Somebody better keep John Boehner away from the eggnog, as the House Speaker desperately tried to blame the president by telling him to get serious about the fiscal cliff.
Here is the video:
Boehner said,
Republicans continue to work towards avoiding the fiscal cliff. The president’s offer of $1.3 trillion in revenues and $850 billion in spending reductions fails to meet the test that the president promised the American people. A balanced approach. And I hope the president will get serious soon about providing and working with us on a balanced approach.
Tomorrow, the House will pass to make permanent tax relief for nearly every American, 99.81% of the American people. Then the president will have a decision to make. He can call on Senate Democrats to pass that bill, or he can be responsible for the largest tax increase in American history.
Boehner left out the third possibility. Obama made a proposal that offered real compromise, is waiting for Republicans to reject it, and then get everything he wants when the country goes off the fiscal cliff. Speaker Boehner has been telling his caucus since the end of the election that they will be blamed if the country goes over the cliff, so his tough talk today is especially meaningless.
Rep. Boehner’s words were the empty posturings of a desperate man. During his press conference today, President Obama stressed what a reasonable offer he made to the Republicans. This lends credibility to the suspicion that Obama’s proposal was nothing more than political gamesmanship designed to help Republicans paint themselves into a corner.
Speaker Boehner must have had his beer goggles on if he thinks his “Plan B” looks like a serious solution in any way, shape, or form.
It takes a lot of nerve, or maybe spiked eggnog, for John Boehner to tell Obama to “get serious” when his House of Representatives is about to pass a bill that contains no spending cuts.
Boehner’s joke of a plan isn’t fooling anybody, and his empty bluster is an insult to the intelligence of the American people.
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djchefron
Dec. 19th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
President Obama called his economic together and did this
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Ardyann
Dec. 19th, 2012 at 9:33 pm
Permanent tax relief for 99.1% of the American people? That is truly insane! I can see why Grover Norquist is “bending” in order to favor it. There is no bend there. It would basically be no different than the Norquist pledge…even better, they think, because it would rope the Democrats in on it, too.
It wouldn’t take them long to give permanent tax relief to that last .9%, either.
President Obama does not need to “get serious”. He already is. We re-elected an intelligent, caring President for four more years, and it’s a good thing we did. Whew!
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Kevin Shinn
Dec. 20th, 2012 at 6:43 am
Serious. That word, Mr Boehner, you keep using it; I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Anne
Dec. 20th, 2012 at 9:06 am
John “Bonehead” Boehner is the one who needs to get serious. He is so wedded to his regressive ideology that he’s incapable of putting forth any reasonable offer. He’s between a rock and a hard place, because neither the president nor his hard-right fellow GOP representatives like his ideas for different reasons. He is in the position he’s in at this point, and he has no one to blame but himself and the crazy Tea Partiers who have no business in government because they think compromise is their way or the highway. He is the most inept Speaker of the House I have ever seen in my lifetime because he puts party and ideology before country.
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M.R.M
Dec. 20th, 2012 at 11:27 am
WOW! are speaker, is a domestic terrorist! taliban boehner! come on 2014!!!
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norleen gray
Dec. 20th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
GET SERIOUS,your getting so boring dragging this out longer than it ever needed to be!!!
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djchefron
Dec. 20th, 2012 at 9:57 pm
‘Plan B’ Vote Postponed In House
The orange one couldnt get the votes.HA-HA. Just like I and everyone with an IQ over 50 said would happen
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Basheert
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 12:58 pm
It’s been obvious for a long time that Boehner has no way to control his GOPers. A Speaker of the House is supposed to be able to get things done. He can’t. For the last 2 years he has been herding cats….and drinking probably more than most human beings should be doing.
He is largely ineffective – but look at who he is working with? The TeaBaggers forced their “Chuckleheads” into the House and instead of even making an attempt to govern, they are simply sitting on their hands and acting like spoiled toddlers having a rolling temper tantrum.
I don’t know why Boehner would even want to be Speaker with these clowns. Of course he IS a clown so perhaps it reinforces his identity.
In some ways I pity him – he is a very pitiful person.
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Andrew Rei
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Here’s a letter I sent to the President last night:
Mr. President:
I realize that you said, in a press conference recently, that the GOP need to stop acting as though they’re giving something to you and do what’s good for the country. That philosophy won’t work, Mr. President.
You must come to the realization, Mr. President, that 47% of the voters voted for the other guy, Mittens the Liar Rmoney, last month. You must also realize that they really didn’t vote FOR Mittens, they voted AGAINST you.
Although more than half of the GOP voters are moderates, the GOP in Congress are not. Those people populate the other two factions of the GOP, the “Cons” (Conservative Wrong-Wing Nut Jobs/Avarice-Fueled Aristocrats) and the “Baggers” (Tea Party Militia/Teabaggers/ Extremist and Ignorant Idiots). You may have heard of the so-called GOP “Civil War”…the Cons and Baggers are on one side of that war, fighting the moderates on the other.
Please remember that many of the policies on which you campaigned have at least 60% support of the American people. Now is NOT the time to give in to the Republicans…now is the time to take a hard line with them. The GOP have no interest in helping you, Mr. President…nor do they have any interest in helping the American public. There are only three groups of “people” that the GOP represent: fetuses, angry rich old white men and big corporations. The party has 8 cornerstones: bigotry, hypocrisy, elitism, fascism, greed, corruption, incompetence and arrogance.
Because of the current political realities, I have several suggestions. The first is an omnibus tax bill, one that I proposed to you earlier this year. Since it appears that we’ll go over the fiscal cliff/slope/curb/molehill, here’s the plan again, just updating it:
Reinstitute the Bush 43 tax cuts for the first $250,000 of income. Because the GOP is so resistant to raising taxes on the rich and big corporations (the “Job Creators”) and those two groups of “people”…
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clarence swinney
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 4:13 pm
TAX RATES
We hear about lowest tax rates in 50 years.
True. Not this fiscal year.
2009 was recent record low
14000 Income took 2100 In taxes or 15%
Borrowed 1400B
2013 projects 2900B taxes or 21% effective tax rate
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clarence swinney
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 4:14 pm
I posted spending by % listed Bush I It is II
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Dave
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 8:36 pm
Did Boehner even see how the election went? He’s there to represent not to dictate! Over 51% aggreed with Taxing the top 2% of the nation. To give a tax break to the middle class or 98%.
We need to get a new speaker of the house in 2013 if this nut job and the right wing don’t do what we elected them to.
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G
Dec. 22nd, 2012 at 8:02 am
Mr. Boehner
Can you please stop acting worse then a five year old thats wants candy but can not have it and allow the top 2% tax payers to pay there fair share of taxes by paying mmore. It is enoughas enough with you trying to Blame everyone else for te problems when it is you an d you alone that is the problem now grow up and allow the top %2 to have the tax increase. You are being a baby if you can not stand the heat it is time for you to get of of the kitcken.
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Ronald
Dec. 23rd, 2012 at 4:55 am
The House of Representatives choose who the speaker of the house will be and the Constitution does not
require that the Speaker be an elected Member of Congress. Now the scarey part, the Speaker is second in the United States presidential line of succession, after the Vice President.
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