Statement on Bipartisan Senate Agreement to Reopen Government, Avoid Default

[brooklynite]

Source: Office of the House Speaker

WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement regarding the bipartisan Senate agreement to reopen the federal government and avoid a national default:

“The House has fought with everything it has to convince the president of the United States to engage in bipartisan negotiations aimed at addressing our country's debt and providing fairness for the American people under ObamaCare. That fight will continue. But blocking the bipartisan agreement reached today by the members of the Senate will not be a tactic for us. In addition to the risk of default, doing so would open the door for the Democratic majority in Washington to raise taxes again on the American people and undo the spending caps in the 2011 Budget Control Act without replacing them with better spending cuts.

With our nation's economy still struggling under years of the president's policies, raising taxes is not a viable option. Our drive to stop the train wreck that is the president's health care law will continue. We will rely on aggressive oversight that highlights the law's massive flaws and smart, targeted strikes that split the legislative coalition the president has relied upon to force his health care law on the American people.”

Read more: http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/statement-bipartisan-senate-agreement-reopen-government-avoid-default

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Can you say "surrender"? I KNEW you could!

[upaloopa]

1. Sounds like sour grapes

[rocktivity]

22. and of course, sour grapes can only result in

bitter whine...


rocktivity

[hamsterjill]

2. He could have simply stopped

With "The House has fought with everything it has"...

THAT, at least, would have been a true statement!

And yes, I can not only SAY "surrender"...I am smelling it around me!!!! LOL

[efhmc]

3. What a piece of work. Lies and half lies and bald faced lies.

[Marthe48]

14. yep, totally forget who got us into the economic mess (BUSH)

and that President Obama's policies are digging us out. If we could have skipped the 8 years between Clinton and Obama, our country and the world, would be so much better off.

[kestrel91316]

4. I dunno, sounds to me like they have every intention of continuing to sabotage

everything Obama does.

[TygrBright]

7. Absolutely they do. n/t

[robinlynne]

9. That is for sure. McConnell also said as much yesterday.

[defacto7]

18. unfortunately, ^this^

n/t

[Mad-in-Mo]

20. Yep Yep Yep

Of course they do

[Snake Plissken]

5. Translation:

The President could have at least used a little vaseline.

[cosmicone]

6. He wants to be even more contemptible than Ted Cruz. n/t

[Skittles]

8. what an asshole

[KoKo]

10. Disgusting....Mitch McConnell's speech was worse. I doubt anyone will believe

a word either of them says again...but, then again, the Teabaggers are desperate. Desperate people look for anything to save them.

[Miranda4peace]

11. What in the world??????????????????????????

"In addition to the risk of default, doing so would open the door for the Democratic majority in Washington to raise taxes again on the American people and undo the spending caps in the 2011 Budget Control Act without replacing them with better spending cuts. "

WTF reality does this guy live in. TAXES HAVE INCREASED REGARDLESS, it's called inflation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meanwhile, real taxes have also risen in localities to make up for loss of revenue from joblessness, at the same time, TAXES HAVE PLUMMETED ON HIGH EARNERS.

This bohner needs to take a look at real America, not through his rosy glasses, but while walking the streets of Detroit, Oakland and kingston. Talk to the people a little whydonchya, they have a different story to tell than BOHNERS version.

[savalez]

12. Fire Beohner in 2014! n/t

[Phlem]

13. Buuuurn Boner.

May there be a special place in hell for you.

-p

[olddad56]

15. Boner is stuck between a rock and a hard place, he hates the Tea Nazis but wants to keep his job.

they have made his life miserable, he has admitted as much. He needs a drink right now.

[regnaD kciN]

16. Call the waaaaaaaambulance!

I just love the new rationale for caving -- "we have to go along with this, or the Democratic majority would raise your taxes!!!!!" Uh, how could the Big Bad Democrats raise taxes without the Republican-controlled House voting to do the same? But thanks for acknowledging there's a Democratic majority, since that seemed the one thing you have tried to ignore all along.

http://m.soundcloud.com/rockymountainmike/the-boner

[brooklynite]

23. Maybe he was suggesting...

"If we stick with this stupidity, the Democrats will kick us out of the House in 2014 and pass their tax hikes then.

[munster69]

17. "Our drive to stop the train wreck that is the president's health care law will continue"

They got a rule change this time, they will be back for more ACA blood.

[LuckyLib]

19. Repugs -- creating their own reality at every turn. "We lost, because the Prez

continues to screw the American people." Oh, good grief! Give it up!

[bkkyosemite]

21. Hey Mr. Head of the poor house

Take a vote on the Job's Bill so real jobs can be made.

[eggplant]

24. Sounds just like Saddam Hussein's PR guy did. :-)

[bucolic_frolic]

25. He still doesn't get it

His side lost. They lost the election of 2012, they lost in 2008, they
lost today, they lost because they're obstructionists for a political
viewpoint that is incompetent, mean-spirited, maniacal, and just
plain stupid.

[LoisB]

26. Is this what he calls saving face?

[freshwest]

27. No details, just more hot air and covering his drunken ass. I'm waiting for PBO to speak!!

[Zorra]

28. Well done, Johnnybone!. Hopefully, instead of figuring out it's time to shut up and cut your losses,

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you''ll just continue to pile up the negatives until Dems retake the House in 2014.

[ellennelle]

29. president?

did anyone else here notice that not one time in the four times boehner referenced the office of the (ahem) President of the United States, not once did he capitalize "president."

could these people possibly get more petty?

like insisting it's the "democrat party."

are they even potty trained??