I think he was saying I am not in favor in taxing the rich, but cutting our spending. Then when the host ask how he proposes to do this he states how he plans to cut 30mil or something. I am thinking to myself that is a cut of less than .01% of the deficit Not that I think the Democrats are any better, but these reagan republicans are about small government. They just want to spend with no method to finance it.
There is zero chance of significantly reducing the deficit without raising taxes on the top one percent.
I love how we love to quote Kennedy "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." But when push comes to shove its all forgotten.
This was one of the funniest news stories I have ever seen. Seeing Boehner cry every 30 seconds made this a great watch. Also I don't think he ever said anything in this story that would really help the country.
The compromising and finding common ground distinction is funny. Leslie "Are you are afraid of using "compromise"" Boehner " No, I reject that word" This comes from a guy who cries a lot. That bit is really funny to me.
We don't need to significantly lower it. We need to stop running in a deficit year after year. The reality is that no matter how much revenue you bring in, the government beauracrats will spend at least 110% of it, regardless of party or prosperity. You can tax the population at a flat 75% and the government will still spend every bit of it plus more.
This is clinical behavior of a classic alcoholic. There are stories all around Washington chronicling Boehner's drinking episodes. Expect this a lot over the next two years.
Boehner and his crying, Glen Beck and his crying... The right wing are a bunch of cry babies. Though if my ideas were always that idiotic I might cry a lot as well.
"If only Boehner wept as copiously for the poor and the sick as he does when confessing his own greatness." ~Roger Ebert
I don't care what your party affiliation is, how anyone can like that guy is beyond me. he's like the boss on "office space"
I missed the interview. I still had the TV on CBS after the football games and saw the teaser when he said that the election was over and Obama should stop with the heated rhetoric. This was after all the stuff that comes from his side of the aisle, especially during the health care debate. I thought "you've got to be ****ing kidding me" and changed the channel. But I looked up the quote about him rejecting the the word "compromise" in favor of "common ground". I kind of get what he was talking about, but if he was really in favor of "common ground" over "compromise" they would've passed the extension of Bush tax cuts for the middle class and not for the rich (and not extended unemployment too I suppose). Honestly, if "common ground" determined what got done and what didn't, not very much would get done.
1 thing I thought was weird was that the reporter said he came from humble beginnings and then bought a small business and made millions However, on wikipedia and his house.gov bio it says he took a job at a company in 1977 after graduating college and was eventually promoted to president of that company. I guess this is what passes for journalism these days though.
Compromise is how you get tax cuts combined with spending = deficits. "Getting something done" should not be an end in itself. Just because something got done doesn't mean something good got done.
