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    The coming Boehner debt sellout: House speaker waving white flag before fiscal cliff

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    The coming Boehner debt sellout

    House speaker waving white flag before 'fiscal cliff' talks begin

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    House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio

    WASHINGTON – The handwriting is on the wall.


    House Speaker John Boehner, who has twice capitulated to raising the debt limit under Barack Obama’s presidency is not only about to do it again, this time he has raised the white flag of surrender before the bargaining has even begun, say members of his own caucus.

    It’s not just House Republicans and conservative pundits who see it. Even Obama’s closest advisers see a clear field to dictating the terms of continued borrowing and spending for the next four years.

    David Axelrod, the architect of Obama’s re-election effort, said Boehner has given “encouraging” signs that House Republicans, whose approval of any spending plan and any hike in the debt limit, is required, are ready to work with the White House.

    Republican senator Bob Corker of Tennessee agreed: “There is a basis for a deal,” he told Fox News.

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    Less than 24 hours after the election, Boehner held a conference call with House Republicans, telling them it is time to compromise with Democrats and avoid the contentious fights of the last two years.

    Rep. Tom Price of Georgia said Sunday he doesn’t agree with Boehner’s cave on Obamacare, in which he called it the “law of the land.”

    “We’re not opposed to the president’s health care law because of this election, we’re opposed because it’s bad policy and it’s bad for patients all across this land,” he told Politico.

    As for the fiscal cliff, Boehner and Obama have both suggested an agreement could involve cutting tax breaks, many of which favor the wealthy.

    But that’s not sitting well with many House Republicans.

    ”What we’ve seen in the past is the speaker goes, negotiates with the president, and just before we vote, he tells us what the deal is and attempts to persuade us to vote for it,” said Rep. John Fleming, R-La. ”We’re just not very happy with deals being baked, then we’re asked to stay with the team and support the speaker.”

    When Boehner appeared at the Capitol the day after the vote, he offered a conciliatory message and put higher taxes back on the table.

    “Mr. President, this is your moment,” he said. “We’re ready to be led, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans. … We want you to succeed.

    Let’s challenge ourselves to find the common ground that has eluded us.

    We’re willing to accept new revenue under the right conditions.”

    “The American people have spoken,” Boehner said somberly, his eyes glistening. “If there’s a mandate in yesterday’s results, it’s a mandate for us to find a way to work together.”

    “His rhetoric has been encouraging and I think we’ve also had an intervening election,” said Axelrod on CBS’ “Face The Nation.”

    But it’s not just on fiscal matters Boehner is softening.

    He also signaled his willingness – even eagerness – “for comprehensive immigration reform” – which includes a pathway to legalization for the undocumented.

    “This issue has been around far too long,” Boehner said in an interview Thursday with ABC News’ “World News.” ”A comprehensive approach is long overdue, and I’m confident that the president, myself, others can find the common ground to take care of this issue once and for all.”

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    He also signaled his willingness – even eagerness – “for comprehensive immigration reform” – which includes a pathway to legalization for the undocumented.

    “This issue has been around far too long,” Boehner said in an interview Thursday with ABC News’ “World News.” ”A comprehensive approach is long overdue, and I’m confident that the president, myself, others can find the common ground to take care of this issue once and for all.”
    House Speaker John Boehner, who has twice capitulated to raising the debt limit under Barack Obama’s presidency is not only about to do it again, this time he has raised the white flag of surrender before the bargaining has even begun, say members of his own caucus.
    This man has got to go

    He is 0 - 2 on raising the Debt Ceiling; coming up on 0 for 3 ... Your batting a 0.00 game there Johnny Boy; time to kick your a@@ back down to the Minor League

    Sprung on Amnesty as fast as Obama

    He Fold's faster than a Cheap Lawn Chair "Made in China" "Sold at Wal-Mart" and just as easy to buy
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    Boehner Tells House G.O.P. to Fall in Line
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    Speaker John Boehner, at a news conference on Friday, says he wants to avoid partisan battles.


    By JONATHAN WEISMAN and JENNIFER STEINHAUER

    Published: November 10, 2012

    WASHINGTON — On a conference call with House Republicans a day after the party’s electoral battering last week, Speaker John A. Boehner dished out some bitter medicine, and for the first time in the 112th Congress, most members took their dose.


    Their party lost, badly, Mr. Boehner said, and while Republicans would still control the House and would continue to staunchly oppose tax rate increases as Congress grapples with the impending fiscal battle, they had to avoid the nasty showdowns that marked so much of the last two years.


    Members on the call, subdued and dark, murmured words of support — even a few who had been a thorn in the speaker’s side for much of this Congress.

    It was a striking contrast to a similar call last year, when Mr. Boehner tried to persuade members to compromise with Democrats on a deal to extend a temporary cut in payroll taxes, only to have them loudly revolt.

    With President Obama re-elected and Democrats cementing control of the Senate, Mr. Boehner will need to capitalize on the chastened faction of the House G.O.P. that wants to cut a deal to avert sudden tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts in January that could send the economy back into recession. After spending two years marooned between the will of his loud and fractious members and the Democratic Senate majority, the speaker is trying to assert control, and many members seem to be offering support.

