Well, except in the people’s House, from which taxing and spending bills come, and from which funding determinations are hammered out. There, the GOP is a majority. Though it seems of late to have forgotten that, voting with the “minority party” in the House to pass that minority party’s agenda.
So I guess in a kind of convoluted way, Boehner is correct, after all!
ALG:
In an exclusive interview with nationally syndicated talk show host Sean Hannity, House Speaker John Boehner all but ruled out using the debt ceiling as leverage to pass the House Republican proposal to balance the budget within 10 years.
“Do you want to risk the full faith and credit of the United States government over Obamacare? That’s a very tough argument to make.” Boehner asked of Hannity. The House proposal, which would cut trillions of spending off the current baseline, repeals the new health care law. But Boehner does not want to attach it to the debt ceiling.
Hannity noted that the government will raise $2.7 trillion of revenue for 2013, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which would more than pay for approximately $350 billion of gross interest payments should the debt ceiling be reached.
But Boehner talked that down, too, suggesting that the Treasury would run into cash flow problems even with a change to the law. He seemed to ignore a proposal by Sen. Pat Toomey that addressed that objection by giving limited authority to Treasury to raise the debt ceiling by enough to borrow to meet priority payments when there is such a proposal.
And the House Speaker said he would not use a continuing resolution as leverage either, to avert a government shutdown. “Our goal is to cut spending, not to shut down the government. And if we were to put Obamacare [repeal] into the continuing resolution and send it over to the Senate, we were risking shutting down the government. That’s not our goal,” he said.
Boehner added, “It is very difficult to impose our will on them,” referring to the Senate and White House.
In short, the Republican leader has seemingly taken every tool at his disposal off the table that might give House Republicans a fighting chance to get the nation’s fiscal house in order.
— And that’s because, we have every right to conclude, the Republican leader has no desire to get the nation’s fiscal house in order — particularly if it’s going to make things for him unpleasant in DC.
I can almost taste Boehner’s salty-sweet, orange-flavored tears simply by thinking on the angst the conservatives have put him through, insisting that the GOP meet its obligations to the people who propelled them to power, not to the “majority party” in the other branches.
Don’t they know how difficult that is to do? That you have to make real arguments and stand on actual principle, rather than block rules, make backroom compromises — or offer phony symbolic show votes that you hope gull the conditioned GOP rah-rah sheep?
[…] leadership’s reluctance to have a fight over spending makes an upcoming vote on the Republican budget nothing more than symbolic window dressing.
It all but guarantees that the national debt, now $16.7 trillion, will hit $20 trillion in 2016, Obama’s final year in office. After that, it will rise to $25 trillion by 2022, and rack up tens of trillions more in the decades that follow.
It guarantees that the health care law will continue to be implemented and fully funded, including expanding Medicaid, funding the state insurance exchanges, and enforcing the individual and employer mandates to purchase health insurance.
It ensures that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has seen fit to unlawfully regulate carbon dioxide and water as harmful pollutants under the Clean Air and Water Acts, will be fully funded. That the agency will continue its war coal and other carbon based fuels unabated.
It allows the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which was lawlessly seated with phony “recess” appointments when Congress was not even in a congressional recess, to continue implementing big labor’s agenda.
It leaves Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in government conservatorship, nationalizing housing finance, and Sallie Mae in government hands, nationalizing higher education finance. It leaves Dodd-Frank untouched.
It allows the Federal Reserve and the International Monetary Fund to continue bailing out financial institutions that bet poorly on U.S. housing and European sovereign debt.
In short, by refusing to use the debt ceiling or spending prioritization option or the continuing resolution as leverage, Boehner guarantees that Obama’s agenda will continue to be implemented without any interruption from the House of Representatives.
And that’s intentional, either out of fear or agreement, it doesn’t matter.
The GOP is a dead party. And as a result, the US is a dead nation. All that remains is the waiting.
what exactly does boehnerfag think the full faith and credit of a brokedick whorestate is worth precisely?
Sen. Toomey whatfors.
