House Republicans Boast They're Leading President Obama to the Right.

[Better Believe It]

House GOP says they're leading Obama to the right
by Stephanie Condon
April 13, 2011

Liberal activists are complaining that President Obama is letting House Republicans lead him to the right -- and House Republicans agree.

Ahead of Mr. Obama's speech this afternoon in which he'll lay out his vision for deficit reduction, Republicans boasted that they're the ones leading and that the president is following.

"We continue to move this president places he never said he would go," House Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy said to reporters today. "In the State of the Union the president sat out here and said we would freeze spending."

Instead, McCarthy said, "we have cut spending," referring to the 2011 budget deal recently agreed to, which makes a historic $38.5 billion in cuts over just the next six months.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20053527-503544.html

[pinto]

1. "I refuse to extend them again."

On tax cuts for those earning > $250,000. Couldn't have said it any clearer. Period.

:thumbsup:

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[Better Believe It]

8. Obama also refused to continue Bush tax cuts for the rich before he agreed to them last December!

So we had a preview of how this will play out when President Obama and Senate Democratic leaders work out a bi-partisan tax deal compromise in the coming weeks.

Obama also refused to sign a health insurance industry bill without a public option!

[zbdent]

9. um ...

weren't they extended (in December) to the point that 1/20/2013, the incoming (I hope not) Republican president will be able to make them permanent?

(extended for 2 years)

[Bandit]

12. Hell he may not even be President when they come up for renewal.

The election is in November and the tax cuts are up for renewal the end of the year. If he wins why should he care if he is called a LIAR and goes back on his promises, he won't be running again?

[Better Believe It]

13. Good point. One that President Obama and his people in the Senate won't mention.

[iwishiwas]

2. It really sucks when Repugs are truthful about this kind of stuff. --and

it is painful.

[Bobbie Jo]

3. Spin!

Unrec

[dionysus]

4. after obama's speech today, you'll need to redouble your efforts. try harder.

[MineralMan]

5. Unrecommended. Do you have any comments about the President's

speech? Let's do that, instead of finding more ways to run him down, OK?

[kenny blankenship]

6. How hard is it, really, to lead a thirsty horse to water?

[mmonk]

7. Those are things he's done. Not what he just said.

:)

[Ikonoklast]

10. And the Republicans are desperately spinning this as hard as they can

as a 'win', hoping the that Teabaggers won't primary their asses after the budget vote.


Too funny.

[Better Believe It]

11. Boehner: Obama now open to debt ceiling vote with strings attached

Boehner: Obama now open to debt ceiling vote with strings attached
By Chris Moody - The Daily Caller
April 13, 2011

President Barack Obama has agreed to negotiate a deal to cut spending in return for a vote to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, House Speaker John Boehner suggested shortly after a meeting with the president at the White House Wednesday.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said this week that the president wants to pursue a “clean” vote to raise the debt limit — meaning with no strings attached — but a reporter asked Boehner if Obama had indicated an openness to consider Republican demands to go along with the vote.

“Yes,” Boehner said, without offering any further details.

The shift is perhaps another sign of Obama’s willingness to compromise, a theme Republicans are noticing. After the battle over the Bush-era tax cuts, the continuing resolution deal to cut $38 billion from the federal budget, and now the debt ceiling, Republicans appear to almost expect the White House to bend.

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http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/13/boehner-obama-now-open-to-debt-ceiling-vote-with-strings-attached/