Rep. Boehner: ‘I’m Open to the President’s Ideas’

Working together! Why now? And we don’t have to worry about the deficits? After all the complaining about spending. Who is this guy fooling? Hopefully the American people see through this fakery.

Now John Boehner is open to Obama’s ideas,to bad he was not all this time.Too bad George did’t ask why…

Umm, George, I think you conveniently forgot to mention in your write’ up that Boehner, when asked about the Quran burning, compared it to the decision to build the Islamic center in Manhattan. Seems like he was unable to unequivocally condemn the Quran-burning without putting in a line about the NYC mosque to appease his base.

Obama, Reid, and the Democrats in general have failed. They should have crushed this BS when they could. I am very unimpressed with the “change” in health care, finance, and NO energy legislation? Ridiculous. The GOP are freaky hypocrites, the Democrats are rudderless pansies. I fear for the future. It is left-leaning folks like myself that are bringing down Obama’s poll numbers, not the right.

The [Unpaid For] Bush Tax Cuts were Implemented and in Effect in 2000-Present
Have These Unpaid For Tax Cuts Spurred Hiring and Job Growth ?
Answer: A Resounding No
As a Matter Of Fact: Corporate America During The 2007 Recession Began To Shed Millions Of Jobs, During The 2007 Recession Til The Present.
So Much For The Great [Unpaid For] Bush-Tax Cuts and The Spurring of Job Creation and Job Growth [Ha]

D —- So what would you rather see, social security fund being borrowed from by the government to cover their mismanagement of money or invested in the stock market to start making money? Do you realize the boost to the stock market, consumer confidence and the economy if we were to add it to the stock market? I would rather they let me keep my SS payments and invest it myself rather than the government using it as their fund.

InfriChar:You’re Wrong
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The economy contracted in the third quarter of 2000, the first quarter of 2001, and again in the third quarter of 2001. But it expanded in the fourth quarter of 2000 and the second quarter of 2001. In other words, there was choppy economic performance throughout both years. If one defines a recession as two consecutive quarters of negative growth, then no recession occurred.
So will there be a recession in 2008? The NBER usually waits several months before designating a recession. So if a recession were to begin in January 2008, the NBER might not announce it until the summer or fall. If a recession began next summer, it might not be identified as such until early 2009.
Some experts believe that a credit shortage will tip the economy into negative growth. The credit crunch has indeed caused havoc in the financial and real estate sectors, and the Federal Reserve reacted last week by lowering interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point. Columbia Business School economist Charles Calomiris, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, believes that the Fed’s actions thus far have been appropriate, but that further loosening of the money supply may not be necessary. Calomiris sees the housing finance shock as small relative to the total economy. Although subprime mortgage losses will probably range from $300 billion to $400 billion, housing prices are not collapsing.
The most precise measure of change—the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) index comparing sales prices of the same houses over time—declined by 0.4 percent in the third quarter of 2007, the first quarterly decline in 13 years. Yet prices were still 1.8 percent higher than they were a year ago. Although Calomiris recognizes that further declines are likely, he thinks they will be concentrated in certain regions, and likely will not exceed an average decline of 5 percent nationally, as measured by the OFHEO index.
Others, such as American Enterprise Institute resident fellow Desmond Lachman, a former strategist at Smith Barney, believe that the Fed did not go far enough. Lachman sees a much larger financial crisis in the making and reckons that the ongoing housing bust runs a risk of aggravating that turmoil. Like Harvard professor Martin Feldstein, he says the Fed needs to be more aggressive in responding to the credit crunch if a serious economic slump is to be averted.
“We clearly have had a major house price and credit market bubble between 2000 and 2006 that is now in the process of deflating at a time that oil prices are at $90 a barrel,” Lachman explains. “House prices have already started to decline and could very well decline by 5-10 percent a year over the next few years, which will erode the underlying collateral of bank mortgage lending.”

