Boehner’s Ultimatum: Cut Spending by Trillions or No Debt Limit Increase
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NEW YORK (AP) — The top Republican in Congress wants trillions of dollars in spending cuts as part of must-pass legislation allowing the federal government to continue borrowing to keep it operating and meeting obligations to investors. It’s a new, ambitious marker in a battle over the budget that’s expected to consume Congress for much of the summer.
House Speaker John Boehner also said that any legislation to raise the so-called debt limit beyond its current $14.3 trillion cap should be accompanied by spending cuts larger than the amount of the permitted increase in the debt.
The Ohio Republican made the comments in a speech Monday night to the New York Economic Club. Boehner’s comments come as investors and business groups have been seeking assurances that the GOP-controlled House will join with President Barack Obama and the Democratic-led Senate to enact the must-pass debt limit measure, which is needed to prevent a market-roiling, first-ever U.S. default on its obligations.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says a failure to increase the federal government’s ability to borrow would have disastrous effects on the economy.
“It’s true that allowing America to default would be irresponsible,” Boehner said. “But it would be more irresponsible to raise the debt limit without simultaneously taking dramatic steps to reduce spending and to reform the budget process.”
The government is headed toward a $1.6 trillion deficit this year requiring it to borrow more than $125 billion a month. It’s unclear how much of a debt limit increase is coming, but it would take a record increase in the $2 trillion range to avoid a second vote before next year’s elections. The most recent increase in the debt limit of $1.9 trillion was passed by a Democratic-controlled Congress early last year.
The debt measure’s path through Congress promises to be extraordinarily difficult since the arrival of 87 House GOP freshmen – many elected with tea party backing last year – for whom the debt vote is politically treacherous. At the same time, Democrats controlling the Senate and the White House support revenue increases that are a non-starter with Republicans.
Boehner‘s remarks are notable since it’s virtually impossible to produce spending cuts of that size without addressing major benefit programs like Medicare, food stamps and Medicaid. And they came less than a week after Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and other top Republicans seemed to acknowledge that political reality would probably rule out such cuts before the 2012 presidential and congressional elections.
A GOP budget blueprint that passed the House last month calls for transforming Medicare from a program in which the government directly pays medical bills into a voucher-like system in which future beneficiaries – those presently 54 years old or younger – would receive subsidies for purchases of private insurance plans.
Dozens of protesters gathered outside the hotel where the event was being held.
“We’re not talking about billions here. We should be talking about cuts in trillions,” Boehner said. “These should be actual cuts, real reforms to these programs and not broad deficit targets that punt the tough questions to the future.”
In fact, one of the options being considered by Republicans is to impose a hard cap on government spending that would be backed up with across-the-board spending cuts if the targets aren’t met. The idea is firmly opposed by the White House, which prefers a mechanism that would incorporate automatic revenue increases as well.
“Tax hikes should be off the table,” Boehner said.
Boehner called for “honest conversations” about the future of Medicare. He added that a failure to act could provoke a debt crisis that could require tougher cuts than anything now being contemplated.
“If we don’t act boldly now, the markets will act for us very soon,” Boehner said.
“We cannot let this moment pass,” he added.
Separately, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said it may require a short-term increase in the debt limit to buy additional time for lawmakers to grapple with what is likely to be a very complicated and politically divisive budget debate.
In New York, Boehner was asked whether he might consider a short-term debt measure. He did not directly respond.
Democrats admit freely that the must-pass debt limit legislation is going to have to have to be accompanied with cuts to spending, and Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday is hosting a second meeting of a group of lawmakers on deficit reduction. The group is supposed to come up with bipartisan recommendations on deficit curbs to add to the debt limit measure.
Geithner has told lawmakers that while the government will officially reach the official debt ceiling in mid-May he can take advantage of bookkeeping maneuvers to stave off a first-ever default until Aug. 2.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat with strong ties to Wall Street, told reporters Monday that it would be a mistake to wait that long to approve the legislation since the markets could easily be roiled when the legislative process takes inevitable twists and turns. Schumer says it would a mistake for Boehner to cut it too close to the Aug. 2 deadline.
