Conservatives bash Boehner’s reported tax hike offer
“If the offer is in fact true – and we’re still hearing this just from anonymous ‘sources’ – then Speaker Boehner must have forgotten that nearly all Republican House members, including himself, campaigned on opposing just such tax increases,” Huelskamp said in an email. “Caving into President Obama’s tax increase demands would not only seriously damage the economy, but also the future of the Republican Party.”…
“We have not commented on the content of private discussions, and we’re certainly not going to comment on rumors,” Steel added, according to BuzzFeed’s Zeke Miller.
Steel wouldn’t explain to Breitbart News why Boehner made the decision to conduct such negotiations in private. He could, of course, take the negotiations public – a move that would force him and the president to justify any decisions to the American people.
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Boehner needs to step down or get forced out. This guy’s as useless as a third armpit. He loses every time he goes toe-to-toe with anyone.
CurtZHP on December 17, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Put it up, vote present, let the Dim’s own it, end this theater.
BritCarGuy on December 17, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Boehner is a jackass
jake-the-goose on December 17, 2012 at 10:14 AM
They’re all Boehners.
ElectricPhase on December 17, 2012 at 10:26 AM
The negotiations consist of Boehner cowering and crying in one corner of the room while Barky fires golf balls at him from the other.
You bet Boehner wants to keep that private.
CorporatePiggy on December 17, 2012 at 10:31 AM
This clown has no idea what he is doing.
Get him out of there!
WisCon on December 17, 2012 at 10:38 AM
Um, the offer wasn’t very private if it got out to the press now was it? Plus you know darn well Barry won’t make it public. So I would say job well done. He got barry to turn down a tax hike on millionaires.
Zaggs on December 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Exactly.
Either put Obama’s plan on the floor while voting Present, or oppose all bad fiscal policies.
In other words, “Let it burn, or shut it down.”
blink on December 17, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Are you nuts? This is a win for us. Boehner offered taxes and Obama rejected them. That’s huge if it’s true, because it demolishes Obama’s talking point that Republicans are intractable on tax rates, but it does so without actually impacting tax rates.
Remember, tax rates are going up whether we like it or not. The Bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year, and if that happens, Republicans take the blame AND Democrats get to pose as heroes when they push a “middle-class” tax cut through next year.
Boehner’s making a smart strategic move to block their fake PR. And the more we hear about it in the news media the more people will be exposed to the truth that Obama is the one taking us over the fiscal cliff, not Republicans. That’s valuable, and if you don’t think it is, you must really want the far left to keep winning.
Caiwyn on December 17, 2012 at 11:18 AM
He has been worthless. He needs to be forced out.
Yes.. I voted for the Republicans because I wanted a party who supports the Democrat agenda. That’s why we all vote Republican. To support Democrats.
Boehner needs to go. He’s a relic.
JellyToast on December 17, 2012 at 11:20 AM
You always make me laugh… Can you remind me of a single instance that you thought the GOP establishment wasn’t brilliant?
Remember who first settled on this clusterfark of a deal that has brought us the fiscal cliff? Yep, the GOP establishment led by Boehner. And of course, you also sought to convince us at that time that it was a win for us. How did that work out?
Just own up to the fact that it is the GOP establishment/moderates express desire to see conservatives and all our principles wiped out and they are uniting with Dems to make it happen. They want the party to become the party of Romney, Specter, Crist, and other “principleless” politicians…
You can certainly count me out. I will rather join with like-minded conservatives to ensure that moderates become very rare in the GOP. We will retire all of them.
TheRightMan on December 17, 2012 at 11:32 AM
That’s just retarded. The Weeping Boner put the GOP on the record for endorsing and supporting raising tax rates. Only an idiot would consider that a win.
If you haven’t figured out at this point that it doesn’t matter what Barky says or does (he denies stuff he says in the same sentence and it’s accepted by his brain-dead America-hating supporters) then you are as stupid as the Weeper.
Go take your “wins” somewhere else. You’ll kill everything with your “winning”.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 17, 2012 at 12:05 PM