When have we ever had a smaller, less costly government with the Republicans? When? Please state facts in your replies, because I am curious. I want facts and figures, not opinions. I don’t vote my party, I vote my conscience, so I am open to hearing both sides in order to make an informed decision. So far, I am not impressed with how the Republicans handle the economy and finances. I have yet to see any fiscal responsibility coming from that side, aside from just talk. They had eight years and what did they do? They have all this advice for Obama, yet they had eight years to follow their own advice! A Democrat was voted in because people were fed up! How selective is our memory. The country was in ruins when Obama became president. And now, because he hasn’t been able to undo eight years of disaster overnight, people are ready to vote the Republicans back in. Why? What can the Republicans do for this country? They had eight years and what did they do? Nothing, but spend, spend, spend! And for what? Please, people, remember what we’re getting ourselves into if we vote the Republicans back in. Let’s give Obama a chance. He’s been in office only two years! He is at least trying. We are raking this guy over the coals; meanwhile, Bush was voted in a second time despite the disastrous path he was leading the country down. Let’s give Obama as much consideration. Let’s give the guy some wiggle room, so to speak. He just got started. This is going to take time and money. Anyone who thinks it can be done without either is deluding himself. Let’s put as much trust in Obama as we did in Bush, the president who got us into a war we did not need to fight; the president who had no problem with the Patriot Act and its abrogation of our rights; the president who racked up the highest deficit in history. Come on, people. Get real! Give Obama a chance.

There is zero justification for extending the tax cuts for the wealthy, considering the deficit, we now have.

If anyone THINKS a 2 Year President Given TRILLIONS of DEBT, will Pay Off This Debt in 2 Years, I Feel Sorry For You.
President Obama was left with a Maxed out Credit Card From His Big Spending-Big Borrowing [Communist-Socialist China] Republican Party of 200-2006, The Damage Was Done, Some Time Ago.
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Politi-Fact: Obama came into office “with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law… We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade.”
Barack Obama on Friday, January 29th, 2010 in a Republican retreat in Baltimore
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On Jan. 7, 2009, two weeks before Obama took office, the Congressional Budget Office reported that the deficit for fiscal year 2009 was projected to be $1.2 trillion.
The 10-year projection was estimated to be about $3.1 trillion. So Obama’s number was very close on the 2009 deficit — he said $1.3 trillion — but substantially different from the 10-year projection — he said $8 trillion.
There are two reasons why he differs from the CBO. On the difference between the $1.2 trillion and the $1.3 trillion, the Obama administration credited a small portion of spending on its watch to policies of the previous administration. The reason for this is that the federal government runs on a fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, so Bush and Obama technically split responsibility for 2009 spending.
The large difference on the 10-year projection has to do with Bush administration tax cuts. The CBO creates its estimates based on current law, which means the CBO assumes that the Bush tax cuts will end in 2010 and everyone will start paying higher taxes in 2011 and going forward. The Obama administration, on the other hand, assumed in its baseline that those tax cuts would be renewed.
Economists we spoke with — Josh Gordon, policy director for the Concord Coalition, and Brian Riedl, lead budget analyst of the conservative Heritage Foundation — both said they believe the White House approach is more realistic because it assumes current policy will continue.
So the CBO’s estimate is $5 trillion lower than the White House numbers, though economists don’t quibble with the White House methodology. It does highlight, however, that when it comes to budget projections, people can have differences of opinion about what to include.
In any budget projection there is room for interpretation, but it seems reasonable to assume for a baseline that the Bush tax cuts will continue. Obama’s numbers are fairly solid, so we rate his statement..
[Mostly True]

Mr. Boehner…you haven’t been open to anything for the last 18 months unless it comes from your party. Your party had a chance to be a part of the health care bill when Obama had the session on t.v. and said “there are many things that I can go along with that you have suggested (and did as many are in the bill, a fact your continue to ignor) however the silence from the republicans spoke volumes so how is that working together?

One-0-One —- Nice cutting and pasting. You do realize with all you rambled on with, you could have simply said “blame Bush” or “it’s Bush’s fault”? You have not proven I am wrong. A tax cut is simply the government allowing us to keep OUR money, do you not get that? Now, the problem (and deficit) comes in when there is no corresponding SPENDING CUTS.

