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House Drama: An Angry Boehner Yells To White House ‘Put Something On The Table!’

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Rep. John Boehner just took to the house floor in advance of a vote over his recent iteration of a balanced budget bill that aims to end the current debt crisis that has gripped the nation’s capital. Perhaps showing the tension of weeks of stalemated debate, Boehner showed some rare anger, raising his voice in insisting that his political opponents “put something on the table!”

Partial transcript of the more impassioned part of Boehner’s house floor speech:

“My colleagues I can tell you that i have worked with the President and this administration since this begining of this year to avoid being in this spot. I have offered ideas, I have negotiated. Not one time, not one time did the administration ever put any plan on the table. All they would do is criticize what I put out there. I stuck my neck out a mile to try to get an agreement with the President of the United States…I stuck my neck out a mile.

And I put revenues on the table in order to try to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are. Well a lot of people in this town can never say yes. A lot of people can never say yes. This house has acted. And it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across the aisle, put something on the table! Tell us where you are!

Those paying close attention to his rhetoric may recognize that it isn’t terribly dissimilar to the accusations made by the White House towards the GOP, known in administration-friendly circles as the “party of no.”

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  • Anonymous

    Waiting for Obama to come up with proposed spending cuts is like waiting for Godot. The President’s proposal will never show up.

  • Anonymous

    Finally they publicly ask them to put up or shut up.  You cannot compromise with someone when they refuse to show you what they are willing to put on the table.  Show some leadership Barry!

  • Anonymous

    Is an angry Boner what Marcus Bachmann’s got?

  • Anonymous

    Stop the tax loop holes for Corps.

  • Anonymous

    Stop the tax loop holes for Corps.

  • Anonymous

    If this bill passes, it will be 2 bills that Republicans have put through. What have Dems done? Nothing but garner up opposition to the passed bills. It is the Democrats that are holding us hostage.

  • Anonymous

    All the President can do is point fingers and vote present; he is NOT capable of putting anything on the table.  his CoS, or someone in his inner circle, has leaked that POTUS isn’t getting any sleep over this issue…wah wah wah, he is so tired he doesn’t have the wherewithall to do anything except get on television and whine.

    Manchild, empty suit, Big Zero.

  • Anonymous

    NO-PLAN-OBOZO is so irrelevant that he has become nothing more than background static.

    “Skids to all-time low in polls…”
    “40% APPROVAL…”

    One Term – guaranteed!!!!

    BTW: You want side-splitting, gut wrenching, laugh-til-you-fall-over REAL humor? Then look no further than Klavan on the Culture videos. I personnel think his “President Obama, Talking Crap” is one of the best, but they are ALL outstanding. Klavan makes lefty-buffoon Stewart look like a third-rate amateur. 

    Check out his newest laugh-fest-  Andrew Klavan: Explains The Facts of Life To Liberals
    It’s 5-star hilarious.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    I’m so tired of the Democrats and their slavish followers in the media trying to pin this all on Republicans. Democrats have been in charge since 2006! Obama doubled the deficit in a matter of months! 

  • Anonymous

    He probably won’t cut any on his birthday bash.

  • Anonymous

    lol at “I PUT REVENUES ON THE TABLE!!!”
    Of course we now know that he never could have delivered those revenues but he was just too stupid to know it at the time.
    The bill he pushed through today was the best bill he could have ever gotten.  Everything else was a sham.

    Even when this is over it won’t be over.  The Tea Party will continue to embarrass Boehner and the GOP and it won’t end until they get enough power to put their extremist views into effect and then the seniors will turn on them so fast it will make their heads spin.
     
    Fascinating television though.
    You never know if Boehner is going to start crying or screaming.
    He went with the screaming this time.

  • Anonymous

    Who wouldn’t be fed up dealing with a couple quivering , lying bowls of lime Jello like Reid and Obama and listening to the pointless howls of Schumer and Little Debbie ?

  • Anonymous

    Well, at least we know one this is certain:  the inanity of your posts. 

  • http://twitter.com/Decamped The Dude

    What a bunch of nonsense. Harry Reid already put more cuts on the table than Boehner. And the White House has taken so much revenue off the table because of Boehner.

  • Texan

    troll much, loser?

  • Anonymous

    I bet he thinks those extra 7 states can make up the difference! am i rite?!?! LOLz!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    This is going around twitter: hehe

    President @BarackObama - I searched for your plan on the debt limit and found this, http://dld.bz/ajxwS

  • Texan

    The Tea Party is taking our country back with or w/out Boehner!

  • Anonymous

    Can someone show a link to the seven plans Bush put out there, or the 18 plans Reagan wrote? They might be a good guideline to go by, you know. Link, anyone?

  • insideguy

     What revenues did he put on the table? I heard him say that but what did he mean?

  • Anonymous

    What a phony! He wants something on the table from the white hose, something that he woked say Not o in a heartbeat. Sorry John, you are screwed. 

  • Texan

    Newsflash: Obama is the potus. Not Bush or Reagan.

  • Anonymous

    I assume he was talking about the 800 billion that he accused Obama of raising 400 billion more.
    It was part of the 3 dollars in cuts for each dollar in revenue Grand Bargain.
    And I assume that 800 billion was letting the Bush tax cuts expire because at the same time Grover Norquist was giving his (almost) blessing to do that.

    But let’s be serious, he could have delivered none of that.
    The Tea Party was holding him hostage too.

  • BeggarBoy

    Yeah, back to the Stone Age. 

  • Anonymous

    Hey Boner, yelling and screaming with a flair for the theatrics while putting forth bill that you know won’t every become law — doesn’t make you right.

  • Anonymous

    Now they have something to get us to the end, post-TP-tantrum:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/democrats-narrow-targets-_n_913725.html

  • Anonymous

    Compromise, Compromise! If you put a Republican bill on my desk I will veto. Compromise, Compromise but I only want the Republicans to compromise. Democrats don’t need to. Hey that is not the a compromise mr. president.

  • Anonymous

    Would someone explain to the Republicans how the congress works.  House write the bills, goes to senate then the President signs the bill.  The President doesn’t write bills.  I have never seen as many ignorant people as I have seen in the Republican party.  They are clueless as how our government works.  What is worse is that people who voted them in office have to be just as ignorant.  Our country has gone down the drain with the uneducated repubs and tea party people.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, you’re right. Now why didn’t I think of that? Of course no one existed and nothing happened before today. How silly of me.

  • Anonymous

    Thank God that’s over.

    Now the adults can take over.

  • Wake up America

    Houdini in Chief says he has a plan. One you see it, now you don’t.

  • Wake up America

    Houdini in Chief says he has a plan. One you see it, now you don’t.

  • Wake up America

    Houdini in Chief says he has a plan. One you see it, now you don’t.

  • Wake up America

    Houdini in Chief says he has a plan. One you see it, now you don’t.

  • Wake up America

    Houdini in Chief says he has a plan. One you see it, now you don’t.

  • Wake up America

    Houdini in Chief says he has a plan. One you see it, now you don’t.

  • Wake up America

    Houdini in Chief says he has a plan. One you see it, now you don’t.

  • Wake up America

    Houdini in Chief says he has a plan. One you see it, now you don’t.

  • insideguy

    yea i mean even if he did that the tea party would have never gone along with it. I think he’s about to lose his mind.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps the Speaker has forgotten that there is a Democratic plan in the Senate and, oh, yeah, he is the one that walked away from the White House and told Obama the Congress would handle it. Well, handle it and stop whining an blaming everyone else. It is the job of Congress to produce legislation, not the president. Article 1. Read it.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps the Speaker has forgotten that there is a Democratic plan in the Senate and, oh, yeah, he is the one that walked away from the White House and told Obama the Congress would handle it. Well, handle it and stop whining an blaming everyone else. It is the job of Congress to produce legislation, not the president. Article 1. Read it.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps the Speaker has forgotten that there is a Democratic plan in the Senate and, oh, yeah, he is the one that walked away from the White House and told Obama the Congress would handle it. Well, handle it and stop whining an blaming everyone else. It is the job of Congress to produce legislation, not the president. Article 1. Read it.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps the Speaker has forgotten that there is a Democratic plan in the Senate and, oh, yeah, he is the one that walked away from the White House and told Obama the Congress would handle it. Well, handle it and stop whining an blaming everyone else. It is the job of Congress to produce legislation, not the president. Article 1. Read it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    HS you sound like my ex-wife, that’s not you is it Deb?

  • Anonymous

    The bill will not become law because the Dems in the Senate and Obama are just as stubborn and intractable as the Tea Party. 

  • Anonymous

    lmfao  post of the day

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    It’s amazing to me to see how frustrated and stressed they are.

    Congress is finally getting back to its job and they are just now starting to realize..

    IT’S HARD WORK.  No more of getting things passed easily.. now you’re gonna have to earn it.

    You’re going to have to debate it.

    You’re going to have to CONVINCE PEOPLE you’re right.

    OMG, a debate!

  • Anonymous

    You aren’t considered part of “our” anymore.  Deal with it. LOL

  • insideguy

     No it wont become law because its just really really dumb

  • Anonymous

    Impressive confession of Boehner´s inability to organize legislation. He´s the one who couldn´t put a bill forward since January and embarrassed himself by having to delay the vote till now. Lol Boehner, it´s your job to put something on the table that gets passed by the Senate and gets signed by the President. Congrats on putting something on the table in the 11th hours you could get barely the GOP behind and will never be passed by the Senate nor the President. He could have done as well in January.

  • Anonymous

    The Tea Party is holding hostages- but so are the Dems.

    Harry Reid’s plan was a farce- his cuts came from non-existent expenditures.

  • Anonymous

    Your dreaming. You mean when Obama offered up $3 trillion in cuts and $1 trillion in closing loopholes, to the dismay of his base.

  • Anonymous

    that’s all you’ve got is is?  Have some whine with your cheese nacho

  • Anonymous

    No he didn’t – so don’t even go there.  

  • Anonymous

    Exactly my thoughts. Unbelievable and horrifying.

  • Anonymous

    That is it in a nutshell.  

    Lesson from the mainstream media:  The Tea Party are cretins for not compromising but the Dems are heroic or something.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    Really? Why didn’t Democrats pass this plan when they had a super majority? Why are we doing this NOW, 2 years late? 

  • Anonymous

    I’m not going to believe a word John Boehner says unless he cries afterwords.

  • Anonymous

    HuffPo? Really? LOL.

  • insideguy

     Yea don’t you remember Tip O”neil screaming president reagan PUT SOMETHING ON THE TABLE!. Oh thats right raising the bet limit was put on the table and he signed it. Just like every other president did without congress holding him hostage.

  • Anonymous

    So many falsehoods.

  • Anonymous

    No hun.  The Country is going down the drain thanks to Obama – who thinks he’s leading the Greek uprising.  Just dumb.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    U mad, Boner?

  • Anonymous

    focus – try really hard.  

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Well the bill passed. Repubs have committed political suicide. In the words of Denzel Washington you’re federally f*cked now!

  • Anonymous

    The funny thing is; The Democrats had to bribe Congressmen using taxpayer money to get the votes for Obamacare. The Republicans had to promise not too spend more of the taxpayer money to get the Congressmen to vote for the Boehner bill. There folks is the difference. Democrats will always be on the side of screwing the taxpayer.