“A default would be even more catastrophic than a shutdown. The consequences are much more far-reaching and disastrous for the economy,” he said.
Boehner negotiated for weeks with the White House earlier this on legislation passed last month funding agency budgets through the Sept. 30 of the budget year. But that agreement was reached on the cusp of a partial government shutdown – a luxury lawmakers probably won’t have in the case of the debt-limit measure.
“If America were to default, even for 24 hours, that would have an unprecedented and a catastrophic impact on global financial markets and on American markets,” said Roger Altman, a former top Treasury Department official under President Bill Clinton. “You either default or you don’t. There’s no saying, ‘I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it.’ And that makes it totally different … from a government shutdown.”
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Comments (163)
DaveOregon
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:57amBoehner a stooge. Frankly, Pelosi has more balls then Boehner.
Report Post »concealled9mms
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 11:59amRight on
Report Post »Consibertarian
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:35pmif allen west doesn‘t make a presidential run he should be the new speaker of the house after we get this schmooze out of congress and out of obama’s/reid’s backpocket.
Report Post »Pyx
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:51amThis vow is a lie.
Boehner is a LIAR until proven otherwise.
Report Post »FANGS
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:53amIf the Democrats dont play by our rules and laws, war is our next and only option. Their days are so numbered.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:46amUh, how about NO DEBT CEILING INCREASE – PERIOD??
Report Post »rulken
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:20amOf course there should not be a debt ceiling increase. They are so full of sheet ! We aren’t going to default, if the dumb bastards in congress just stop spending ! They have lost their minds.!
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:38amLast friday Boehner said, ” we’re not talking billions, we’re talking trillions”. I seen the comment once on FoxNews, and nowhere else. The Bin Laden coverage, and the President making his glory tour was the rating grabber. Yellow Journalism!
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:11amFire half of all that works for the government. Then cut the salaries of the other half. Problem with debt is solved. Let them all start paying for their own healthcare. Can’t believe we have sunk to this level. Hopefully Boehner will hold out for the trillions he has asked for. He had better if he wants to be there after 2012.
Report Post »Tagudinian
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:57amLet us see if John Boehner’s demands for trillions remain the same as time goes on. I am afraid that the GOP has cone wobbly. I am losing faith in the GOP faster than I can tread water. What has happened to the Reagan conservatives? Have they all gone to John McCain‘s camp and Olympia Snowe’s gulag?
Report Post »mogoso
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:54amCassandra on her post had it right cut spending and don’t raise the debt limit. We all know that Boehner is just talk. He is just a Rino, not through his words, but through his actions. He get to the point where he‘ll raise the debt ceiling saying they’ll be major cuts in the budget then end up going along with the “Obama’s” plan and screw the country once again, just like the 2011 budget. It’s just a PR game, look at what I say not what I’m doing. If true Conservatives don’t have the House, the Senate and the Presidency at the end of 2012, this country can bend over and kiss its butt goodbye as it’ll never recover. That is if we have the opportunity to have fair elections, afte rall aren’t we still funding community organizers, even if they aren’t named ACORN.
Report Post »rabblechat
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:46amThis is the same flip flopper that couldn’t hold firm on a 100 Billion just a few weeks ago. Now he is demanding trillions??? Yea I’m sure he is really going to the mat on this one…
Report Post »one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:57amWell, it’s like everyone says with allan west and his NO vote on defunding obamacare .. It’s just as easy to vote yes as no so it make not one bit of sense…yesterdays story, what hell it’s only 100 billion ,chump change, we have bigger fish to fry.. Why waste time defunding obamacare ? These are the people that love West so much that no matter what he does or says at this point they have their minds made up and want him as president ,even though he isn’t running ..
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:44amSorry folks, the Speaker does not have this much courage……this is just posturing on his part…..
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:06amThink I have seen this movie before…………..
Report Post »dirtypolitics
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:23amWow, Speaker Boehner grew a spine. Hope he walk the walk.
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:16amThis sounds alot like…….If you tell your son…Hey son if you reduce your alcohol consumption by half Ill raise your limit you can drink before were back at “hey son I think your drinking too much”. Vicious cycle dontcha think.
