Friday, February 5, 2010

Obstruction 101: GOP leader rejects White House terms for deficit commission

By GottaLaff

This Party of No thing got old about a year ago. Keep it up, Rushpubstructionists, because the White House is finally hitting back.

Check out the latest brick wall courtesy of The Boehner:

House Minority Leader John Boehner on Friday rebuffed a request from the Obama administration to work with Democrats to rein in soaring budget deficits, aides said. Instead, the Ohio Republican argued, the White House's plans for a bipartisan commission to address the deficits should be scrapped and redesigned.

Boehner told Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner in a telephone call that Republicans would refuse to participate on the 18-member commission unless it were comprised equally of Republicans and Democrats, and unless all GOP members were appointed by their caucus leaders, according to a top Boehner aide.

As Rachel and Keith remind us daily, these tin-eared, negative, filibuster-happy, naysaying Party of Wall Streeters are siding with the banks and Big Biz against "ordinary" Americans. And they're admittedly blocking everything. That's their strategy.

Good luck with that.


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