Oh, dear lord, let it be true!*
Because if it is, I’ll send flowers to the big orange lug!
Obama claims he was offering the moon to the intransigent wingnuts, what he is calling “an extraordinarily fair deal” that was, if anything, “too light on revenues.” Which, translated, means he was insisting still on tax increases (of $1.2 trillion over 10 years, in exchange for spending cuts of $1.6 trillion over 10 years — a “cut” wiped out by this year’s deficit spending included in the Obama budget!). And of course, none of this “extraordinarily fair deal” exists anywhere in writing — something the GOP should take advantage of when the usual suspects start insisting that they squandered a remarkable opportunity. You can’t vote on a speech, and the President’s decision to keep the talks behind closed doors only benefits him if the GOP caves. If they don’t, they can point out that, despite his public pronouncements, the President put nothing in writing — and the Dems never offered up any legislation of their own.
Clearly, the President is now hoping the media and the GOP establishment will help him bring pressure on Boehner, who is having more trouble that he thought he would keeping the conservatives at bay, to reach a compromise.
I pray we can provide the counterweight — and that the conservatives have finally succeeded in convincing Speaker Boehner that the only way we’ll “default” on August 2 is if the President and Geithner eschew Constitutional mandates and fail to pay the debt service by choice.
Be still my heart!
I’ll stop calling him Boner if he will stand firm on this.
I wouldn’t get too excited til we see what Boehner’s plan b is really
Obama has demanded — demanded! — that the Congresspeople show up at the White House tomorrow with a “plan” to end the stalemate. Of course, should the Republican’s of the House bring CCB, that’s a non-starter.
The press have thus far asked nothing of Obama. Nothing.
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“When it comes to actually doing something difficult, folks walk away,” sez Obama, who when it comes to actually doing something difficult, gives a demagogic speech.
“an extraordinarily fair deal”
And one that apparently only exists in his teleprompter. There’s no physical evidence for it anywhere.
Fuck you, Barcky. You are a deceitful liar. You should be ashamed and embarrassed to stand there and lie in such a fashion. Produce a written copy of all spending cuts and entitlement reform you have agreed to. Show your work, bitch.
Boehner not backing down? I think I just felt a tingle.
A good one, not a Chrissy Matthew one.
On Fox right now, they’re quoting Obama as saying he has offered deeper cuts than “even the gang of six proposal.” Of course, no one points out that the cuts are just reductions in the amount the budgets will be allowed to increase over the next ten years. No sane person would call those cuts.
They’re all a pack of liars.
Ugfckhim. That is all.
S&P’s and Moody’s likely will be less complimentary.
If I were Boehner, I would go golfing. Or tanning. I would be anywhere except at the White House grovelling to the imperious fucktard.
And disrespect the office of the President, whom we all have to hope succeeds in office, and do what we can to help him for the good of the country, because he’s a good man and we wish well for him? THAT’S FUCKING TEATARDED JD!
“They can explain to me why …”
That explanation, were it to be offered, and it shouldn’t be, should take less than 10 words …
Because you are a lying deceitful secproggie who hearts killing jobs, destroying the economy, spending like the Spanish Armada on crack, while demagoguing and lying about your principled opposition. So fuck you and your band of wealth redistributing collectivist thiefs. That is all.
Oops, that was more than 10 words. But you get the point …
“your band of wealth redistributing collectivist thiefs.”
there’s 10 words or less
Obama is a foreigner, and is constitutionally ineligible to be the president of this country.
Think anybody gives a shit? His “birth certificate” is an absolute joke, and an easily proveable forgery.
OOPS! I must have been listening to Ann Barnhardt of the three testicles, and all those idiots who have PROVED that the birth certificate was Photoshopped.
We don’t have “The Manchurian Candidate” we have the Kenyan president.
Lucky us, eh?
No shit.
heh
He is a stinker. Like a fresh turd just shat out on the carpet sort of stinker.
Perhaps Boehner has finally figured out that he got boned over the FY2011 budget? Cutting a relatively trivial $100 billion from a budget with $1.5 trillion of deficit spending wouldn’t have been particularly impressive, but letting himself be bargained down to $38 billion and then having the CBO estimate that those “unprecedented” even “draconian” cuts actually amounted to about $352 million? Boehner has got to know that if he drops his pants like that again his orange hide will be stretched between the ornate pillars at the front door of the Rayburn office building by the freshman class.
I think Boehner was on the verge of doing a deal on Thursday. Rush got wind of the details, broadcast them, and I’m sure caused a meltdown of the House telephone switchboard.
I think that, in part, Boehner backed away because the people made themselves heard.