  • insideguy

    Its always been that way freedom. Shit gets shoveled through the house all the time. Thats the way its always been. Who cares if they passed a bill its crap. There is no room to compromise. The way the founding fathers envisioned it was that the house would be the reactionary branch thats why they gave them 2 year terms. The senate was supposed to be the logical stabilizing branch thats why they gave them 6. You cant just say LOOK I PASSED A BILL now sign it! Thats not how a democracy works thank god.

  • Anonymous

    Bush left the country in shambles. You believe your tea party propaganda.  Use your brain. Ignorance is not celebrated in the real world. 

  • Anonymous

    Yes, why don’t they pass this plan? No plan has been scored.

    Democrats are leading, literally, this nation into ruins.

  • Anonymous

    well lets see how well Harry and Obama do.  They could have done it all without the Republicans but fear took over. lol

  • Anonymous

    Boehner passed two bills. Obama’s budget failed 97-0. The Senate has yet to do anything. But yeah, it is definitely the Republicans fault. LOL.

  • Anonymous

    I think the democrats are screwed.  The old time clock is ticking…….

  • Anonymous

    Well, they never really had that super majority. They also passed several other things that are conveniently forgotten, including increasing the debt limit.

    It is not 2 years late. It is last minute because this Congress is totally dysfunctional and, in the words of Senate Minority leader dedicated to making Obama a one-term president.

    The repeated blaming of the last Congress from the same folks that say don’t blame the last president is both hypocritical and wildly inaccurate. Based on the “don’t blame Bush” rule (which I mostly agree with) this is Boehner’s problem. Article 1, Section 7 makes it the House’s responsibility and Boehner is currently speaker. See how that works?

    Both sides got us here and it will take both sides acting like actual adults and not petulant brats to get us put of it. Thus far, it is all petulant brats on Capitol Hill.

  • Anonymous

    My 8 year old neice understands the SIMPLE concept of how the US government works.  I am amazed at the ignorance of this man.He is clueless. Go to the local library and there are many books that can explain in SIMPLE terms how the US government works.Is illiteracy your issue?

  • Anonymous

    Republicans have passed two bills to raise the debt ceiling. The fist one was with bi-partisan support. Please get back to us when the Democrats have done something to help the situation. We will be waiting…and waiting…and waiting….still waiting………..

  • Anonymous

    So the three branches of government are the Judicial,and the Legislative who make the laws and lead?  Wait- we are missing a branch?  Obama is the branch that sits on his perch and scolds folks for making him look bad- what is that called?

  • Anonymous

    The sad part is that Republicans keep saying this on TV and no one corrects them. They are ignorant and the MSM is letting them get away with the ignorance.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: House has passed three now. Rand, Cut Cap bal and two Boehner comps makes three versions. Senate goose egg.

  • david r

    This is dishonest. 
    Sure art. 1 places the responsibility on Congress to produce legislation, but it is the President’s job to lead the country.  If Hilary had won, she’d be out there with a plan that identified what gets cut and by how much, and she’d take the political heat.  Obama is the first president in my lifetime that let’s legislation come and go with little input, other than to speak out when he thinks he can score political points.  This is why the health care bill is so bad.  Obama lacked the guts to stand up to the health care industry and fight for the public option.  Instead, he took out the country’s credit card and bought health insurance for everyone, with the “requirement” that everyone purchase private health insurance. It will never work.  The deadbeats (read poor Obama supporters) wont pay regardless of the IRS, and we will be awash in red ink.  And this is after raiding Medicare for $500B.  All this jive turkey needs to do is keep b.s.-ing the young liberals long enough to get re-elected.  Want to know why Obama has no plan?  He does not care.  He just wants to be president. He stands in the front of the mirror.  “Yes. . .  I’m President ! ! !

  • Anonymous

    There are things that you do for the good will of the country and there are things that you do just to get  reelected by extremists.

  • Anonymous

    Funny that you post this in a thread reminding Repubs that other branches of Govt have responsibilities.  Who was in charge of the money when this country went down the crapper financially?  Hint:  It wasnt Bush or his party. 

  • Anonymous

    Reading the comments makes me laugh.  The baggers think passing a bill in the house means something. Bunch of ignorant sad sacks.

  • Anonymous

    Poor boner seems VERY frustrated to the point of re-directing at who else, the WH???

  • Anonymous

     One of the funniest interview ever. Neil Cavuto interviewed Jan Schakowsky on the Democrats stance with the debt ceiling. Listen to how she flip flops and double speaks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZE3TEiIfcM

  • david r

    The president is supposed to lead.  That means having a plan.  FDR had a sign on his desk “The buck stops here.”  The president must lead the nation, not just posture for votes.

  • insideguy

     Hey whats a good link to find out whats exactly in this bill?

  • Anonymous

    I am serious u really need to get a book, presumably at grade school level, that explains how the government works.  Saying something ignorant and people agreeing to your ignorance means they are just as ignorant as u. 

  • Anonymous

    The CBO scored Reid’s plan here: http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12338

    Then they compared the first Boehner plan and Reid’s: http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12353

    The conclusion: Reid’s was better.

  • Anonymous

    They don’t have to “pin” anything.  It is all on the Republicans.  The American people can see it.  The whole world can see it.  History will not be kind to the Republican Tea Party.

  • Anonymous

    U do understand that the Republican party will not folllow the President. Repeating talking points that mean absolutely nothing is just dumb. 

  • Anonymous

    Here is the only thing the azs clown Obama has ever put on the table in his entire three years in office…..           
    http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/photos/desk.asp   &  
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131837

  • david r

    I have suspected all along that there will only be a few symbolic, accounting-trick cuts for the rest of Obama’s tenure, how ever long that will be.  Once our dollars are worth about a quarter, maybe the young liberals baby-talking about how government is supposed to work will wake up and complain about the poor hand they have been dealt for the rest of their lives.  Me, I’ll be dead in a decade or so, but when I was in my 20′s and 30′s, the economy was going great guns.  I feel sorry for you kids.  You’ll think you are rich if you can afford to drive a car.

  • david r

    From the guy who hasn’t a clue what is in it.  He is just saying rah rah for our team.

  • Anonymous

    Another ignorant fool who thinks the President writes bills. 

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Since you don’t know how it works I will make
    it easy for you that anyone can bring a bill to the house on the economy not
    just Boehner. Watch and learn lib! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ&feature=related

  • Michelle

    At list John is adult enough not to parrot the talking point of the left that the other side are terrorists. 

  • Michelle

    Seriously, my 12 year old son is more mature than you.

  • Michelle

    Um, his bill passed, the ball is in Harry’s court now.  Will he obstruct compromise?  Me think yes.

  • Anonymous

     Could you give me a link to these loop holes?

  • Anonymous

    Is that what your dogs new shirt says?

  • Norbit

    THANK YOU TEA PARTY!

    These Dems will use every trick in the book not to cut spending – it’s how they buy their votes!
    - Government Dependency!

  • Norbit

    THANK YOU TEA PARTY!

    These Dems will use every trick in the book not to cut spending – it’s how they buy their votes!
    - Government Dependency!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Anyone can write a bill. Post link that says differently!

  • Michelle

    But Mr. Clair Shipman told us Obama had a plan.

  • Michelle

    But Mr. Clair Shipman told us Obama had a plan.

  • progressive_hunter

    Thats priceless

  • KarlSpensen

    Oh the prog libs have put something on the TABLE all right – their plot to TAX the JOB CREATORS that make our country GREAT!!!!!!!!1111  These brave, selfless Businessmen and Corporations think of NOTHING but the Citizens of our Once Proud Republic (unlike the marxist union thugs in the White house), and the LIBS want to TAX them into the ground!!!!!!!!111  Well here’s a news flash, O-bummer-bowma Hussein – you can take your plan to DESTROY the Job Creators and SHOVE IT!!!!11

  • Norbit

    If you want to really laugh, watch how far Obama throws his ill-informed liberal base under the bus now!!!

  • Michelle

    Nope, he only has the one that says “i bite liberals”.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t get it.  He wants the President involved and then he doesn’t and then he does.  

  • Michelle

    You have to pass it to find out what’s in it.

  • Anonymous

    And when Legislators like Boehner yell where’s your plan Obama he knows quite well that it is not up to the President to submit a plan.  But he also knows the masses on the right probably don’t know that.  So he, along with Limbaugh and Fox keep repeating where’s the plan and all their little lemmings start to parrot ya Obama where’s your plan.  Mission accomplished.  The lemmings remain fired up over complete bs.  They really don’t care enough about their base not to lie to them.  What they care about is deflecting blame and keeping their base fired up.  Wonder if the lemmings will ever figure it out and know how they’re being insulted.

  • Cain

    Obama did put a plan on the table that made you guys walkout how many times? 

  • Anonymous

    Fact: President of NO! Democrats party of NO! I can’t understand it can you?

  • Just some Blow Hard…
  • Anonymous

    Cantor walked out on Biden, and Boner walked out on Obama. Did I miss anything?

  • Norbit

    That’s not the feedback I’m getting at all.
    In fact people are enlivened about the pushback against the overbearing Democratic Establisjment – in politics, academia, media and the like.

    Back to the laws and rules of civil society – not the behavior-changing quid-pro-quo controls of Government Dependency!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: You’re a genius. You have such a command on the
    topics just not any here at Mediaite! A real credit to the libs and a moron to
    the rest of us!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, thank God the Republicans did good will for the country so we won’t default.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    and that’s different from any other politician? BTW he is not LEGALLY able to put legislation on the table.  That comes from the other members of congress.  Now he could lead and work with a congressperson to draft a plan (he hasn’t) but too complain about him not putting an option on the table is complaining to Payton Manning that he can’t kick a field goal.

  • Norbit

    People everywhere are enlivened about the pushback against the overbearing Democratic Establisjment – not only in their theft of funds to sfeed their spending addiction, but in politics, academia, media and the like, as well!Back to the laws and rules of civil society – not the behavior-changing quid-pro-quo controls of Government Patronage and Dependency!

  • Anonymous

    They could have done it all without Republicans? Really? I would have liked to see that.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    taking it back from whom?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I will be sure to bring that up when you blame 9/11 on Clinton.

  • Anonymous

    No, it isn’t. Reid’s is filled with fictious numbers. He gets his “savings” in counting not fighting future wars. Really? How about not handing out Unicorns in the future? That would have saved a bunch too.

  • Anonymous

    Put something on the table? Hell, Barry is under the table hiding as he tweets to America ” Save my behind. I have no idea what I am doing.”

  • Anonymous

    Put something on the table? Hell, Barry is under the table hiding as he tweets to America ” Save my behind. I have no idea what I am doing.”

  • Anonymous

    What’s a Job Creator? Are they conferred some “special” citizenship — that’s afforded to them in the Constitution? Spare me, I and hopefully everybody else don’t have treat a person whom happens own a business and employe Americans, special consideration.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    The buck stops here hasn’t been a mantra in government since the days of Truman. Both sides even

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    The buck stops here hasn’t been a mantra in government since the days of Truman. Both sides even

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    http://www.rules.house.gov/Media/file/PDF_112_1/legislativetext/S627%20amnt.pdf 

    I believe that is the bill itself…  Good luck with that..

