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Time to put on your big boy panties, boner. Unreal.http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/01/02/boehner_says_hell_no_longer_negotiate_with_obama.html
January 02, 2013
Boehner Says He'll No Longer Negotiate with Obama
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) "is signaling that at least one thing will change about his leadership during the 113th Congress: he's telling Republicans he is done with private, one-on-one negotiations with President Obama," The Hill reports.
"During both 2011 and 2012, the Speaker spent weeks shuttling between the Capitol and the White House for meetings with the president in the hopes of striking a grand bargain on the deficit. Those efforts ended in failure, leaving Boehner feeling burned by Obama and, at times, isolated within his conference."
Instead, he'll try to "pass bills through the House that can then be adopted, amended or reconciled by the Senate."
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)tanyev
(42,360 posts)independent2013
(6 posts)Why would you want him to?
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Absolutely ridiculous.
elleng
(130,156 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)because he's done such a spectacular job since, you know, never.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)... as we watch a defeated Boner mope off into the sunset with his tail between his legs.
Lex
(34,108 posts)he really does need to step down.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,340 posts)If Boehner has to negotiate publicly, he'll sound like a nasty idiot - it won't gain him any support from the general public.
nenagh
(1,925 posts)and trying to get Obama to capitulate on SS 'entitlement' programs..
which they could use against him in ads in the 2014 midterm elections...
How is the open plan going to work?
ps... Keep the fire burning in Senator Reid's office.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Governor Christie said he called Boner 4 times and he never called him back..shameful.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Christie said Obama can't lead himself out of a paperbag? He should've looked closer
julian09
(1,435 posts)The Speaker and majority leader should be on same page and you could throw in the repug whip as well.
santamargarita
(3,170 posts)Johonny
(20,684 posts)his own people voted again his plan. So his future plan is to skip the thing that worked and go straight to fail. At least that will add less drama. In the future the House plans to do absolutely nothing. Well he might rename a few more post offices.
11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)blue and orange?
Tempest
(14,591 posts)Kber
(5,043 posts)'cause whatever Bohner was doing this past month, it wasn't negotiating.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)you dick that's what you were supposed to be doing. boner says " well that's it then. i'll do my job." followed by waaaaa-ahahaaaaa-waaaaaa snort chortle burp waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Next stop, Betty Ford.