Boehner Ends Talks With Obama; Update: GOP Agreed to $800 Billion ‘Revenue’ Increase but Obama Wanted More
**Written by Doug Powers
So far I’m fairly impressed. I’m reminded of a variation on an old car commercial: “These aren’t your father’s Republicans.”
In this letter to his colleagues (PDF – h/t Right Scoop) , John Boehner explains why he’s abandoning negotiations with the White House.
Some are reporting this as “Boehner walks away” in order to make Boehner look like the unreasonable villain, but in reality Obama and the Democrats haven’t yet put anything on the table, so they’re the only ones who have been doing the walking. The Democrats so far have offered the Republicans nothing from which to walk away, and clearly don’t want their fingerprints on any deal.
White House talks to avert a disastrous early August debt default teetered on the edge of collapse late Friday as Republican House Speaker John Boehner abruptly quit the negotiations.
US President Barack Obama condemned Boehner’s decision and angrily called top lawmakers to the White House for emergency negotiations at 11:00 am (1500 GMT) Saturday, warning “we have run out of time” with an August 2 deadline looming.
“I expect them to have an answer in terms of how they intend to get this thing done over the course of the next week. The American people expect action,” the president said at a hastily called public appearance.
Just once in a while, shouldn’t the person with the title “Chief Executive” have a solid suggestion as far as how to “get this thing done”?
It sounds as if Boehner will now try to work with Senate leaders to get a version of the Cut, Cap and Balance bill passed, even though the previous version was shot down Friday morning. Harry Reid called it perhaps the worst piece of legislation in history, but called bluffs have a way of increasing the attractiveness of subsequent offers, as do perceived snubs.
Below is the story from CBS… we’ll have more on this over the weekend. Will Obama’s birthday coincide with “default Armageddon”? We’ll see:
Update: The LA Times has a good article about how the deal fell apart. Short version: The Republicans agreed to $800 billion in “revenue increases” through tax code overhaul, but Obama wanted another $400 billion on top of that so the increase more closely matched the “Gang of Six” proposal. At that point the deal caved in. Back to the demagoguing board.
They’re meeting again today. Suggested “easy out” for Obama so he doesn’t have to tell Dem leaders he erased $800 billion in potential “revenue increases” from the equation: “800 Billion? Oh, I thought you said million. Of course we can settle on that.”
Update II: The meeting ended in less than an hour. Too bad it’s too hot to play golf today.
**Written by Doug Powers
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Think professional wrestling, roller derby, television soap opera as you watch the BooHoo Boehner/Obambi/Harry the performing monkey’s show. None of it is real, none of it has meaning outside of their playing to the audience of uninformed citizens in hopes of remaining on stage a bit longer. BooHoo will fold if it’s in the script just so he gets to keep a “speaking role”.
agreed, that pretty well sums up exactly what this racist, Marxist is, inside and out.
If you voted for this clown it doesn’t say a whole lot about your patriotism or your intelligence. A dummy as myself had this clown figured out after hearing him one time. All smoke, mirrors and BS.
I don’t remember telling Boehner that he can offer up $800B in tax increases.
Did you?
Besides, any taxes that businesses won’t be able to write off will be paid by the consumer one way or another.
Can you say “redistribution of taxes”?
Not that having the home mortgage interest was the sole reason we bought a house but it was in the “pro” column as compared to the “con” column.
Faster than a speeding bullet. Certainly faster than it would take to put the ads together.
Great work, Hiraghm! Would like to see these ads on TV starting in January 2012 and air in every market of Blue States.
My bottom line:
I don’t trust the Democrats;
I really don’t trust Obama;
and,
I have no confidence, what-so-ever in the Republican leadership…they will cave, but crow about “compromise.”
They are the modern day equivalent of the Mongols and the Huns. John, you are dealing with Communists. What is there to understand? Over 100,000 Americans have given their lives fighting these bastards. You may need to do the same if you are serious.
…. Although I will say that Barry Obama is not one micron the man that Genghis was….
If Obama and the Democrats trigger a crisis from this then they should be criminally prosecuted. For what? Who cares, just get them in a jail cell.
The GOP caved on 800 billion dollars of job killing tax increases?
And that was not enough for Dear Leader?
The LSM will be out to lunch on this one, nothing to see here.
Boehner has held.
Yea so far.
Just wait till the LSM and the Ds rip him and the GOP a new one.
THAT will be the true test.
I noticed on Boehner’s news conference after he walked out of meeting with Obama that the reporters asked very pertinent and pointed questions. Obama gets softballs lobbed at him, that is if he even takes questions.
President Jello
Excellent! Where’s the skillet?
Too much security…I tried to hide it in my underwear, but it kept falling out. Very embarrassing. I finally had to take it back to the car!
Boener: We offer $800 billion of job killing tax increases.
other Marxists: No.
GOP: We walk away.
A bunch of shoveling of bovine excrement later..
GOP: We now compromise. We offer an EVEN MORE INSANE AMOUNT in tax increases.
You know it will happen this way. Hold on to your wallet. It will be forcefully emptied.