Boehner: Obama told me, “We don’t have a spending problem”
What stunned House Speaker John Boehner more than anything else during his prolonged closed-door budget negotiations with Barack Obama was this revelation: “At one point several weeks ago,” Mr. Boehner says, “the president said to me, ‘We don’t have a spending problem.’ “…
The president’s insistence that Washington doesn’t have a spending problem, Mr. Boehner says, is predicated on the belief that massive federal deficits stem from what Mr. Obama called “a health-care problem.” Mr. Boehner says that after he recovered from his astonishment—”They blame all of the fiscal woes on our health-care system”—he replied: “Clearly we have a health-care problem, which is about to get worse with ObamaCare. But, Mr. President, we have a very serious spending problem.” He repeated this message so often, he says, that toward the end of the negotiations, the president became irritated and said: “I’m getting tired of hearing you say that.”…
Mr. Boehner confirms that at one critical juncture he asked Mr. Obama, after conceding on $800 billion in new taxes, “What am I getting?” and the president replied: “You don’t get anything for it. I’m taking that anyway.”
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Boehner is an idiot negotiating with a lying idiot. Nuff said.
bgibbs1000 on January 6, 2013 at 8:11 PM
Obama was being honest in what he believes, these people believe 3-5 trillion dollar deficits would be a GOOD thing for the economy. Remember this: THERE IS NO REACHING ACROSS THE AISLE.
rob verdi on January 6, 2013 at 8:11 PM
Yet Boehner voted for it.
Big government wrapped in a very thin veil of “conservative“.
astonerii on January 6, 2013 at 8:16 PM
Confirmed: It’s better to be feared than liked
sharrukin on January 6, 2013 at 8:21 PM
OMG….. What stupidity !
With representation like this we are dead .
Damn you to hell Boehner .
Lucano on January 6, 2013 at 8:22 PM
As Romney said many times “Obama, is a nice guy, he’s just in over his head”. /sarc
ctmom on January 6, 2013 at 8:25 PM
Boehner is waaay over his head in trying to negotiate with this kind of person. He is a knife in a gun fight.
Same with McConnell. They both need to go.
petefrt on January 6, 2013 at 8:25 PM
A little nugget:
Anyone believe that? This is not the first time Boehner is butting heads with Obama. He will do the same exact thing with the debt ceiling that he did this time.
Timin203 on January 6, 2013 at 8:30 PM
Virginia Slims?
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on January 6, 2013 at 8:32 PM
Of course Zero doesn’t have a spending problem when the GOP Beltway clowns keep raising the debt ceiling.
viking01 on January 6, 2013 at 8:35 PM
Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Panther on January 6, 2013 at 8:36 PM
Duh, ofcourse Obama would say that. According to their ideology, spending ain’t a problem.
tommy71 on January 6, 2013 at 8:37 PM
OT: What’s with all the cleavage with Foxbabes today? Did you see that, Lorien? Jamie Colby came on strong, then covered up a bit. Sharon Bream… phew! Looks like a new dress code to me.
Fun for a bit, but these guys are too good for distractions. For everyday news from them, I prefer the unisex look. For lesser talents, like Geraldo and Shep, let them wear G-strings.
petefrt on January 6, 2013 at 8:40 PM
A health care problem? Are you SERIOUS?
gophergirl on January 6, 2013 at 8:41 PM
Yeah, according to Keynes, spending is a benefit, not a problem. So Obama would be following the economic theory he believed in by increasing spending as much as possible.
Why would Boehner think Obama had any real interest in cutting government?
Timin203 on January 6, 2013 at 8:42 PM
“but I turned around and took it up the tailpipe and then spun around and felated him.”
