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On sequester, Boehner tells Senate to get "off their ass"
Updated 6:17 p.m. ET
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, clearly frustrated with the lack of a solution to avert the sequester, which kicks in on Friday, let some frank language slip on camera today, pushing the Senate to act on dealing with the impending budget cuts.
The president "is going all over the country holding rallies instead of sitting down with Senate leaders," while, Boehner argued, "We have moved a bill in the House twice."
"We should not have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do something," he added.
The House bills that Boehner referred to would replace the across-the-board automatic cuts with more targeted cuts. Meantime, Senate Democrats are pushing a plan that would replace the cuts with a mix of different cuts and tax increases, something the president supports but congressional Republicans do not.
Reid swings back at House for sitting on its "posterior"
While the Democratic-led Senate is expected to act on that plan this week, it's all but guaranteed the Republican-led House will continue to resist any plan that includes tax increases, hence, the continued stalemate.
In a press conference later, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., used his own form of "salty language" to hit back at Boehner.
"I think he should understand who is sitting on their posterior," Reid said. "We're doing our best here to pass something. The speaker's doing nothing to try to pass anything over there."
President Obama visited a shipyard in Newport News, Va., today to point out the effects the sequester will have on businesses and the military.
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It's trivial to cut someone else's benefits, or services, but where the rubber meets road, it's what 10% are you willing to give up? safety? travel? (road or air ), or even food?
THEN and only then can we determine what really can go>
The House is unable to pass any budget. The Republicans are so fractured that only a bill that would get the support of the Democrats and a 10% minority of Republicans would pass and Boehner is unwilling to put forth a Democratic bill. So the House cannot act.
By the way, the Constitution requires the House to originate the bill. The Senate cannot. And all pending bills from the old session are dead. So, it appears Boehner is as ignorant of his job as are the rest of the Tea Party people who have no business being there given that their only qualification is the ability to scream that they love the Constitution that they do not bother to read.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/166041-kaine-major-problem-that-senate-hasnt-passed-2012-budget
Take your nonsense someplace else.
Whatever we do we must keep free early term abortions, it saves millions, maybe billions, of welfare dollars.
I think I am dealing with FAT women.
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I don't suppose it ever occurred to you that the only women who would be even slightly interested in a braggart, drunk like you would be highly desperate and fat women who couldn't find anybody else.
(Hint: nobody here wants your Facebook page.)
Dan's house has a steel I-beam.
Well Boehner certainly can't LEAD. The Republicans do whatever they want and ignore him and whatever "deals" he makes. Remember "Plan B"? He just whines and cries.
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But don't you feel at least a bit sorry for him, Linda? I do. I mean, the Dems all make fun of him and even his own party disses him up the wall. And Eric Cantor is always hovering over him like a vulture. That can't be fun.
No wonder the guy cries a lot and spends most of his days in a tanning bed. Did you see the State of the Union address? He was darker than Obama!
And it just kills me the way either the guys that do the tanning bed thing, or else use the fake tan, always leave their eyes un"tan."
I suppose it's because they make you wear those little goggles in tanning beds, and I suppose the fake tan stuff probably hurts when it gets in your eyes. But either way, it's a dead give-away every time.
I'm pretty obsessive about wearing (big) sunglasses when I'm outside. I don't think any intelligent woman wants any more wrinkles/any sooner than necessary. But even with the glasses, I never have those raccoon-eyes like that.
But the problems were, as I see it, two-fold.
1) Few of the candidates the Tea Party elected had ever served in government offices before, so had no idea that just sitting around saying "No" all the time would be effective.
2) Instead of maintaining their focus on fiscal conservatism, they got totally side-tracked into social conservatism. Thankfully the "born-agains" are still a minority in this country, so they can't do much on that front. But what they *did* manage to do was totally fracture the GOP, which means that nobody can accomplish anything.