Obama to Boehner: get your ass in my office… NOW!!!

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John Boehner walks out on
the 2012 federal budget negotiations
with President Obama

Can John Boehner and the GOP say yes to ANY federal budget compromises?

Speaker Boehner left federal negotiations with President Obama. The GOP laughed as they headed home. [Obviously, it’s not funny.] So why are the Republicans laughing? And why did Speaker Boehner walk out of budget negotiations with the president, storming out of budget meeting like a spoiled child would, screaming “You won’t give me what I want. I hate you!!!

Soon after Boehner’s… uh… tantrum[?], President Obama called a press conference.

President Obama's Budget Speech on 072211

Today, at 6:00 pm ET, President Obama gave a speech regarding the deficit. After Boehner’s infamous exit, President Obama stated

I’ve told Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, I’ve told Harry Reid, and I’ve told Mitch McConnell I want them here at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. We have run out of time. And they are going to have to explain to me how it is that we are going to avoid default. And they can come up with any plans that they want and bring them up here and we will work on them. The only bottom line that I have is that we have to extend this debt ceiling through the next election, into 2013.

The GOP has suggested a six-month increase of the debt ceiling. The president won’t budge. And John Boehner is also “invited.”

According to Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) The path to avert default now runs first through the House of Republicans.

In his press conference, the president made the following cogent argument to solve America’s financial crisis:

Essentially what we had offered Speaker Boehner was over a trillion dollars in cuts to discretionary spending, both domestic and defense. We then offered an additional $650 billion in cuts to entitlement programs—Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. We believed that it was possible to shape those in a way that preserved the integrity of the system, made them available for the next generation, and did not affect current beneficiaries in an adverse way.

Now, if you do not have any revenues, as the most recent Republican plan that’s been put forward both in the House and the Senate proposed, if you have no revenues at all, what that means is more of a burden on seniors, more drastic cuts to education, more drastic cuts to research, a bigger burden on services that are going to middle-class families all across the country. And it essentially asks nothing of corporate jet owners, it asks nothing of oil and gas companies, it asks nothing from folks like me who’ve done extremely well and can afford to do a little bit more.

In other words, if you don’t have revenues, the entire thing ends up being tilted on the backs of the poor and middle-class families. And the majority of Americans don’t agree on that approach.

Apparently, Boehner has trouble with the word “compromise.” Most spoiled children do. Although President Obama stated that he didn’t want to point fingers, Boehner seized the opportunity and blamed the breakdown on Obama’s insistence that any deal include new revenues as well as spending cuts, that they have “different visions for our country.”. By “different visions” is unclear: does he mean that he wants to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and middle-class families rather than those who do well and can afford to pay a little more?

Will boner make up with president ob

Apparently, that’s exactly what Boehner wants.

The President’s remarks today ignore legislative and economic reality… 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.

[He] is sorely mistaken if he believes a bill to raise the debt ceiling and raise taxes would pass the House. The votes simply aren’t there —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. [He cites no facts to prove Congress does.] 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.

Boehner’s statement reflects the GOP platform: no options, discussions, or reasonable negotiation. According to TPM|DC: The talking points for the GOP rank-and-file was clear:—a basic “put up or shut up” attitude.

President Obama doesn’t seem worried

Q: You suggested that Speaker Boehner didn’t return phone calls this afternoon. Could you elaborate a little bit on that?

President Obama: I’m less concerned about me having to wait for my phone call returned than I am the message that I received when I actually got the phone call.

Tell us what you think about John Boehner’s latest stunt.

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Anonymous
12 years ago

gop silly idiots

12 years ago

Boehner was just doing the bidding of his Tea Party masters, plus Eric Cantor scares him to death. Poor guy, he wants to do a deal and share the glory with Obama. Damned if they’ll let Obama take any credit.

lazersedge
12 years ago

I think this is one time when the Prez is right and the Repubs have drawn the short straw. As I noted in my post on this issue I believe that every Repub that signed the Norquist pledge should be tried for treason or thrown out of office for violating their oath of office for pre-determining their vote on an issue before they even knew the implications of the issue. It is now time for the Repubs to be shown for what they really are … a bunch of rich S.O.B.s looking out for other rich S.O.B.s

Reply to  lazersedge
12 years ago

Lazersedge, here’s hoping the GOP shot itself in the foot so badly that Congress has a Democratic majority again. Obama sounded both eloquent and fed up with trying to reach out to these SOBs (as you so rightly call them).

His speech was dynamic and on point; boner sounded like a panicked man on a sinking boat. It was a beautiful sight.

Between the “News Corp.” facade crumbling and watching the GOP look like the rich SOBs that they are, perhaps their constituency will finally get the point. The current generation of repubes have no compassion for anything except their own self aggrandizement.

It’s the best news I’ve had in years. I wonder if people are paying attention…

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