From The Hill: Speaker
John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he believes the primary goal of President Obama’s
second term is to “annihilate the Republican Party.”
“Given what we heard yesterday about the president’s vision
for his second term, it’s pretty clear to me that he knows he can’t do any of
that as long as the House is controlled by Republicans,” Boehner said in a
speech Tuesday to The Ripon Society. “So we’re expecting over the next 22
months to be the focus of this administration as they attempt to annihilate the
Republican Party.
“And let me just tell you, I do believe that is their goal — to just shove us into the dustbin of history.”
Boehner’s remarks referred to Obama’s inaugural address.
Republicans were hopeful the president would use that speech to lay the
groundwork for a partnership over the next four years, but he instead made it a
rallying cry for an active federal government — including on such politically
charged issues as climate change, gun control, gay marriage and immigration.
The Republican leader ripped the president for not taking
the country’s deficits seriously, and said the failure of the "fiscal
cliff" talks last year reflected the president's refusal to face facts on
the budget.
“In our meetings before Christmas, the president was
so tired of me talking about when we were going to deal with an entitlement
crisis that he looked at me and said: ‘Boehner, we don’t have a spending
problem. We have a healthcare problem.’
It gives you some idea of the challenge that we’re facing,” Boehner said. <<< read the full article at The Hill.
Editor’s notes:
understand that Obama has increased the national debt 60% “all by his
lonesome.” He is on pace to double
it, before his time is finished, in 2016.
In light of that fact, to argue
that “we don’t have a spending problem”
is more than stupid. He is
averaging a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit, each year. The Bush baseline for deficit spending was
440 billion. It would take Bush spending
habits, three years to match what Obama
over-spends in a single year. That is
how quickly we are headed for the proverbial “cliff,” and this increase in spending, is all on
Obama.
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