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Republican House leader John Boehner told Senate´s top Democrat to ´Go f*** yourself´ outside Oval Office
Daily Mail [UK], by Hayley Peterson & AP Reporter
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 1/2/2013 6:05:11 AM
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| House Speaker John Boehner twice told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to ´go f**k´ himself last Friday after a meeting at the White House on a budget compromise to avert the fiscal cliff. Standing in the White House lobby not far from the Oval Office, Boehner pointed his finger at Reid and sneered, ´Go f**k yourself,´ Politico reported, citing multiple sources present. Reid replied: ´What are you talking about?´ Boehner repeated: ´Go f**k yourself.´ The shrewd exchange from last Friday reveals how the grueling fight over the debt ceiling, spending cuts and tax increases pervaded politics
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Comments: Understandable, but not in front of an army of reporters.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
varkdriver, 1/2/2013 6:15:03 AM (No. 9094156)
Wow. If this is true, I may have to take back all the bad things I´ve said/thought about Boehner. Appropriate, since that is what Nobama/Reid/Stretch Pelosi have said to any Republicans/Conservatives [not the same] since 2008.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 1/2/2013 6:16:52 AM (No. 9094157)
The complete sentence ended with:
".....now that you have finished with me."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
floridagator, 1/2/2013 6:17:15 AM (No. 9094158)
Not in front of an army of reporters??? It should have been live on every network!!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rusino, 1/2/2013 6:27:05 AM (No. 9094165)
Obama Saul Alinsky Obama our Community Organizer (rebel rouser) does it again. I am sorry that Boehner was too weak,as are most Republicans to stand up and do what is right for the country. RR, HWB gave in on taxes and spending, then GWB did the same.
They claim to be Conservative but in the end all they do is CAVE!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/2/2013 6:31:14 AM (No. 9094169)
This is the only thing that Boehner has done right recently but of course the left will demagogue it saying all republicans are uncivilized and need to be booted from government.
Cheney told leaky Leahey the same thing a few years ago,so what´s the big deal he also said Adam Clymer was a major league AH (big time).
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SourKraut, 1/2/2013 6:34:52 AM (No. 9094171)
A shame he didn´t have the balls to say it on the House floor, to both Reid and Obama.
But, now that he buckled and crawled to his masters, he can get the invites to the Washington Cocktail Circuit, right ?
No ? He isn´t ? Well, that´s what they promised him !
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
tenncon231, 1/2/2013 6:36:25 AM (No. 9094172)
First time I agree with bonner in 3mo, 3 yrs, lost track of time but it´s been awhile!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
provide, 1/2/2013 6:46:45 AM (No. 9094175)
At least he didn´t call him a Clymer.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Attercliffe, 1/2/2013 6:47:33 AM (No. 9094176)
My point is it simply gives the opposition the bullets to shoot us with. It´s the "Caesar´s Wife" position. Yes, I concur, Boehner should show more spunk; it´s a welcome change and I applaud his words. But some things are best done very quietly.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam, 1/2/2013 6:50:48 AM (No. 9094182)
Sorry, but I can´t help but think it´s more kabuki theater just to satisfy us proles. 41/1 IS giving away the store.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
minuteman, 1/2/2013 6:55:37 AM (No. 9094186)
...and then he said it to all the American people with passage of the "fiscal cliff" deal.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kanphil, 1/2/2013 6:55:51 AM (No. 9094187)
He should have said the same to the top Republican in the Senate.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
noproblems, 1/2/2013 7:08:07 AM (No. 9094198)
glad someone told Dingy Harry that. Should be said on national TV and to all of those arragant SOB´s in the Senate.
Real battle is on the debt limit ceiling
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TakeBackAmerica, 1/2/2013 7:09:06 AM (No. 9094199)
Odd, I had a post pulled on here this weekend for saying essentially the same thing about the Traitor-in-Chief.
Go figure.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Kerryman, 1/2/2013 7:09:43 AM (No. 9094200)
Now everyone realizes that Boehner and his team are nothing but parliamentary functionaries. They are not leaders. He got less than a third of his caucus to support him on this vote. They all should go including Cantor and McCarthy though they voted against Boehner.
