Obama - Now is your chance for change
Can you do it.
Keep the Pelosi types in a cage.
Can you cut social programs as tax increases will not cut it.
Can you swallow your ideology and work with those you detest.
The House leader has had enough of Teabaggers.
Have you had enough of the left wing nutbars as well
Well can he??
Republican House Speaker says he
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,” Mr. Boehner told reporters. “We want you to lead.”
Mr. Boehner said House Republicans are asking Mr. 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,” Mr. Boehner said while congratulating the president on winning a second term.
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, Mr. Obama had “endorsed the idea of tax reform and lower rates, including a top rate of lower than 35 per cent,” the present top rate.
“We're closer than we think to the critical mass needed legislatively to get tax reform done,” he said.
Mr. Boehner did not specify what loopholes House Republicans might consider t*******. 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.
Republicans retained control of the House of Representatives in Tuesday’s vote, while Democrats held on to a majority in the Senate.
At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that asking wealthier people to pay higher taxes needs to be part of any solution to the government's budget woes.
The Nevada Democrat told reporters in Washington he's “not for kicking the can down the road” and that any solution should include higher taxes on “the richest of the rich.”
The fiscal cliff refers to the one-two punch of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and across-the-board spending cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs that could total $800-billion next year, based on Congressional Budget Office estimates.
Can you do it.
Keep the Pelosi types in a cage.
Can you cut social programs as tax increases will not cut it.
Can you swallow your ideology and work with those you detest.
The House leader has had enough of Teabaggers.
Have you had enough of the left wing nutbars as well
Well can he??
Republican House Speaker says he
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,” Mr. Boehner told reporters. “We want you to lead.”
Mr. Boehner said House Republicans are asking Mr. 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,” Mr. Boehner said while congratulating the president on winning a second term.
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, Mr. Obama had “endorsed the idea of tax reform and lower rates, including a top rate of lower than 35 per cent,” the present top rate.
“We're closer than we think to the critical mass needed legislatively to get tax reform done,” he said.
Mr. Boehner did not specify what loopholes House Republicans might consider t*******. 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.
Republicans retained control of the House of Representatives in Tuesday’s vote, while Democrats held on to a majority in the Senate.
At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that asking wealthier people to pay higher taxes needs to be part of any solution to the government's budget woes.
The Nevada Democrat told reporters in Washington he's “not for kicking the can down the road” and that any solution should include higher taxes on “the richest of the rich.”
The fiscal cliff refers to the one-two punch of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and across-the-board spending cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs that could total $800-billion next year, based on Congressional Budget Office estimates.