Brian, Boehner has not been open to anything because the Big O and his policy makers haven’t said anything to talk about except they are against anything the REPs want to propose. This administration is all one sided and it’s DEM and millionaire/big business only. I agree with majority of the public, WHERE ARE THE JOBS? WHERE AND WHEN WILL SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS SEE AN INCREASE IN BENEFITS AND CUTS IN COSTS TO LIVE ON LESS? By the way Brian, I AM A DEMOCRAT!!!!!

Seriously….the comment comparing the Quran burning to building the Community Center at 51 Park St was too much for me to take. What would Bohner be saying if the wacko was going to burn Bibles? How about burning Torahs? Seriously Bohner. And then you suggest that Social Security should be privatized and put into the stock market. Do you remember what happened to the stock market just 2 years ago? You are saying Grandma & Grandpa should work as Walmart greeters until the day they drop dead don’t you know? Most Americans aren’t wealthy like you Congressman. We don’t have your priveliges.

John of Orange is way to lazy to be speaker. He makes Dennis Hasert look like a work horse.

Mitch McConnell:The Kentucky Republican expressed openness to the type of compromise approach outlined by Moody’s analyst Mark Zandi — in which all tax rates would be frozen for two years and then the rates on the wealthy would be raised to prior levels.
Several Senate Democrats and Democratic candidates have expressed support for this approach, citing concerns over a lagging economic recovery. The Obama administration, for its part, has been firm in its opposition to the approach.
Noting that just two percent of small businesses would be impacted by raised rates for higher-income Americans, the president and his aides have also predicted that a temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts could easily turn into a permanent one.
“I think the phase out suffers from that vulnerability,” Vice President Joseph Biden’s chief economist, Jared Bernstein, told the Huffington Post.
“You are exposing yourself to the risk that it could be made permanent. The president, [Treasury Secretary] Tim Geithner have been very articulate on this point. If you wanted to, and we do, provide more help to the economy that is about the worst way you could do it.
Those folks tend not to be liquidity-constrained and therefore the kinds of multipliers associated with that type of spending are the lowest. So it simply is not good stimulus policy and it is not good budget policy.”

The blame game is relentless!

About the Koran burning. The majority of congress members are lawyers, and they can’t figure out a way to keep this guy from burning the koran on 11 Sep? Gen. Patreaus has asked him not too for fear of how it affect the soldiers and other service members in Afganistan. So could the feds consider it a matter of national security? If he burns the Koran, they WILL retaliate two fold.
Does this “Minister” not realize that burning the Koran brings him to the same low level as the Muslins he has learned to hate. Hitler started out this way. Burning books, then on to the Jewish faith. From what was shown on GMA this morning, it appeared they were all doing the Nazi salute.
As a retired soldier who has done three tours in Iraq, I feel that the Islamic center near ground zero as a slap in the face, but I fought for this country to protect the rights of every citizen, They have the right to build it there, and I respect that. I just won’t go see it.

Whats with the idea of a freeze? You aren’t listening to “We The People” !!! we want tax reductions and cuts in spending, nothing less or you will be the next to go sir.

We most definately need to neuter these whacky leftists before they spend us out of existence.
Luckily, the coming tsunami of conservative voters are going to cut the pseudo-intellectual President Obamao’s socialist agenda right off at the knees. (Worst world leader ever in history)Too late Champ, you blew it!
These ignornat wanna-be statist-communists have never even listened to any other ideas but ecer expanding government.
Bye Bye SanFran Nan and her band of dumbass lackies that vote for legislature without reading it.

If Obama gives up his push toward bigger government, higher spending, and higher taxes, Republicans will certainly cooperate. Don’t hold your breath, though. Those are Barry’s core beliefs.

Boehner is just as bad as any one else in government these days. Voting him in to take over Pelosi’s job would be a disaster way beyond what we have to deal with now. I have yet to see anything come out of the Repbulican camp proving they can do a better job than what President Obama is trying to do. They did have 6 of Bush’s 8 years to fix the Country’s problems & I would say they get an F for failing to do anything but bring us into our current situation. Right now both sides are failing to show us they deserve to hold any seat, etc in our government. I say vote for all new people with fresh ideas that make sense & that work for the people & not not to line their pockets with money.

