House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) pushed back against President Obama’s call for higher taxes — and greater leadership from Congress — at a Wednesday press conference. “The President’s remarks today ignore legislative and economic reality, and demonstrate remarkable irony,” Boehner said in a statement. “His administration has been burying our kids and grandkids in new debt and offered no plan to rein in spending. Republicans have been leading and offering solutions to put the brakes on this spending binge. The President has been AWOL from that debate.”
The speaker said Obama was “sorely mistaken” if he thought a deal to raise the debt ceiling that increases taxes would pass the House. “The votes simply aren’t there,” he said. “And they aren’t going to be there, because the American people know tax hikes destroy jobs.”
“The new majority in the House is going to stand with the American people,” Boehner added. “A debt limit increase can only pass the House if it includes spending cuts larger than the debt limit increase; includes reforms to hold down spending in the future; and is free from tax hikes. The longer the President denies these realities, the more difficult he makes this process.”
What a great statement from the speaker. Hold firm GOP!!!!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNice job, Mr. Speaker.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse100% agree. For once, very assertive. I only hope that it was delivered in the firm tone I am imagining. Hopefully I'll be able to confirm this if it's aired tonight.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBravo, Mr. Speaker!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseTotally agree with the positive comments. A tight little statement with no political rancor, just the bare-bones facts. The artful dodger in the White House should take a lesson.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAm listening to CNBC (leans pro-growth Dem) and even the Obama apoligists are not happy with Obama's presser - say he is alienating Indies.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIndeed, you simply cannot laugh off the many concerns with the Obama Team's WAR in Libya.
Nor can you continue to shrug off unemployment problems, deficit burdens, etc., and try to blame CONGRESS. The lies are insulting to all.
The 'amused' comment was another joke. The HUBRIS is overt Carter sophistry, but the fantasy approach is only making matters far worse.
A number of other Democrats might actually fully turn on this KING ACT - with the big bold lies, prior to the 2012 election. It just is way over the top. An utter disaster.
No sign of Obama learning from the "teachable moment" in the 2010 Midterms.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIs Obama trying to lose so he will be gone when it hits the fan?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf Obama wants more leadership, I disrespectfully suggest he grab a mirror and stare long 'n hard at the egg-headed reflection.
His notion of "leadership", as the nation's chief executive, is to simply announce himself, "Present!", and leave the room, calling for everyone else to provide the leadership he is too intellectually impotent to provide himself.
Obama calls for "more congressional leadership". This man's audacity certainly knows no bounds, which inspires very little hope at all.
We stand $14,300,000,000,000.00 in debt, and counting. It took well over 200 years to amass $11 trillion in debt, and he raised that by over 25% in merely 2 years!
His budget he offered provided no plan to deal with that mounting problem. As well, he has quadrupled our nation's annual budget shortfall from its high-water mark under the previous admin -- from $400,000,000,000.00 to 1,600,000,000,000.00, in two years' time.
He has provided NOT ONE SHRED of specifics in how to reverse these trends. Indeed, he has called for more "stimulus" -- which he insists are "investments". Yeah, fancy "return on investment" we received from all his other stimuli -- 14,000,000 jobs lost, paltry economic growth, rising inflation -- STAGFLATION.
His only idea is to deepen the fiscal crisis. He offers to keep shoveling dirt out of the ditch we're in, and calls on everyone else to grab their own shovel and help him?
And his allies in the Senate stand nearly 800 days' DERELICT in their legislative and Constitutional duty to draft a budget for the nation's fiscal outlays. So, there can be no reconciliation with the House's budget in an open conference committee process, which has shoved any negotiating on our nation's finances behind closed doors.
This man is no Bill Clinton. Predictably, Obama thinks he is smarter than everyone else, and can simply replay the script from 1995. Too bad. He's not nearly politically adept enough to pull it off. And that is because he has ZERO professional experience with facing a stiff challenge as a leader or an executive.
I hope he's not reading this (which, given his juvenile mind-set, is not at all certain):
We agree, Barack. We need more leadership. And as of next year, you're fired -- for providing none yourself.
Lecture other people on U Chicago's dime, you adjunct failure.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGood job, madisonian!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI think I would pay money to listen madisonian rant while on a soapbox.
