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“You get nothing. I get that for free.”
Mr. Obama repeatedly lost patience with the speaker as negotiations faltered. In an Oval Office meeting last week, he told Mr. Boehner that if the sides didn’t reach agreement, he would use his inaugural address and his State of the Union speech to tell the country the Republicans were at fault.
At one point, according to notes taken by a participant, Mr. Boehner told the president, “I put $800 billion [in tax revenue] on the table. What do I get for that?”
“You get nothing,” the president said. “I get that for free.”
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Oh, really.
Let It Burn, then.
JeffWeimer on December 22, 2012 at 9:45 AM
I won.
thebrokenrattle on December 22, 2012 at 9:46 AM
I won- “I, One”
thebrokenrattle on December 22, 2012 at 9:46 AM
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice (or thrice, ect.), and I must be a Republican ‘negotiating’ with a lib.
RoadRunner on December 22, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Free stuff?
Trend.
CW on December 22, 2012 at 9:47 AM
I thought he was going to have more flexibility after the election. This sure looks like rigidity to me.
Odysseus on December 22, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Yep.
BallisticBob on December 22, 2012 at 9:48 AM
You know what you do bullies?
You call their bluff.
Every time.
LincolntheHun on December 22, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Do you just want to punch this guy straight in the teeth? Man, what a jackass.
Bishop on December 22, 2012 at 9:52 AM
Actually A-hole, you get a crashing economy that you will own lock stock & barrel, L.i.B.
Rogue on December 22, 2012 at 9:52 AM
It’s true the speaker already gave away the house, the barn and the livestock with his deal last year that produced the fiscal cliff in the first place. I wonder how Cryin John felt the moment he understood how Obama used him like a cheap $5 crack whore.
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unseen on December 22, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Go for it, turdhead – use your inaugural address to remind the world that you are a sworn enemy of the United States and a giant, stinking POS – And, exactly what will you achieve (other than giving Chris Christie and Chris Matthews erections, of course)? Keep pushin’, punk.
Pork-Chop on December 22, 2012 at 9:56 AM
But, but….Mittens told us that Obama was a good man who was just in over his head.
And now we find out that Obama is a corrupt, greedy redistributionist narcississtic socialist created by Bill Ayres and the Daley political machine? How can this be?
Wethal on December 22, 2012 at 9:56 AM
I don’t know. It already hurts my ears enough when he uses the letter S. Imagine how bad it would sound with a chipped tooth.
Doughboy on December 22, 2012 at 9:56 AM
rogerb on December 22, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Boehner no doubt also got a con by McConnell and the RINO/Bushies/GOP Big Money who wanted to kick the can down the road so they wouldn’t have to run on taxes, spending, debt limit or fiscal cliff. (“Don’t worry, John, when we take the Senate and WH, we’ll undo this and never have to face the consequences.”)
Wethal on December 22, 2012 at 9:59 AM
How anyone in America can believe he cares about them is beyond me. He’s all about Baracka Obama. No one else.
The pettiest president ever.
ButterflyDragon on December 22, 2012 at 10:00 AM
I cannot stand our president.
Cindy Munford on December 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM
That was the moment when Boehner should have wished the president Merry Christmas, and walked out.
OldEnglish on December 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Let. It. Burn.
BigGator5 on December 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Just out of curiosity, have previous Presidents done that in their inaugural addresses? Lash out at the opposition party. Usually that’s where they attempt to unite the nation, not trash the half of it that doesn’t support them.
Hell, even at the SOTU, that seems unbecoming. And I sincerely hope if he tries to use that as a platform for bashing the Republicans(especially if he blames them for his own shortcomings), they get up and walk out.
Doughboy on December 22, 2012 at 10:04 AM
I also get the feeling that he’s one of the bullies that would cry like a little girl if any victim actually fought back like that.
wildcat72 on December 22, 2012 at 10:05 AM
“You also get the abyss of the fiscal disaster for free. Enjoy your vacation.”
Bishop on December 22, 2012 at 10:05 AM
sounds about right. Obama suffered the biggest midterm election defeat in modern history and he didn’t move an inch from his positions. I don’t know I kind of respect that. and I have to wonder how someone like the SPeaker knowing Obama didn’t move an inch after a defeat of epic scope like 2010 would even consider moving after a vicroty in 2012.
Those that won that mid term victory instead of making the POTUs moved caved. I guess maybe the speaker expected the POTUS to act like a scared goper afte rhis victory like they acted after theirs.
unseen on December 22, 2012 at 10:08 AM
I won’t listen to his voice. I turn it off soon as it plays on tv or radio.
wildcat72 on December 22, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Yikes, Boehner walked right into that one. Does he even realize he’s dealing with a guy who wants to destroy America and rebuild it from the ground up? I guess it’s just business as usual.
