{"id":5441,"date":"2011-07-23T01:54:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T08:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2011-07-23T01:54:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T08:54:13","slug":"obama-gets-tough-boehner-goes-limp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/obama-gets-tough-boehner-goes-limp\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Gets Tough; Boehner Goes Limp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left\" title=\"GOPTerrorism\" alt=\"GOPTerrorism\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GOPTerrorism.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"229\" \/>What a day!&#160; So much has happened.&#160; The big item is that John Boehner, following the legacy of so many Republicans before him, abandoned the debt ceiling talks.&#160; Obama had a busy day between his town hall and his press conference&#160; Republicans are lying nonstop, trying to hide their sedition.&#160; The good faith and credit of the United States, still held hostage by Republican blackmail, wavers on a razor\u2019s edge.&#160; I shall address these events, including concrete proof that Boehner is lying, in a series of seven videos and extensive commentary, including complete video of both Obama\u2019s town hall meeting and his press conference.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Obama seemed relaxed and confident at the town hall meeting, addressing the concerns of common people with clarity and compassion.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q8qURNl1HOs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you prefer a transcript, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2011\/07\/22\/remarks-president-university-maryland-town-hall\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Whoever said this man cannot function without his teleprompter is crazy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I thought this would be the story until the bomb dropped.&#160; Boehner abandoned the talks.&#160; In Obama\u2019s subsequent press conference, I have never seen him this confrontational.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VVkzKVWK6pQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The only transcript I could find is at WSJ, and I refuse to link to Murdoch.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Obama offered Republicans the moon, knowing Boehner would refuse it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Next Agent orange held a press conference of his own.&#160; Here is his limp repLIE.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wMOz_p7oXVE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Note that he said he had a deal, but Obama moved the goalposts.&#160; Can we believe him?&#160; HELL NO!&#160; Less than 24 hours earlier, he kissed the ring of the de facto head of the Republican Party, and this is what he said then.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b0BMu0mBoBk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">\u201cThere is no deal!&#160; No deal publicly, no deal privately, there is absolutely no deal.\u201d&#160; As I promised, there is the absolute proof that Boehner lied.&#160; In addition, Obama is going public with the tick-tock.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For analysis, Keith Olbermann covered this with Brian Beutler on <a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/shows\/countdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Countdown<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TAiXbo1mw_Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rachel Maddow, after about seven minutes of introduction, discussed the Republican war on reality with Barney Frank.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc135330\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=43849697^0^1071238&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc135330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=43849697^0^1071238&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And Lawrence O\u2019Donnell, in keeping with what I was saying even before he did, shows how Obama is keeping Republicans on the run.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc2197da\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=43862269^0^958659&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc2197da\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=43862269^0^958659&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It was Republicans, not Obama, who moved the goal posts, by adding a last minute requirement that Obama remove the individual mandate from HCR.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What I have been saying, still rings true.&#160; Obama could say, \u201cHere, take granny, put her on a spit and slow roast her over a slow fire.\u201d As delightful as Republicans might find that, as long as he tied it to such items as tax breaks for criminal corporations and asking the super-rich to pay a little more, he would never have to hand granny over.&#160; The best solution remaining is to just raise the debt ceiling, and that is what Obama had said wanted at the start of this Republican crisis.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I may be wrong about one thing.&#160; I have believed all along that Republicans would cave-in to protect Wall Street from the devastation a default would bring.&#160; It appears that the Tea Party is too stupid to understand this.&#160; I would hope that the pre-tea Republicans would join Democrats to avert the crisis.&#160; It may be that they would rather ravage America than admit defeat in their blackmail.&#160; It that is true, for Obama and Democrats to cave-in to Republican terrorism would devastate the nation just as severely as default, maybe more so.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I originally advocated a 14th Amendment solution, but on further thought, that has the problem that enforcing the Constitution is the purview of the courts, not the President.&#160; He has no authority to do so without a court order.&#160; However, when Presidents have claimed over the years to have emergency powers to protect the nation in times of crisis, both Lincoln and FDR for example.&#160; If Republicans do throw America off the cliff, I hope Obama will invoke them at that point.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We wait and see,<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a day!&#160; So much has happened.&#160; The big item is that John Boehner, following the legacy of so many Republicans before him, abandoned the debt ceiling talks.&#160; Obama had a busy day between his town hall and his press conference&#160; Republicans are lying nonstop, trying to hide their sedition.&#160; The good faith and credit <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/obama-gets-tough-boehner-goes-limp\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}