“We have to highlight the fact that the president’s own party is the roadblock here”
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is turning to an unlikely ally — President Clinton’s former chief of staff — to try to get the White House to put big entitlement changes in a fiscal-cliff deal.
Erskine Bowles, the former co-chairman of Obama’s debt commission, will meet on Wednesday with Boehner and other top Republicans. The GOP is using the occasion to call out liberal Democrats for working against benefit cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security…
“Any time he can emphasize to them that we said revenues need to be on the table, they need to say entitlements need to be on the table, certainly that would help the progress,” said Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), a member of the bipartisan Gang of Eight deficit discussion group and a close friend of Boehner.
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All you need to know about the Obama fiscal cliff plan… The Obama economy meets reality.
SWalker on November 28, 2012 at 1:42 PM
No! America voted for free stuff! Granted, it won’t last long, and we’ll soon have riots and bloodshed to rival Greece … but you must give Americans what they voted for. Free stuff!!
darwin on November 28, 2012 at 1:43 PM
I have a hard time believing that a Democrat is a an “unlikely ally” for Boehner
Joey24007 on November 28, 2012 at 1:46 PM
Too bad boehner didn’t say dingy ding dong harry has not let ANY bill to come up for vote in over three years! And they could add that the two(I believe that is the number) of bills bho has sent up got ZERO votes in the house and sentate while you are at it!
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letget on November 28, 2012 at 1:48 PM
Where we are going, we don’t need roads.
tom daschle concerned on November 28, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Good luck with that.
Kataklysmic on November 28, 2012 at 2:05 PM
So we need a Democrat, Irksome Bowls, to negotiate our fiscal position for us…to other Democrats, and the whims of Susan Collins to determine our position on the Rice nomination for Sec. of State. #RepublicanEpicFail
aquaviva on November 28, 2012 at 2:06 PM
Incredibly successful ineptitude.
It’s proof of how stupid the land has become.
Schadenfreude on November 28, 2012 at 2:16 PM