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    the same reason the Republicans didn’t in 200-2006

  • Anonymous

    Ryan also has the savings for not fighting the 2 wars we are in now. CBO rules allow the savings and define it.

    Reid’s plan has been scored. Jut saying it has not is silly.

  • Sanford Hall

    Way to go, scream and reach a deal!

    http://www.alexastock.webs.com 

  • Anonymous

    Your post is interesting. I would have liked the public option, too. I have to ask though, don’t you think he would have done it, if he could have? The public option, at that point, was pretty much like the issue of raising taxes, now.  

  • Norbit

    LOL!

    So how how far will Obama throw his lapdog liberal base under the bus this time?

    What a bunch of SAPS!
    Hey, don’t get me wrong, I’m glad he takes your votes for granted, because that enables the TEA PARTY to keep pushing, and Obama to keep caving!
    LOL!

    That’s the Hope & Change 80% of America is looking for!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, then Obama walked out on Boehner.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, the Bush Administration and the Republicans did yeoman’s work cutting spending from January 20, 2001 to January 19, 2009.

  • Anonymous

    LIAR!!!

  • Kelc

    Obama’s plan was voted down 97-0.Now nothing from him but hot air.

  • John Wayne Gacy

    Let’s see old angry white guy or calm, cool, and collected black man. You an see why Obama is winning the public relations battle.

  • Glenn Bovine

    “The Angry Boner”

    That was an art film distributed by Disney.

    Its sequel “The Angry Boner Weeps” was a bigger success. It sold 3 copies. To tea baggeds.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Boehner –  3       Harry –  0         President – making birthday party plans

  • Norbit

    They capitulated to the Democrats and lobbyists; or as we like to say, they McCain’d!
    That won’t be happening with the burgeoning independent movement of the Tea Party.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    just get rid of the rinos

  • Anonymous

    Tea Party and Independent is the same sentence? That don’t compute.

  • Norbit

    Hey fax,
    How do you get your screen name to appear when you hit a “like” for a comment?
    - Mine just says ‘liked’.

  • Kelc

    Actually the President did have a bill, it was voted down 97-0.The president can write a bill if they choose.Bush worked with Kennedy on a education bill.

  • Anonymous

    That’s funy. I thought the “terrorist” talking point was just a parrot of the Republicans from the Bush years. I guess it switched ownership when Osama was killed.

  • Anonymous

    “President Obama abruptly walks out of debt ceiling talks”Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58937.html#ixzz1TXbjKZks

  • Anonymous

    Someone is paying you to say that, right?

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure you’re aware of the RECORD number of filibusters in the Senate during Obama first 2 years in office.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    What plan in the Senate….  Harry was just bluffing all along…  I mean it is the 29th of July isn’t it?????  Where’s Harry now?  It won’t get out of the Senate even if he does get around to it.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    You actually bring up an interesting point.  One that seems to be buried in hyperboyle and what not.  The main problem the president has is he governs like a congress man.  History  lesson time, name the last president (before Obama) to have only been a Congress person.  Answer?  John Kennedy. 

    Say what you want about requirements, I do think there is merrit to the notion that one must be a Governor to be President.  The offices are virtually identical.    You have to motivate, compromise, and for a lack of a better term, take charge.  It forces you to see the big picture, than what is good just for your district/state. The last two presidents (yes even the hated Bush) worked extensivally accross the isle and rallied both sides to see the merrits of his ideas.  Just food for thought.

    Two last points.  You had me until you said jive turkey.  Then all I could think about was Airplane! and it destroyed what ever point you were making.  I did laugh my ass of though.

    And him just wanting to be president? How is that different than anybody else?  There are only two presidnts in our history who really didn’t want the job.  The first was George Washington (he ran cause he was asked and wanted to make sure what he fought for was to see the light of day) and Gerald Ford (Nixon quit before he was impeached)

  • Anonymous

    That was disputed and Politico weren’t in the room.

  • insideguy

    lol thanks

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Good now get him to pass it.

  • insideguy

    Holy Jesus Fedup I need a cliff notes version of this.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Job creators here or overseas?  Again history disagrees with your logic.  Three biggest boom periods of American growth (in jobs) in the last 100 years were over seen by Eisenhower, Reagan, and Clinton.  AQll three raised taxes on the top percent and closed a lot of loop holes.  The only president to slash taxes across the board was Bush and he left office with a net job loss and double the unemployment when he first took office.  And this was with a the creation of an entire new bureaucracy and record military expansion.

  • Anonymous

    He’s writing satire.

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    Really? Where? You aren’t very good at this are ya.

    Oh, and that race-card you played is so, so 2008!

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    History states (and these are facts) that in the last 30 years, Government grew only under the presidency’s of Reagan and George W Bush. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Some presidents just seem to be more effective than others…

    Abstract
    The president has come to be known as our chief legislator within the past fifty years, with Franklin Roosevelt and his successors taking a much more active role in the legislative process than nineteenth-century presidents took. Despite elaborate efforts and a fully developed congressional liaison capacity in the White House, however, only three presidents have been markedly successful with Congress: Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Ronald Reagan. This article examines some of the lessons that have been learned about presidential effectiveness with Congress

    source
    Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science © 1988

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    Try again- now it will be the Dems who are responsible for not compromising.

    Repub Plans : 2
    Dem Plans:0

  • insideguy

     Thats whats funny david I don’t think anyone has a clue whats in what cuts are we talking about here? The right is the same way just push it through who cares what they are cutting just cut something blablalblabl. Im reading it right now and its freaking huge 

  • Anonymous

    Like Barry?

    Yeah, all he wants is to make sure this isn’t an issue in 2012 for the election. That’s it!

  • Anonymous

    Well he’s very good at it.

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    Tea baggeds? But you libs are the ones who support the sodomitic form of teabagging!

    Open up lib, and say “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    Tea baggeds? But you libs are the ones who support the sodomitic form of teabagging!

    Open up lib, and say “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”

  • Anonymous

    comprise is when both parties give a little and take a little.

  • Anonymous

    Mr. Speaker, the reason Harry Reid and President “The Great Divider” Obama have nothing on the table is because they only know how to DESTROY.  

    They do not know how to CREATE!

  • Anonymous

    Mr. Speaker, the reason Harry Reid and President “The Great Divider” Obama have nothing on the table is because they only know how to DESTROY.  

    They do not know how to CREATE!

  • Anonymous

    After Obama changed the plan. Geithner on FOX did not deny that Obama changed the revenues he wanted, only that there was “no deal” as far as he was concerned and he didn’t deny  Boehner’s assertion that the plan carried $800 billion in new revenues!

    And now neither plan by the House or Senate calls for more revenues!

    Ouch!

  • Norbit

    The democratic Media was unable to hide the fact from the majority of Americans that Obama will, and has, LIE ABOUT ANYTHING!

    - Transparency
    - Lobbyists
    - Too big to fail remedies
    - Health Care Numbers
    - Health Care Back-Room Dealing
    - Infrastucture” Stimulus
    - Shovel-Ready jobs
    - Crushing Regulatory Controls
    - Divisive “Group-Identity” Language
    - Apology Tours & Changing, apparently, the America he hates

    …there’s just soooo much he LIES about! – and the people are imbued with that knowledge every day – by Barack, he just can’t help himself!
    LOL~! 

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the vanity bill, John

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    In case you haven’t heard, this is 20111 and Barry is president. I know you don’t want to address the utter failure Baarry has been, but child, you really need to face rality!

  • Anonymous

    No revenues. So that means the Republicans prevailed. So what are you guys bitching about!

  • Anonymous

    There are 2 bills that have passed the House. If there is no other bill come Sunday the Democrats are going to have to choose one or the other.

  • Anonymous

    Stop it! He has an allergy to the truth!

  • Anonymous

    I’m not- I’m just pointing out that Barry lost $800 billion in new revenues.

    That’s called losing; big time.

  • Glenn Bovine

    Don’t worry, Norbie.

    Someone likes you.

    The dog humping you, really likes you.

  • Anonymous

    The system randomly shows a name of someone who liked a comment.

  • Anonymous

    So I assume you’re confirming Bush and Republicans did substantially cut the deficit during his tenure in office….Right?

  • Norbit

    HELLO!!!

    Is anyone home at the White House?

    What kind of “leader” is this?
    This is what you gave the country, Democrats?

    Hey Hillary fans – How do you feel now about Obama & the Media FIXING your lady’s DEFEAT!?
    LMAO!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    You are very much correct when you say that both sides got us here but you are not correct when you say that it is not 2 years late, what we are currently watching in congress is a food fight of little importance..  To understand what they are not dealing with and what they must now begin dealing with follow the link below.

    http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/why-the-debt-crisis-is-even-worse-than-you-think-07272011_page_4.html

  • Anonymous

    Ahhhm as I said , this is 2011 and Bush isn’t president; Barry is- can ya dig it? And this post isn’t about Bush.

    I see you can’t stay on topic and what to change it.

    LOL

    Typical!

  • Norbit

    Great Timing Barry!
    1st Quarter is downgraded to 1/4 of 1% “growth”, unemplyment’s going up, home values are going down…and now the auto industry will have to re-tool to appease some radical environmental wish-list.
    How are you going to get elected next year? – Are you and your supporters going to try a violent coup?

  • Anonymous

    It has been over 800 days since the Senate passed a budget. They are living on a continuing resolution until September 30th and then we get to go through this all over again because the funding ends.

  • Anonymous

    And if you say Bush and the Repubs substantially cut the deficit during his tenure in office, I take your word for it!

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    Stop talking about your wife like tat, Glenn.

  • insideguy

    Yup aint that crazy! Once again thats why I keep asking why didn’t they just wait till october to pick this fight?

  • Anonymous

    Well, Barry’s budget nearly passed. It was voted down only 97-0.

  • Anonymous

    I brought up the topic of the Bush Administration and you hop on the thread and injected your two-senses.

  • Norbit

    Which brings to mind my biggest complaint with the new format, the absence of the “Dislike” button!

  • Anonymous

    Typical lemming repug.

  • Norbit

    After they resolve this debt-ceiling thing, can the Tea Party caucus impeach McCain?

  • Anonymous

    That’s right, child- you went off topic because you can’t stand to talk about the Dems and Barry.

    Tough! Stop changing the subject.

    This is not about the Bush admin as much as you would like it to be.

    hahaha.

    Bush ain’t president- it was in all the papers and on TV!

  • Glenn Bovine

    How about NONE.

    Just because you passed your turds in the House don’t mean a damned thing, moron.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    There is some truth in what you say, but to think that President Obama has not compounded the problems that Bush let behind is just denial of the obvious..

  • Anonymous

    LOL
     
    Poor lib- no one’s buying his TP’s so he resorts to name calling.

  • Anonymous

    LOL
     
    Poor lib- no one’s buying his TP’s so he resorts to name calling.

  • Anonymous

    Into the Extremist Zone I venture…

    John Boehner has been consorting with Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh, violates Title 18, Chapter 115, almost on a daily basis. He should be doing time at Guantanamo.

    Your turn Dittoheads. Try the… “you’re a troll” maneuver. 

  • Anonymous

    Why? He has an opinion you don’t like? Grow up.

  • Anonymous

    Meltdown on aisle 5!!!!

    hey, do ya throw off sparks, too?

  • Glenn Bovine

    OK.

