House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) called Congress' expected adjournment before acting on the Bush-era tax cuts the "most irresponsible thing that I have seen since I have been in Washington, D.C.
"And I've been here a while," he added.
Appearing on "Fox News Sunday" alongside Chief Deputy Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Boehner slammed Democrats for demurring on the tax vote, saying it "sounds like they're just going to punt the ball until a lame-duck session."
"I think she's afraid," McCarthy said of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). "She's got 37 Democrats in her own party that say they want to extend all the tax cuts."
But House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), appearing later on the same program, blamed the Senate while acknowledging "I doubt we will" get to tax cuts before leaving.
"The Senate has refused to move forward on that issue," Hoyer said. "It would be a specious act" for the House to rush to extend the cuts.
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2 comments:
Got to agree on this one. Punting on this vote before this election shows how pansy the democrats can be. Although Bohener doesn't have much room to critique with all the false information surrounding the issue that rep. spout.
No commenters on the tax story? Compared to all the comments on the gay service woman. And you wonder why these politicians get away with driving us further into debt.
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