Well said.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"This man is no Bill Clinton"
In the first 3 years of his administration, we've seen the end of DADT and the HIV travel ban, withdrawal of legal support for DOMA... we've seen and end to health insurers ability to take your money then decide that you had a pre-existing condition and not cover you, an increase in the number of insured across the country, closed the donut hole in Medicare D, Expanded SCHIP, expanded Americorp, extended START, put the wars back on the budget, ended stop loss, removed restrictions on stem cell research, killed some Somali pirates, ended the policy of waterboarding prisoners, closed offshore tax havens, increased pay for military personnel, ended no-bid military contracts, improved conditions at Walter Reed, appointed 2 women to the Supreme Court, appointed a professional to run FEMA (which has gotten good reviews recently), saved GM from bankruptcy, and oh yeah... oversaw the death of bin Laden. So yeah... he is no Bill Clinton, he's done much more in less than half the time.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHe has done next to nothing - he couldn't make a decision to close the roof on a convertable in a rain storm in less than a few hours.
FEMA is still broken - just ask the tornado folks. It was broken when it started. He expanded the cost in Medicare Part D on a program that actually had come in under budget to one that will now increase our health care debt. Appointed two women of almost no intellectual ability to the supreme court - even progressives admit it. Three cheers for nominating unqualified hacks and get applause because they have mommy parts. Screwed bondholders at Chrysler and GM and broke the nation's bankruptcy laws in the process. GM will never pay back the money they owe and as long as they take design and product cues from the feds (ala the Volt) will be facing the brink again in the future. He has overseen the cratering of the economy and placed us on a path to financial insolvency as a country. I could have made the call to kill OBL and the pirates - you think that is tough? He has golfed a bunch, gone on vacation a bunch, passed a health care program that will bankrupt the US system and make us single payer canadian rationed sorry the doctor isn't in health care wasteland.
He is trying via the EPA, the NLRB and other govt agencies to drive more businesses out of business or off shore.
Yeah - real great.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseVery little truth in your reply.
FEMA’s response to the tornadoes has been well received. “Where the federal response is concerned, there’s little to criticize and much to praise,” opined The Birmingham News editorial board on May 4. “That’s very encouraging, indeed.”
Regarding Sotamayor, you're surely referring to the New Republic piece by Jeffrey Rosen, one of the only issues raised by Rosen that was anything other than anonymous gossip -- a claim that one of Sotomayor's judicial opinions was harshly criticized in an "unusual" footnote by another Second Circuit judge -- is totally false. You refer to a thoroughly debunked article.
You honestly still think Canadian health care sucks? Better outcomes, much cheaper, better satisfaction? You're using talking points from the 80's. It's OUR health care system that sucks, costs too much and doesn't give better outcomes, and that's if you're lucky enough to be insured.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLaurence Tribe about Sotamayor: "Bluntly put, she’s not nearly as smart as she seems to think she is"
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FEMA criticism from the same freaking newspaper you quoted: "As it stands, some local public officials already complain FEMA is too tight-fisted and bureaucratic with its aid."
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These are not comprehensive critiques, nor do they contain only negative appraisal. But I can guarantee you that it took less time to find them than it took for you to write your comments, which are laughably lopsided and which could be picked to the bone by any common-sense buzzard that had the time.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnd he has done it all by spending money we don't have and never will have. That's like a guy buying a bunch of new toys using a credit card which he never intends to pay off. Yes, very impressive indeed.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"It took well over 200 years to amass $11 trillion in debt…"
I have never seen a more disingenuous and misleading statement.
We were nearly deficit-free in 2000.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseObama fails to realize:
His utter failure to grasp and/or appreciate this nation's principles, history and traditions, and his insular tone-deaf manner merely embolden his opponents.
Have no fear of the GOP EVER cowering to this man. The more he opens his mouth, the more impotent and sterile he renders himself.
Obama is now an overcooked egg noodle floating in boiled salt water.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJust watching Cavuto with Liberman and Coburn and a video clip of Pelosi opposing their efforts. Pelosi says that it is not fair to ask seniors to get less benefits from Medicare and to wait longer to get them.
Not exactly breaking news but ABSOLUTELY, SHAMEFULLY, ABSURD. As Liberman immediately pointed out the option is not between some adjustments, on the one hand, and continuing today's benefits, on the other. The options are either adjustments or collapse of the system. What could be more plain.
And, of course, adjusting the eligibility age of these programs is no more decreasing benefits than adjusting their funding for inflation is increasing them. Adjusting the eligibility age is merely an effort to keep the ~real~ benefit fairly constant.
Pelosi is a contemptible, profoundly dishonest, corrupter of politics and the public discourse. A rogue and a knave who cannot possibly be criticized too harshly. And she is the leader of the congressional Dems. I am sure that she feels that her wealth is so great that she will be able to insulate herself from whatever chaos may eventually ensue. Hopefully, some enterprising patriot will be able to locate on whatever Greek Island she eventually buys. The leftist, thieving cabal must never be allowed to flee into lives of private luxury when the cards start seriously to tumble.
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