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PostPosted: 12/30/12 5:46 pm • # 1 
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Meanwhile, in the GOP/TP alternate reality ... ~ :angry ~ Sooz

Boehner: Don’t blame GOP for fiscal cliff
By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, December 30, 2012 13:53 EST

US House Speaker John Boehner on Sunday warned President Barack Obama that he should not cast blame on Republicans for a possible failure to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff,” saying the president was equally responsible.

“Americans elected President Obama to lead, not cast blame,” the top Republican in Congress said in a statement shortly after an interview aired in which Obama accused Republicans of dropping the ball on negotiations to prevent huge tax hikes and spending cuts from kicking in on January 1.

“Republicans made every effort to reach the ‘balanced’ deficit agreement that the president promised the American people, while the president has continued to insist on a package skewed dramatically in favor of higher taxes that would destroy jobs,” Boehner added.

“We’ve been reasonable and responsible. The president is the one who has never been able to get to ‘yes.’

Obama told NBC talk show “Meet the Press” broadcast Sunday that Congress was now under pressure to produce a deal in the 36 hours before the US economy was due to topple over the fiscal cliff. He barely concealed his anger that Republicans have refused what he sees as a reasonable compromise.

The president said it had been “very hard” for top Republican leaders to accept that “taxes on the wealthiest Americans should go up a little bit, as part of an overall deficit reduction package.”

After talks with Boehner fizzled earlier this month, Obama has now tasked Senate leaders with negotiating a deal.

Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office called Obama’s comments “discordant,” and said it was Republicans who were working to bring the two parties together for a solution.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/30/boehner-dont-blame-gop-for-fiscal-cliff/


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PostPosted: 12/30/12 6:05 pm • # 2 
I'm blaming them.


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PostPosted: 12/30/12 7:04 pm • # 3 
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The GOP likes to use the excuse that "Obama couldn't MAKE US do it, therefore it's all his fault."

They're petulant children.


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PostPosted: 12/30/12 11:49 pm • # 4 
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kathyk1024 wrote:
I'm blaming them.


ditto. and i am not alone.


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PostPosted: 12/31/12 10:00 am • # 5 
When idiots like Boner tell me not to do something - I do it... just to piss them off. :D


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PostPosted: 12/31/12 10:10 am • # 6 
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Until now, I mostly believed that the GOP/TP was just BS'g the public in their sacred vow to "defeat/delay everything", their alternate reality, and their proven dishonesty ~ but watching this repeated self-imposed "fiscal cliff" unfold, now I suspect the GOP/TPers really believe their own BS ~ plus/minus half of the US elected legislators being sociopaths is a VERY unsettling thought for me ~ :g ~ there are "live links" to more/corroborating info in the original ~ Sooz

A Defeated Boehner Forges Blindly Ahead with Plan C: Blame Obama
By: Sarah JonesDec. 31st, 2012

Speaker Boehner made little sense Sunday as did a run around reality after Obama held him responsible for the fiscal cliff negotiation failures.

Boehner pulled out his Republican Get Out Jail Free card, “Americans elected President Obama to lead, not cast blame.” But he sensed that it was no longer enough just to cast general aspersions on the President, though certainly Boehner has given that a good go. What’s a humiliated-by-his-own-caucus Plan B failure to do? Plan C!

Plan C is to blame Obama for being unable to stand up to his own party. Yes, in Boehner’s imagination, it was Obama who was unable to stand up to his party. Not the Speaker, whose own party left him impotent in the fiscal cliff negotiations. Some call this projection, and it happens more often when a person can’t face reality because it’s too painful. Thus, denial becomes projection.

As if to prove this point, the Speaker (figuratively) pointed his finger as far away from himself as possible, “The president’s comments today are ironic, as a recurring theme of our negotiations was his unwillingness to agree to anything that would require him to stand up to his own party. We’ve been reasonable and responsible. The president is the one who has never been able to get to ‘yes.’”

Ah, so the president didn’t put changes to Social Security on the table. He didn’t raise the number from $250,000 to $400,000. And in Boehner world, refusing to do anything that raises taxes on the top 2% (which was the hold up for his tea caucus) is “reasonable and responsible.” Yes, it’s reasonable to hold the entire country hostage so the Republicans can service the top 2% at a rate that would have made Reagan blush.

Boehner might wish America didn’t know about the Republican failure, but they do. With the failure of Plan B, any political cover Republicans might have manufactured died.

Furthermore, Boehner made a rather big deal of walking away (for the second time) from negotiations with the President. He was sure Plan B would save the country. But that was before Plan B collapsed on the GOP, leaving the very teeny, tiny tent of tea suffocated under its own failed ideology.

If the Speaker is still confused about which party is the extreme one, he might wish to remind himself that his crazy house of tea voted to throw 300,000 kids off of food stamps in order to cut taxes for millionaires.

Yes, after Boehner’s failure to get his own Republican House to vote on his Plan B, the power shifted to Obama and the Democrats. Such is the cost of ineptitude.

Speaker Boehner must think this is 2009.

Back in 2009, Republicans were terrified of Obama’s popularity and their loss of power, so they got together to plot their comeback. They eventually planned to bring down Obama. They would do this by acting like they were the majority, not the minority. They would “challenge them on every single bill and challenge them on every single campaign.”

In other words, they would obstruct until they destroyed Obama, because they knew that as they did this, they would be on camera blaming Obama for the obstructions they were creating.

The problem for John Boehner is that while the plan worked in 2010 and they did make some huge gains in the House, it did not work in 2012. Were it not for gerrymandering, Republicans might not have the House now. They lost seats in the Senate and they also failed to make Obama a “one term President.” They were spanked by the public. The public rejected the extremism of the Republican Party.

There’s only so long you can be the Party of Crazy No until the country catches on. The country knows who can’t get their own party to agree to make any concessions. It’s the party that signed Grover Norquist’s no tax pledge, in case Boehner is still confused.

John Boehner says the President was elected to lead. What would he say he was elected to do? Fail and blame? If so, well done sir.

Boehner is just tripping over himself now, and it’s getting embarrassing.

http://www.politicususa.com/defeated-boehner-forges-plan-blame-obama.html


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PostPosted: 12/31/12 10:16 am • # 7 
Hasn't blame Obama been Plan A-Z????


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PostPosted: 12/31/12 10:35 am • # 8 
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Must be a remix of the One Note Samba.


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PostPosted: 12/31/12 12:39 pm • # 9 
Obama's second term in office is not going to be much different than his first when it comes to getting things done. The Repubterds don't plan on backing him on anything.


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PostPosted: 12/31/12 1:16 pm • # 10 
They don't plan on cooperating in hopes they can say that Obama did nothing during his tenure. They know they have 2016 problems already so they are playing to script. Keep obstructing.

I more or less think it's their only play, too. Who do they have? Jeb would be the obvious choice, but he has Bush stink on him. They saw the Rogue with the Incompetent Cheerleader and the Noblesse Oblige Rich White Guy didn't play.

They aren't going to want Obama to be effective and beloved. They are going to have to play the Hope and Change card in 2016.

It's sad that it's politics before populace, but ...

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what ... who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... and so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives," Romney said.


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