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WASHINGTON Speaker John A. Boehner, the man who spent significant portions of the last Congress shuttling to and from the White House for fiscal talks with President Obama that ultimately failed twice to produce a grand bargain, has come around to the idea that the best negotiations are no negotiations.
As the president and Congressional Democrats have tried to force Mr. Boehner back to the table for talks to head off the automatic budget cuts set to take effect on Friday, Mr. Boehner has instead dug in deeper, refusing to even discuss an increase in revenue and insisting in his typical colorful language that it was time for the Senate to produce a measure aimed at the cuts.
The revenue issue is now closed, Mr. Boehner said Thursday, before the House left town for the weekend without acting on the cuts and a Senate attempt to avert them died. Mr. Boehner said the dispute with Democrats amounted to a question of how much more money do we want to steal from the American people to fund more government.
Im for no more, he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/us/politics/house-republicans-cheer-boehners-refusal-to-negotiate-on-cuts.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=print
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)That's pretty provocative language. And I don't mean provocative in the sense that it provokes thoughts; rather it provokes anger. Taxes are the price you pay for living in a civilized society. Civilization exists to protect the poor and to enable social mobility (obviously it's not necessarily good at this, depending on the civilization).
What a jackass.
Bryant
spanone
(135,846 posts)i believe we should do away with any revenues that go to pay congress salaries.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I say the first cuts should be their paychecks.
How many of us could conduct ourselves the same way these clowns have done and keep our jobs?
I think Boehner is the worst speaker in my lifetime.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)A second stunt would reveal the security guard, a box for our belongings and the door.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)GOP thinks they should not.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... what else would any sane person expect?
Us "dumbass liberals" have been warning the "bi-partisan" surrender monkeys that this would happen for years. They "knew better."
And they are still singing the same failed song.