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Boehner on Hannity "We can't let perfect be the enemy of the good" (using Obama's phrases)
7/26/2011 | vanity

Posted on 07/26/2011 2:40:55 PM PDT by teg_76

He's using the same language that Obama used to sell Obamacare to the public.

Hannity gave both Cantor and Boehner total softball interviews. Very disapointed.

Bottom line: 5B in cuts next year for a 1000B debt limit raise today.


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To: Lauren BaRecall

The left does not believe in the black and white of right and wrong. Boner is falling into the moral relativist trap set by the left. He has been a politician too long and doesn’t think like a conservative anymore. He is too ready and willing to surrender some of his principle for expediency.


81 posted on 07/26/2011 3:51:08 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (SP12: They called Reagan "unelectable", too.)
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To: Michael Barnes

I like listening to Hannity, unless he has Karl Marxist Rove or Gingrich on. Then I tune-out for the moment.


82 posted on 07/26/2011 3:51:16 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: Deb

Your common sense (as always) brings to mind one of my theoretical observations.

We all love to talk about the failures of “compromise” but we also have to admit we only have one House and the No Action alternative has its problems as well as its good points.

Everyone from Bismark (I think he said it originally) to Russell Kirk says that while compromise often turns you away from principles, we have to recognize that “Politcs is the Art of the Possible” and Prudence comes into play at all levels of action for the conservative.

Even if the House took no action, I have no reason to believe whatever gyrations the Obama administration goes through would provide the needed course correction. It would all be as much Theater as we have had leading up to the problem. Only a new Senate majority and President with a forced Constitutional amendment will protect and correct his and Nancy and Harry’s actions from the past two years. The “no action” option, while satisfying, produces no change in the current administration.


83 posted on 07/26/2011 3:54:46 PM PDT by KC Burke
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To: Deb

You’re pathetic


84 posted on 07/26/2011 3:55:22 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Boehner

Drop by and try to take it out of my pocket, punk.

85 posted on 07/26/2011 3:57:48 PM PDT by I see my hands (Embrace misanthropy)
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To: Lauren BaRecall

Boehner has been for a multi-trillion dollar increase in the debt ceiling all along. This is publicly-available information. He lectured the new freshmen their first day on the Hill about how if they were adults they would raise it. That’s why every single plan that has been proffered has been to raise it.

So, in short, he is fighting. Just not on our side, or the side of our posterity’s prosperity and freedom.


86 posted on 07/26/2011 3:59:06 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (For decades they've kicked the can down the road. Sorry, but there's no more road.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

You said it, FRiend! He’s forgotten what principles really are. I do think, however, in his heart of hearts, he knows that we won’t settle for this latest travesty. I could hear the wavering “big sell” attempt in his voice. He *knows* we don’t want this.

The House MUST draw the line NOW!


87 posted on 07/26/2011 3:59:54 PM PDT by Lauren BaRecall (Boehner, you B@st@rd!)
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To: KC Burke
we only have one House

Right. The one with the purse-strings.

At least until the Democrat and Republican "leaders" hand that power over to a "bipartisan" committee of the elites of the elites.

88 posted on 07/26/2011 4:01:33 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (For decades they've kicked the can down the road. Sorry, but there's no more road.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that. The House must turn from him. The moment is here.


89 posted on 07/26/2011 4:06:46 PM PDT by Lauren BaRecall (Boehner, you B@st@rd!)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Dang good point.


91 posted on 07/26/2011 4:15:39 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: teg_76
Rush has used it many times before Obama came along.

It's been used on FR too because I know I've used it in the past dozen years!

92 posted on 07/26/2011 4:17:13 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Obama until 2017. It really could happen.)
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To: teg_76

BONE-us basically said that they can’t/won’t cut what past congress’s have passed............


93 posted on 07/26/2011 4:17:17 PM PDT by stockpirate (Republicans that vote for socialism, support socialists are socialists.)
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To: stockpirate
BONE-us basically said that they can’t/won’t cut what past congress’s have passed............

Wow.

94 posted on 07/26/2011 4:31:13 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (For decades they've kicked the can down the road. Sorry, but there's no more road.)
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To: teg_76
Boehner on Hannity "We can't let perfect be the enemy of the good" (using Obama's phrases)

What Boehner thinks is good, is really pathetic.

If Boehner wants to wait for a new president before we really start cutting then he should say so. And he should clearly state to the American people that this deal is not "good", it's dangerous, it's reckless and it's a dagger pointed at the heart of this countries future.

95 posted on 07/26/2011 5:16:44 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Siena Dreaming
Boehner’s right.

Boehner is wrong.

96 posted on 07/26/2011 5:18:05 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: KC Burke

You totally lost me. The “no action” means the debt ceiling remains and Obama can no longer borrow to propel his horrific spending. The debt ceiling acts as an immediate brake on spending. In fact, real cuts would have to occur since revenue equals only 60% of what Obama would spend each month.

No action = immediate deep spending cuts. This is why it is so critical for the Tea Party freshman to hammer Boner and make sure he does not surrender their power with any deal raising the current debt ceiling without immediate spending cuts.

How does this produce no change in the current administration? I don’t follow you.


97 posted on 07/26/2011 5:20:46 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (SP12: They called Reagan "unelectable", too.)
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To: FreeReign

Not only is Boehner wrong, he has missed his chance to tell the real truth to the American people! With $200 billion a month coming in to the federal coffers and nearly 40 billion a month due to pay our debt interest, the United States is not going to default. BUT, like any household over their head in debt the government will have to prioritize spending to make do on what revenues it has coming in. That John avoids telling that truth to the people when he had the chance indicates soemthing disturbing: is he playing US to avoid the hard choices the Tea Party is now entitled to for sweeping the D’s out of the HOuse control? I’m afraid John Boehner is an establishment Repubican (kudos to Levin for the word) and I no longer trust him. But I’m not sold on DeMInt’s approach either. We need major reductions in spending immediately, not a two year process to reach a balanced budget amendment.


98 posted on 07/26/2011 5:24:36 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: teg_76

So, Boehner’s definition of “good” is taking a meat ax to 1 freakin’ BILLION of spending in the first year! OK, so it’s not perfect, but with several thousand more of these prodigious cuts, we might reach solvency! Happy days!


99 posted on 07/26/2011 6:13:45 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("I'll just go back to the dream I was having, before love went astray." Al Stewart)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

I actually perfer tne No Action version, but out of Prudence I will take Cut, Cap and Balance with all its warts rather than wash out any majority unity in the House for later.

Under the No Action we still will have Obama doing the pick and chose and we will still have his administration and regulatory evils tne next month. A congress with enough of a record of some success at cost cutting will get us a better chance of a new Administration more to our likeing. Just because the discretionary funds won’t be there in the volume they are now doesn’t mean that the Obama juggernaut will stop.


100 posted on 07/26/2011 7:04:28 PM PDT by KC Burke
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