House Speaker John Boehner just cannot do the right thing. This weekend he apparently broke with his party’s principles again to offer Barack Obama an entire year of not fighting about the debt limit, which would effectively remove all the leverage the GOP had in the “fiscal cliff” talks. He also offered to go along with raising tax rates on those making over $1 million and it looks like Barack Obama has done nothing but reject his offer, laugh at him, pat him on the head and say, “You haven’t caved enough on Republican principles Johnny Boy.” With friends like John Boehner, who needs enemas? (Yes, I meant that word, not the other.)
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Our only salvation is that Obama is too stupid to take him up on these offers. In Boehner's defense, there is a school of thought that he is making these offers knowing Obama will reject them, in order to argue later that it was the president that sailed us over the cliff, not the Republicans. Who knows, but it is at least a straw to grasp.
ReplyDeleteit is at least a straw to grasp.
DeleteGood point and we shall see.
He isn't caving in....this is all theater for the masses. There are no functional differences in the D and the R, so he is just reading from his script. His job is to sell the duped republicans down the road. And sadly most of them will go blindly and willingly. There is an end game...and the winners will not be the average hard working american.
ReplyDeletethe winners will not be the average hard working american.
DeleteAbsolutely. Where are you in the Old Dominion? I grew up in Mosby Country.
Floyd County now, grew up in Williamsburg.
ReplyDeleteNot too far, as the crow flies, from Lewisburg where I went to military school.
DeleteMy dear departed friend, Lewis Burwelll, with whom I shared a many a fifth of Maker's Mark whilst retracing the War of Northern Aggression, and with whom my wife shared an office at Radford Army Ammunition plant, lived in Floyd, VA and I owned several properties there also at one time.
DeleteOne of Lewis's last efforts was resisting the widening and straightening of the highway from Christiansburg to Floyd and I wish I had the newspaper where he wrote, "Floyd County, VA is the last decent bastion of freedom in America." I wholeheartedly agreed with him on almost everything. His ancestors owned the Carter's Grove Plantation on the James River. He was not only an unreconstructed Southerner but always somewhat of a Tory. All my life I was taught and believed that Tories (which included my Virginia land-grant owning, slave-holding ancestors) were evil and wrong. At near 80 years, I am now not so sure. Another multi-g grandfather of mine was George "the Jacobite" Marchbanks and I assure you he was not a democrat, even though most of his North Carolina descendants were.
I am afraid that some of mine and Lewis's exploits under the influence of Five Mile Mountain Moonshine may be notorious and still remembered by some old-timers. He's been gone 20 years and I do miss him.
I am afraid that some of mine and Lewis's exploits under the influence of Five Mile Mountain Moonshine may be notorious and still remembered by some old-timers.
DeleteMemories.:)