Title: Boehner Extends Olive Branch on 'Fiscal Cliff' (tax increases) Source:
CNBC URL Source:http://www.cnbc.com/id/49731550 Published:Nov 7, 2012 Author:Reuters Post Date:2012-11-07 17:54:49 by Hondo68 Ping List:*The Two Parties ARE the Same*Subscribe to *The Two Parties ARE the Same* Keywords:want you to lead, a balanced approach, will include higher taxes Views:98071 Comments:133
House Speaker John Boehner offered Wednesday to pursue a deal with a victorious President Barack Obama that will include higher taxes "under the right conditions" to help reduce the nation's staggering debt and put its finances in order.
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Speaker of the House John Boehner
"Mr. President, this is your moment," Boehner told reporters, speaking about the "fiscal cliff" that will hit in January. "We want you to lead."
Boehner said House Republicans are asking Obama "to make good on a balanced approach" that would including spending cuts and address government social benefit programs.
"Let's find the common ground that has eluded us," Boehner said while congratulating the president on winning a second term. (Read more: Obama Re-elected as Crucial Ohio Goes His Way.)
The Ohio Republican spoke a day after the president's clear re-election victory. He said conditions on higher taxes would include a revamped tax code to make it cleaner and fairer, fewer loopholes and lower rates for all.
The speaker noted that during one-on-one budget talks with the president in the summer of 2011, Obama had "endorsed the idea of tax reform and lower rates, including a top rate of lower than 35 percent," the present top rate.
Boehner did not specify what loopholes House Republicans might consider trimming. Nor did he take questions.
His comments were generally along the lines of proposals by vanquished Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that also were vague on specifics. Still, the speaker's comments signaled a willingness to enter into talks. He suggested Congress could use its upcoming lame-duck session to get the ball moving on such a compromise.
"We can't solve the problem of our fiscal imbalance overnight...This is going to take time," he said.
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He's ready to be lead to Obama's lame duck a$$, so he can kiss it.
Boehner Extends Olive Branch on 'Fiscal Cliff' (tax increases)
It won't be that bad....
America is still the Vaunted Global Military power. So there will certainly be many more wars....lots of parades. Who knows...maybe they finally do another great movie like the San Pebbles or Saving Private Ryan.
Buck up America....its not even anywhere's scarry like 1/3 rd of the Earth burned with fire...1/3 of the water poisoned....and the Beast image in Jerusalem. Hey...it will be at least 10 years before things get that bad : )
America is still the Vaunted Global Military power. So there will certainly be many more wars....lots of parades.
Yeah,but you know what? One day the money won't be there for us to fight to protect Saudi Arabia in the Muddle East,and all those soldiers will be coming back home and looking for jobs that just aren't there.
us to fight to protect Saudi Arabia in the Muddle East
LOL!!!
We all know who we are 'protecting' in the ME and it sure as the hell isn't SA.
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Israel is urging U.S. officials not to delay a military strike against Iraq's Saddam Hussein, an aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Friday.
Israeli intelligence officials have gathered evidence that Iraq is speeding up efforts to produce biological and chemical weapons, said Sharon aide Ranaan Gissin.
"Any postponement of an attack on Iraq at this stage will serve no purpose," Gissin said. "It will only give him (Saddam) more of an opportunity to accelerate his program of weapons of mass destruction."
We all know who we are 'protecting' in the ME and it sure as the hell isn't SA.
Yes,it IS Saudi Arabia.
Your hatred for Jews is blinding you to reality. The Jews are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves against their Muslim neighbors. It's SA that needs the protection of the US military.
You are being dishonest or your memory isn't that good.
Seriously, you've gone off the deep end, much as goldi, the Israel-firster fat- bitch, has...
You're making up shit about other people, that should be easy to substantiate (IF they were true), and then look like a complete loon because they're not.
You then act as though you're the ONLY honest person on the forum, when it's obvious that you're the biggest liar here... And yet you have the balls to claim you're a "Christian," and honest, and all that...
If your purpose is to drive everyone off your forum, so they don't have to tolerate your blatant hypocrisy, you're doing a damn fine job of it...
Whatever.
I don't know what your game is, but it's clear that you've lost your moral compass, and any semblance of credibility with regard to much of anything.
Whatever.
I was impressed with your "Galt" article this morning... thought, 'hey, that's COOL, I like it.' But tonight, your emotions have taken over, and your behavior is borderline 'hysterical.'
In real life, I'm not known as one to sugar-coat the truth, because I've neither the time nor patience for emotional sugar-coating of facts... And I'm used to dealing with the consequences of this approach. So if telling you the truth is what gets me booted from here, than I fine with that. At the end of the day, you'll be rimjob-jr., echo-chamber and all. Pfft.
On your first point I looked back up and it was sneakypete that said that. So that doesn't make me a liar but mistaken. But you have said that it would be better of Obama is re elected. Your reason if I am remember correctly was that Romney would have a friendly congress to get things done with.
Your other times calling me a liar are also inaccurate. So watch your mouth. I'm tolerant but not forever.