Mea Culpa, says Rep. Boehner, I should not have caved to President Obama, according to reports leaked to The Hill from those who saw the House Speaker’s no-press-allowed speech on Tuesday.
The day after Obama’s second historically historic election, Boehner passed his only bargaining chip across the table to his opponent, who then promptly jammed it up Boehner’s left nostril, jacking taxes and doing nothing about spending or the debt.
Boehner reportedly told a GOP club “hindsight is 20/20.” But in this case foresight was better than 20/20, if only he had listened to the roar of the people outside of the beltway.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me every day for four years, shame on the electorate in the state of Ohio, and the GOP caucus in the House who put this gullible man across the table from Foxy Loxy.
Thanks Boehner. You finally realized what was obvious to everyone. Oh, look at the clock! Time to go cave on debt ceiling negotiations!
I hate to admit it but when crybaby Boehner was elected Speaker of the House and he cried, I cried. Now every time he opens his mouth and pushes the envelope into the hands of the Agitator-in-Thief, I cry. Up until this man grows a set or borrows some, we are doomed to live under Obama’s “boot on our necks.”
But if he has to borrow a pair, won’t that involve increasing debt?
We are so scr*wed.
DC is run by the malevolent and the stupid. Boehner and the most of the Republicans demonstrate everyday, you can’t fix stupid.
You should change the title of this piece to:
Boehner: I’m incompetent but now I’m at least vaguely aware of it
“…gullible man across the table from Foxy Loxy.”
‘nough said.
One of those outside the Beltway has been sent INSIDE the Beltway – Boehner should have listened to Congressman Justin Amash, R-MI(3) instead of removing him from the BUDGET Committee for trying to BALANCE the Budget!!
You guys don’t get it. Once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.
Nobody’s that stupid. The Republican establishment is in on the deal.
exactly!
Boehner is not nor has he ever been interested in the rule of law re constitution. Been in D.C. too long, enjoys too many perks. When he refused to stand with conservatives and began his purge of committee chairmanships because they disagreed with his roll over scratch my tummy attitude is the day Obama won
– do it again.
Taxes were already set to go up by law. Saying that Republicans would not vote for lower taxes for lower income earners unless taxes were kept lower for all taxpayes was not a winning strategy. The House should have just passed a bill that kept rates for lower income taxpapayers low, fixed the military sequestration, and excluded all that pork and crap in the Senate bill. Instead, because people like those on this page kept saying he had some cards to play on tax rates, Boehner tried to put through a bill that would have gone nowhere, with the end result (as happened) that he would have to accept the Senate’s lousy bill. Where Boehner could have exercised some pressure is to refuse to bring Jackson-Vanik repeal to a vote until the President agreed to a broader compromise on taxes, spending, regulatory reform or something to make the House Repubilcan Caucus happy. Instead, Jackson Vanik was repealed for nothing. This President will do anything for Russia, and you can report that to Vladamir!
With apologies to Frosty the Snowman: