Tag Archives: Boehner

Oct 14

Speaker Boehner via telephone confronts Obama about his lies

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I’ve got a question… Is Barack Obama even capable of telling the truth about anything? I am very sincere in asking that question. I can’t think of one time offhand where he’s told the truth about anything. Can you? It’s either been a lie, an exaggeration or spin. Always.

Well, it appears Speaker Boehner shares my sentiments as he ripped in to Obama via a telephone conversation and according to Politico, this is how it transpired:

President Barack Obama called House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) Thursday to congratulate him for passing three trade agreements — but ended up getting an earful on the jobs debate.

According to an unusually detailed account released by the speaker’s office, Boehner “respectfully challenged” the president for saying Thursday that he has not yet seen a jobs plan from Republicans…

The speaker, who last spoke with the president three weeks ago, reminded Obama that the House GOP released a jobs plan in May and that his leadership team has spoken with Obama and his staff about the plan “on numerous occasions.”

“The speaker told the president that when he sent his jobs plan to the Hill, Republicans pledged to give it consideration, and have done so,” the release stated. “The president was reminded of a memo written by GOP leaders outlining the specific areas where they believe common ground can be found. The Speaker also noted that a number of the president’s ideas have already been acted on in the House, including a veterans hiring bill, trade agreements, and a three percent withholding bill approved by the Ways & Means Committee today that will be considered on the House floor this month.”

In a video released yesterday:

Jul 25

Reid concedes, Boehner leads on debt talks

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With an irrelevant Barack Obama shut out and on the bench it appears both congressional Republicans and Democrats are seriously tackling the debt issue. Leaders lead, and it appears John Boehner is the clear leader in this issue and oddly enough, Harry Reid as well is showing leadership. Both sides have a plan and I would think compromise can be achieved. Nobody is going to get what they want, no side should use this for political points, it’s the country that matters, nothing else.

As for Obama, still playing politics with the country, putting himself and his quest for power first as he stated that he will veto any bill that he basically can’t take credit for, and does not go beyond the election. It’s all about the politics with him. What an ass.

House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, pitched his colleagues on a plan to raise the borrowing limit by about $1 trillion and match that with similar sized spending cuts — enough to last through the rest of the year, and leaving for later the heavy lifting on taxes and bigger spending items.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he is working on a plan to raise the debt limit by $2.7 trillion, coupled with an equal reduction in projected future spending. In a concession to Republicans, he said that plan would not include tax increases, but that the new debt level would last through the 2012 elections.

That date has become a critical marker for Democrats — so much so that President Obama’s advisers said he would veto any bill that doesn’t last that long.

That’s politics as usual from the Democrats and it has to stop. Enough is enough.

Jul 24

Obama only worried about election as he plays “politics as usual” with the debt he caused

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No surprise to anyone. I’ve been writing in these pages for almost three years that Obama doesn’t care about anything except the acquisition of power in order to advance his socialist policies. It’s never been about the country or the people with him, we all know it if we look at the man and his actions, honestly. Finally, Boehner came out and said it, well, close enough.

Boehner also criticized President Obama for recommending a debt ceiling deal be timed to last beyond the next election season.

“The president’s worried about his next election, but my God, shouldn’t we be worried about the country?” Boehner said. “I’m not worried about the next election. I told the president months ago: Forget about the next election!”

It’s all politics with Obama, nothing else matters, and those of you that can see Obama for what he is, and judge him by his actions, not his words, know this to be true. He is, without question, worse than Jimmy Carter, and perhaps the worst ever.

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Jul 24

Boehner to Obama: Congress writes the laws, you don’t

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As the tyrannical Obama regime implodes and crumbles at a faster and faster rate each passing week, House Majority Leader John Boehner had to educate Barack Obama on how the constitution works in this country:

“As I read the Constitution, the Congress writes the laws and you get to decide what you want to sign,” Boehner said, recounting what he told the president, according to two sources.

The tide in this country has certainly changed from 2008. Every once in a while you’ve got to elect a Democrat majority and White House to remember how truly awful they really are.

Jul 22

Boehner walks away

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Can’t say that I blame him. I would have walked too. Obama is not serious, he wants it his way or no way. Well, it looks like it’s going to be no way.

Obama just doesn’t get it. He and the Democrats have spent trillions that we don’t have on stuff we don’t need, and now he’s expecting us, our kids and our grand kids to pay for his wish list. No. I’m sorry, I’m not wiling to pay for the Obama and the Democrats socialism.

Nobody asked for it and nobody wants it. We didn’t seem to have any problems with the budget and debt prior to Obama, it was just fine, now after his spending it isn’t, and he wants us to pay. F–k him. Cut the goddam government in half if you have to, but his irresponsible spending is not our problem. It’s his. And if we default, we default. Life goes on.

via Fox News:

House Speaker John Boehner on Friday pulled out of negotiations with President Obama on raising the nation’s legal limit to borrow money, just days before an Aug. 2 deadline when the government can no longer pay all its bills and faces its first-ever possible default.

After informing the president in a phone call, Boehner sent a letter to lawmakers saying, “In the end, we couldn’t connect. Not because of different personalities, but because of different visions for our country.”

In a hastily arranged news conference in the White House briefing room, a visibly irritated Obama said that “it’s hard to understand why Speaker Boehner would walk away from this deal.”

“This was an extraordinarily fair deal,” he said, explaining that the White House offered more than $1 trillion in cuts to discretionary spending, both domestic and defense and $650 billion in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in exchange for $1.2 trillion in new revenues.

Boehner will now work with Senate leaders on an alternative “to find a path forward,” he wrote in the letter to lawmakers. But Obama said he wants to see congressional leaders at the White House Saturday to figure out how to avoid a government default.

“We have now run out of time,” Obama said.

“We have now run out of time.” Yeah, and who’s fault is that, Barack? This guy just never stops amazing me.

What’s wrong with that plan? It’s basic math and it’s right in front of you. 1 trillion in cuts in exchange for 1.2 trillion in new taxes. Simple math, my friend, it increases government spending by 200 billion dollars. This isn’t a deal, this is bullshit.

Jul 13

Speaker Boehner says, “Dealing With the White House ‘Has Been Like Dealing With Jell-o’

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This piece should tell you very plainly that Obama and the Democrats are not serious at all when it comes to the budget.

via ABC News:

In a meeting with a small group of reporters in his Capitol Hill office this morning, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, criticized President Obama and White House officials for their lack of resolve in negotiations.

“Dealing with them the last couple months has been like dealing with Jell-o,” Boehner said. “Some days it’s firmer than others. Sometimes it’s like they’ve left it out over night.”

Boehner explained that talks broke down over the weekend because, he said, the president backed off entitlement reforms so much from Friday to Saturday, “It was Jell-o; it was damn near liquid.”

“By Saturday, they’d spent the previous day and a half just going backwards” on reforming entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

“The only thing they’ve been firm on is these damn tax increases,” the Speaker said.

The Speaker also made it clear that he believes the President waited too long to get personally involved. When he phoned the president Saturday to give him the bad news about talks breaking down,  President Obama seemed surprised but not shocked, the speaker said. The phone call lasted 35-40 minutes.

Boehner said that the tax increases the White House has been pushing for as part of what the president calls “a balanced package” cannot make it through Congress. “What the president is asking us to do just won’t pass,” he said.