House Speaker John Boehner says Pres. Barack Obama wants a blank check from Congress to raise the debt ceiling, but that he's not going to get one. In his response to Obama's televised address, Boehner gave no indication of compromise.
CNN.com: U.S. leaders struggle to reach debt deal as deadline clock ticks:
The aide said that party members are "struggling to see how they reach an agreement with significant debt reduction without buying time to work out the details."
Boehner aide Steel had earlier told reporters that "it would be terribly unfortunate if the president was willing to veto a debt-limit increase simply because its timing would not be ideal for his re-election campaign. We want the most significant deficit reduction possible, but linking the full faith and credit of the United States to presidential campaign politics is not a defensible position."
"Where is the president's plan? When's he going to lay his cards on the table? This debt limit increase is his problem, and I think it's time for him to lead by putting his plan on the table -- something that the Congress can pass," Boehner said
“Without significant spending cuts and reforms to reduce our debt, there will be no debt limit increase,” Boehner said. “And the cuts should be greater than the accompanying increase in debt authority the president is given. We should be talking about cuts of trillions, not just billions.”
Image via WikipediaAs top aides to Mr. Boehner and Mr. Reid exchanged proposals and counterproposals, Democrats said the talks had remained in the neighborhood of $33 billion in spending reductions though Mr. Boehner sought $40 billion on Tuesday in a new offer that surprised Democrats.I'm not surprised by the stalemate, but I'm disappointed that the $100 billion that was originally going to be cut was whittled down to $60 billion a few weeks ago only to be trimmed to $40 billion in the latest discussions. What's going on? Where are the fiscal hawks that we thought we elected in 2010?
I look at Boehner’s endorsement of Cino for RNC chair with disdain. Why? It’s been reported that Cino worked as an Obamacare lobbyist for Pfizer. When I sent an email to the Teapartiers listserv about Boehner’s endorsement, people weren’t thrilled. “I’m beyond disappointed. Are they wanting to change direction or not? This sure as hell isn’t doing it,” one responder said.Missouri's own Ann Wagner is also in the running for RNC chair. Multiple ballots are cast until a candidate has a majority of the 168 votes to be had in the election, so it's an insiders game.
Would any Teapartier want someone in GOP leadership who lobbied for a law that contains the individual mandate, additional spending, and more government control? No. Even though some of us Teapartiers aren’t registered Republicans, we realize that the GOP is one of the vehicles America currently has to fight the spread of leftism. And until such time that the Tea Party decides to do it’s own thing, we’ll continue to speak up and hold Republicans accountable when they get too cozy with spending, growing government, or deviating from America’s First Principles.
CINO = Conservative In Name Only? You decide. Speaker Boehner, what say you?
Image via WikipediaFor those members of Congress who need a refresher course on the Constitution, Speaker-designate John Boehner has reserved the right to have it read aloud on the floor the day after he’s sworn in on Jan. 6.There's are numerous rule changes that will help reign in spending. Of course, rules can be waived, so the most that we can say right now is that the House has created a framework to promote fiscally conservative legislation:
The rules package, as outlined by aides, incorporates much of what Republicans laid out in the Pledge to America, including new procedural hurdles for deficit spending.One rule that I find particularly interesting is about posting video of hearings online. Back to The Wall Street Journal article:
One of the biggest of those hurdles is a rule that the House will no longer recognize tax increases as a way of offsetting new spending in entitlement programs, like Medicare and Social Security. The president’s health-care bill would have been almost impossible to pass if Democrats had been forced to meet that standard.
–All bills and amendments must be posted online. Other disclosure rules including posting lawmakers’ attendance records and video of hearings online.I hope that Boehner and his colleagues in the Senate move to make the entire C-SPAN archive downloadable.
Image via Wikipedia“Very simply, under this ‘CutGo’ rule, if it is your intention to create a new government program, you must also terminate or reduce spending on an existing government program of equal or greater size–in the very same bill,” Mr. Boehner said during the AEI speech.If this rule is like PayGo, then it is a waste of time. There are two things you need to know about the Democrat's PayGo rule. First, it never applied to any discretionary spending. None. Nada. Zipo. And, second, when ever it got in the way of actually passing a bill, it was waived. I'm hopeful that Republicans have learned not to play games like that, but I would not be surprised if they did.
In a nod to the wave of conservative lawmakers who arrived in Washington this week, House Republicans today unanimously adopted a ban on earmarks, the lawmaker-requested funding for pet projects that became a black-eye for Congress during the past decade.It's nice to see someone in Washington finally lead by example.
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While the vote is an obvious nod to the new Republicans, it’s also a big win for House Minority Leader John Boehner, the speaker-in-waiting, who has never requested an earmark and tried — unsuccessfully — for years to impose a ban.
“It’s too late; it’ll just have to be stopped in the Senate,” Tom, the young male answering the phone in U.S. Rep. John Boehner’s (R-Ohio)Washington D.C. office, said about HR 3534 (CLEAR Act). This is the globalist bill designed to give away our land, oceans, adjacent land masses and Great Lakes to an international body, and makes us pay $900 million per year until 2040.
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