speaker s office, when it comes to this conversation about shutting down the government, they say the president has announced he will not sign any spending bills this year unless sequestration spending cuts are eliminated and replaced for his plan with higher job destroying taxes. and any of these laws spending bills would need and unavoidable government shutdown. a stunning announcement for a government who has decried manufactured crises in washington. even if that is the case technically, seems like democrats do a better job on shining a spotlight on the government shutdown and assigning it to republicans. by his own announcement, the president could take action that would lead in the same direction. that s the point. both parties are positioning towards this battle. some of it s brinksmanship. you get there, it will be a disaster, it will be a disaster, all the groups start screaming, don t do this, and then you put enough pressure on members of your caucus, both on the
tragedy in tucson. best shooting a number of republicans including the speaker called the new law the job killing health care law, and the title of the bill remains and i quote, the repealing of the job killing health care act, but in a post on the speaker s blog his communication he issue add call to eliminate the laws maze of job destroying taxes, and job crushing. no mention of the word killing, but that isn t that serious on jobs. on sunday, speaker boehner accused the speaker of pursuing job destroying policies giving the republican party s annual retreat. our political correspondent, they do not let the facts get in the way, do they? reporter: they are using destroy or crush, rather than kill. and both sides agree that the tone of the rhetoric does matter and it is helpful if they would