    I won’t tell you anymore about your mom.

    Maybe.

  • Anonymous

    Barry: “Let them eat peas!!”

    LMAO

  • Anonymous

    No, but that explains the shape of your mouth.

  • Anonymous

    Nope- child- you lost. Now you made a complete fool out of yourself with mom jokes.

    I’ve come across decomposed bodies that are less offensive than you are.

  • Glenn Bovine

    Every time. Every time another school in Iraq gets new paint.

    I told you gNOpigs, you have to cut the military. And it is not going to be pretty.

  • Anonymous

    Really, please show the written plan and how the CBO rated it.

    I’ll wait.

    Btw, blathering and not having anything solid is NOT a ‘plan’.

  • Norbit

    Snowball!
    Actually, that would be a number of opinions, and I furthermore don’t care for his capitulating, sycophant,  self-aggrandizing demeanor, either!

    How do you like the new format…and your man’s plummetting poll numbers?
    lol 

  • Glenn Bovine

    I said I won’t say anything else about your mom, and you still get pis ssed.

    So, what is it? I offended you?

    Oh, gawd! 

    But your insult about my wife gets a pass…

  • Norbit

    As for Reagan, I would suggest, not by his druthers.
    Bush is a Limousine RINO.

  • Anonymous

    Actually he looks like a man with nowhere to turn, and now the headline is that he’s angrily yelling on the house floor.

    It’s freaking hilarious :P

  • Anonymous

    Still just taking 1/2 that pill huh?

  • Anonymous

    Doesn’t really effect me, I’m not worrying about polls until the election. Everyone has a short attention span these days and an event that happens a week before the election could change everything.

  • Anonymous

    Okay, be honest with us. You’re what, like 14? Boner and dog humping jokes? Silly Liberal.

  • Norbit

    When you say “consorting”, do you mean as in the myriad visits by Andy Stern and Jeff Immelt to the White House?

  • Anonymous

     Thanks, been looking for those for a while now. The article said they’d save us just under $700 billion over 5 years, so it doesnt look like it would be enough to help us in the immediate future. That article is a good read though.

  • Anonymous

    Well lets take double from the rich then, then we could pay everything off really fast!

  • Anonymous

    “Consorting” isn’t the problem. “Treason” is.

  • Norbit

    Forever the Optimist, eh?

    Wait, I have a vision…Think………….CARTER! (lol)

  • Anonymous

    Republican PR is in shambles :-x

  • Anonymous

    Yep!

    Mom jokes are for children.

  • Anonymous

    Yep!

    Mom jokes are for children.

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    Next time say it in English.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, Barry does look like that. We agree!

  • Anonymous

    So you’re pretending to be dumb and that’s somehow fulfilling for you as a debate technique. This article is about Boehner and I shouldn’t have to explain that. 

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    The Repubs should had gone for a total win; this is all about Barry wanting to push off any future debates on the debt ceiling until after the 2012 elections. That’s what he wants and Repubs should demand a 5% decrease in taxes, cut debt by 6 trillion over 10 years. Barry would ask “Where do I sign” because this is all about his re-election, nothing more.

  • Anonymous

    Barry is very angry! He showed that last Friday in his petulant and puerile hissy fit . He was a child.

  • Anonymous

    How stupid are you? NOT ANYONE can bring a bill to the house. OMFG, you are too stupid to understand the difference between an idea introduced to a congressman who sits down an WRITES a BILL so the House of Representatives can take a vote on it. Stop embarrassing yourself online and showing of how incredible dumb you are! That dumb, that you can´t grasp the content of a cartoon for kids.

  • Anonymous

    Sen Kent Conrad North Dakota Budget committee chairman, (mid sentence)

    “… more extroardinary,  the Minority Leader (McConnell) just told the Majority Leader (Reid), that he will not negotiate with him, that is really quite extraordinary… he’ll only negotiate with the President..  I’ve been here 25 yrs, I’ve never heard of anything like that. 

    He then, the republican leader offered to have a vote on the replan tonight, and our leader (Reid) said, “fine, if you will permit a majority vote”. (and) McConnell objected to a majority vote.And then Sen Reid said, “So you intend to fillibuster the only vehicle that has a chance of solving this problem in a timely way?”.

    and that’s where we are tonight, with the republicans deciding to fillibuster the only vehicle that can possibly solve this problem, since the Boehner Bill is dying in the Senate tonight.”

    Per Sen kent Conrad of North Dakota (D) in television interview moments ago.

  • Anonymous

    oh . please explain

  • Texan

    The Dnopigs have done it, again.

  • Anonymous

    Pretending?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, that’s rich. The Democrats have instantly tabled the last 2 bills. No debate. Nothing. How about they get to work on a budget that they haven’t passed in 820 days? They could have raised the debt ceiling all by themselves last year when they had total control. Why didn’t they? Because Reid said he wanted Republicans to take some of the heat for raising it again. Now here we are.

  • Anigmanm

    apparently it is only a compromise if it gets Oblunder thru the next election, unfortunately for Oblunder his bed has been made and Schumer is fluffing his pillow

  • Texan

    HARRY BELAFONTE: Obama ‘has failed’…

  • Anonymous

    Once again, the party of “no” is the only party to put forth a bill, and the party of “really no” (although you would not know that if you listen to the lying liberal media) tabled the bill.  no vote, no debate, no nothing and then harry gets up and tells the public:

    Wah wah wah, McConnell won’t let me vote on what I want to vote on….when anyone with a brain (not including the lamestream media who still are protecting the dems and Obama on this issue) KNOWS that Harry is the ONLY one who can bring ANYthing to a vote on the Seante Floor.

    And yet, Brian, Dianne, Wolf, Anderson, the spiter, the liar (that would be Rachel) the crazy guy, Scott Pelly….they all claim its the republicans fault.
    Only in bizzarro world does ANYONE believe the lying liberal leftwing media protecters and defenders of hehimself.

    Bring it to a vote Harry and stop playing politics with the economy; Obama, the empty suit and Harry the baby and attempting to wreak havoc on the economy.

    Obama and Harry:  EPIC FAIL.

  • Anonymous

    Once again, the party of “no” is the only party to put forth a bill, and the party of “really no” (although you would not know that if you listen to the lying liberal media) tabled the bill.  no vote, no debate, no nothing and then harry gets up and tells the public:

    Wah wah wah, McConnell won’t let me vote on what I want to vote on….when anyone with a brain (not including the lamestream media who still are protecting the dems and Obama on this issue) KNOWS that Harry is the ONLY one who can bring ANYthing to a vote on the Seante Floor.

    And yet, Brian, Dianne, Wolf, Anderson, the spiter, the liar (that would be Rachel) the crazy guy, Scott Pelly….they all claim its the republicans fault.
    Only in bizzarro world does ANYONE believe the lying liberal leftwing media protecters and defenders of hehimself.

    Bring it to a vote Harry and stop playing politics with the economy; Obama, the empty suit and Harry the baby and attempting to wreak havoc on the economy.

    Obama and Harry:  EPIC FAIL.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    test

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, let´s have a long, nice debate about a bill which is dead on arrival. Clearly, both Chambers have all the time in the world for getting a bill to the President. It´s not like there´s a deadline or a ticking clock. Did I mention the Cons want to do this next year again since it´s great fun and benefits the American people?

  • South Park Conservatives

    No plan Obama.

  • Anonymous

    The President wants it off the table so he can work on his own reelection campaign; six month extension is par for the course, it is only under this big (well, actually skinny runt little) manchild that we can’t have a vote.

    The democrats REFUSE to bring anything to the floor for a vote, or a debate.  Blame harry, blame Obama….skrew the lying media…there is one party of no (and it is also the party of I, me my) and that is the democrat party.

    They refuse to allow a vote.  they are the ones stoping anything

    Obama and harry:  EPIC FAIL

  • Anonymous

    The President wants it off the table so he can work on his own reelection campaign; six month extension is par for the course, it is only under this big (well, actually skinny runt little) manchild that we can’t have a vote.

    The democrats REFUSE to bring anything to the floor for a vote, or a debate.  Blame harry, blame Obama….skrew the lying media…there is one party of no (and it is also the party of I, me my) and that is the democrat party.

    They refuse to allow a vote.  they are the ones stoping anything

    Obama and harry:  EPIC FAIL

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    As stated by Bush administration officials, the estimated cost of the Iraq war was between 50 to 200 billion.

    So when Paul Ryan and other Republican– who voted for Tarp, the prescription program, and the Iraq war– sneer at Harry Reid’s plan and the elements associated with war costs, why should we respect what they have to say?

  • Anonymous

    John Boner lying his ass off !

  • South Park Conservatives

    Posting the same ole same ole for what? 4 years now? Think its time to come up with a new act? You still have dreams of the daily show?

  • labman57

    So when you spend countless hours creating a piece of legislation that you know will never become law, it’s the other party’s fault because …

    Boehner’s nonsensical rhetoric about the Democrats not providing any alternative legislation makes about as much sense as Trump asking Obama, “where is the birth certificate?” Boehner needs to take off the political blinders and acknowledge that alternative legislation has been proposed on numerous occasions.

    Simply because you refuse to acknowledge its existence does not make it any less real.

  • Texan

    sock alert

  • Anonymous
  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    “In short, this is quite possibly the stupidest constitutional amendment I think I have ever seen. It looks like it was drafted by a couple of interns on the back of a napkin. Every senator cosponsoring this POS should be ashamed of themselves.”
    –Bruce Bartlett, former Reagan advisor

  • Anonymous

    Same goes for evolution, science, teenager sex, climate change and all the other things these delusional folks think don´t exist.

  • Anonymous

    Of course, more hate filled premeditated violence from the right wingnuts.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    You could suggest, but you would be wrong.  Granted he did (some what)scale back entitlements (or at least fought tooth and nail with Tip Oneal), but he sank a ton into defense.  He equipped bases around the world, mostly in eastern Europe and around Israel. He sank tons into the latest greatest technology in planes, ships and missile silos.  He expanded the CIA and FBI.  He sank a ton into missile defense (which at the time didn’t work) Provided aid to foreign freedom fighters (and allegedly Iran) and basically blew up the Military Industrial Complex. This was good for two reasons.  1 – it provided manufacturing jobs.  2.  It did continue a spending race with the USSR which ultimately led to their demise.

    but…

    More bad came out than good. 1 – we never could turn the corner into peace time.  It wast until the mid to late 90′s when our economy shifted to a sort of information base.  (However built on non liquid capital) 2. After the fall of USSR the days of superpowers warring were over.  Now we have all this stuff we won’t, will not, or never intend to use.  Trade rules the world now, not military might. 3 – we made a lot of bad friends who eventually turned on us.  IE Bin Laden and Hussein.  We funneled money and training to groups who were downright evil.  4.  We started messing around in the middle east.  We palled up with the Saudis, isolated the Iranians, made deals with the devils in Iraq and Egypt, armed the Tailiban against the Soviets, all the while supporting Israel.  This made us no better then the English in the late 1800s and mid 1900s.  Weather right or wrong, this was the building blocks of resentment, jihad, and ultimately 9/11.  I havent even touched Latin America.

    History lesson for the day.  Funny you had to learn that stuff from me.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    At lis t***LEAST*** John is adult enough not to parrot the talking point of the left that the other side are ***IS (COMPRISED OF)*** terrorists.     

