"Negotiations? We don't need no steenking negotiations!!"
Posted on 12/24/2012 12:08:49 AM PST by Kaslin
Statesmanship at its finest: during fiscal cliff talks, President Obama reportedly told Speaker Boehner that he would use his two major speeches in January to blame Republicans for the stalled deal. According to the Wall Street Journal, the president wasn't too happy with the options House Republicans were willing to present, and made it clear he was willing to throw the GOP under the bus for the nation's financial woes.
Mr. Obama repeatedly lost patience with the speaker as negotiations faltered. In an Oval Office meeting last week, he told Mr. Boehner that if the sides didn't reach agreement, he would use his inaugural address and his State of the Union speech to tell the country the Republicans were at fault.
At one point, according to notes taken by a participant, Mr. Boehner told the president, "I put $800 billion [in tax revenue] on the table. What do I get for that?"
"You get nothing," the president said. "I get that for free."
Sounds like those talks are going really well.
In seriousness, the article makes clear that the president has refused any and all deals Boehner has offered, even those in which Republicans capitulated on tax hikes for the wealthy, an Obama staple. It's clear that the president and the House are both unwilling to bend to one anothers' terms, and it's disconcerting to see that Obama would rather use his platform to keep pointing fingers than for some more inspiring message, nevermind swallowing his pride and accepting a semi-viable deal.
Obama claims to have modeled himself after Lincoln, but it certainly doesn't sound like he's minding his favored predecessor's example of how to compose a second inaugural address in times of turmoil:
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Imagine the man who spoke those words coming before his country in a time of distress and blaming a rival political party for all the nation's ills; it's impossible. Obama is a well-known admirer of the Lincoln biography "Team of Rivals," but while he's talking to the other side, he seems unwilling to listen. Apparently, he's content with laying blame and saving face at the expense of the nation's financial health.
What I’m wondering is who is going to give the Republican response?
This is a sterling opportunity here if the right person does it. The person needs to be a solid, rock-ribbed conservative.
Maybe it should be Jim DeMint as he is on his way out the door anyway.
The person should be able to list all the proposals, studies, analyses that have been done (e.g. Simpson/Bowles) that Ears has rejected.
It’s time to call out Ears on what he has been doing, as Reagan said, in bold colors. There should be no mystery, no wiggle room, for Ears and his cohorts, Stretch and the Undertaker.
If Ears truly does this during the State of the Union speech, the entire Republican caucus should walk out.
I’m not kidding.
HHC’s husband
They could claim to have a concussion from playing golf, and having a tragic golfing accident.
I think that the every Republican should not show up, and claim they had a pressing golf game they had to attend...
DING DING DING
This should be the standard reply ANY TIME obama’s office calls
“Ears”, “Stretch”, and “The Undertaker”.
I laughed out loud. That is great.
I know exactly who each refers to.
I am going to use it. We should all make it stick.
I would be happy if they would shout “You LIE!” at every lie he speaks. This, of course, would make it a very long night.
And point the cameras at the teleprompter.
He’s a community organizer. Never been anything more or anything less.
Lot's of funny stuff in response to this article, BUT, consider what would happen if
(a) We had a wimp as Speaker - Bozo would get what he wants and while ignoring the constitution he would destroy America financially
(b) We had a Democrat controlled House as well as a Senate - we would descend into a Dictatorship in 2 years flat. He would ask for powers to be granted and would seize other powers that he wanted without regard. The Left is 'Deceitful' and Authoritarian to the bone.
"Negotiations? We don't need no steenking negotiations!!"
LLS
LLS
Even better, take the British example and when Barry arrives at the House chamber's doorway, slam the door in his face.
and the media continues to spew out it’s the TEA party and the right wing extremists fault.
The GOP house members should just yell, “ You lie “, after every sentence of his speech.
Traditional social values, including market economics, and the need to have local decisions on every local & immediate subject, not distant centralized bureaucratic decisions, govern. (It is also a lot cheaper to have welfare, education & medical care for those in genuine need, financed locally, rather than through incredibly wasteful bureaucracies. And most people can easily grasp that, if it is properly explained.)
We need to stop fearing a debate that we can win.
William Flax
Au contraire, FRiend -- his is the attitude of a punk kid who didn't get dragged behind the gymnasium for a by-the-numbers butt-whupping nearly often enough.
Touche'. That's a better answer.
Because I'm the Won....
Boehner allowed himself to be played. He stayed true to the high earners, and screwed everyone in the process.
Just wait till he gets to 2nd amendment stuff.
At one point, according to notes taken by a participant, Mr. Boehner told the president, "I put $800 billion [in tax revenue] on the table. What do I get for that?""You get nothing," the president said. "I get that for free."
This same POS was just as bis of an a$$hole when Bush was still President and the resident of the "newly created Office of the President Elect" demanded bailout money that he then blamed Bush for "spending".
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