Report Post »Les Panek
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:03amI’ll believe it when I see it. Boehner only seems to have a spine when he knows that the Senate won’t take up whatever his House has past. His whole strategy is, “How do I appease the base and still be a good pawn for the RINOs in control of the party?” Flushing the establishment Republicans out of control is long overdue, and the only chance that they have of keeping a 3rd, conservative party from forming.
Establishment Republicans have no desire for limited government and are more than happy to be a minority party. They cower before the media, accept every leftist premise and apologize for the conservatives in the party rather than stand on any principle other than appeasement. Nothing will get fixed while their puppets hold leadership positions in the House and Senate.
Hey John, here‘s to hoping that I’m wrong about you.
Report Post »NC
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:00amThe average person on the street has no idea of what a trillion dollars is. The small word carries so many zeros after it.
I’ll even go as far as to say the average Blaze reader/poster has no idea what a trillion dollars is.
Boehner will back down, the Dems will get their way, and the Tea Party will grow even stronger. Goodbye GOP.
NC (signing off for the day, have a great Tuesday everyone)
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:14amA trillions seconds is equal to 31,700 years.
A trillion inches can take you 600 times around the earth, then to the moon and back, with plenty left over.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:17amSoooo, One trillion seconds ago, stone age man live in caves.
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:34amThanks NC..You also have a wonderful day!
Report Post »one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:50amWe know what it is… it’s 1000 billion dollars.. or one million million dollars… just imagine what we could save if we stop sending countries like pakistan 3 billion a year.. that’s just one country..
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 4:44pmONE YRS. FOOD RATION LIKE GLENN SAYS..
We spend 3 BILLION a year in subsidies to cotton farmers – a left over spending bill from 1937 when real farmers needed help. Now 95% of that 3 BILLION goes to corporate run farms that don’t need it.
Report Post »flagbearer
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 7:51amThere was good reason the founding fathers gave the ability to spend money ONLY to Congress, with it initiating in the House. My greatest fear is that Boehner will put up a good fight to save political face, compromise on the amount of spending reduction, and finally kow-tow to the Democrats. The RINOs spend as much as the Democrats. We’ll see. And it has already been said, but it is a very good point: if you cut spending, why do you need an increase in the debt ceiling? It’s is time to say STOP!
Report Post »jeff.cooper
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 7:29amThis is Boehner’s line in the sand. The president has already played his hand, as well as the Democrats in the House. A compromise exists somewhere in there, and Boehner will likely get a deal to undo more of the damage that was created by Pelosi and Reid.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:39amand watch how fast ***** crosses that line in the sand- probably will gladly jump across it.
Report Post »misteryuck
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 7:20amIf you cut trillions in spending, why would you need to raise the debt limit?
Report Post »Just asking.
one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:42amIt’s called smoke and mirrors , my friend..
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 4:40pmbudgets are already set, cuts would come years from now. these things don‘t happen in one day ya’know.
Report Post »misteryuck
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:02pmSo why is it that it seems no matter who is in “charge” the car stays in the ditch?
Report Post »Has the rebublicrat party been infiltrated by socialists to the point that they only try to pretend to be to the right of the democRats?
It may be time to jump ship on the republicRats and invest in the Taxed Enough Already party.
tomloy
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 7:15amWay to go Boehner! Stick to your guns! Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 7:13pmyou really trust him?
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:53amYah- stick to his guns like he did last month… sell out America is his platform and his intent. Don’t fire till he sees the whites of their eyes? ROFLMBO- like he actually has the guts to ‘stick to his guns’, let alone pull the trigger.
Report Post »*****’s a RINO and not worth spit.
warveteran
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 7:00amI agree with Senator Obama. Vote no on raising the debt ceiling.