    Seriously, what is your first language?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Indeed, he is.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Indeed, he is.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    And you Tea Partiers are the ones who first called yourselves that!

  • Ganymede

    This is ridiculous. What we have now is a failure of our government. It was a great experiment while we had some degree of civil discourse and consensus. If we’re to survive we will have to switch to a Parlimentarian system which seems to work in most countries. At least with a parliament power is more evenly divided and you don’t get gridlock. The Democrats are bad enough but today’s  Republicans have totally sold out and all politics is to them is a power game. Repuiblicans basically are anti-government, and are against all attempts to improve government. Someone please tell me what positive things Republicans have done in the last hundred years. And don’t tell me they freed the slaves and passed Lyndon Johnson’s Civil Rights legislation. Lincoln was as much a Republican in today’s terms as I am. The real Republican rot set in when the southern Democrat racists were welcomed by the Republicans after the Civil Rights legislation was enacted. One keeps thinking that rightwingers can’t get any more stupid, but this may be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Also, the major rightwing megaphone has been damaged and the Murdochs may be forced out of FOX empire. And the Koch brothers may pull back from the monster Tea party they created, after this episode.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I won’t even begin on Nixon.  The man who has influenced every major republican force since the mid 70′s.  His underlings have served in high levels in Reagan’s, Bush, and Bush W’s administrations and controls the most powerful conservative news organization in the world.  He grew government to at the time historic levels.  Matter of fact, most of the things the tea party/Rand Paul rails against (EPA for example) were started and championed by him.

    So tell me why Republicans will shrink government again?

  • Anonymous

    Be cautious when your delusional bubble bursts and reality confronts you.

  • Anonymous

    heres an idea, speaker boner.

    use the same one page piece of paper to raise the debt ceiling like you voted for numerous times under bush….

    wait..whats that….

    oh right…obama’s black.  HUGE difference there.

  • Norbit

    The GOP has passed two plans – the Democrats & President – None.

    The Democrats and President have no sincere desire to cut spending.

    That’s why the Tea party will crush them in next year’s elections.

  • Anonymous

    So, when Obama voted against the debt ceiling raise under Bush was he just against the Whitey in da House?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    That’s a lot more then defuning Planned Parenthood, NPR, NEA, and PBS combined.

  • Norbit

    Excellent retort to the Race-Baiter!

  • Anonymous

    I gotta give you credit that you were able to get “racists,” “Murdochs,” and “Koch Bros” all in one useless paragraph. LOL.

  • Anonymous

    I thought it was “global warming?” Oh right, since that isn’t flying anymore it is now “climate change.” LOL. That way when it is really warm it counts and when it is really cold it counts. I guess you missed the report by NASA lately? I would imagine that PMSNBC wouldn’t be talking too much about it.

    http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-global-warming-alarmism-192334971.html

  • Anonymous

    m_mayhem screaming like a 6 year old girl!

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012
  • Anonymous

    You kinda gotta feel sorry for them. It is all they have. I wonder what they will do when another white guy is back in the white house and they can’t be hysterically screaming “racist” at every argument? 

  • Anonymous

    So are you saying that Regan got more because he was extra white?

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    No, I am saying he got “more.”

  • Anonymous

    So what? What does that have to do with today? How about in terms of dollars? Obama has almost spent as much as Bush did in 8 years in just 2.5.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Typical liberal finds any excuse to throw the old race card! pitiful just pitiful.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    I take into account the circumstances that led to the spending. I don’t pretend each presidency operates in a vacuum.

  • Anonymous

    You could take 100% of what the rich have and it would do nadda. 

  • Anonymous

    It is so weird- I never got called a racist when I voted against every other Democrat I have voted against since I was old enough to vote. How about you?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: All I could hear when reading your post was, In Dixie Land, where I was born in, / early on one frosty mornin’,
    … I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! / In Dixie Land
    I’ll take my stand … Something like that I’m sure re-elect 2012 can help me.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Hey douche bag, I blame Obama he is the one in
    charge and the buck stops and begins there!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: This is just a reuse for one world government
    order crap. All free people of the globe start having money problems BS. Oh as
    long as it’s not being called Cracker, Buckwheat or Uncle Tom or any other
    second level race card don’t worry about it.

  • Texan

    *drink*

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Hey your phony and chief is still in review. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=327373

  • Anonymous

     LOL.

  • Anonymous

     LOL.

  • Anonymous

    No surprise it´s tough for you to keep up with things. You thought maybe I take the article of a well known climate change denier for real. Don´t try to think, just wake up, that will be good enough.

  • Anonymous

    No surprise it´s tough for you to keep up with things. You thought maybe I take the article of a well known climate change denier for real. Don´t try to think, just wake up, that will be good enough.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Too funny. I see the link made it also to you. The email subscription works. Dude, you are prob the dumbest person I have ever seen posting online. Just to make sure you are getting my reply from earlier
    I post it again:
     
    NOT ANYONE can bring a bill to the house. OMFG, you
    are too stupid to understand the difference between an idea introduced
    to a congressman who sits down an WRITES a BILL so the House of
    Representatives can take a vote on it. Stop embarrassing yourself online
    and showing of how incredible dumb you are! That dumb, that you can´t
    grasp the content of a cartoon for kids.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: No just our top government agencies. You know government good and you being self reliant bad!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Same story then as now Chicken Little you’re just to slow to notice!

  • http://capitolcommentary.com Harrison

    We reached out debt ceiling on May 16th.  Liberals said they sky would fall.  It didn’t.  August 2nd won’t be any different.

    Besides… Dems didn’t send a budget to the WH when they controlled both houses of Congress… they only had 18 months.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: History is in progress now I assume when
    Obama’s is told he will have an Astrid besides his name since he was never
    properly vetted before elected and for the sake of preventing riots they let
    the evil stand.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, that’s not fair! You didn’t use the proper terminology!

    http://tinyurl.com/3puchyd

  • Anonymous

    Barry doesn’t do leadership. Barry demagogues and community organizes.

    Alinsky only works on small groups that agree with you. America will not be community organized.

  • Anonymous

    Fair Tax, FTW!

  • Anonymous

    True, but we should stop wasting money in general.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    The Emperor’s New Budget.

    http://tinyurl.com/4vjgfk

  • Anonymous

    So, why did Reid refuse to offer it for a vote?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    So Obama is evil now? Well I assume anyone with Astrid by his name would be. I don’t know what that is but it sounds like dark magic.

    Look, I am sure its fun to play these games where you put fact in front of sentences made to inflame and give you this precious attention you seek, but unless you answer the questions I have posed to you (asking you to back up your claims with you know, facts) I will just ignore the child making load noises.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I got a better idea.  How about removing the tax burden from the individual.  Abolish individual income tax.  Sales tax is ok, as long as it isn’t over 6% or 10% when combined with state and local sales tax.  To make up for this lets start taxing organizations.  Groups, parties, corporations, yes even religions (thats the biggest tax loophole in the world). If you are a non-profit (including religion) any proceeds that goes to the clothing, feeding, medical care, or sheltering of the poor, sick, and hungry, does not get taxed.  But that basketball arena sized church or the gold challis’ or book/videos/infomercials, all that gets taxed. This also includes political parties, unions, and foreign corporate interests.    Hell special interests control the government, I just want them to pay for it.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I got a better idea.  How about removing the tax burden from the individual.  Abolish individual income tax.  Sales tax is ok, as long as it isn’t over 6% or 10% when combined with state and local sales tax.  To make up for this lets start taxing organizations.  Groups, parties, corporations, yes even religions (thats the biggest tax loophole in the world). If you are a non-profit (including religion) any proceeds that goes to the clothing, feeding, medical care, or sheltering of the poor, sick, and hungry, does not get taxed.  But that basketball arena sized church or the gold challis’ or book/videos/infomercials, all that gets taxed. This also includes political parties, unions, and foreign corporate interests.    Hell special interests control the government, I just want them to pay for it.

  • Anonymous

    The GOP/Teabaggers aren´t interested in a healthy functioning political system. They can get roughly 25% of votes from right wingers, most of them really dumb, uneducated and ignorant.

    With the miserable participation of the voters plus the undemocratic Electoral College that´s enough to compete efficiently for political power.  I don´t see the Kochs pulling out. They have established themselves as very powerful players with great political influence. Money and therefor special interests drive the political process. The Democrats are indeed far from ideal.  The only cure for the system is a reform of campaign financing . Unless that happens, it will get rather worse than better. 
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    AW! Poor Mr. Boehner is frustrated, how sad. The only reason he and the Republicans want President Obama to present a “debt reduction” plan, is so they can use it against him in the next election. Whatever the President offered, the “Crazy” Republicans would reject. Much like the bill Mr. Boehner sent over to the Senate today. President Obama did the right thing. This issue is an issue Congress has to reslove, not the President. Nobody really believes the Republicans would buy into any plan the President presented, so what’s the point. Their frustration is that they won’t be able to create talking points from a “debt reduction” plan submitted by the President. Obama did exactly the right thing, he gathered the two sides had them sit down and try and come to an agreement that both sides of the aisle could accept. Unfortunately the radical “Tea Party” prevented a compromise. So the Republicans need to get over this thinly veiled attempt to entrap the President to provide election fodder . Again just so the “slow” Republicans understand the issue, It is Congress’ responsibility to devise and pass a bill to deal with the “debt ceiling” and “debt reduction”, not the President’s. I realize Republicans are notorious for “passing the buck”, actually they’re pros at it, but it isn’t going to work in this case. So grow some nads Mr. Boehner, be a Man and a Leader, control you petulant little upstarts, the “Tea Party”, and get a deal done.

  • Couragusgeorge

    As usual, Boehner’s TOO DRUNK TO LEAD. He’s licking his lips, anxious to finish his speech about growing up sweeping the floor of his father’s bar, ready for his post-speech scotch. CHEERS!

  • Anonymous

    I’ll put something on the table on behalf of the Democrats: universal healthcare for all, and we pay for it by nationalizing Koch Industries. Legislation is fun when you do it the Republican way.

  • Anonymous

    Bipartisan support!?! What the hell have you been smoking??? He barely got his own party to support either bill, the first was partisan the second was hyper-partisan. Just because some John of Orange makes some stupid claim doesn’t make it true. Both bills were beyond absurd, demanding a constitutional amendment that can never and will never pass. There is a Reid bill but the republicans are blocking it, and will not negotiate.

  • Anonymous

    I read Ryan’s plan and did not see anything like that.  Ryan proposed $117.8 billion for ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq in his plan for 2012 (page 28).  That number is much less than we have spent the last few years ($159 billion this year- $130 billion last year), so it seems to be drawing down along the timeline.

    Reid was talking $1.3 Trillion over 10 years for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  I think all of us hope we will not be in either of those countries in after 2012- but I also think most of us are sure we will not be there in 2019 or 2020.

    If you have a quote of Ryan’s plan that says something else regarding Iraq & Afghanistan I would love to see it.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah bi-partisan, as in people from both parties voted for for the first one. Why is that confusing for you? It does NOT require a constitutional amendment. It requires a vote on it. Big difference. They want it on the books exactly who and who doesn’t support a balanced budget.

