Boehner Resigns: Watch Live... w/Update

posted at 7:18 PDT

Update: 7:47 PDT

Boehner is a no-show.  

Boehner: In or Out?...

I predict in.

Sigh...

Did Boehner draw a red line?...

we shall see.

Next question:  Will Obama declare amnesty before or after his multi-gazillion Hawaii vacation?

Observation:  If things are so great in this country, why is the average price of ground beef $3.884 per lb?  And that's for the lower quality stuff. 

Bill Whittle: Whatever happened to a loyal opposition?...

 McConnell and Boehner must go.

Wild Bill: Boots on the Ground...

against John Boehner.

As an aside:  When you type Boehner it's underlined as being spelled incorrectly.  By right clicking you will see that the "correct" spelling is "boner."  Hmmmmmmmmm

Wild Bill: John Boehner gets the Wild Bill "Biggest Pile of Horse Pucky" award for his two faced politics.

John Boehner: "Are you kidding me?"...(video)

No, John, we're not kidding you.

But you, quisling that you are, just made life-long enemies of the very people who have supported you.

P.S. You look like a fool and the only person who has lost "all credibility" is you.  Dope!

Don Bongino has a message for you:

An open letter to the establishment GOP.

I am serving you with divorce papers. For those who are unaware of what happened, the establishment wing of the Party has openly declared war on the grassroots.

For those who say this fight is hurting the Republican “brand” I reply; it is those on both sides of the aisle who have betrayed their principles in the name of Party, that have destroyed their “brands”.

As for the GOP, we used to stand for something; a lean, effective government, vibrant and robust individual liberty, and a passionate defense of the value of hard work and a commensurate respect for your wages by consistently fighting for your right to keep more of them. Where do you stand now? I know where the grassroots does.

This is our Party and we will demonstrate to the people we hope to represent that there is a group of people out there who refuse to be part of any “managed decline”. We will only be part of a spectacular American resurrection.

America’s best days are ahead and you and your fellow insiders and cronyists and “Party before country” loyalists, on both sides of the aisle, can bathe in your titles and power now but understand that I, and many others, have dedicated our lives to draining the dirty water from the bathtub.

Consider yourself served.

John Boehner: Who's going to jail?...

will all those "low level" IRS employees be drawing straws to see who takes the fall?  

Boehner spoke at a Republican leader press conference this morning...

Boehner's 56 second press conference...

about sums it up.

John Boehner: Obama's politics are of envy and division...

because division causes envy, and envy is called one of the seven deadly sins for a reason.



H/T  T. Christopher of Republican Redefined, who is a self-admitted Sunday morning news show junkie. 

More:

Dr. Sanity:  THE WINGS OF ENVY AND RESENTMENT

People who specialize in ENVY don't really want the good things the other person has; they want to insure that the other person doesn't have them or get to keep them.

Or, if they do want those things, it is a desire that comes in a distant second to their desire to destroy the good that others

ENVY is, without doubt, the underlying emotion behind the Marxist trope, "from each according to his ability; to each according to his need". The "enlightened" and morally bankrupt left has always believed that economic self-interest means simply voting yourself a share of the money earned by others. They wouldn't know how to create wealth if their lives depended on it; that's why they seek power over others--they see it as the only way they can survive in the real world; but since they cannot admit that to themselves, they will seize other people's wealth with one hand, while signing the political bills that make it impossible to create the wealth on which they themselves depend.  read the rest

Obama talks, and talks, and talks. Boehner speaks...

like an adult.

Obama "summons" the other branches of government, "demands" explanation...

while we wait with bated breath for the latest press conference.

Maybe you're waiting with bated breathe, but I think I'll sit this one out.  Listening to the entire 31 minutes of Obama spewing nonsense yesterday has taxed my ability to suffer through even more of his blah, blah.

Allow me to add a bit to my prediction:  

At the end of this Kabuki theater, we will have higher taxes, more spending, no significant cuts, and the debt ceiling will once again be raised.

About that "gang of six" proposal.  Could it have been the plan for them to present a proposal asking for higher taxes, thereby giving Obama the idea to renege on his original deal, giving Boehner the ability to call off the negotiations?  Obama raised his bet after the "gang of six" threw their chips on the table.

I voted for Mike Crapo, one of the "gang", and have had conversations with him.  He didn't appear to be a "raising taxes" kind of person. There is something going on that we don't know.  Actually, there's alot going on we don't know.

T. Christopher, over at Republican Redefined, has the best summary of the debt negotiations I've read today.

President Obama: More Full of Crap than the Hudson River

I hope I'm wrong about my prediction but at my advanced age, I've heard this song and dance for much longer than most of my readers.