Well, the GOP is a minority party to me, now. Not one thin dime to any national Republican.
failshit losers like Paul Ryan what voted for boehnerfag need to be held accountable for that decision when they ludicrously ask to be nominated as a presidential candidate I think
The full faith and credit of the United States? And there you have it, folks: Ponzi Money Nation depends on the ripe, stinking Keynesian socialism that is the Stimulus-Obamakare axis just to survive. It just happens the stock market’s reaction to QEfinity includes the reality Ponzi State has quite literally killed everything else while Washington just writes itself checks.
Because it can, thanks to the presses.
The full faith and credit of the United States is thin fucking air, and as each act unfolds, one by one they become common knowledge, finally emerging from behind the Wizard’s robes because he can’t hid them there anymore. Thanks, John. We are an economy built on sand and you know it, perhaps your sole competency. Your service is noted.
Yup.
failshit losers like happyfeet what voted to piss all over the regulars here every week need to be held accountable for that decision when they ludicrously ask to be valued as a member of this community I think
Who cares, Squid? If he’s self-parodying or eking out a whiff of genuine conservatism doesn’t change that this is indeed boehnerfag’s brokedick whorestate.
Ryan’s budget is a disgrace (to eventual solvency in an inherently Ponzied structure). It is to monetary reality what Romney’s campaign was to the last election: Doomed and an insult to honesty even if it were to somehow gain influence.
“We only control half of a third of the government.”
“SCOTUS doesn’t count, ya moron.”
“We only control one-third of the government.”
“You control the PURSE STRINGS! USE THAT POWER!”
::blank stare::
I care.
And seconded, Squid.
Okay, fair enough. Offense is as it does and I speak for no man. I’m personally just not offended by anything anymore shy of advocacy of full measures of leftist intellectual fraud and statist economic fraud.
That shit hurts lives. The rest is just noise.
I’m all about gathering in as many allies as I can, JHo, but there are some vermin with which I just will not consort.
Rand Paul: The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered.
Here is some reading for Boehner. The Market Economy and Spiritual Qualities.
Related, By their works you will know them.
See also: The Muslim Brotherhood in America
Well, the GOP is a minority party to me, now. Not one thin dime to any national Republican…
…who didn’t stand with Rand Paul.
FTFY
Next Rand’ll claim they have three handles.
Part 3 of that last link I posted is particularly relevant to the latest flap over Grover Norquist and CPAC.
American flags fly upside down in Israel.
A sewing error, they say. I say it’s an SOS from the Americans in Israel.
yeah I’m not feeling the reverence for Mr. Ryan I once had
that’s just gone
he was an unremarkable veep candidate besides
but he’s better than your average Team R congresswhore at the congresswhoring thing
but as a presidential candidate I’ll pass
difi – i’m “not a sixth grader.”
Ted Cruz versus DiFi on 2nd Amendment
I stand corrected, dicentra. Well, if truth be told, I’m really sitting, but the point is well taken.
I’m watching the video newrouter linked. DiFi is a fucking moron.
Having just finished the video, let me note yet again that the leading Democrats are fascists who need to be removed from power soonest.
And, to be on topic, I want Boner out of the majority leader position some time last year.
….Which asks the question: Is the English language simply incapable of accurately discribing the depth and degree of Progressive cognitive dissonance? Or put another way. Where the hell is Amanda and Code Pink on this?
– But I digress. Bonehead and the Congress have become a distraction. Sort of an ongoing Squirrel! thing. While the Won who got us in this mess is sort of idoling along in his monarchy accomplishing pretty much nothing beyond running out the clock on Benghazi and F&F, and who knows how many other insane Lefty programs like Geo engineering.
– Its 2013, and not a damn thing has changed since 2008., with the possible exception that by now even the lowest info inhabitants among us have to finally realize that Wall street was never about the economy, Twinkies will always be with us, and there is no such thing as a true Republican.
Son of a Bitch! I’m finished part 3, moving on to part 4, and this stuff is dynamite!
America better wake the hell up.
Geoengineering? Some dood was talking about that on Coast-to-Coast last night. Something about aluminum in the chemtrails.
