Last year around Christmas?? Are you talking about the FICA tax cut feasco or something else?
If I thought he was just trying to stick Obama at the end with no deal then making an (public) offer like this that O refuses could be smart. But who can trust Bohner?
I DO NOT WANT ANY DEAL!
Speaker Boehner bows to pressure on tax deal
This time, there was no discussion. This time, House Speaker John Boehner didnt take the chance of losing another deal to a caucus with a tendency to self-immolate.
And so when Boehner delivered the news that he had struck a deal on a Thursday afternoon conference call with House Republicans, the technology was in place to prevent rank-and-file lawmakers from voicing the kind of angry dissent that scuttled a Senate-passed payroll bill on Saturday. The five-day drama that exposed both the political naiveté of the freshman-heavy Republican Conference and the sharp limits of Boehners power over them ended in silence.
At no small personal political risk, Boehner laid down the law to his unruly caucus, substituting his own judgment for their collective wisdom in cutting a very slightly altered deal with President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Speakers decision, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, the fourth-ranking House Republican, said in introducing Boehner on the call.
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However, early reaction from rank-and-file Republicans reflected dissension in the ranks once again. One Republican member told Fox News, "I'm thinking of objecting myself. We were hung out by leadership."
But then they didn't do a damned thing about it after he rammed it through, and so here he is doing it again.
And remember one of Boehner's biggest complaints ever since the 2010 elections is that because the House Conservatives won't give him a blank check so that he can "negotiate" with Obama privately.