  • John

    President Obumma is walking a tight rope and hoping no one notices. Propose an actual plan and he might have to show actual real cuts (oops) or play along like he knows what he is doing, proposing generalities. And he might be able to pull a fast one. But the majority of Americans have already have caught on. Regardless he has proven to have become a total and complete failure.

  • Anonymous

    Reid’s bill is based off of false numbers. Accounting gimmicks essentially.

  • Anonymous

    Keeva, you are speaking my mind, but, much better than I ever could.  It’s the business of congress to write legislation.  If the speaker’s plan is so good why did he having so much trouble getting support from his own party for it?

  • Anonymous

    Keeva, you are speaking my mind, but, much better than I ever could.  It’s the business of congress to write legislation.  If the speaker’s plan is so good why did he having so much trouble getting support from his own party for it?

  • Anonymous

    Ironically, the same was said of Boehner’s plan.  That was one of the reasons given for all his delays.  There were some major mathmatical errors that made it appear he was cutting more that he was.

  • Anonymous

    So Obama goes to Congress back in February (or somewhere there abouts)and says I need more money to keep paying for all my stuff and Bohner says well… you can’t have more until you cut back on your spending… and here we are. The teenager- in- chief would never have made ONE budget cut if he had gotten his way, his only solution was to raise taxes, and for many of us that option was NOT a solution.

  • Anonymous

    Karl might say that it is it’s own reward.

  • Anonymous

    The President has offered nothing, that’s what will be used against him in the next election.

  • Anonymous

    I miss it, as well.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    He could lead and work with congress to draft a plan. Then it would ostensibly be “his” plan no?

    Thats the whole point. He has no plan. Stop playing semantics since you obviously get what the argument is, which is by saying “Obama has no plan” means Obama is failing to lead. 

    Only the most bitter of partisans would dare argue that Obama has done a good job taking the lead on the debt crisis. He makes it seem like the President is secondary to congress, when in reality its not the office, but the man who isnt up to the job.

    To paraphrase the famous Lloyd Bentsen quote: President Obama, I knew Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was a friend of mine. You sir, are no Ronald Reagan.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Perhaps Obama thought the apocalypse was coming on May 21st, that would explain all the spending the last few years- he thought the end of the world would come before we would have to pay.

  • Anonymous

    So the Boehner’s plan is based on false numbers AND the Reid plan is too. What a joke our government has become. Both sides are putting politics ahead of the good of the country.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Obama has a sign on his desk that reads “The buck spends here” instead.

  • Anonymous

    So Boehner passes a bill Reid won’t bring to the floor in the Senate. And Reid presents a bill the House will never pass. All so that the other side won’t win any political points. If we had some true leadership maybe we wouldn’t be in this position.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Read some of my other posts and you will find I believe the same thing you just said.  As a matter of fact, I think his major problem is he was never a Governor. Obama is the first president since Kennedy to only have been a Senator.  I really think this shows in how he governs.

    Thank you for your thoughtful analysis.  The reason I post here is I love debate.  My debate style is to deconstruct the argument.  So when I see an argument based on falsehood, hyperbole, or offering no data to back up the claim, that’s when I throw my hat in.

  • Anonymous

    “Consorting” simply means ‘to partner’ or ‘associate with’ – nothing inherently wrong with that. It’s who you associate with that can be a problem. Boehner associates with, and even takes marching orders from, Rush Limbaugh. Again, Limbaugh breaks this statute, which makes treason against the United States illegal, every day.
     
    Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 115: TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
    From § 2385, “Advocating overthrow of Government”…

    Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government;or
     
    Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so:- Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Wow moron I have yet to see a poster who was more confused on the topic of the debt crises than you. Hey that’s okay they have a title for it and it’s that you are stuck on stupid. Hope that helps. By the way how is that Hopey Changy thing working for you now?

  • Anonymous

    Boy, if you have been watching CNN lately you have seen nothing but a bunch of anchors prostitute themselves for Obama.  Watching Brook someone or other is like watching a walking talking DNC talking machine, John King is lying through his teeth, and Sunday’s Fareed Zakaria – also known as an advisor to the President, but still allowed to keep his own show – has told the most outrageous lies of them alll.

    It is no wonder CNN is bleeding vieweres; Ali Velchi is pushing the Obama agenda, and Anderson cooper is changing the results of polls to push Obama on the public.

    how do these people sleep at night with their outrageous lies and untruths?

    Obama offered up NOTHING, the BIG ZERO, and yet, the illustrious lying liberal media claims he is the leader and the adult here?

    I shake my head in disgust.  It would be nice Colbly for you to do an article on the ouragous lies of CNN – while competing with MSNBC for second place, they have done nothing but lie to get more liberal viewers.

  • Anonymous

    DOA

  • Corey

    “Anderson cooper is changing the results of polls”….. LMAO, sure….and the earth is flat…oh wait, most conservatives believe that, bad example….

  • Corey

    OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE: (1-26-2009) – ‘Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years’, by Thom Hartmann http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0 & (4-30-2009) – ‘The Two Santa Claus Theory’, by David Dayen http://www.calitics.com/diary/8718/the-two-santa-claus-theory

  • Corey

    Conservative Ideology = “Profits Before People” or “I got mine, so ‘F’ off”:
    Glass Houses: CNN Reports On GOP Debt Hawks Who Are Also In Personal Debt (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glass-houses-cnn-reports-on-gop-debt-hawks-who-are-also-in-personal-debt/)

  • Anonymous

    CNN REFUSED to report the results of their own poll showing over 60% of thepublic want cut, cap, balance.  Did you read that?  REFUSED!!!

    That is not journalism, that is advocacy – spiking the facts to support the manchild.  That is AC – you can have him, he is useless to me….”keeping them honest” is laughtastic.

  • Corey

    I wonder why a HUGE world wide media outlet had to go to the US Supreme Court in 2003 to get the ability to lie, legally? That’s right. This media outlet has the legal right to lie, bold face, flat out lie, and call it news, even when they know it may harm those who read/hear/see the supposed news. Can you guess the only US media outlet that has done this, that has seeked legal rights and protections to be able to lie to the American public, even if that information may harm Americans, and pass it off a truth, accurate, fair and balanced….factual news? Hint: the answer is in the question.

  • Anonymous

    youre kinda  stupid…budgets are generated in the white house not the congress…the president submitts his budget for congressional approval…President Obamas submitted budget was fillibusted by senate republicans….i suppose you dont know what fillibusters are or how they are broken….but then youre stupid and in denial

  • Anonymous

    youre a prime example of what an ineffective education system produces…you wingnuts dont understand basic civics…i guess that wasnt a class you took while homeschooling…i mean DAYUM…you hobbits dont have a clue about how government works…now i understand how the adults always lose to the 5th graders on that game show

  • Anonymous

    the job of congress is not to just pass bills, the job is to create LAWS which is well beyond the comprehension level of any of you stupid ass hobbits…the whole idea is to shepard bills through both houses of congress and have them signed into law by the president….to you wingnuts the process is over after a bill is passed in the house…proof of that is when eric cantor proclaimed that a bill passed only in the house is the law….like he didnt have a clue that the bill needed to pass the senate and be signed by the president….under the leadership of nancy pelosi hundreds of pieces of legislation the house passed became law, under boehner thats happened 20 times….boehner will go down in history as the WORST, MOST INEFFECTIVE HOUSE SPEAKER IN US HISTORY..and we thought nobody could be worse at that job than Newt

  • Anonymous

    57 states again huh…you been playing that same tune for years…its a dead issue…what president obama was refering to was states combined with US territories which also get to vote in federal elections…bet you didnt know that did ya??? add the 50 states to the US territories and you get 57 Obama campaign everywhere thats why hes president and you guy is sitting on the sidelines half crazy and senile

  • Anonymous

    lolololol…obama can drop even lower in approval and theres not a single republican that can beat him…you talk about Obamas approval ratings all the time but you totally ignore approval rating of republicans…one would think with Obama at 40% republicans would be at 60%…the public may not approve of obama overwelmingly in this moment of time but REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN TOTALLY REJECTED…A FACT YOU REFUSE TO REALIZE…now lets talk about the polls that match up Obama against named republicans head to head in the presidential race….heheheheheheheheh….I BET YOU WONT UNLESS YOU CAN BRING GENERIC WITH YOU….hahahahahaha…YOU GOT NOTHING…OBAMA IS GONNA BEAT THE SNOT OF WHICHEVER SACRIFICIAL LAMB YOU HOBBITS TRUCK OUT THERE

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Why Didn’t the Democrats Pass a Budget When They Had the Chance?
    http://my.firedoglake.com/goddamnliberal/2011/04/06/why-didnt-the-democrats-pass-a-budget-when-they-had-the-chance/

    House Democrat Defends Not Passing Budget When Party Had Majority

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/transcript/house-democrat-defends-not-passing-budget-when-party-had-majority#ixzz1Tb5c8GIh

    Jon Stewart: Dems ‘Sucked’ Too Much To Pass A Budget Last Year (VIDEO)
    http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/jon-stewart-dems-sucked-too-much-to-pass-a-budget-last-year.php

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Charlie Rangel on why they didn’t pass a budget in 2010: “We didn’t get to it, it was a political hot potato”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNHk6Kh37PY&feature=player_embedded

    We have a statutory process to arrive at a budget deal every single year. It’s written into law. The president is required to submit a budget and each chamber is required to pass one separately and then agree on one together. If the year had begun with a serious budget proposal from the president, we wouldn’t be in this mess right now. But he submitted a budget that would double our debt in ten years while claiming it would not add to the debt. Senate Democrats, meanwhile, have refused to pass a budget in 820 days or even present one this year. The Majority Leader said it would be ‘foolish’ to produce a budget.’ These are facts. Democrats defied the law and sound policy all year long and now we are paying the price. A last-minute, take it or leave it, panic vote.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/28/tea_party_didnt_start_this_fire_they_sounded_the_alarm.html

  • Anonymous

    lol…dems NEVER had a super majority and you know it…the deficit went up because Obama put the bills that bush kept off the budget back on…like the costs of the wars and the bush tax cuts,,,you hobbits didnt want to pay for those then and you dont want to pay now…walking out on the check is what you assholes do. you seem like a smartypants math genius to me, explain something please..ive been hearing republican politicians on tv this week making your same argument…both you and them claim that the deficit rose and average of 200 billion a year under bush…we can agree on that right??? ok 200 billion times 8 is what ???…..1.6 trillion right??…..ok …if Bush only ran up 1.6 trillion in debt in his 8 years how did the national debt go from 5 trillion to 10 trillion during his 2 terms…did the extra 3.6 trillion just appear??….a mistake by the bank????…..FACT IS BUSH SPENT LOTS OF MONEY AND KEPT IT OFF THE FEDERAL BUDGET, KEEPING DEFICIT NUMBERS LOW BUT RAKING UP MASSIVE DEBT…JUST LIKE TIM PAWLENTY, MITCH DANIELS AND RICK PERRY DID TO DESTROY THEIR STATES BUDGETS

  • Billy Sunday

    Why are Republicants asking for a plan from OBAMA when they’re just going to reject it anyway!  Everything he does gets filibustered.  Why do Republicons like to waste so much time? 

  • Anonymous

    He was referring to what?  You’re kidding of course – he got it wrong, have seen the video enough times. He was even using his fingers to count.  

