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Boehner tries to tame GOP on debt ceiling plan
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Posted on 07/27/2011 8:12:01 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Boehner: 'Get your ass in line' By: Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan July 27, 2011 09:55 AM EDT

Scrambling for votes on his troubled deficit package, Speaker John Boehner told GOP lawmakers Wednesday morning to “get your ass in line” behind his debt ceiling bill, saying the Senate will fold and pass it.

“This is the bill,’ Boehner said in a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Wednesday morning. “I can’t do this job unless you’re behind me.”

Boehner was forced to postpone the vote until Thursday after the Congressional Budget Office said it fell $150 billion short of the $1 trillion goal. Many GOP lawmakers are still undecided whether they will back the measure.

Boehner also predicted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and Senate Democrats will have to pass his proposal once the House does. Reid has an alternate plan to cut $2.7 trillion.

“If this gets chaotic, they (the Senate) will fold like a cheap suit,” Boehner said, according to GOP sources.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dncrico; nobudget4dnc; novoteinsenate; treason
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1 posted on 07/27/2011 8:12:01 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

“I can’t do this job unless you’re behind me.”

Spoken like O and Larry Sinclair.


2 posted on 07/27/2011 8:15:33 AM PDT by library user (Just because you're homeless doesn't mean you're lazy.)
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To: Sub-Driver

...they’re not behind him because it does nothing...so GET YOUR ASS BUSY BONEHEAD


3 posted on 07/27/2011 8:16:31 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Sub-Driver

He’s a clown. He has no intention of ever making significant cuts.

Worse is that he’s already got some tea party freshman, like Alan West, to sell out his base.


4 posted on 07/27/2011 8:16:35 AM PDT by teg_76
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To: Sub-Driver
Boehner said yesterday that it is a "moral imperative" to avoid "default" and to protect baby-boomer entitlements...in other words it is a "moral imperative" to continue the growth in government spending and borrowing. He said that on Rush, of all places.

If that is a moral imperative, but limiting the power of government to economically enslave us to politician's programs (and graft and corruption) is not a "moral imperative" then who, really, is going to "fold like a cheap suit" when the chips are really down?

5 posted on 07/27/2011 8:16:54 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Sub-Driver
Bonehead just doesn't get it. The cuts should have been at least 5 or 6 trillion over 10 years with 1.2 cut the first year. What the hell is this dumb ass doing? Sure it might not pass the Senate or our dictator King Obama but at least over have of the population will be with him and they will blame the RATS for the crash.
6 posted on 07/27/2011 8:17:21 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Sub-Driver

No, Boehner.. you couldn’t even come up with $1T in cuts over a DECADE!!??

Oh, hell no!!

Get YOUR ASS back to the desk and work the numbers again!!


7 posted on 07/27/2011 8:17:58 AM PDT by ScottinVA (As a party that gives Obama what he wants, what again is the GOP`s 2012 selling point?)
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To: teg_76

The problem is that nothing serious about the debt can be done with Reid-Obama and the Democratic clowns infesting the Senate and Presidency. Until then, pretty much everything is around the edges.


8 posted on 07/27/2011 8:18:08 AM PDT by mrs9x
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To: mrs9x

Agreed....


9 posted on 07/27/2011 8:19:34 AM PDT by tatown (Obama is a turd)
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To: Sub-Driver

"Get Your Ass In Line!"


10 posted on 07/27/2011 8:19:43 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: Sub-Driver

"Get Your Ass In Line!"


11 posted on 07/27/2011 8:19:50 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: Sub-Driver

OK, let me play politics for a minute.

If I were a Tea Party Freshman, here’s what I’d tell Boehner...

“Mr. Speaker...you already understand why I oppose this bill; you yourself of course are a fan of Cut, Cap and Balance, and I don’t know why you aren’t pushing forward wtih CCB instead of this. Perhaps you know it won’t pass, so can we do this instead - we’ll pass this, but we reintroduce CCB (without the debt ceiling increase since that’s already done) once this is passed and signed.”


12 posted on 07/27/2011 8:20:12 AM PDT by RockinRight (If we're "teabaggers" then they're "d-baggers.")
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“I can’t do this job unless you’re behind me.”

Where's that pre-election promised $100 billion in spending cuts? Oh yeah, that can got kicked down the road.

Mr. Boehner, your credibility is on shakey ground. Your offer allows cuts to be kicked down the road, but spending to happen almost immediately.

Maybe, you are right -- maybe you can't do this job.
13 posted on 07/27/2011 8:21:57 AM PDT by TomGuy
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Boehner also predicted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and Senate Democrats will have to pass his proposal once the House does.

The House passed CCB.... the Senate tabled it.

Why does Boehner think this time the Senate will even allow a vote?

14 posted on 07/27/2011 8:22:47 AM PDT by Principled
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To: tatown; mrs9x

I do it myself too, we all do, but we lose track of political reality sometimes.

If things go south (granted I don’t think it’ll be as bad as they say if we “default” since it isn’t a real default), the GOP could end up taking the blame for it, Obama gets re-elected, and none of this matters.

My idea is to re-introduce CCB every couple months (w/o the debt limit increase since it’ll be done) and keep pushing, but make it a seperate bill from this.

I challenge the hard-nosers on FR to become a Congressman and get ANY bill passed that we conservatives are 100% happy with...

We can’t even convince EACH OTHER on FR who the best Presidential candidate is, can you imagine trying to get 220 Congressman and 51 Senators, and a President on top of that to all support a bill?


15 posted on 07/27/2011 8:23:25 AM PDT by RockinRight (If we're "teabaggers" then they're "d-baggers.")
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Rush really PMO when he allowed Boner to present his side without the logical retort. I don’t want or need to listen to a radio program that trumpets the Republican line. I want real change, and that means a balanced budget, NOT a “balanced approach.”


16 posted on 07/27/2011 8:24:22 AM PDT by runninglips (Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics.)
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To: RockinRight
Thats what I have been thinking for a while.

Trouble is, there will be a problem with bringing a Balanced Budget Amendment to the senate with all the dims still in it. I think realistically we have to take the White House and the Senate before we are gonna get that. We don't have the leverage yet. As much as I hate to admit that.

17 posted on 07/27/2011 8:25:25 AM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Sub-Driver

I know this won’t be popular here, but isn’t this what Obama fears? The GOP controls 1/4 of the government at the moment, (counting just the executive and legislative branches).

Assume Boehner’s plan passes.

- The GOP looks more reasonable, in bending to avoid default.

- Obama will have to go through this one more time before the 2012 election.

Both things could lead to enough gains that real reform could be possible.

Sometimes pragmatism isn’t all bad.


18 posted on 07/27/2011 8:25:35 AM PDT by brownsfan (I miss the America I grew up in.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Get YOUR ass home, and find a new job.


19 posted on 07/27/2011 8:25:59 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Logical me

Blaming the Republican Congress is the plan for 2012. The Dims showed their hand by not passing a budget since forever. The Dims will position themselves as the responsible party, and the Pubes as free spenders, with hatred for the po folk.


20 posted on 07/27/2011 8:26:30 AM PDT by runninglips (Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics.)
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