    “To have a voice at the bargaining table, John Boehner has to be strong,” said Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma, one of the speaker’s lieutenants. “Most members were just taught a lesson that you’re not going to get everything that you want. It was that kind of election.”

    Aides say this is an altered political landscape that Mr. Boehner did not expect. As a result, whether the nation can avoid the so-called fiscal cliff will depend not only on whether Mr. Boehner can find common cause with a newly re-elected, invigorated president, but also whether he can deliver his own caucus.

    “I just believe John will have more leeway than in the past Congress,” said Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York. “The election will matter.”

    The divide between Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehner appears wide. In their Saturday addresses, the president demanded immediate House passage of a bill approved by the Senate that would extend the expiring Bush-era tax cuts for households earning under $250,000, while the speaker said raising tax rates on anyone would be unacceptable.

    But beneath the posturing, both men were keeping open avenues of negotiation. Mr. Obama was careful to call for more revenue, not higher tax rates, a demand that could be fulfilled by ending or limiting tax deductions and credits, a path Mr. Boehner has accepted.

    The question over what to do about the expiring tax cuts would be swept aside if the parties could reach an agreement before then to overhaul the tax code completely — and render obsolete the current structure of six income tax rates, all of which would rise on Jan. 1.

    Even so, some Republicans have issued a stern warning to Mr. Boehner that he cannot expect their votes if he makes a deal with Democrats before seeking their consent.

    “What we’ve seen in the past is the speaker goes, negotiates with the president, and just before we vote, he tells us what the deal is and attempts to persuade us to vote for it,” said Representative John Fleming, Republican of Louisiana. “We’re just not very happy with deals being baked, then we’re asked to stay with the team and support the speaker.”

    Given those conflicting demands, Mr. Boehner must decide whether he wants to seal his role as an essential player in a grand plan to restructure the nation’s fiscal condition, or continue the status quo of the very gridlock voters appear to detest.

    “I don’t want to box myself in, and I don’t want to box anyone else in,” Mr. Boehner told reporters on Friday.

    Republican lawmakers and Congressional aides say the situation is not as dire as the conflicts of the past two years, which nearly led to a government default on its debt and included a series of impasses that plunged Congress’s approval rating to its lowest recorded level. Any deal with the president would probably lose 60 to 80 Republican votes, but the president would bring along enough Democrats to get it passed.

    “When the president and I have been able to come to an agreement, there has been no problem getting it passed here in the House,” Mr. Boehner assured reporters, alluding to the deal struck with Mr. Obama to extend payroll tax cuts, which took Democratic support.

    On Wednesday’s conference call, their ranks slightly reduced by the election, House Republican leaders presented a united front, a departure from the backbiting of earlier showdowns, the leaders’ aides admit. After acknowledging that the election had not gone the way any of them had hoped, Mr. Boehner made an ardent plea for unity, saying they could expect a good deal out of the coming negotiations only if they stuck together.
    The handful of Republican backbenchers who spoke up agreed, and those included often-rebellious conservatives like Representatives Phil Gingrey of Georgia and Virginia Foxx of North Carolina.


    Before Mr. Boehner went in front of the cameras that afternoon with a carefully worded statement on the fiscal talks, aides say he checked in with another figure he will need on his side, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, the defeated vice-presidential nominee and the House Budget Committee chairman. He told Mr. Ryan what he was about to say and assured him he would be welcomed back as chairman, even though he needs a waiver to escape rules limiting chairmen’s terms.

    Mr. Ryan then went hunting and left Mr. Boehner to deliver his message.

    But even his vague comments last week about his openness to new revenues to resolve the fiscal impasse — and about a desire to work on some sort of immigration reform legislation, in a blunt acknowledgment of his party’s weakness among Hispanic voters — got immediate pushback from some members, including Mr. Fleming and Representative Steve King of Iowa.

    Some House Republicans have latched on to their own re-elections to claim a dual mandate.

    “The message from this election for me seems to be, ‘You guys keep going,’ ” said Representative James Lankford of Oklahoma. “The Senate was rewarded for inactivity, the House was rewarded for standing up for its principles and the president was rewarded for his. I was elected by my district to represent their values. I really don’t approach this and say, Now I’ve got to cave to what the Senate or president want.”

    Mr. Obama has continued to press his point that he campaigned clearly on a call to allow taxes to rise on the rich. Otherwise, he has said, the poor and middle class would bear all the burden of deficit reduction.

    Some Republican members appear ready to accede.

    “The election was a wake-up call,” said one veteran Republican in the House. For many members, “everyone they knew hated Obama. Everyone they knew agreed exactly with them. And then we lost.”

    But other Republicans see a different message.

    “If you look at my own election as an example, what voters were saying is they like Obama but they don’t trust him on taxes, so they want a check and balance on things,” said Representative Tom Latham, Republican of Iowa, who convincingly beat a Democratic incumbent, Leonard L. Boswell. Mr. Obama carried Iowa.

    Others representing staunchly conservative districts see no reason to give in, even if the nation as a whole sided with the president on taxes.

    “A majority of Americans thought it was just fine to raise taxes on higher income people, but that’s more of an emotional response, more ‘I’m in pain, I want someone else to pay,’ ” Mr. Fleming said. But, he added, “How does that solve America’s problems? That’s counterproductive to go down that road.”


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