If Obamba thought this was such an "urgent matter", perhaps he should have spent less time on the golf course, throwing lavish parties, and taking multiple vacays.  Just sayin'...






More:

New York Post:  Man-made disaster: Debt-fight debacle

Sarah Speaks:

Lame Duck President

by Sarah Palin on Friday, July 22, 2011 at 7:11pm

After listening to the President’s press conference today, let’s keep in mind the following:

This is the same president who proposed an absurdly irresponsible budget that would increase our debt by trillions of dollars, and whose party failed to even put forward a budget in over 800 days! This is the same president who is pushing our country to the brink because of his reckless spending on things like the nearly trillion dollar “stimulus” boondoggle. This is the same president who ignored his own debt commission’s recommendations and demonized the voices of fiscal sanity who proposed responsible plans to reform our entitlement programs and rein in our dangerous debt trajectory. This is the same president who wanted to push through an increase in the debt ceiling that didn’t include any cuts in government spending! This is the same president who wants to slam Americans with tax hikes to cover his reckless spending, but has threatened to veto a bill proposing a balanced budget amendment. This is the same president who hasn’t put forward a responsible plan himself, but has rejected reasonable proposals that would tackle our debt. This is the same president who still refuses to understand that the American electorate rejected his big government agenda last November. As I said in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Tax Day Tea Party rally, “We don’t want it. We can’t afford it. And we are unwilling to pay for it.”

Now the President is outraged because the GOP House leadership called his bluff and ended discussions with him because they deemed him an obstruction to any real solution to the debt crisis.

He has been deemed a lame duck president. And he is angry now because he is being treated as such.

His foreign policy strategy has been described as “leading from behind.” Well, that’s his domestic policy strategy as well. Why should he be surprised that he’s been left behind in the negotiations when he’s been leading from behind on this debt crisis?

Thank you, GOP House leaders. Please don’t get wobbly on us now.

2012 can’t come soon enough.

- Sarah Palin

Obama does his best Captain Queeg impersonation...

the meltdown continues.

Is it possible to lie for 31 minutes straight?

Why, yes.  Yes, it is!

I love the part where he threatens to withhold SS and disability checks again. Yes indeed.  Those seniors are going to be eating dog food.   If he wants to make cuts, how about taking back the 365 million of taxpayer dollars  the first woman is giving away to build grocery stores?  It's a good start.

Lots of talk about the "Gang of Six" plan and not until the end does he even mention anything about Cut, Cap, and Balance.  He invokes the name of Ronald Reagan while talking about "fairness" and brings up the "little people."  You know who they are.  They're the folks that aren't eating Kobe beef, playing golf every weekend, and getting ready to head off for another multi-million dollar vacay.  

Pour your favorite adult beverage if you plan on watching this.



John Boehner manages to sound like an adult.  It's about time.  Good on him!

It's Friday...

and it's not raining.

Hopefully it will not rain before getting the lawn cut.

Isn't today the long anticipated golf game between Obama and Boehner?  It does my heart good to know that the two of them are going hash out their differences while smacking around a little white ball.  The fact that millions of out of work Americans could not even afford to pay the greens fees on one of their local city courses should not stand in the way of those over-paid politicians having a most excellent time.

As Kyle-Ann Shiver says in her fine article at American Thinker: 

Do they not realize how utterly foolish they look to the rest of the Country?  While the citizenry suffers under the yoke of political-class policy failures, and these two leaders cannot -- among all those brilliant-beyond-brilliant policy makers -- find any real solutions, they choose to go play golf together.

 Foolish, indeed.

The present White House also thinks it's a super-dooper most excellent idea to sell raffle tickets in order to win "dinner with Obama."  Really, folks.  This is cringe inducing. 

Maggie, over at her Notebook,  reminds us that while a $5.00 donation gets you entered in a "sweepstakes" for dinner, 500K gets you a cushy job with the Obama administration. 

The Hounds of Hell...

will be unleashed against former football player David Tyree who dared to say marriage should be between a man and a woman.. Already a Yahoo article has called his comment "shocking."  Really?  I think calling what two members of the same sex do with each other, which is subsequently bandied about the airwaves for all to hear, "shocking."

But, wait.  The Daley Gator reminds us:   Most Americans Still Believe In Traditional Marriage, Poll Reveals

So why is a group of no more than 2% of the population dictating to the rest of us about redefining the definition of marriage?

Quin Hillyer thinks we still have a chance of dragging this country back from the abyss. 