PA House Dem Introduces Bill to Ban New Drilling on State Land
“Which confirms my worry, because I don’t think we’re going to get into year two. But, year one achieves zero net deficit reduction.”
Rick Perry Slams McCain, Romney At CPAC, Says They Aren’t Conservative
at this point there’s so much oil and gas activity that if Pennsylvania wants to take its resources off the market that only helps everyone else really
watch out Sarah watch out watch out – Rick Perry wants your queen of the obvious tiara and what Rick Perry wants Rick Perry gets
as long as it’s not the Republican nomination for president
I wonder if what he meant to say is, “the GOP will be a minority party by the time I get through with it.”
Weepy is the Manchurian Speaker.
proggtards always be screaming about “lost revenues” when it is tax cuts. here be free money and they be all not concerned.
Boehner exhibits as much leadership as the doormat in front of the house of the last lemming to jump over the cliff.
He’s as useless as… to be honest, I can’t think of a better metaphor than “a House majority leader that won’t exercise any of the power that majority status grants him”.
i agree mr. newrouter they’re not very bright but the tasty resources will still be there later
ace and fedora running for a no labels gig
On Branding, or How I Stopped Fearing The Human Fund and Learned to Love “Money for People”
“but the tasty resources will still be there later”
so with two shale plays available we won’t drill for either?
california has tons of oil and they’re very very accomplished at leaving it in the ground while running huge huge deficits
and you know what that’s who they are
they gotta express
One is not allowed to kill Nancy Pelosi, not for willy-nilly and not for punishment of political crimes. Such is my contribution to the pile of the obvious.
Boehner is an unworthy, ineffectual, treacherous, little wuss. He is the musty toilet into which millions unsuspectingly poured their hopes and dreams in 2010. Most failures only shit their own pants. He shit the pants of everyone who placed their faith in the republican party.
The Chicago way: ‘Feed the kitty, peel me a grape, and then fuck you’ shall be the whole of the law.
No! NO! Not against the wall, please, have pity!
proggtardia news
Andrea Mitchell: Let’s face it, Dianne Feinstein pwn3d Ted Cruz in that exchange on the Second Amendment
Feh. DiFi proved she is incapable of answering a simple question without getting all estrogen-driven.
The Washington Times extending reach with cable network
So far, I know two things about DiFi:
1. She is not a sixth grader
2. She deserves to be called Senator, not ma’am. She’s worked hard for it.
Go Team R!
Cranky, I believe that was California’s other stellar Senator that insisted on strict adherence to hre title, Babs Boxer.
Yes. That was Senatrix Box of Rocks who said that.
gabby gun grabber w/ ar-15
Mark Kelly’s ‘AR-15 Stunt’ Provokes Giffords Photo Leak
Sen. Mrs. RockChunk: “The bottom line is we passed the bill out of committee by a vote of ten to eight . . . ”
Yeah, but what about “I respect the Constitution.”? What happened to that bottom line, ya lying fuck?
i like this ted-rand tagteam pissing off the dinosaurs
Oh, poop. I guess it was so good that I got the two idiots confused.
Darnit!
I saw on Fox this morning McCain was about to be interviewed live ‘cuz it was the 40th anniversary of his release from Vietnam.
The dude really does love patting himself on the back on TV don’t he?
I didn’t watch it due to being in the bathroom rinsing the vomit from the back of my throat though.
I figured he’d already worn the hair off the POW card. One of my neighbors was a Pearl Harbor survivor and he mentioned that less than McCain does his stay at the Hanoi Hilton.
most disgusting former prisoner of war ever
hands down
it’s not even close
I have a great uncle (now dead) who survived the Bataan Death March. He didn’t talk about that much, either.
McCain really is an old whore.
My dad (Navy, WWII) has only talked about the bad stuff once. Otherwise, he has talked about being ashore in New Orleans and being a shill for a magician and playing the drums.
They will often talk about the peripheral stuff, but not the bad stuff.
lol. I think Mr. Cruz left a mark.
Yup. Slipping straight into whining outrage really showed that Ted Cruz, didn’t it?
What, no closets available? With audio piped in so it’s almost like “Being There“.