Report Post »FalconOfStorms
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:46amSince some version or another of Barry has taken every possible position on every issue…
Report Post »Royko
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 6:53amThe DemonRats want to force the default, and blame it on the evil Conservatives who want to slow the irresponsible borrowing for wasteful government spending. The current producers, as well as future generations are tax slaves.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:10amAnd the lamestream media will jump all over the GOP, not the Dems. We need to clean out in 2012, and call for an end to lamestream media as we know it.
we need to put together a “journalist oath” that must be taken. Opinion is kept separate from the news. A violation of the oath they take will result in termination of employee, and criminal charges filed, with mandatory jail time!
Report Post »encinom
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 4:22pmWhen the GOP is serious about taxing the rich and closing loopholes, than you arguement may have some merit. As it stands, the GOP wants the give the wealth to the few, while sharing the burden, the risk and cutting the serives of the many.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:07amencinom,
Write em a check which you are free to do.
Many of our teachers out here WILL NOT pay union dues.
Report Post »Let them freeload from the unions, you freeload from us.
MOLLYPITCHER
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 6:52amHow about cut spending or you will loose your jobs next election,AND absolutely no increase to the debt limit.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 6:56pmI trust mr. *****, don’t you? Oh boo hoo cut the spending we will. in 2012 we can rearrange the deck chairs again. maybe this time we can get real conservatives? I‘m tired of these rino’s. I want the old GOP and the t.e.a. party needs to take it back. If you don’t go to t.e.a. party or 912 patriots meetings yet please find them in your area. Learn all you can, it starts at the local level first. Now all this good news makes me want another BEER. cloudsofwar out.
Report Post »stephenmarkovich
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 6:35amDefault is inevitable because cngress will not cut…refuses to cut. ..refuses to deal with the pain. Default. Get your heads out of the sand and default if you refulse to cut.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 4:22pmRaise Taxes on the rich!!!!
Report Post »MHP
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:02amencinom,
Then pay your fair share, which you do not.
Report Post »Molaki
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 6:34amUnfortunately, Mr. Boehner does not have the “testies” to end this fight. The Dems will hold firm on no cuts until the deadline looms then, as ususal, the Republican leadership will fold like a cheap suitcase. Boehner will then say he had no choice when in fact he did…….these guys are such wussies.
Report Post »Navyveteran
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:41pmLook at that photo he has a look like “Man I hope they fall for this line because this will never happen,” My parents always said fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. Well Boener I will believe you when you actually put actions behind those words!
Report Post »Water Bart
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:29pmTry to fool my Boehner, joke is on me.
Report Post »Fool with my Boehner twice, it’s a shame, drinks on me, lose the good fight.
Fool with my Boehner every day, it’s golfing with the stars, everybody cries, takes own football home.
101
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 6:32pmBuy Gold and/or Silver before they will raise the debt ceiling!
Report Post »justice
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 6:30amKeep to your Guns Republicans and Tea Party. We will be there come 2012.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 4:20pmSo will the American Patriotsm, standing with the union members and the workers against the Koch Brothers funded, GOP assault on America.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:00amencinom,
Patriotism leaves you and your union thugs out.
We conservatives and Tea Partiers are the only patriots here.
For the violence that union thugs cause, they should took out and shot.
Report Post »Joe McCarthy was right all along. Every communist in this country should have been promptly executed.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZz fry in the electric chair.
AmeriWoman
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 6:24amHold to it Mr Boehner, stand tough! Not *maybe*… you know it’s a standoff.
Republicans hold the house, Dems hold the senate and Obama is waving his (snake)
pen as much as he can. Hold off best you can until the elections, America is stepping up!
AW
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 6:45amWhoa buddy! Boehner grew a spine!?
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 6:48amDont worry John will start crying and give in long before the electins…
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 7:05amCan we hope against all hope that Boehner actually sticks to his guns?
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 7:29amTalk is cheap, let’s see if he really grew a spine and sticks with what he says, if not……..you will see a lot of changes again in 2012 on the GOP side.
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 7:43amhow about this concept cut spending by trillions and DO NOT RAISE THE DEBT LIMIT………That is what the people are asking for Mr.Boehner……
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:06amThey better stand strong this time. It doesn‘t take a genious to know that we can’t keep spending money we don’t have. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmL6evAnyf0
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:24am14.3 seconds equals 453,310 years!!