[...]At issue is a country that has lost its way, in part because far too many millions of its individual citizens have lost their own way in their daily lives. The full litany of ills is so familiar that anything more than a sample list of them would be boring: out-of-wedlock pregnancies, abortions, hideously trashy prime-time TV shows, raunchy music, attire in public that isn't just slovenly but scandalous, casual acceptance of financial cheating… and more, ad infinitum. Another, less-recognized sin is that of a certain form of sloth, which shows itself in declining standards across the board -- as evidenced, for just one example, in this week's story (similar to dozens of other stories on such subjects in the past two decades) about just how pathetically American children do on tests of the most basic historical (or civic-related) information.

Many will find his solution "shocking." 

Angel, over at Woman Honor Thyself, has even more "shocking" stuff to say. 

Doug Ross asks if you're ready to live in a third-world America?

According to McNorman we already are:  It’s About Time The Question Was Asked

Zilla lets loose on the TSA - and we thank her. I love the smell of rage on Friday.

Here's a little something especially for my loony leftie trolls who, after viewing it, will say, "I don't care.  Obama's smart, and the right-wing religious nuts are just stupid and they're racists, too.  So there!" 

H/T Bad Habit

To prove how dangerous we wild and crazy Christians are, Creative Minority Report adds:  Dem: Christian Militants Might Bring Down This Country!!!

The Reaganite Republican reports on Michele Bachmann:  Poll: Bachmann Surges Nearly 15 Points... Now in Second Behind Romney

Want to know the best reason for liking Michele Bachmann?  Every lefty loon I know in Minnesota loathes her.  They've labeled her with the worst epitaph they can conjure up from their extremely limited vocabulary; stupid.  Never mind that these loons are living in mom's basement.  By gosh - they know "stupid" when they see it.
 
Soloman brings us some artful media fisking:   A Little Media Bias for You, Courtesy of The Los Angeles Times

Ordered Liberty explains:   The hard truth about car production in the United States

My window of opportunity is here.  Rain is predicted for this afternoon. 

See you all later...

Press asks Speaker Boehner the questions it should have asked Pelosi...

but didn't.

Thank you, Mr Boehner

Boehner Press Office Responds to Senate Democrats re: Repealing Job-Killing ObamaCare Law

Posted by Michael Steel on January 04, 2011 

 

Senators Reid, Durbin, Schumer, Murray and Stabenow:

Thank you for reminding us – and the American people – of the backroom deal that you struck behind closed doors with ‘Big Pharma,’ resulting in bigger profits for the drug companies, and higher prescription drug costs for 33 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D, at a cost to the taxpayers of $42.6 billion. 
The House is going to pass legislation to repeal that now.  You’re welcome. 
- Speaker-Designate John Boehner’s Press Office

The Dems Are Just Not Going to Stop

Boehner: President’s Health Care Proposal Jeopardizes Summit, Doubles Down on Failed Approach Americans Have Already Rejected 

  
GOP Leader: “The President has crippled the credibility of this week’s summit by proposing the same massive government takeover of health care based on a partisan bill the American people have already rejected.” 

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement in response to the partisan health care proposal posted online by the White House for discussion at the upcoming bipartisan health care summit: 

“The President has crippled the credibility of this week’s summit by proposing the same massive government takeover of health care based on a partisan bill the American people have already rejected.  This new Democrats-only backroom deal doubles down on the same failed approach that will drive up premiums, destroy jobs, raise taxes, and slash Medicare benefits.  

“This week’s summit clearly has all the makings of a Democratic infomercial for continuing on a partisan course that relies on more backroom deals and parliamentary tricks to circumvent the will of the American people and jam through a massive government takeover of health care.  

“The best way to protect families and small businesses in this time of economic uncertainty is to start over with a step-by-step approach to health care reform focused on lowering costs, and that’s exactly what Republicans are fighting for.  The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has confirmed that the Republican bill reduces premiums for families and small businesses by up to 10 percent.  The Republican bill reduces premiums by implementing common-sense reforms such as allowing Americans to purchase insurance across state lines.  Despite their rhetoric to the contrary, none of the Democrats’ proposals – including the President’s – provides this much-needed reform in a manner that can actually be effective.    

          

“Republicans are also standing with the American people by calling for health care reform to protect human life and not use taxpayer money to fund abortion.  The Republican bill would codify the Hyde Amendment and prohibit all authorized and appropriated federal funds from being used to pay for abortion, which the President’s proposal would allow.  Pro-life Democrats in the House have already pledged to vote against this provision.  Health care reform should be an opportunity to protect human life – not end it – and the American people agree.”

H/T Gateway Pundit