Obama to Boehner: No Backsies (Boehner tried to get Obama to go back to his 2011 offer)

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Obama to Boehner: No Backsies

By Matthew Yglesias at Slate


http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/12/22/boehner_tried_to_get_2011_deal_obama_said_no.html

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Patrick O'Connor and Peter Nichols have one of the first good fiscal cliff tick tocks out in today's Wall Street Journal. The key theme is this. Back in 2011 when faced with the debt ceiling, the White House made John Boehner an offer. Boehner rejected the offer. Then Obama got re-elected and Democrats gained seats in the House of Representatives and Democrats gained seats in the Senate and we arrived at a point where taxes are scheduled to go up by default. Boehner's response was to ask for the deal he'd previously rejected:


During one session in the Capitol with White House's legislative liaison Rob Nabors, Mr. Loper from the Boehner camp asked, referring to a near-deal during last year's debt-ceiling fight: "Can you get back into the zone of where you were in July 2011?"


"No," Mr. Nabors replied. "We were probably overextended then, and there's no way we would do it now." [...]


Mr. Boehner said he wanted a deal along the lines of what the two men had negotiated in the summer of 2011 in a fight over raising the debt ceiling. "You missed your opportunity on that," the president told him.


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[Angry Dragon]

1. should the country have a drunk leading the House??

[octoberlib]

2. Bwahaha! nt

[Scootaloo]

3. A SLAP IN THE FACE WHILE BEING THROWN UNDER THE BUS!!!!!

...Oh... wait, what?

Wrong thread!