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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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ButterflyDragon on December 22, 2012 at 10:41 AM
Actually, he won’t.
It will be blamed on EVERYTHING but him.
The media will make sure of that.
BallisticBob on December 22, 2012 at 10:44 AM
The principles that the United States was founded on can be applied anywhere. So the US can descend into permanent Obamisery, and it wouldn’t be necessary for the US to reestablish itself as a Republic, if a Republic emerges elsewhere that resembles what the US was intended to be. Gotta agree that it won’t happen in our lifetimes, but we need to keep passing the ideas on so that it might happen again – and where it happens doesn’t matter.
86 on December 22, 2012 at 10:52 AM
would have been great if Bush had believed in america enough to madate our from of goverment to the conquered lands of Iraq and Afganistain. But even our POTUS at the time didn’t belive in the american experiment enough to promote it aboard. that told me everything I needed to know about Bush. Imagine what the world would look like if truman thought the same and left the germany and japannesse styles of gov intact.
unseen on December 22, 2012 at 11:00 AM
But I’m sure that people will still blame the Republicans. The propagandists formly known as the press are doing their jobs well.
besser tot als rot on December 22, 2012 at 11:02 AM
+1
i won part deux
cmsinaz on December 22, 2012 at 11:04 AM
That would presuppose a certain fortitude on the part of RINOs.
Will never happen.
But I would hope, too.
davidk on December 22, 2012 at 11:06 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/06/ginsburg-to-egyptians-wouldnt-use-us-constitution-as-model/
davidk on December 22, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Obama is a very very little man. However the Dem-parasite class will believe all that the leftist journalists tell them. What a mess.
wsucoug on December 22, 2012 at 11:14 AM
It’s simple. People will blame the GOp until the GOp grows a pair and defends its positions with facts and passionate debate. They blame theb GOP because the GOPe tends to agree with the media and accepts the blame. The media creates the narrative the GOPe tries to defend against the narrative instead of creating their own narrative. Just like the gun control debate. The media created the narrative that guns are the problem. The GOpe have been on the defensive ever since so of course people are going to blame those on the defensive.
the GOp should have come out swinging about how gun free zones killed those kids, placed the blame on CLinton gun control policies. Instead they are defending guns. This had nothing to do with guns. It was acrazy having a free fire zone inwhich to gun down defensless kids. Ive stil no heard GOp leadership attack Clinton’s misguided gun free zone polices.
That is why the GOp gets blamed they offer nothing and instead defend the narrative of the day.
unseen on December 22, 2012 at 11:23 AM
yeap when conservatives attacked ginsburg over those comments my thought was why? I kept thinking conservatives supported Bush when he did , not said, but did the same thing in Iraq and Afganistain.
unseen on December 22, 2012 at 11:25 AM
This shows why O is so bad at gov.erning, he has no clue how to negotiate and really seems to believe he has a huge negotiating advantage that he clearly does not. Without a debt ceiling increase he is screwed. Either that or he really does seek economic destruction. Let him own it. Evryone thinks he will not get blamed but I beg to differ. Let him carry through his threats and announce in his sotu speech that it is republicans fault, so what. Long term he will own it and pay dearly for it. Once people actually feel the pain he will own it.
Ellis on December 22, 2012 at 11:25 AM
I don’t know why you would think that. History says differently look at FDR.
unseen on December 22, 2012 at 11:28 AM
More and more I’m thinking that part of this country will still be a republic and part of it won’t.
trigon on December 22, 2012 at 11:36 AM
FDR’s legacy has certainly changed with time. It is more and more accepted that his policies were a failure and that he did and has done great harm to our economy. That’s the thing with history, the further away you get from the moment in time the more facts come into play and the less partisan spin has an effect. That’s why I have always maintained that history will be very kind to GWB. Obama is a pop figure and nothing more. He is like a fad that fades away. Yes, things will be tough for now and the near future but people will only accept failure for so long. Once the masses start feeling the pain they will turn on the empty suit in the white house.
Ellis on December 22, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Our Govt led by the execrable King Barack and his Jester Biden are but a small step above the lowly/spineless Boehner, and his band of fools such as that tool LaTourette…screwed does even begin to scratch the surface of what we have voted for ourselves.
NY Conservative on December 22, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Just what I’d expect from our Greatest Living Orator (TM) and Lightworker (TM).
Paul-Cincy on December 22, 2012 at 11:39 AM
No, make him own it. Conservatives have enough votes to hold on the debt limit. I lived through Carter. Frankly it wasn’t so bad because I was able to compensate. The Regan fix on the other hand was ugly because he had to stop inflation. 22% I figured. Only after the fix did the economy roar. I think Obama could make Carter look like a tiptoe through the daises when it has to be reversed which it will have to be.
Pay me now, pay me later. I prefer now.
BullShooterAsInElk on December 22, 2012 at 11:49 AM
The Democrat media’s version of “working together”.
Axeman on December 22, 2012 at 11:49 AM
It’s amazing how Obama has turned the Democrats into
the Party of Sloth, Envy, and Lies!!!
landlines on December 22, 2012 at 12:03 PM
Of course the media will exact a heavy punishment on Obama for his hypocrisy on calling for a “balanced” approach during the campaign season and then turning around and bargaining in an unbalanced, bad faith manner. /sarc
OxyCon on December 22, 2012 at 12:13 PM
It’s time for the red state governors to meet, come up with a plan, and head for the exits.
Rebar on December 22, 2012 at 12:16 PM
I’m getting ready to write a post on that subject on my blog. The thumbnail sketch: As the central government gathers more and more tyrannical power to itself the less and less it will have the resources to actually CONTROL.
I suspect that sometime in the next decades the union will be broken and some part will assume the mantle of the American Republic and the rest will lack the power to do anything about it.
Think about it. If Texas declared independence tomorrow, what could Washington really do about it? Enough of the military would be in conflict over this so that it’d be ineffective if not outright impotent to stop it. And there are, as yet, not enough loyalist stormtroopers in the Obama civilian defense “corpse” to overcome a million armed Texans (and other patriots from the other 56 states that would join them).
I think the days of the United States remaining a nation are numbered. In the future our continent may well resemble Europe, a patchwork of nation states. We’re already divided more than at any point in our history, what with a new de-facto majority of non-workers who see themselves entitled to the produce of a shrinking productive majority.
Such a situation is inherently unstable and temporary. It doesn’t matter how big a majority the parasite looters become, it will fall apart on top of them. Society NEEDS producers, or it doesn’t exist. Looters are nonessential.
Obama and other marxist fascists KNOW this, and hope to use the inversion point (which we are now at) where they command the support of a parasite majority to GRAB DICTATORIAL POWER. Once he has that Obama will have no more use for the parasite looters that gave him power than we do.
wildcat72 on December 22, 2012 at 12:41 PM
It’s time for red state governors to stop obeying federal mandates that are not tied to the Enumerated Powers in the Constitution and to also deny the federal state the ability to withhold their state’s share of tax revenues by themselves becoming the EXCLUSIVE federal tax collector inside their borders. The state collects the federal income taxes then decides whether or not to pass them on.
The whole mess we are in today is because the state has basically given up their own power to limit the federal state by accepting goodies with strings attached.
wildcat72 on December 22, 2012 at 12:46 PM
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