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How the Negotiations Broke Down--The White House View (Boehner ignored two Obama phone calls)
ABC News ^ | Friday, July 22, 2011 | David Kerley

Posted on 07/22/2011 6:36:44 PM PDT by kristinn

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1 posted on 07/22/2011 6:36:47 PM PDT by kristinn
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From the WH. Childish BS.


2 posted on 07/22/2011 6:38:02 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (JMO but I reserve the right to be wrong...)
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To: kristinn

Congress is supposed to set the direction and Zer0 to ably administer.


3 posted on 07/22/2011 6:39:53 PM PDT by Paladin2
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“If Speaker Boehner had called back, Americans would have had a deal,” a White House official told reporters after the president announced Boehner had pulled out of negotiations.

Barbara Streisand

4 posted on 07/22/2011 6:42:09 PM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: kristinn

Uh, what’s the phrase again? Is it FUBO?


5 posted on 07/22/2011 6:44:57 PM PDT by livius
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The MSM is really worried as demonstrated by this and the pile of other old media articles about how Obama was willing to talk and negotiate but Boehner wasn’t.

Let’s hope Boehner doesn’t blink.


6 posted on 07/22/2011 6:46:33 PM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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“If Speaker Boehner had called back, Americans would have had a deal,” a White House official told reporters after the president announced Boehner had pulled out of negotiations.

So old Pharoah calls in his messengers to tell US he had a deal, BUT now we do not, because his phone calls to continue negotiations were not returned? H E L L O!!!!!

7 posted on 07/22/2011 6:47:03 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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“Uh, what’s the phrase again? Is it FUBO?”

That’s the one.


8 posted on 07/22/2011 6:47:05 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: livius

FUBO FUBAR.


9 posted on 07/22/2011 6:47:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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The White House said the speaker’s office emailed at 3:30 p.m. Friday and said the speaker would call at 5:30 p.m. The president’s office called immediately and asked DEMANDED to talk to the speaker. Boehner did not come to the phone, but did call 5:30 p.m., telling the president he could not continue to negotiate.
10 posted on 07/22/2011 6:47:10 PM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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"If Speaker Boehner had called back, Americans would have had a deal," said Bambi, petulantly.

" And if they don't give me my tax increase, I'll hold my breath until I turn blue."

11 posted on 07/22/2011 6:48:54 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: livius

Yes that’s the correct term.

If this part is correct:

“On the revenue side, officials said the two sides had agreed to an increase of $800 billion, which would come from tax reform. The president wanted another $400 billion in revenue, but the officials say he told Boehner that was negotiable.”

Then the other saying is FUJB


12 posted on 07/22/2011 6:49:06 PM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012 - GAME ON!!)
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The MSM spin will be that Boehner is a spoiled child who can’t get his way, so he throws a tantrum. Count on it.

I love what Mark Steyn called the MSM today: “the court eunuchs of the Obama press”.


13 posted on 07/22/2011 6:49:07 PM PDT by Deo volente (God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
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If Speaker Boehner had called back, Americans would have had a deal,

Makes zero sense. If Boner wanted a deal he would have called back. Ya think?

14 posted on 07/22/2011 6:49:12 PM PDT by riri
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To: missnry

“Boehner did not come to the phone, but did call 5:30 p.m., telling the president he could not continue to negotiate.”

WTG Speaker Boehner! Keep pushing the boy king is about to snap.


15 posted on 07/22/2011 6:49:22 PM PDT by 1035rep
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I can imagine 0bama standing over Boner acting like a condescending ahole.


16 posted on 07/22/2011 6:51:11 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.. VOTE out the RATS!)
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“and the speaker’s request that the individual mandate in the health care reform law be eliminated if the government could not approve all elements of the deal.”

This is the hardest thing for me to reconcile. WTF is Boehner doing? As it is if the individual mandate is declared unconstitutional, all of Obamacare could be struck down, but take it out of Obamacare and that’s not possible.

Was it a sop to Bachmann and her demand that Obamacare be repealed as part of a deal? I just don’t get it.


17 posted on 07/22/2011 6:51:24 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Deo volente

the court eunuchs of the Obama press

Love ir, gonna use it.


18 posted on 07/22/2011 6:52:35 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.. VOTE out the RATS!)
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I do not beleive these negotiations are being done in good faith. Politically-minded people have been predicting for months that the demos want, indeed insist on, a government shutdown, so they can play it as being the repubs fault, with the media spinning it that way, of course. Same playbook as ‘95 - ‘96. Nothing new here. Nothing Boehner can do to prevent it, except cave totally, which would accomplish the same thing for the demos.


19 posted on 07/22/2011 6:58:34 PM PDT by ngat
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"If Speaker Boehner had called back, Americans would have had a deal," said Bambi, petulantly.

" And if they don't give me my tax increase, I'll hold my breath until I turn blue."

20 posted on 07/22/2011 6:59:39 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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