yep...(bump)


23 posted on 12/20/2012 1:19:30 PM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: apillar
Boehner could give Obama 100% of what he's asked for and Obama would just threaten a veto and move the goalposts. I think Obama WANTS to go over the so called fiscal cliff, because he gets two things democrats have been dreaming of for a decade, massive defense cuts and across the board tax increases when the bush cuts expire (don't believe for a second that Obama really cares about the middle class, revenue is revenue, he just wants Republican's to get the blame).

Exactly!!!

24 posted on 12/20/2012 1:19:40 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

I like the plan...maybe you didn’t get that from what I said. We do what WE think is right and go home and let them play their little media political game all by themselves.

I just think that we should be playing hardball. You f@#k us on this cliff deal and we f#$k you for the next two years on the debt ceiling. NO RAISES.


25 posted on 12/20/2012 1:20:34 PM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: Truth is a Weapon

that’s exactly right, and it’s why I am puzzled why so many Republicans seem to think it would be smart to walk away from the deal the White House offered Boehner, which frankly was very close to the deal Boehner offered the White House?

If we go over the cliff because the Republicans say, “Hell No, we won’t go!” then really what have we accomplished?? Isn’t a compromise with Obama better than what current law has in it, which is a reversion to 2000??


26 posted on 12/20/2012 1:20:34 PM PST by babble-on
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To: sickoflibs
Tell certain clueless Republicans to STOP CALLING FOR HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO DRIVE US OFF THE CLIFF!

It would be a better idea to define what "the cliff" actually is. The only cliff here is the same cliff we saw 16 months ago. The cliff has nothing to do with tax rates or spending cuts. The only "cliff" here is in regard to continuing to print up more money to fund government. If Boehner would simply announce that it is time to cut up the government credit card, he would have the support of the American people. Instead, he allows Obama to define it as something that it is not.

This whole charade is cover for the biggest tax increase of all - the devaluation of the currency. Give Obama anything else, but DO NOT give him the ability to expand our money supply by another $5 trillion.

27 posted on 12/20/2012 1:21:47 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: Perkalong

Excuse me, this hating Republicans is out of control here on FR. Why don’t you wish for destruction of the Democrat party? These are the true evil ones.


28 posted on 12/20/2012 1:21:58 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: tennmountainman

What are you talking about?

What do you think is the best approach to this situation? Ceasing negotiations and getting blamed for an utterly massive tax hike?


29 posted on 12/20/2012 1:22:23 PM PST by babble-on
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To: Perkalong

I agree. Bonehead has been so out front and so overexposed, that
the Public will blame him and the GOP, because he HAS BECOME
the face of the cliff. And his desperation has showed.


30 posted on 12/20/2012 1:22:28 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: Arm_Bears
The difference is that thousands of small businesses are protected this way.

The less vulnerable (millionaires, billionaires) are clever enough to shield themselves. They're smarter...which is why they're where they are.

The mid-level businesses would be protected by this bill and as a result there will far less people being fired.

31 posted on 12/20/2012 1:22:38 PM PST by what's up
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To: tennmountainman

And who the frick is Levin?


32 posted on 12/20/2012 1:23:12 PM PST by babble-on
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To: Hojczyk

He and the rest of the Rinos did their part in throwing the game.


33 posted on 12/20/2012 1:23:51 PM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: babble-on

It is a meaningless vote that puts his members in a bad position of voting for a Tax increase.
Do what Dirty Harry just did. Send his members home.


34 posted on 12/20/2012 1:24:36 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: Truth is a Weapon

The Senate passed a bill months ago!


35 posted on 12/20/2012 1:25:06 PM PST by babble-on
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To: sickoflibs

“Tell certain clueless Republicans to STOP CALLING FOR HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO DRIVE US OFF THE CLIFF!”

Better hold one cause that’s exactly where we’re going.

I called and wrote my congressman today to tell him not to vote for raising taxes.

The better course is to let Obama own it.


36 posted on 12/20/2012 1:26:33 PM PST by bestintxas (Anyone who votes for Obama after these 4 miserable years needs to take a mandatory citizenship test.)
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To: Perkalong
The House should simply pass a balance budget (one that doesn’t raise taxes) and let the government shut down if necessary until Senator Reid and President Obama surrender.

Amen, amen, and amen!

37 posted on 12/20/2012 1:27:22 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: tennmountainman

Voting for a tax increase?? Taxes are going to go up 4 times as much if they DON’T vote for it.

Anything that stops a compromise with the White House is a vote for the biggest tax increase of all!!

We rolled the dice in 2011 that we would win the White House in 2012 and we’d be able to craft our own solution to the fiscal cliff. Well, we lost. So now you want to murder the US economy with massive tax hikes in order to say you didn’t vote for a much smaller one? Are you stupid?>>


38 posted on 12/20/2012 1:28:18 PM PST by babble-on
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To: babble-on

Mark Levin, the best talk show host in radio.
Served in the Reagan Administration under Ed Meese at the
Justice department. If u would like to listen, tune-in
to WABC Radio from 6-9 PM EDT. You might learn a few things.
BTW, if the vote happens tonight while he is on air, he said
he will name names of conservatives who voted for this Charade.


39 posted on 12/20/2012 1:28:34 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: Hojczyk

Boehner’s mistake all along has been to negotiate with the president. The president, i.e. the executive, should play no part in the crafting of legislation (other than persuading individual members). The president’s only role in legislation is to sign a bill or reject a bill with his objections. If the president wants to legislate, let him go back to the senate.

Boehner is finally doing the right thing in having the actually vote on something. It is not a “political stunt” or an “exercise in futility.” It is their governmental function. Whether the president vetoes it should it get to him or if the senate fails to take up the bill is not the consern of the House. Once the House passes a bill, that is the end of it for them unless it comes back to them from either the senate or the president. Apparantly neither will be happening so Boehner is doing his part. Whether the bill is any good is a different question.

Regular legislative order is the key to liberty. No surprise that Obama and the democrats are working to undermine it.


40 posted on 12/20/2012 1:29:23 PM PST by cotton1706
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