Posted on 10/30/2015 12:16:44 PM PDT by bestintxas
Now-former House Speaker John Boehner says that he came to Washington to fight for a smaller, less costly and more accountable government, and now that he's leaving the House, that still hasn't happened.
"I began to realize over the years there is no winning this fight," Boehner said in an interview with Fox News' Bill Hemmer on Thursday, just after his replacement, Paul Ryan, took the gavel. The fight has been going on for over 200 years in Washington, he told Hemmer in the interview, which aired on Friday on the network's "America's Newsroom" program, and "it will be a constant struggle over how big should Washington be, how much should it take?"
Boehner said his biggest regret for the time he was speaker was the failure to reach the so-called "Grand Bargain," in 2012, which would have been an agreement with President Barack Obama and congressional leaders to curb spending while reducing the national debt and avoiding sequestration.
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Hey Now! He is NOT from my city, he isnt even our representative. He is from up north some in the Lebanon area.
That is what happens when you lower the taxes of the people who run both parties. Corporate GOPE and lib gentrys then do not care about he spending since they don’t pay so much in taxes. That is something we forgot. If you want to get them serious about cutting wasteful taxes then you have to raise taxes on them and make them pay for it. That should be our new strategy. And how about stop smearing us in you establishment press and sealing the borders too.
Makes absolute sense. I saved all your posts and downloaded the book.
exactly
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