Rio Linda Refugee on January 6, 2013 at 8:47 PM
It doesn’t appear, for about two years plus, that Boner has much interest in actually cutting gummint spending either.
viking01 on January 6, 2013 at 8:50 PM
He is in power, why would he want to give power back to the people when he can keep it in his own hands?
astonerii on January 6, 2013 at 8:56 PM
Just STFU already, you ignorant, narcissistic, child-abusing, asinine, arrogant, pompous, condescending, classless, ill-mannered, puerile, petulant, braggadocios, ridiculous, contemptible, idiotic, demagogic, infantile, dishonest, inane, know-nothingish, authoritarian, crisis-manufacturing, incapable-of-leading, dilly-dallying, boorish, insipid, hypocritical, Machiavellian, Orwellian, unaccountable, fragile, imperialistic, windbaggish, dithering, nouveau riche, vain, vacuous, vapid, vulgar, spoiled, unenlightened, uninformed, inexperienced, cretinous, witless, stupid morceau de merde!
Resist We Much on January 6, 2013 at 8:56 PM
Probably because Boehner is too dense to remember what conveniently happened to Rohm after Adolf had played him like a fiddle for a few years.
Zero is gradually dismantling all avenues for removing a tyrannical regime per the Constitution. When he’s not gun-grabbing from citizens, playing Just-Us Benedict Roberts for free passes and race-baiting he’s railroading our command generals and trying to weasel Leftist weasel Hagel in as SecDef.
viking01 on January 6, 2013 at 9:07 PM
Resist We Much on January 6, 2013 at 8:56 PM
Ditto !
Lucano on January 6, 2013 at 9:07 PM
FIF if we had an actual president. Spending is just one problem that this country has.
blockchords on January 6, 2013 at 9:09 PM
Funny, but he sees it as he has power now, and someday when we have a Republican president he can actually wield it. nothing will ever persuade him otherwise.
Newt was the only Speaker of the House we have had in recent history who was willing to return power to the states or the people… The rest have been hell bent on consolidating power in Washington.
astonerii on January 6, 2013 at 9:10 PM
…but then Newt had to do his little sofa sharing ad with Nanzi Pelosi and later on endorse Scozzafava in Taxachusetts. I was glad to see Newt tell off Obama suckup Scott Pelley and smack down Obama suckup Bartiromo but I keep remembering his time with Nanzi and the Scozz. Then again, at least he isn’t sold out completely like Dick Armey (once of the limited government talking points) in the past few weeks.
Better a speaker of of quick wit like Newt than Boehner (damning with faint praise?) but Newt still has skipped a groove here and there, as well.
viking01 on January 6, 2013 at 9:27 PM
Boehner is such an idiot.
Did he really expect Obama to “negotiate” in good faith? LOL
Norwegian on January 6, 2013 at 9:30 PM
Cloward and Piven to destroy the whole system is still in full affect. If they covering the moon in Yogurt was a form of wealth redistribution they would do it. To O and his minions, governments only job is wealth redistribution with taking it from someone and spending on someone somewhere elsewhere. Not law and justice and punish those that break the law, Only social Justice and spend to do it.
tjexcite on January 6, 2013 at 9:56 PM
It’s worse than that sir. Those two effheads bring the velvet lined walnut case containing the guns to Obama and ask “Are they big enough me lord?”
arnold ziffel on January 6, 2013 at 9:57 PM
LIB
AH_C on January 6, 2013 at 10:31 PM
Resist We Much on January 6, 2013 at 8:56 PM
What he said.
cthulhu on January 6, 2013 at 11:19 PM
I’m done trying to help save this country. Like rehabilitating a crackhead, if they refuse to recognize the problem, it’s just a matter of time before they get themselves killed. I’ll still vote against these maniacs, but I’m making contingency plans.
The Count on January 6, 2013 at 11:51 PM
Obama repeats all the same, senseless, irrational pablum that Communists repeat worldwide, from all countries, wherever they are, in the U.S. and otherwise.
They ALL repeat these meaningless, irrational negative stereotypes about “corporations” and “factories” and “employers” and “money” and “(so-called) healthcare” and “women’s rights” and yaddayaddayadda…
Meanwhile, they can’t or don’t define with any specificity just what they mean by those stereotypes beyond, say, they don’t “like” any of that or claim that “they” (nebulous, non specific, “they”) somehow do “vile things” to others but even about that they can’t or won’t define just what they mean.
Because what they MEAN is animosity, anti-social animosity, about the U.S…..