    He’s president because nobody cared to vet the guy.  

    Talk about crazy and senile.  Your “explanation” is awesome.  Have you forwarded it to Obama (via twitter) yet?  You go boy.

  • Anonymous

    keep spinning there.  Have you read Peggy Noonan’s article yet?  Pretty much sums up the entire “Obama” problem. 

    How long did you spend dreaming up these nonsense responses?  lol

    You’re a prime example of no education – never mind ineffective education.  
    Now I understand why you’re a democrat.

  • Kermit

    So true Billy,  It is because the Republicons don’t have any plan except destroying this country and trying to make Obama look bad.  That is there plan.  Plain and stupid. 

    They are trying to twist Boehners (pronounced boner) failures to control the tea party into to Obama fault now.  How totally ridiculous is that!  Yet the mindless ones are buying it.

    If they were truly trying to reduce the deficit  then they would take away the tax brakes for the corporations, but they can’t … that is who is paying them. 

    lies, lies and more lies from the Republicons … trying everything now to save face.

  • Kermit

    The rich are getting richer. Their effective tax rate, in recent
    years, has been reduced to the lowest in modern history. Nurses,
    teachers and firemen actually pay a higher tax rate than some
    billionaires. It’s no wonder the American people are angry.

    Many corporations, including General Electric and Exxon-Mobil, have
    made billions in profits while using loopholes to avoid paying any
    federal income taxes. We lose $100 billion every year in federal revenue
    from companies and individuals who stash their wealth in tax havens
    off-shore like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. The sum of all the
    revenue collected by the Treasury today totals just 14.8% of our gross
    domestic product, the lowest in about 50 years.

    In the midst of this, Republicans in Congress have been fanatically
    determined to protect the interests of the wealthy and large
    multinational corporations so that they do not contribute a single penny toward deficit reduction.

    If the Republicans
    have their way, the entire burden of deficit reduction will be placed on
    the elderly, the sick, children and working families. In the midst of a
    horrendous recession that is already causing severe pain for average
    Americans, this approach is morally grotesque. It’s also bad economic
    policy.

    President Obama and
    the Democrats have been extremely weak in opposing these right-wing
    extremist proposals. Although the United States now has the most unequal
    distribution of wealth and income of any major industrialized country,
    Democrats have not succeeded in getting any new revenue from those at
    the top of the economic ladder to reduce the deficit.

    Instead, they’ve
    handed the wealthy even more tax breaks. In December, the House and the
    Senate extended President George W. Bush’s tax cuts for the rich and
    lowered estate tax rates for the wealthiest Americans. In April, to
    avoid the Republican effort to shut down the government, they allowed
    $38.5 billion in cuts to vitally important programs for working-class
    and middle-class Americans.

    Now, with the U.S.
    facing the possibility of the first default in our nation’s history, the
    American people find themselves forced to choose between two
    congressional deficit-reduction plans. The plan by Senate Majority
    Leader Harry Reid, which calls for $2.4 trillion in cuts over a 10-year
    period, includes $900 billion in cuts in areas such as education,
    health care, nutrition, affordable housing, child care and many other
    programs desperately needed by working families and the most vulnerable.

    The Senate plan
    appropriately calls for meaningful cuts in military spending and ending
    the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But it does not ask the wealthiest
    people in this country and the largest corporations to make any
    sacrifice.

    The Reid plan is bad. The constantly shifting plan by House Speaker
    John Boehner is much worse. His $1.2 trillion plan calls for no cuts in
    the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and it requires a congressional
    committee to come up with another $1.8 trillion in cuts within six
    months of passage.

    Those cuts would
    mean drastic reductions in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
    What’s more, Mr. Boehner’s plan would reopen the debate over the debt ceiling, which is now paralyzing Congress, just six months from now.

    While all of this is
    going on in Washington, the American people have consistently stated,
    in poll after poll, that they want wealthy individuals and large
    corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. They also want bedrock
    social programs like Social Security,
    Medicare and Medicaid to be protected. For example, a July 14-17
    Washington Post/ABC News poll found that 72% of Americans believe that
    Americans earning more than $250,000 a year should pay more in taxes.

    In other words,
    Congress is now on a path to do exactly what the American people don’t
    want. Americans want shared sacrifice in deficit reduction. Congress is
    on track to give them the exact opposite: major cuts in the most
    important programs that the middle class needs and wants, and no
    sacrifice from the wealthy and the powerful.

    Is it any wonder, therefore, that the American people are so angry with what’s going on in Washington? I am too.

    Mr. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, is a member of the Senate Budget Committee.

  • Kermit

    Well said Senator Sanders!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    I was just fucking with Tina, are you fucking with me?

    Your explanation is pretty far out there and just plain silly.

    It seems pretty clear to me that he meant to say 47 states.

  • david r

    I’ve always thought the government should just build free clinics for the very poor. It would be cheaper.  Specialist care at VA hospitals.  ER and primary care at the neighborhood free clinic.

  • CarmanK

    Gee, the constituion says the “purse strings are in the House of Representatives”. It is not up to the President to come up with the plan. It is up to the President to comment on the plan and if it becomes law, to execute the fiscal plan. It was the Congress that created the debt with the BUSH TAX CUTS which was to “return tax dollars in surplus to taxpayers”. But, they were set to expire for a reason. It was fiscally irresponsible for the Speaker and TPARTY NATION folks to hold the unemployed hostage to extending the tax cuts. BAD FISCAL POLICY perpetrated on the Nation by the GOP.
    The DEBT ceiling crisis is a clear sign of how the republicans would govern should they regain the SENATE and WH in 2012. Keep the nation divided on the cultural wars, state of constant war to enrich the military industrial complex and subdue the people by fear and intimidation.
    I could not say it better than Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) in a recent radio interview ”

    Rogers (R-AL) explained that a Republican-controlled
    House, Senate, and White House would make “dramatic changes,” not only in
    gutting Medicare and Social Security, but discontinuing the EPA:  (ThinkProgress.org)

    ROGERS: You know the fact is, if in fact I think the American people do next November
    what they started last November, that is, cleaning house, and we do get a
    Republican-controlled Senate and a Republican president, I think you are going to
    see some dramatic structural changes in
    this country because we can’t continue to support this infrastructure we have.
    And I’m not talking about just changes to the trust funds and the entitlement
    programs.  THE TPARTY NATION is a rising parallel universe that is as much a threat to the US of AMERICA  as the confederacy. Their goal is to restore state’s rights (look at NJ,OH,MI,FL AND WI) WHERE the governors have been given unprecedented dicatorial powers over the disposition of public assets.  And the wealthy ones are down in TX urging leading state’s rights advocate and secessionist Rick Perry to run for President.

  • Anonymous

    Teabaggers gladly ran up the debt from 2001-2008 and passed it onto the American taxpayer. Now these worthless POS want to hold Americas SS and Medicare hostage. Default and let the country go to waste. That has been Noquits plan for forty years. TRAITORS=TEABAGGERS

  • Anonymous

    If you morons had a breath of sense, you wouldn’t know what to do with it. You elect people that are dead beat dads, soldiers that have been drummed out of the armed forces, and a bunch of third graders who think the whole economy was blossoming when Obama was elected legally. You fascist christofascist hate the idea of a black man in power and you will destroy the country for your chance to defeat him.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    agreed, Would take it further and as Lawyers do pro bono in their field, so should Doctors. I mean, they took the oath to help their fellow man not to enslave him through debt.

  • Anonymous

    Obama already did, it was held up by the “teas”.Why is it ”not” a double standard to let the “teas” bluff to damage, but is for the liberals?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Hey boner ! where is the healthcare bill retraction you promised ? jackass

  • http://twitter.com/DavidKGather David K

    How dare he?  Obama stepped in to help Congress do its job.  The job the tea party refuses to do. The job the tea party once again holds the country hostage to support tax breaks for the rich.  Boehner himself worked with Obama to find a solution.  And Boehner can’t even get his own people to vote for a bill that can become law.  Boehner and the tea party are hypocrites and extortionists.  They disgrace America.

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    It’s not the president’s JOB to make the budget. You might want to familiarize yourself with a document called the Constitution. Particularly the part that says “All spending bills shall originate in the House.” Nothing there about the President needing to help them write the bills. It’s the president’s job to sign or veto those bills, though.

    But speaking of the Constitution, what the USA needs is NOT a Balanced Budget amendment; what we NEED is a Constitutional amendment giving the POTUS ”Line-Item Veto” power again, which President Clinton wielded so skillfully, before the SCOTUS took it away, to whittle pork (AKA ‘earmarks’) out of the budget and leave us with a surplus by the end of his 2nd term.

  • Anonymous

    or his vacation to Martha’s Vineyard….on the taxpayers dime of course

  • Anonymous

    You “facts” are wrong. obama’s budget was defeated on the Senate floor 97-0

  • HawkCW4

    You are a pretty pathetic excuse of a human if all you can do is listen to the cadre of goons the white house sent out to dig dirt, any little thing on the right because the Left knows absolutely they can not win on policy, politics, good deeds and or any work in the Capitol to help Americans.  The man in the white house may be black but thats not why we want him out.   He alone destroyed America or is trying hard to do just that.  He is 3/4 the way there already.   Grow up and learn to recognize what you see.

  • HawkCW4

    Would that be the budget Obama sent that not a single vote came from his party to pass it?  What does that tell you.   Obama and Reid have no desire to fix Obama’s problem,  they are only posturing to get Obama re-elected.  And if that screws Every American so be it.   Power is all He can see and at all costs.

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    This one’s better – http://tinyurl.com/3z2wvfw

  • HawkCW4

    So says a guy that can only call names.   Im beginning to see that its you that has no clue.  So someone points out a fact,  97 – 0 vote against Obama Budget.  And you say its because we dont understand basic civics.  That was SOOOO relevant.  I understand one thing.   If a guys own party turns him down in total,  he must have had to offer a sorry piece of trash to consider,  what do you think.  Never mind,  after reading your crap for a few days its clear you dont.

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    Uhhhh – no.
    It’s not the president’s JOB to make the budget. You might want to familiarize yourself with a document called the Constitution. Particularly the part that says “All spending bills shall originate in the House.” (and the budget IS a spending bill.) Nothing there about the President needing to help them write the bills. It’s the president’s job to sign or veto those bills, though.But speaking of the Constitution, what the USA needs is NOT a Balanced Budget amendment; what we NEED is a Constitutional amendment giving the POTUS “Line-Item Veto” power again, which President Clinton wielded so skillfully, before the SCOTUS took it away, to whittle pork (AKA ‘earmarks’) out of the budget and leave us with a surplus by the end of his 2nd term.     

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    Uhhhh – no.
    It’s not the president’s JOB to make the budget. You might want to familiarize yourself with a document called the Constitution. Particularly the part that says “All spending bills shall originate in the House.” (and the budget IS a spending bill.) Nothing there about the President needing to help them write the bills. It’s the president’s job to sign or veto those bills, though.But speaking of the Constitution, what the USA needs is NOT a Balanced Budget amendment; what we NEED is a Constitutional amendment giving the POTUS “Line-Item Veto” power again, which President Clinton wielded so skillfully, before the SCOTUS took it away, to whittle pork (AKA ‘earmarks’) out of the budget and leave us with a surplus by the end of his 2nd term.     

