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Boehner: Debt Ceiling Increase Obama's Problem (Boehner won't get fooled again)
fox news ^ | 7/12/2011 | fox news

Posted on 07/12/2011 9:42:15 AM PDT by tobyhill

House Speaker John Boehner is turning up the heat on President Obama, calling the debt-ceiling increase "his problem" and putting the onus on him to present a deficit-reduction plan that can pass Congress.

Republicans in both chambers had tough words for the administration ahead of another White House sit-down Tuesday afternoon. On the Senate floor, GOP Leader Mitch McConnell accused the president and his party of "deliberate deception."

The comments may reflect increasing pressure from rank-and-file Republicans to press for deeper spending cuts and not cave in to the administration's call for tax hikes.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhoeconomy; bhofail; boehner; debtceiling; obama; obamadepression
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To: tcrlaf
PREDICTION: Obama will fold like a house of cards just before his Ramadan Vacation begins, and the MSM will tell us for the entire month of August how BRAVE Obama was, and What a LEADER Obama was, just like after Obamacare passed....

Obama will fold and then claim he didn't and move on. Don't expect any epiphany from Odumbo the Magic Mulatto. The MSM will cover for him and only the hardcore left will have their panties in knot that they cam real close further Marxism deconstruction. Obama gave the Republicans a gift. There used to be a old Reagan era axiom that get the Democrats talking on taxes and you got them.

21 posted on 07/12/2011 10:42:34 AM PDT by pburgh01
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To: tobyhill

Keep on keeping on Boehner, you are getting someplace


22 posted on 07/12/2011 11:09:49 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: TheOldLady
LOL on your "Someone is wrong on the Internet" cartoon!
23 posted on 07/12/2011 11:55:45 AM PDT by Prince Caspian
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To: ConservativeDude; Signalman
You guys need to eat crow. Your boy McConnell is already bending over.

It's time to burn Mitch McConnell in effigy...

24 posted on 07/12/2011 12:09:08 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2012)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I suspect you have been guppied again.

You are so desperate for the GOP to fail that you will believe anything negative.

25 posted on 07/12/2011 12:19:33 PM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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To: proud American in Canada
When was that picture taken?

He’s so childish, with the middle finger all the time. What an embarrassment.


While I believe he has flipped the bird several times, this is actually just a semi-famous photoshop. Somebody removed a finger so it looks like his middle finger is the only finger that's up, but you can see that it's altered, they didn't do a very good job. The original is easy to find.

It's telling that this is believable though. I even thought for a few seconds that it was real the first time I saw it until I took a closer look.
26 posted on 07/12/2011 12:36:20 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; Redleg Duke

Yeah, and in December all those people who said McConnell and Boehner would cave and end the Bush tax cuts were proved right!

Oh hey, wait a minute...


27 posted on 07/12/2011 12:37:20 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: andy58-in-nh
but it won't matter as long as Boehner and McConnell stick to their guns.

They will only stick to their guns as long as we make them stick to their guns. This is a problem with a lot of Republican politicians these days. The moment we look away, they will slack off.
28 posted on 07/12/2011 12:38:04 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

of course that “could” happen, but there is nothing in that link to Redstate that is substantive. It’s just hearsay and rhetoric.

Of course, again, we know from history that it “could” happen.

But if the GOP caves, then not only will Obama be re-elected, but the GOP will ensure the rise of a (small, but very damaging to the GOP) third party.....I think the pols know that, and since the only thing that motivates them is their jobs, I don’t look to them to cave. (But we’ll see).


29 posted on 07/12/2011 12:41:28 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

How much did you stock up for Y2K back in the day...because you are far too easily fooled by internet drivel.


30 posted on 07/12/2011 12:44:36 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Prince Caspian; STARWISE

I wish it were mine, your Majesty. FReeper STARWISE gave it me to post.


31 posted on 07/12/2011 12:56:54 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: ConservativeDude

“(Problem is, Obama knows that if he “caves” the the House GOP he will lose re-election. But I think I am starting to see what Rush and others have been saying....Obama is going to lose no matter what, and this week’s events are merely clarifying that).”

And Boehner “caving” will only insure that both Obama AND Boehner will lose their relection bids, despite the MSM talking points predicting a Obama win in that circumstance.


32 posted on 07/12/2011 1:08:32 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (Palin/West 2012)
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To: Signalman

I doubt they understand the principle involved, but as long as they take the right actions, OK.


33 posted on 07/12/2011 1:23:04 PM PDT by fnord (Republicans are just the right-wing of the left-wing of American politics)
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To: TheOldLady; Prince Caspian

34 posted on 07/12/2011 1:30:40 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker downa)
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To: Forty-Niner

And Boehner “caving” will only insure that both Obama AND Boehner will lose their relection bids, despite the MSM talking points predicting a Obama win in that circumstance.”

I’m not so sure...I think a Boehner cave might well hand a victory to Obama, in the same way a Bush cave on “no new taxes” gave the Democrats victory on that point, AND gave the White House to Clinton (via Perot, obviously, but still).

Bottom line, though, I really think the GOP has the better poker hand here.


35 posted on 07/12/2011 1:55:19 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: ConservativeDude

“Bottom line, though, I really think the GOP has the better poker hand here.”

No arguement there......I do too! They just need the stones to play it!


36 posted on 07/12/2011 11:44:27 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (Palin/West 2012)
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To: tobyhill

All the GOP needs to do to “put the screws to him” is to STAND FIRM.


37 posted on 07/13/2011 12:22:09 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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