Obama sounds like he reads MoveOn’s newsletters and then memorizes his talking points to coincide with theirs, or vice-versa, or both.
Remember all those DRAMATIC lies Obama told and told and retold and told again about his poor ole’ mamma “who didn’t have health insurance” and “suffered”…
that was Obama lying, that was Obama repeating some sort of entranced, hypnotized and hypnotic complaint that was not only a lie but was never retracted by him after all the damage he waged with that lie was done: gullible, needy people got more resentful and blaming toward the U.S. and those they deemed, often irrationally, “had more than (they) do” and “should be made to share with (others)” by force-called-Obama-and-Communism.
Lourdes on January 6, 2013 at 11:54 PM
And the sooner the better that Boehner understands he’s not interacting with a credible, lucid or ethical person in Obama. Obama is a snake, I’ve maintained that all along. He’s not going to play “fair” and he’s not going to make credible declarations to the public. His goals are to continue to deceive, to destroy and to demean by whatever untruth he can whenever about whomever.
Meet with Obama, let him think he’s being taken seriously, then leave the meeting and pray for his lost soul. Then laugh about it, enjoy life with faith in God and trust that regardless of how purty the serpent appears, he’s always going to lie to you.
Lourdes on January 6, 2013 at 11:58 PM
It’s an ongoing temptation, you’re right. I struggle with that temptation nearly daily — particularly with people who have no value for human life while unborn (and afterward) but demand they be given whatever at the expense of human life and more — why believe in others who have no respect for me, for others, for the vulnerable and least protected and for the U.S.
It’s a temptation, I agree, to just adopt a “shuck it all” perspective. But I continue to work to overcome that temptation.
Lourdes on January 7, 2013 at 12:01 AM
If Fox wants blondes-all on air, then at least address the exposed-dark-roots problem. Can’t stand that. Keep the dark roots bleached like the rest of the locks or stop it with the bleaching of the locks.
I agree that Blonde-looks-better on air but the exposed-roots issue is annoying.
And Schep’s makeup, my gosh.
Lourdes on January 7, 2013 at 12:06 AM
What viking01 said ^^.
Most of us really enjoy Gingrich’s ability and practice of confronting the hyperbole of the Left as also taking it to Leftists directly as he has done, but he then cuddles up to voters with Progressive ideas and support for Progressive candidates in the GOP…
…makes him unreliable. Same with Armey. They make a lot of sense and get our attention and then you find out they’re taking you marching down the wrong street.
Lourdes on January 7, 2013 at 12:11 AM
Agreed on that FoxNews faux-blonde dress code.
What creeps me out, though is the black eyebrows, brown eyes, blonde hair triad which always reminds me of Isabella Rossellini’s scary character in the whacked out movie Wild at Heart which shatters most records for hallucinatory film-making.
viking01 on January 7, 2013 at 12:20 AM
That, too, what tjexcite wrote ^^.
In fact, I think that this/that ^^ describes Obama’s primary motivational premise. Everything else he cites are mere targets for rationalization purposes: “healthcare” or “fair share” or whatever else he cites, all rationalizations for purposes of furthering Cloward-Piven goal.
Lourdes on January 7, 2013 at 12:26 AM
I agree. Not everyone can bleach-blonde and be credible or even attractive with it…when people with dark-complexions bleach blonde, they look “ashy” or somewhat ghoulish because their complexion (and eye color) doesn’t work with blonde hair and vice-versa.
Kristin Powers is one of those. She has dark/brown eyes, dark-skinned complexion and then bleaches her hair blonde. It never works and her dark-roots exposed only make her look more ridiculous.
Go natural. If you have dark hair, keep it dark because the rest of ‘you’ is tonal to that dark hair. If you have to lighten-up the hair, do it with subtle lightening, not contrary coloring.
Another example of that is Hispanic females who seem committed to this false-redhair coloring. They might as well wear masks or some silly hat, same with Black females who “go blonde” == it’s as awful looking as White women who bleach-Pink.
Lourdes on January 7, 2013 at 12:30 AM
Kirsten Powers, I think it’s spelled.
Lourdes on January 7, 2013 at 12:32 AM