  • HawkCW4

    Well Well Well, so you are now ok with public figures making non critical meaningless gaffs now and again right?   That means both sides.  Not a chance you two faced arrogant hypocrite.  Thats what makes Liberals so hated,  they are so quick to point fingers when they cant stand to play the same game.  You dont make the rules and it really pisses you off,  well keep your load of diapers handy, or learn to play fair. 

  • HawkCW4

    Reid did in fact put some cuts on the table,  and Obama called him to the woodpile and when Reid returned,  those cuts had been taken back.   So please dont tell us about all the grand plans from the Left.  THERE are none.  

  • HawkCW4

    Your kidding,  well how come I hear those two names so much from the Left lately?  Does Obama know that?

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    I googled “Republican Intelligence” and the top result was an entry citing it as an oxymoron. Next was an article about the repugnant apparatchik trying to stop Murkowski from “wasting Alaska’s polling money” by running as a write in candidate and calling her loony (this from a state where Sarah ‘death panels’ Palin once served almost half a term as governator). Then there were a couple citing a “lack of” the search term. Yeah… I’m not sure how they think they’re going to win any congressional seats in 2012, let alone the presidency.

  • adler56

    Righties don’t belong in America. Go to some religious wacko place- you’ll be happy there.
    Go to Iceland- no blacks or dogs- paradise for racist righties.

  • adler56

    Boner ( it’s German and that’s how they say it) is going to pop a gasket. He’s knows he’s doing wrong but he really, really likes the big gavel (unlike other things he has that aren’t so big) and he knows if he does the right thing they’ll run some lame brain against him in that redneck district he lives in and the good times will be over- for him- for us they’ll just be starting when all the tea baggers can go back to the legion hall, get drunk and talk about killing blacks.

  • Doug Rodrigues

    scrzbill….You need to take your medications.  You’re sounding like an idiot.

  • Morgan_Said

    “… Last-minute, take it or leave it, panic vote.”  – That’s this administration’s M. O.  If he wins the next election, that’s what we will have–wall to wall.

  • Morgan_Said

    In any surviving business–since we all get our salaries from the same small cash pool  as the “fat cats” do, how much do they have to raise their salaries/bonuses/stock options/entertainment & sports performance contracts to offset the tax increases? How does that affect what’s left for us?
     
    They have been doing this for decades, which explains why there is such a disparity between us and the super rich. Uncle Sam is just using the fat cats as a collection agency to get his “Piece-of-the-Action.”

  • Morgan_Said

    Everyone in the House comes up for re-election every two years. The reason is that that makes them more responsible and more in touch with THE PEOPLE. The Senators are up for re-election every third (two year) term, in order to add some stability against sudden changes in directions, compromising treaties, international agreements, etc.

    By the way–that says that trying to raise the debt ceiling to fall past the 2012 election GOES AGAINST the intent of the constitution, insulating political members against the will of the people. The spending of this administration is nothing but absolute politics AND IT SHOULD BE THE ISSUE OF THE ELECTION.

  • Morgan_Said

    This was John Boehner’s finest hour.

  • cameowalkin

    Hilarious!!  Of course they’ll lose, and they deserve to lose for dragging their heels, lying to beat the band and being such bad actors.  They’re completely unbelievable.  They’re trashing our credit status and placing us already under heavy losses.  And they brought this crisis on for  …  what?  To save human lives?  To stop wars?  To save the unborn?  To help the poor?  To protect the elderly?

    Nooooo!!!!  They did this: to line their pockets; to avoid paying taxes; to steal the land; to push their brothers into financial slavery; to bust unions; to separate mother and child, and eject the mothers from the country; to wage unjust wars; to commit treason against the people, and keep their stolen gold; to let our heros die of cancer in pain, alone and broke; to increase fascist surveillance against the nation; and to keep a lid on all their covert operations (past and present).  And let’s not forget, to break the nation down utterly, so they can reconstruct it “in their own image”; and to even cause every living seed of every plant, herb and tree to be utterly perverted with toxins (nanoamyloids and nanoprions), so that when we eat of it, eventually, every living thing will die.  

    Regardless of how miserable their performance is, they’ve worked hard at acting, and they’ve been doing it believing they’re going to be rewarded.  I’m going to pray hard that they get everything that’s coming to them.  Listen hard and you’ll hear the sound of it in the distance:  the drone of a hot, hard, dry wind carrying endless clouds of locusts.

  • cameowalkin

    It would have been more appropriate if he’d wept, because of the reward that’s on its’ way.

  • cameowalkin

    Well said, CarmanK!  You know the it’s part of their stated agenda to undo the 4th layers of government (the UN “watersheds” and their divisions) so that states can once again get fed moneys directly, rather than through this means.  But that’s the GOP’s “plausible cover” for budget trimming, while completely destroying social welfare by turning the old and poor, penniless, out into the streets to starve; reducing the pay of Americans to 50 cents an hour (like Indonesian workers) to encourage manufacturing to return; and to make the nation a slave class, so financially impoverished that they lose their land. 

    All because the biomass patents are stockpiled and beginning to be passed, and we’re on the eve of the biggest land grab ever seen since we first came to these shores.  The new “green” patented biomass tech farming industries will make them all multibillionaires, and they don’t care how many of us they’ve got to betray, imprison and kill to make that future happen.  

    This was an old American Indian prophesy: that when “the two brothers” fell, the Indians would finally have justice and would be satisfied.  (Why:  because we lose our land through the same dirty tricks that were used on them, to cheat them out of their land; because there will be violence and suffering upon us, just as there was violence and suffering upon them; and because when this happens, they will be on protected land, watching justice come down upon us, the people who formerly cheated them.)  

    All those who don’t like this, remember that justice comes FIRST to the House of God!

  • cameowalkin

    Because they’re playing a stalling game, to destroy the nation, and blame it on the President.  We understand what the GOP’s trying to do … they’re fascists; and fascists love to consolidate power.  They’re getting their marching orders from some other extremely rich folks who want to consolidate power (think Bilderbergers, via corporate levels of separation), while playing to the church’s fear of the new world order.  They need to destroy this nation’s economy first, to make the people desperate enough and distrustful enough of their own national government, to accept an outside authority and dispense with “national” identity.  Of course, some new global identity will be provided with the new economics.  Can you say, Seig Heil?

  • Snake5875

    That’s right “Boner” can’t wait to see seniors stripped of social security and medicare, the poor thrown to the streets and corporations allowed to make slaves of the people left. I almost forgot repealing all anti-pollution standards no safety rules just let the corporations do what they do best make money if  children have to burn to death locked in a factory at least the company made an extra $1.00 a shirt.

  • cameowalkin

    I’m hoping he’ll use his Executive Privileges in times of War, and handle this the way the majority of us want it handled — with discernment, compassion, and empowerment of the people, so we can rise up out of this quagmire, and have the means to live and create our jobs.

  • cameowalkin

    The WARS are the Defense Department’s “stuff” — these wars were started by BUSH; extricating ourselves is tricky, considering that we’ve signed agreements with others, but we’re pulling back.  NIXON instituted the 4th layers of government (as he was told to do by the UN), and this was kept in place, because it provided so many ample opportunities for Republican slush funding — until they realized that the EPA was going to rain on their parade and hold up the biopatents on global biomass, and get in the way of implementation of synthetically altered plant genomes being planted all across the country on stolen lands, to be used for fuel, manufacturing, and food (toxic plant substances, full of buckeyballs, which damage and kill whatever they get into).  Then they decided the EPA was standing in between them and their future wealth, so the EPA has to get the ax, according to GOP concensus.

    Wars, lies, subterfuge and private profiteering are what the GOP is all about.  Right now, Obama is trying to come to agreement with you, because that’s what his job entails.  However what worries us Democrats is that, in the process, he’s beginning to look more and more like you.   We DON’T want THAT!!!

  • cameowalkin

    It’s not the President’s job to come up with the plans, as was explained to you before; this is the mandate of the House.  Congress is helping the House, who seems stuck on failing and determined to make everyone else fail too.  I think the House should be lined up and shot for treason (hijacking the presidency and holding the nation’s economy hostage IS treason).

  • cameowalkin

    Bruce doesn’t seem to be stuck on you at all; he’s simply throwing pearls to swine.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Even better: http://www.whitehouse.gov/search/site/%22Democratic%20Intelligence%22

  • Anonymous

    I forget …how much is Obama’s war in Libya costing us everyday? BTW- his request for more funds wasn’t to keep funding our wars. Funny how that is the only thing you think Obama would be seeking additional funding help from Congress. Especially since he is drawing down troops, your jump in (logic?) is quite amazing.

  • Anonymous

    So I’m a racist am I?  You decided this on what grounds?

    You’re an idiot I’ve decided, and I would bet most people agree with me.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Tennill/1574589114 Jeff Tennill

    Uhhh Yeah…. His budget was such a joke not a single member of congress supported it, Dem or Rep….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Tennill/1574589114 Jeff Tennill

    Teas didn’t hold it up……  Everyone did, it got not one single vote…….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Tennill/1574589114 Jeff Tennill

    All of this “proof” just reinforces the fact that the flat tax is the only fair tax….. 10% of $30,000 or 10% of $1,000,000,000 is still 10%……

  • Anonymous

    First you just broke the heart of all other “tea” sheep, by stating there “was” a “budget” and you also have set a new record for any bill to have only ever recieved “one”   vote   only. You have made “history”!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XV7RDKJ62VRXCFTNCMKLTEDNYM Maye Alexander

    Thank God.  You people do realize that Ronnie took this country from the largest creditor, to the largest debtor?  Debt ceiling – 18 times?  By the way, he didn’t believe in crashing the economy, just for the hell of it, let alone just because he didn’t like someone — would not make a great Repub today.  Please do more reading and plain old research.  I accidently bumped into this conversation, and was stunned at the ignorance.  You should all go back to the DarrDarr guy and re-read about the morons you voted into congress in 2010 … you know … the ones who were in need of classes on the Constitution?  Classes that Bachman (under medication) would teach.  Oh I do know about migraines — my friend had to be hospitalized every time, thus you people need to stop downgrading this illness. Now, have you all forgotten that Repubs ran on jobs, jobs, jobs?  Go back and check.  How easily they diverted your attention to their real agenda.  No jobs bill, and two years of no, no, no, to any and all proposals. Forget party rhetoric and pay attention.  When they finish with union-busting, curbing your right to vote, stealing MY SS, and just general, and complete violation of every right that you think you have, it will be too late.  Remember, you too, are somewhere on that list … that is unless you become stupid rich in the morning. Change the channel and radio station sometimes — don’t you get tired of listening to uneducated people tell you what to do — if not — like I said, you too are on that list.  Let’s cut the crap people, we all know what happened during the Bush years (why do you think there is no discussion on his policies, etc.  Why skip back to Reagan … always?).  Got to keep you thinking Repubs are for the people.  Do your homework people.  There is much to learn before throwing more wood on the fire.  I have only mentioned a few topics …. there are many.  Stop yada, yada, in anger (at the wrong person) and head to a library while you still have time.  By the way, why do you people always look for the violent streak in a person, unless that violence is taken to the streets … then what?  Can’t help you any further, you’re on your own, as I will do everything in my power to avoid this link.  Good day!  

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