Dems have run Congress for 4 years and the WH for 2.They still do! Stop blasting the GOP and tell us why you cannot pass tax increases/decreases or spending cuts without them. The man is not truthful.

I cannot believe the first comment. Somebody asks Boehner where he was from 2006 to 2008. Does the person who made that comment know that DEMOCRATS controlled Congress during that time while Bush was president. Da-ha!
No wonder we keep getting democrats in office. Obama is so dumb he has started saying that republicans put again. Obama does not even realize that his fellow democrats Barney Franks and Chuck Schumer along with President Carter and Clinton forced banks to loan money to people that could not make payments for years. Da-ha! Check out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae on the internet. Can Obama say anything without his teleprompter besides Bush did it or republicans did it? Obama has spent more money in a year and a half than Bush did in eight years. What does that tell you? Why does Obama keep spending and spending? Is he trying to destroy this great country or is he trying to buy your vote?

Thanks John Boehner (AKA Mr “All of A Sudden I’m Now Concerned About the Debt”)… I did need a good laugh this today. Just one question I have for you, Mr. “All of A Sudden I’m Now Concerned About the Debt”,… the Republicans were in control of congress for 12 YEARS (January 1995 to January 2007). During that time, the debt climbed by 3.9 trillion dollars from 4.8 trillion (January 1995) when Republicans took over congress…. to …. 8.7 trillion (January 2007) when Republicans left congress. I know, I know, Mr. “All of A Sudden I’m Now Concerned About the Debt”… your reply is going to be something like, “…but, but, the Democrats have spent more”…. LOL… and my answer back to you is this, debt spending is debt spending, it doesn’t matter WHO has the controls of congress. My Question to you, Mr. Boehner is this: In the 12 years that the “fiscally conservative”…yeah right! LOL…Republicans controlled congress (6 of which they even had a Republican President), what laws did they pass that would have enabled the federal government to get some type of control over the ever increasing national debt? Please Mr. “All of A Sudden I’m Now Concerned About the Debt”, please tell me that in 12 years of “fiscal conservatives” having complete control of the congress, you guys passed at least 1 law to get control of the debt. …… Oh, I thought so… your answer is, “we didn’t, we just spent and spent and spent, just like the Democrats”. …… OK, thanks. I thought that would be your answer.

We are the Greatest Country God has set up thru some of the most Blessed and moved human beings through our Lord GOD, to our wonderful Founding Fathers…
Dr. Pastor Terry Jones has got the right to burn all the qurans he can get his hands on. This is America, rights from GOD. I have seen and heard MANY other less noble idiotic ideas happen in the name of liberty 60’s, (burning of the American Flag) I have kids and I am nervous by this Liberal Media agenda propaganda and who hasn’t waken up to understand we are under assault at war here at home on our children, by school systems, teachers, Tolerance Etc…
It is not by accident that we now sit while courts are quietly trying our elected president for whether his past Pakistan trip was taken on a British or Indonesia Visa?
Media statements all indicate burning of quran will cause trouble for military recruits? Why not stir up these Muslims who want to jump, jump now please while we are there to cut you cowards down
Take this building and we Americans will provide many locations where to place it…
Had Enough &Worried AMERICAN…

John Boehner is disliked for pointing out the truth. The Democrats have had power of the Congress since the Bush years- so please what has the Dems done to improve the country? The debt is now around 13 Trillion dollars, the Federal government is into land grabs in the mid west pushing out the small farmer and supporting mega agriculture and Monsanto. The libs shut off the water in the San Joaquin Valley, over 80,000 people lost their jobs, and the bread basket of the world has been decimated. See how far this administration has pushed the corrupt UN’s Agenda 21 into reality, take a look at the Agriculture and food bill being considered. The Dems want to impose fines for dust on farms, the only way not to produce dust is not to til the soil as it has been done since man began farming and use Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide instead, hmmmm. Agenda 21 allows for foreign control of farmland- now let’s see who might control our pockets, the Chinese maybe? Wake up people, remember in November.