“First, they insisted on raising taxes,” Boehner (R-Ohio) said. The Speaker said he and Obama “had an agreement on a revenue number,” which could be reached, not by tax hikes, but by a more “efficient” collection of the taxes that are due to the federal government.
“Let me just say that the White House moved the goalposts,” Boehner said. “There was an agreement, until the President demanded $400 billion more, which was going to be nothing more than a tax increase on the American people. I can tell you Leader Cantor and I were very disappointed in this call for higher revenue.”
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O'Bama has shown his lack of leadership in this particular debate. What does one expect from an ex-Senator who voted "present" instead of "aye" or "nay" when an issue would come to a vote on the Senate floor?
Republicans keep bringing plans to the table but the Democrats have brought nothing.
The Democrats theory is Tax and Waste!
Vote Republican!!
They are both the same - Dems and repubs. But they are proficient in dividing the people as demonstrated by the comments. The very fact that the repubs are even considering raising the debt ceiling in opposition to 69% of the American public speaks volumes. We the people should be furious and outspoken on this issue. If they raise the debt ceiling, we are only kicking the can further down the road. To a place where the politicians in power now can prepare further by lining their own pockets with money from lobbyists and special interest groups. But the can will be much bigger then and we won't be able to kick it any further when no one will loans us the money to kick it again. Stop this now and pay the piper while we can still do it.
9:02 actually Obama had a proposal that cut $4trillion from the deficit and Boehner said nay. That's a bigger deficit reduction plan than anything republicans have offered. Try watching the news sometime you might learn something.
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Obama's "proposal" was so vague that the head of the CBO couldn't score it saying that the CBO doesn't score speeches.
Maybe you should watch the news instead of relying on Media Matters talking points.
Vote Ron Paul. He's neither, but put his republican moniker on so we could all get real change back toward the constitution in force. Check out Johnson, too.
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