How John Boehner decided to give up on the debt limit fight

How John Boehner decided to give up on the debt limit fight

BY ROBERT COSTA

February 11 at 5:22 pm
This week’s debt-limit drama ended as it began: with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), standing alone before his colleagues, seeking consensus but receiving only silence and stares in return.

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“Listen – we’re going to move forward,” Boehner said. Instead of bringing up the leadership’s plan, which would link a restoration of recently cut military benefits to a debt-ceiling extension, he would push a “clean” bill, averting default more than two weeks before the Treasury Department’s debt-limit deadline.

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The room of Republicans sat up, stunned that Boehner was abruptly shifting away from the leadership’s plan, which had been championed 12 hours earlier at a Monday night meeting in the Capitol basement. But there were no outcries or boos. A few members whispered to each other that Boehner was right, that due to conservative opposition to any hike, he was cornered.

But they didn’t speak up or clap. Boehner just stood there for a moment after he finished, eyed the room, and walked toward his seat. On his way there, Boehner shook his head, then turned to the nearly mute crowd and wondered aloud why he wasn’t getting applause. “I’m getting this monkey off your back and you’re not going to even clap?” Boehner asked, scowling playfully at some tea-party favorites.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... mit-fight/

If ANYONE has had doubts that the GOP and Democrats are both sides of the same coin, then here's your proof.

Except for some differences on some social issues, both sides are the lapdogs for a plutocratic government. You want to know who the 1% are? Just look any politician in their face. They have become a Political Class (tm) who are NOT looking out for you or the country.

And if you're satisfied with the trickle down handout you receive, then you're just as much part of the problem as the Political Class (tm).

These folks aren't working for you.

Surprised it will cover 13 months this time, just long enough to see a new Congress get settled in.
But like you said, it is just kicking the can down the road and not rocking the boat. One bright spot, none of the Colorado House Republicans voted for it.

Reverend Revelant wrote: How John Boehner decided to give up on the debt limit fight

BY ROBERT COSTA

February 11 at 5:22 pm
This week’s debt-limit drama ended as it began: with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), standing alone before his colleagues, seeking consensus but receiving only silence and stares in return.

...

“Listen – we’re going to move forward,” Boehner said. Instead of bringing up the leadership’s plan, which would link a restoration of recently cut military benefits to a debt-ceiling extension, he would push a “clean” bill, averting default more than two weeks before the Treasury Department’s debt-limit deadline.

...

The room of Republicans sat up, stunned that Boehner was abruptly shifting away from the leadership’s plan, which had been championed 12 hours earlier at a Monday night meeting in the Capitol basement. But there were no outcries or boos. A few members whispered to each other that Boehner was right, that due to conservative opposition to any hike, he was cornered.

But they didn’t speak up or clap. Boehner just stood there for a moment after he finished, eyed the room, and walked toward his seat. On his way there, Boehner shook his head, then turned to the nearly mute crowd and wondered aloud why he wasn’t getting applause. “I’m getting this monkey off your back and you’re not going to even clap?” Boehner asked, scowling playfully at some tea-party favorites.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... mit-fight/

If ANYONE has had doubts that the GOP and Democrats are both sides of the same coin, then here's your proof.

Except for some differences on some social issues, both sides are the lapdogs for a plutocratic government. You want to know who the 1% are? Just look any politician in their face. They have become a Political Class (tm) who are NOT looking out for you or the country.

And if you're satisfied with the trickle down handout you receive, then you're just as much part of the problem as the Political Class (tm).

These folks aren't working for you.

I agree with you RR, but I also think it's a better strategy considering what's coming in November. Even though the shutdown didn't cause some sort of economic collapse as the left was screaming about, the R's did give the left media ammunition to use against them over and over and over. The media is like Hollywood, they can paint a picture for the ignorant who don't understand how money is created or how the economy works in the real world. If the media can make one party look like the bad guys, they can greatly effect elections even in the face of an inept administration that gotten very little right in the last five years.

Another increase in the debt ceiling is a small price to pay if it will help to remove these fools from power.

Rick wrote: I agree with you RR, but I also think it's a better strategy considering what's coming in November. Even though the shutdown didn't cause some sort of economic collapse as the left was screaming about, the R's did give the left media ammunition to use against them over and over and over. The media is like Hollywood, they can paint a picture for the ignorant who don't understand how money is created or how the economy works in the real world. If the media can make one party look like the bad guys, they can greatly effect elections even in the face of an inept administration that gotten very little right in the last five years.

Another increase in the debt ceiling is a small price to pay if it will help to remove these fools from power.

Then you missed my point altogether. It doesn't matter which fools are removed or which fools get put in their place. They are still The Political Class (tm) big money will benefit, they will benefit and you and I will get an occasional bone thrown our way.

That's why you rarely see me take an actual side. I don't put either side up on a pedestal. Presently the idiot Democrats are screwing thing up, so I'll highlight them in my rants.

What the GOP did yesterday was just as idiotic, and I'm calling them on it. In short, the whole bunch of them can go to hell for all I care. Anarchy would be preferred over these jerks who keep telling me it's raining while they are pissing upwind of me.

OT

Hey rev, what's up with the (tm)?

BlazerBob wrote: OT

Hey rev, what's up with the (tm)?

??

Reverend Revelant wrote: ............... They have become a Political Class (tm)..........................


the Political Class (tm).

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Am I being to cryptic? I am referring to the (tm)

BlazerBob wrote:

Reverend Revelant wrote: ............... They have become a Political Class (tm)..........................


the Political Class (tm).

.

Am I being to cryptic? I am referring to the (tm)

Oh... it means "trademarked."

Will Boehner be replaced after the 2014 election? He came into power because the TEA Party made historic gains in 2010, but he has been distancing himself from them lately. As have Karl Rove. Is the GOP set up to fracture?

Reverend Revelant wrote:

BlazerBob wrote:

Reverend Revelant wrote: ............... They have become a Political Class (tm)..........................


the Political Class (tm).

.

Am I being to cryptic? I am referring to the (tm)

Oh... it means "trademarked."

I know what it means but who trademarked it? You?