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:25amSorry, 14.3 trillion seconds equals 453,310 years
Report Post »one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:39amYes cut trillions, just don’t touch mine.. The liberal mantra..
Report Post »DogWithA_Bone
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:16amDont give in!
Report Post »Keep to the cuts!
How will we ever get out of this mess unless someone
is willing to take a stand and cut the entitlements!!!
thegrassroots
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:25amBoehner has proven that he’s all talk. When faced with obama and his minions, Boehner crushes like an eggshell and then whines that he did the best he could do. The best thing Boehner could do for America is to step back and make room for a speaker with the “True Grit,” Don’t Tread On Me,“ ”Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death,” Guts of our Founders. Boehner is so “politics as usual” that he doesn’t know how to draw a line in the sand and force obama, et al to move America’s way. Boehner’s the epitome of “Gutless Wonder.”
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:26amBoehner didn’t grow a spine – he‘s a candy ass that’s afraid of his own shadow.
I don’t care what the repubs “think” they’re gonna get, the ceiling SHOULD NOT BE RAISED, PERIOD! Anybody that argues otherwise has been hitting the Kool-Aid.
Report Post »Bipolar & Angry
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:53amThe Speaker PROVES to be another PIG.
Report Post »The HOUSE is Just a Government PIG Farm, turning people into PIGS. So There
Cobra Blue
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:08amRemember…tough talk from a cry baby with NO BALLS means absolutely nothing.
Report Post »colonial10
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:11amRon Paul says we have defaulted on our debts 3 other times in our history. This report says first time ever. Ron Paul gave specific details. I hate how manipulative our politicians are.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:25amI was thinking that since liberals and progressives have pretty much destroyed the country as most of us have come to know it, isn’t it time for conservatives to do the same, albeit on paper?
Any reasonable mind understands that not raising the debt ceiling will have absolutely no impact on America paying back its debts, unless it chooses to pay back its debts with more debt (which is what it is and will continue to do). But, the feeble-minded amongst us will believe that not raising the debt ceiling will be akin to “destroying the America that progressives (losers) yearn for”.
So, even though conservatives won’t be doing any harm, at least we can have some mental payback to the bottom-feeding, cellar-dwellers called progressive Americans.
Report Post »kraphtsman
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 11:52amIf any “accross-the-board” spending cuts were ever made, they should start by arbitrarily ELIMINATING at least 20% of ALL Federal, non-military jobs. To be “fair”, the actual positions should be randomly selected as in a lottery, and NO EXCEPTIONS should be made to spare any particular government employee’s job.
This is, in effect, what our so-called elected “leaders” have managed to do to the private-sector economy through their selfish legislative actions !
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:01pmWhat about that 1% tax I keep hearing smart sounding guys claim would fix the problem? It would be a 1% tax on all of the electronic day trading on the stock market.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:08pmRotflmfao @ that goofy picture of ***** on the headline.
That’s stupendous.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:45pm@AmeriWoman,
“Hold to it Mr Boehner, stand tough! Not *maybe*… you know it’s a standoff.”
I have no faith in Boehner after the decision on the government shut down.
If he’s as gullible as before, all the Dems have to do is propose an alternative Bill that SPENDS $2 trillion more, and then claim that zero cuts are the middle ground – or something like it.
Boener’s either easy pickings, or he’s a sell-out. I think he’s a RINO. He must be replaced. The GOP has been lost to the Progressives.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:48pmtesting
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:51pmWe could start by bringing the troops home.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:57pmI’ll believe it when I see it .If the Republicans owned a pro basketball team they would give up their super star player and big money for a future 2nd round draft pick of the democrats choice.Boehner is a toothless kitty cat ,he’ll fold and have nothing to show for it but an adoring left wing media touting his bipartisanship for that short news cycle ,then kill him in the next cycle for political reasons.Prove me wrong Boehner.
Report Post »daavidruth93
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:00pmDear Honorable Congresman Joh Boehner,
WE ARE WATCHING!
