president only given republicans three options. smoke and mirrors, tax hikes or defaults. he asserted republicans choose none of the above. after years of discussions, and months of negotiations, i little question that as long as this president is in the oval office, real solution is probably unattainable. senate democrats say they don t support fixing entitlements unless it s part of a grand debt plan. i will not touch medicare and medicaid for some simple little deal that we get nothing that is beneficial to the country. behind closed doors, speaker john boehner told house republicans when it became clear the white house would only agree to entitlement reform if it came with tax hikes he walked away. boehner expressed concern for the nation. am i angry about it? i sure as hell am. i believe we are missing a great opportunity. in public, the speaker turned his anger toward president obama. this debt limit increase is his problem. the president talks a good game. but when it
there is an in-built bias towards raising taxes on the part of this commission. there are 10 democrats. there are eight republicans. they are charged with somehow or other getting that deficit down. now, do you really think they re going to recommend tax cuts as a way of stimulating the economy and stimulating revenue? come on! should we get real? come on. there s an in-built bias towards raising taxes. raising government revenue, any which way you can do it. are those eight republicans going to sit like bumps on a log in these meeting? no, they may be the side of the equation that says we need some spending cuts or cuts in entitlements. that s the that will be the lopsided the ying and the yang. that s what it will be. it reminds me of the iraqi survey group, study group that came out and they had conclusions, they had republicans and democrats on both sides and i m relatively optimistic, perhaps, stuart, they ll come out with some legitimate fixes for our economy. l
president only given republicans three options. smoke and mirrors, tax hikes or defaults. he asserted republicans choose none of the above. after years of discussions, and months of negotiations, i little question that as long as this president is in the oval office, real solution is probably unattainable. senate democrats say they don t support fixing entitlements unless it s part of a grand debt plan. i will not touch medicare and medicaid for some simple little deal that we get nothing that is beneficial to the country. behind closed doors, speaker john boehner told house republicans when it became clear the white house would only agree to entitlement reform if it came with tax hikes he walked away. boehner expressed concern for the nation. am i angry about it? i sure as hell am. i believe we are missing a great opportunity. in public, the speaker turned his anger toward president obama. this debt limit increase is his problem. the president talks a good game. but when it