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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
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Keywords: want you to lead, a balanced approach, will include higher taxes
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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. "Mr. President, this is your moment," Boehner told reporters, speaking about the "fiscal cliff" that will hit in January. "We want you to lead." Poster Comment: He's ready to be lead to Obama's lame duck a$$, so he can kiss it.
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.
"We're closer than we think to the critical mass needed legislatively to get tax reform done," he said. (Read more: Alarm on Wall Street Grows as 'Fiscal Cliff' Nears.)
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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#10. To: hondo68 (#0)
The election is over,so they can now go back to business as usual.
That is unfortunate. If more people didn't sit on the sidelines we could have had some unusual business. But the sex perverts, moochers, baby killers, and stupid people voted for Obama. Then there are the simpletons like you that sat on the sidelines. You got what you wanted Peter. So shut up and don't complain.
Yeah,it is MY fault your asshole buddy RINO's picked a fucking communist as a candidate that MAY be to the left of Obama. Since Obummer already had the Dim vote locked up,that left it to "conservatives" like you to vote Mass Mitt into office,and there just aren't that many stupid conservatives. Good thinking,Stone! Who are you going to vote for next time,Hillary Clinton or JEB Bush?
Ok simpleton. Do you know what a communist is? What about Romney is communist? To the left of Obama. Do you smoke crack?
He's a globalist,and controlling the globe was always the ultimate goal of communists,and in fact the ONLY way it would have worked. He's also a open borders asshole,and a member of a Christian religious cult. Christianity is a socialist/communist movement. To the left of Obama. Yes,to the left of Obummer. Obummer isn't a leftist. He only cares about himself and is too stupid to even visualize world domination.
He ran the most closed border campaign since Pat Buchanan. In fact Pats Sister worked on his campaign. Mormons aren't christian simpleton. Christianity isn't communist simpleton. You aren't a real American. You just don't get what it is to be an American. You're entitled to your views but your views would never be considered the solution to thinking people with morals. Pete your basically amoral and kind of senile based on what you have been posting today. You getting enough sun?
The hypocrisy of this statement is... stunning. YOU, stone, pushed mcRomney, because you have no moral core, and merely wanted to "win" at whatever cost. You attacked those who were unwilling to set aside their morals, because such actions remind you that it is YOU who are immoral and unethical. Like every holy-roller religious zealot, your views are conveniently focused outward, because any self-reflection would reveal that there's nothing in the mirror.... The stench of your hypocrisy permeates every post you make regarding morals, ethics or being "a real American." Being such a spineless little shit, you can only dream about such things as courage, morals and honor... because they're merely abstractions to you, not something you've ever possessed. Feh.
I have long believed and promoted the idea that their should be a "None of the Above" check box on each ballot,and anytime "none of the above" got the most votes the parties that ran the other candidates had to dig into their own pockets and pay for another election to pick a candidate. I can practically guarantee you that we would get better candidates with a policy like that in place.
#81. To: sneakypete (#70)
I'm sure idiots like stone would complain that we MUST choose between the best of the shit-bags, because they're still ELECTABLE... (which of course, misses the whole point) LOL.
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#14. To: sneakypete (#10)
The election is over,so they can now go back to business as usual.
#15. To: A K A Stone (#14)
Then there are the simpletons like you that sat on the sidelines.
#17. To: sneakypete (#15)
your asshole buddy RINO's picked a fucking communist as a candidate that MAY be to the left of Obama.
#22. To: A K A Stone (#17)
What about Romney is communist?
#30. To: sneakypete (#22)
He's also a open borders asshole,and a member of a Christian religious cult. Christianity is a socialist/communist movement.
#52. To: A K A Stone, sneakypete (#30)
You aren't a real American. You just don't get what it is to be an American. You're entitled to your views but your views would never be considered the solution to thinking people with morals. Pete your basically amoral and kind of senile based on what you have been posting today. You getting enough sun?
#70. To: Capitalist Eric (#52)
NONE OF THE ABOVE: ~77,000,000 = 40%.
Replies to Comment # 70. I can practically guarantee you that we would get better candidates with a policy like that in place.
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