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:55pmCut Department of Education, Health and Human Services, EPA, and Department of Energy, we should be good to go.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:58pmBoehner is spineless and scared of Obama. He don’t know what to do. He needs watching.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:01pmCut defense. Cut federal money for red states. eliminate the Bush tax cuts. Better regulate entitlements and root out exploitation.
I bet a lot of Dems would vote Ron Paul if it was between him and Obama. Not most but a lot. Sadly, Ron Paul will never have a real shot as the Repubs will run some sure fire loser.
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:11pm@ Dr_Funk…
Nope… bohner hasn’t grown a spine… That’s the same ultimatum he gave before “caving in” and voting for obama’s $1.4 trillion budget…
Report Post »encinom
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:40pmSo the GOP is blackmailing the country. Instead of raising taxes and cutting loop holes, the GOP will wage war on the middle and working class, cutting services for them and taking away their safety nets. Will the GOP cut the military budget, cut the programs the pentagon has said it doesn’t need or is this all show for tbaggers.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:48pmI’ll believe this when I see it actually happen…….when Gold instantly balances with the DOW.
The republicrats will cave-in like always…….pardon me, I meant “compromise”.
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 3:24pmEmail John Boehner! Let him know America isn’t interested in all of his blustering and posturing for the media. Let Boehner Know That, America Expects Him To Man Up!
These representatives, including the potus, are our employees. As their employers it’s our job to keep their feet to the fire. They all hear from me all the time.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 3:33pmBoehner STAND STRONG or I will do everything I can to KICK you OUT.
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 3:34pmShould’ve said: America Expects Him [Boehner] To Either Man Up Or Step Aside And Get Out Of The Way!
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 4:26pmEasy…stop giving 2 TRILLION in welfare checks to Big Oil (record profits and HUGE bonuses this quarter).
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 4:48pmIf he folds or compromises with the increased debt ceiling the GOP is dead. There will be mass disertions. This is the GOP’s last chance.
Report Post »101
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 6:28pm10 sec. left 4th quarter we’re down 13.3 trillion…fake right go left on hard count “break”
Dog & Pony Show!
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 7:20pmAin’t gonna happen- he just talks tough. He’ll cave at the first opportunity and most every other GOP will follow suit. They’re all too chickensh^^ to back Bachmann and Paul, and ***** et al aid in cutting them down and causing dissension within the party.
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:07pmDear Federal Government,
I have 3 orders for you. 1)CUT SPENDING. 2)CUT SPENDING. 3CUT SPENDING.
Any questions? I think its time for a taxpayer strike.
Report Post »Obeckian1984
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:23pmtoo little too late ***** is a weasel, and will sell us out
again mark my words.
Funny how the Rich got to keep their tax cuts while
the middle class pays more…..
cut the police state, end over seas involvement and money
turn all power back to the States
Right , Fat chance….
Report Post »ignore Boners words watch his actions.
remember he wanted to block Ron Paul from Finance chairman
He was Afraid somebody might really cut something.
tifosa
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 11:25pmGo figure, 70% of teapartiers don’t want Medicaid or Medicare cut! They showed up at Republican townhalls while Congress was on ANOTHER vacation http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/misc/usapolls/US110410/McClatchy/McClatchy-Marist%20Poll%20Complete%20April%2018th,%202011%20USA%20Poll%20Tables.pdf
Report Post »MHP
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 12:40amencinom,
To hell with you. Time for all republicans to quit paying taxes.
If they have to cheat, fine.
That leaves you holding the bag, which is fine with me.
Tax Strike time.
Now you owe us.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 7:29amCut all foreign aid(which is a large chunk the defense budget) to every country but Israel, Privatize SSI, Medicare and Medicaid and/or raise the minimum age limits to above the average life expectancy and bam, budget balanced and bringing in surplus.
Report Post »After that, we can talk about which taxes to eliminate completely and which others to simply slash.
KMM
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 8:46am@DR_FUNK: dude, EXACTLY my thoughts! … Hope this is a new trend for him and not a temporary political maneuver!
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:18amGreat he “said” it, but as we saw last time, when the rubber met the road, he caved. Anyone want to bet that he will settle for less than 200 billion in cuts for the passage?
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