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**oragator1** · 01-06-2013, 11:35 PM

An interesting read on Boehner's version of the closed door talks. Among other things:

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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.' "

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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."

With the two sides so far from agreeing even on the nature of the country's fiscal challenge, making progress on how to address it was difficult. Mr. Boehner became so agitated with the lack of progress that he cursed at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "Those days after Christmas," he explains, "I was in Ohio, and Harry's on the Senate floor calling me a dictator and all kinds of nasty things. You know, I don't lose my temper. I never do. But I was shocked at what Harry was saying about me. I came back to town. Saw Harry at the White House. And that was when that was said," he says, referring to a pointed "go [blank] yourself" addressed to Mr. Reid.

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."

I am sure that Obama has his own version that differs, but this doesn't sound like the 2 of them are going to be having tea and crumpets anytime soon.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...s_opinion_main

**gator10010** · 01-07-2013, 01:12 AM

I don't think this is going to surprise anyone. I don't really know why it surprised Boehner.

**gatordowneast** · 01-07-2013, 08:01 AM

Don't think Boehner will be going on any camping trips with either Reid or Obama. Of course if he were camping with Obama, no doubt it would involve a 6 star resort with taxpayers picking up a $5 M tab, so just as well.

PSGator66 · 01-07-2013, 08:21 AM

The Dems don't give a Sh@t as long as their boy got in.

mocgator · 01-07-2013, 08:36 AM

Marxists don't care about spending... they care about looting and control.

g8trjax · 01-07-2013, 10:16 AM

House needs to shut it down. Then we'll see if we have a spending problem.

Matthanuf06 · 01-07-2013, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by g8trjax

House needs to shut it down. Then we'll see if we have a spending problem.

Yep. The interest on our debt is only a portion of our spending. Shut down gov and don't raise the debt ceiling. We can still pay our bonds.

gatorev12 · 01-07-2013, 10:32 AM

The problem with America these days is that Republicans don't want to admit there's a revenue problem...and Democrats don't want to admit there's a spending problem on top of it.

For Obama to sit there and pretend all our nation's problems stem from healthcare spending is as delusional and arrogant as Tea Party radicals who insist that ANYTHING resembling a tax hike will be shot down.

rpmGator · 01-07-2013, 10:43 AM

Boner has voted for every cap increase so far, yet he say's Obama is doing something different. And the choir say's amen.

**Juggernautz** · 01-07-2013, 11:32 AM

How many countries OWE us money?

Why not implement a national sales tax, national lottery and/or fair tax resolution & get rid of the IRS?

**G8trGr8t** · 01-07-2013, 11:47 AM

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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."

and that type of arrogance is why he will never be a leader of the US, just the leader of the democratic party. it just amazes me that the koolaid drinkers fail to recognize just what an arrogant *&%^*^ he is. he probably considers it a compromsie still.