In a meeting with a small group of reporters in his Capitol Hill office this morning, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, criticized President Obama and White House officials for their lack of resolve in negotiations.“Dealing with them the last couple months has been like dealing with Jell-o,” Boehner said. “Some days it’s firmer than others. Sometimes it’s like they’ve left it out over night.”
Welcome to Jimmy Carter’s 2nd term: One of the most unpleasant things about Mr. Carter was the condescending disdain he could barely disguise for struggling Americans and their irritating malaise. Increasingly, Jimmy Jr. is having difficulty concealing that very same disdain for us as the political winds around him turn hostile and all of his bright ideas lie fallow as nothing more than socialist hocus-pocus.
Americans paying attention oppose debt-ceiling increase almost 2-1: Good news for the White House: the gap between those who oppose a debt-ceiling increase at all narrowed over the past two months. Bad news for the White House: opposition is still almost 2-1 in the latest Gallup to the debt-ceiling hike …
If you read between the lines, which doesn't take much decoding, President Obama effectively believes that any income you have which you don't "need" belongs to the government.
Recipe of the Day: Linguini McConnell Over Weaksauce: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office floated a “last-ditch contingency plan” for dealing with the debt ceiling crisis Rich Lowry at National Review posted extensive details, but in essence, the plan boils down to handing sole responsibility for increasing the federal debt limit to the President, who could increase it at his own discretion, by up to $900 billion, as many as three times per year. The only requirement placed on him in return is that he must “submit a plan” to cut spending by a greater amount. [Has the GOP gone nuts? Yes. Trust the Democrats by giving up now for tentative future tax cuts? Nah. – JS]
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