Boehner Halts Talks on Cuts, and House G.O.P. Cheers

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WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner, the man who spent significant portions of the last Congress shuttling to and from the White House for fiscal talks with President Obama that ultimately failed twice to produce a grand bargain, has come around to the idea that the best negotiations are no negotiations.

As the president and Congressional Democrats have tried to force Mr. Boehner back to the table for talks to head off the automatic budget cuts set to take effect on Friday, Mr. Boehner has instead dug in deeper, refusing to even discuss an increase in revenue and insisting in his typical colorful language that it was time for the Senate to produce a measure aimed at the cuts.

“The revenue issue is now closed,” Mr. Boehner said Thursday, before the House left town for the weekend without acting on the cuts and a Senate attempt to avert them died. Mr. Boehner said the dispute with Democrats amounted to a question of “how much more money do we want to steal from the American people to fund more government.”

“I’m for no more,” he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/us/politics/house-republicans-cheer-boehners-refusal-to-negotiate-on-cuts.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=print

[el_bryanto]

1. Steal?

That's pretty provocative language. And I don't mean provocative in the sense that it provokes thoughts; rather it provokes anger. Taxes are the price you pay for living in a civilized society. Civilization exists to protect the poor and to enable social mobility (obviously it's not necessarily good at this, depending on the civilization).

What a jackass.

Bryant

[spanone]

5. broken government....100% broken.

i believe we should do away with any revenues that go to pay congress salaries.

[hobbit709]

2. If that's his reason, he should return the last couple years worth of paychecks.

[Frustratedlady]

3. If Congress can't stay on the job until they accomplish something substantial,

I say the first cuts should be their paychecks.

How many of us could conduct ourselves the same way these clowns have done and keep our jobs?

I think Boehner is the worst speaker in my lifetime.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

7. We would be visiting with the HR people if we even pulled this stunt once.

A second stunt would reveal the security guard, a box for our belongings and the door.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

6. It's too late for that. The $$ has already been processed through his liver.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

4. Actually the dispute is about whether wealthy and big corps should pay any taxes

GOP thinks they should not.

[99Forever]

8. After years of capitulating to these assholes...

... what else would any sane person expect?

Us "dumbass liberals" have been warning the "bi-partisan" surrender monkeys that this would happen for years. They "knew better."

And they are still singing the same failed song.