Dongemaharu on December 22, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Kinda’ like his $4 Million Hawaiian vacation. (Free for him. Costs us $4 Million)
Clink on December 22, 2012 at 10:11 AM
.
So those four other budgets that were sent to the Senate, what exactly was wrong with them?
LincolntheHun on December 22, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Why would anybody negotiate with an @$$%#/§ like that?
Valkyriepundit on December 22, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Or going on a $4 Million taxpayer paid Hawaiian vacation.
Clink on December 22, 2012 at 10:13 AM
That is what he wants. He just doesn’t want the blame. Obama was never going to accept any deal short of complete surrender and Boehner’s failure to recognize that proves his unfitness to serve in Congress.
wildcat72 on December 22, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Anyone who thinks that this guy is stupid hasn’t been paying attention.
Rio Linda Refugee on December 22, 2012 at 10:16 AM
One can’t negotiate with a man who thinks he is the pharoah
Rio Linda Refugee on December 22, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Obama is just way too stubborn on this. Maybe Boehner and the boys should just let it burn.
SoulGlo on December 22, 2012 at 10:19 AM
FIFY.
The media would do his crying for him, and in turn, the low-information f-ups would feel sorry for him.
86 on December 22, 2012 at 10:20 AM
And any of the 47% who thinks he cares about them is stupid. Post collapse, Obama will still get Wagu steaks and $4 million vacates. The 47% won’t even get government cheese.
wildcat72 on December 22, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Sorry it took so long to post. Kinda tough when the HOT AIR logo hovers right over the “login” button.
Am I the only lucky one?
But I digress.
This lends creadance to all those who have been advocating negotiations being broadcast on CSPAN. Let the Nation see who is negotiatiing in good faith and who is isn’t.
After all, It’s our money their negotiating over.
WisRich on December 22, 2012 at 10:22 AM
yeap. Instead Cryin John should have been putting a easily liked core conservative blueprint together on which to run and counter the Obama blame game. Hell if nothing was going to be passed anyhow the GOP should have going for the moon. Pushing the fact of the trillion in increased rev from Bush’s tax cuts and doubling down offerring more tax cuts. Gutting long held dem programs and agencies like EPA solar power compnaies. The best defense is a good offense. Do this people not understand we are at war.
unseen on December 22, 2012 at 10:23 AM
to find the button just go do a different thread. Headlines are the worse for the hidden button but the main blog posts mostly have unhidden buttons
unseen on December 22, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Oh boy. Spelling errors.
creadance s/b credence. negotiatiing s/b negotiating
WisRich on December 22, 2012 at 10:26 AM
WisRich on December 22, 2012 at 10:22 AM
edges of the login button stare tantalizingly at you. my sweaty mouse almost, but just missing. the hotair logo hides coveted mysteries.
ah, youth. how quickly it goes away.
renalin on December 22, 2012 at 10:27 AM
I think this is pretty much it. This isn’t about the nation’s fiscal well being (and quite possibly much worse/more devious re:fiscal). This is about little more than future elections and diminishing the (R) brand.
Oh, and FU Bishop.
(What thread did you win to get that trophy, btw?)
rogerb on December 22, 2012 at 10:28 AM
And this is what will happen until Boehner understands who Obama really is and tells the world what he discovers about him. PERIOD. THE END!
katy on December 22, 2012 at 10:29 AM
DITTO
He has no redeeming qualities at all.
gophergirl on December 22, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Wethal on December 22, 2012 at 10:30 AM
We have a thug in the White House but most of us already knew that…
d1carter on December 22, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Obama is a small man, unfit for even low public office.
The GOP will be blamed no matter what. Let it burn.
Revenant on December 22, 2012 at 10:34 AM
… whereupon, the Weepy Oompah-Loompah of the House promptly dropped down to both practiced knees and groveled even more desperately for Mad Barky’s approval, rather than simply rising from his seat, with a grown man’s dignity; telling the despot to go ahead and get his own idiotic plan passed in both chambers, if he can; and leaving the room without another word.
That’s why he has to go, in a nutshell.
Kent18 on December 22, 2012 at 10:35 AM
At this point only complete collapse followed by universal socialist misery followed by a revolt that somehow leads to a new American Republic that has protection mechanisms against voting for a living will put this right.
I am 40. I don’t see us again being a Republic in my lifetime.
wildcat72 on December 22, 2012 at 10:35 AM
Probably many generations if at all…
katy on December 22, 2012 at 10:37 AM
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