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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoner sez Obama lacks 'courage' to 'work with foes' on debt.
Them's fightin' words.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/boehner-hits-obama-courage-debt-passes-16-trillion-205715200--election.html
Warpy
(111,403 posts)he won't knuckle under and rubber stamp everything Grover Norquist wants.
Johonny
(20,923 posts)when boner passes a jobs bill he can talk *.
still_one
(92,481 posts)a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)(I really need a pic of Obama in the Bruce Lee hand waving pose here).
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)emulatorloo
(44,249 posts)House members.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)OH...
sofa king
(10,857 posts)In just the past two years, the President has maneuvered Boehner and the Republicans into:
* Conceding the power to raise the debt ceiling to the President, ending the Republican Congress' ability to shut the government down in that way, or to further damage the nation's credit rating;
* Slashing half a trillion dollars from the Defense budget;
* Voting against a middle class tax cut extension in an election year.
Why would this President waste his time working with his recalcitrant foes, when he can work them over instead?
applegrove
(118,865 posts)with Boehner by including entitlement reform. Boehner was not prepared to go against his base re: no raising taxes on the rich. Puck, puck, puck...who is the real chicken?
spanone
(135,911 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,770 posts)JRLeft
(7,010 posts)marmar
(77,106 posts)nt
And you would be too, if you were in a party that had teabaggers in it.
Blue Idaho
(5,060 posts)And they all walked away from the table. The increasing debt belongs to the republican controlled House of Representatives and it's feckless leadership.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)for clarifying that you are NOT a patriotic American, but a foe...
I believe we have a nice cot for you at Gitmo.