Semper Fi
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
themidwife, 1/2/2013 7:14:41 AM (No. 9094208)
Is anyone truly surprised by this? It´s an annual event! Can anyone tell the difference between a Dem or a Rep? I am learning what´s really going on a FreedomainRadio
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Sunhan65, 1/2/2013 7:18:08 AM (No. 9094215)
You first, John. Boehner is an enabler of one half of the Democrats´ tax and spend road to ruin. So they just keep on spending. The real choice is not complex: We can cut spending or go bankrupt. Since no one in Washington is capable of cutting spending of their own volition, the Republicans have decided to help Obama loot the more productive members of our economy and then go bankrupt. Super.
If nothing had been done, spending would have been cut--anonymously and irresponsibly, but cut nonetheless. Tax rates would have gone up precipitously, and painfully, on most Americans, thereby setting the stage for Republicans to run on tax relief in 2014 and tax reform in 2016. Instead, we are going to stop spending the old-fashioned way: by running out of people dumb enough to lend us money. We literally would have been better off if John and Mitch and their GOP cloak room buddies had done nothing. They are worse than useless.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
andyboy, 1/2/2013 7:18:09 AM (No. 9094216)
Boehner talks tough to impress us, and then he caves.
Time to replace him with an actual Conservative.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Keekng, 1/2/2013 7:26:17 AM (No. 9094229)
Bravo, Mr Speaker!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Malia2012, 1/2/2013 7:41:54 AM (No. 9094253)
Good for John Boehner! It doesn´t seem to matter to some what he does or says, the Speaker is always wrong. While obama-the-terrible jets BACK to Hawaii at OUR expense, costing US about $7+ million for his "excellent adventure", by all means, let´s just keep savaging John Boehner and the rest of the Republicans. BTW, Paul Ryan voted FOR the bill too. Tedious.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Bazi, 1/2/2013 7:44:57 AM (No. 9094259)
I´m not impressed. I´d bet that´s the way the slimeballs always talk to each other. Then they go have convivial lunch in Georgetown on our dime.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
govlawyer, 1/2/2013 8:03:29 AM (No. 9094289)
When it´s in a meaningless situation the Boner shows he has a pair. I wonder who he borrowed them from.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
navyjag907, 1/2/2013 8:04:02 AM (No. 9094290)
Who translated for Dingy Harry?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
bigken2, 1/2/2013 8:05:53 AM (No. 9094292)
i give john a little room here it is always those who laugh last laugh best obama has posened the well no reason to do anything in the future lets keep a good tought because obama and dingy will get theres
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
M2, 1/2/2013 8:10:43 AM (No. 9094298)
What this tells me is that Boehner is not the wuss he´s painted to be. As for "caving", I believe that this isn´t the hill Boehner wanted to die on, for pragmatism´s sake, but is going to toughen up on the rest of this Administration´s attempts to marginalize or even destroy the Republican brand. Boehner needed to create the impression that the GOP is not to blame for the massive tax hikes that would have kicked in at midnight. He and the GOP need breathing room for the more important challenges ahead and this is it.
Now is the time for Tea Party caucus members to toughen up when the debt ceiling rolls around. If the GOP hopes to survive as a Party, at least now they have time to regroup and make peace with Tea Party people.
As for what we should be doing as a Party right now, if GOP congressmen are not at this moment furiously writing entitlement cut suggestions, complete with stats, to throw back in Obama´s face next time he pulls this sh**, we deserve to go belly up.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Patchy Groundfog, 1/2/2013 8:20:21 AM (No. 9094314)
No point in talking tough after you´ve been used and abused.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Newtsche, 1/2/2013 8:32:45 AM (No. 9094331)
More a reflection of Reid´s negatives than Boehner´s positives.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
TunnelRat, 1/2/2013 8:34:29 AM (No. 9094335)
Channeling his ´inner Cheney´...?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
ricktutt, 1/2/2013 8:59:50 AM (No. 9094386)
A step in the right direction!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 1/2/2013 9:01:36 AM (No. 9094391)
Oh please. Boehner is still a wuss. He has nothing left to argue with so he reverts to a vulgarism. Now if he would have said this a couple of months ago, might be a different story.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Catherine, 1/2/2013 9:09:08 AM (No. 9094410)
I don´t approve of the language but sometimes it´s just necessary. Now I guess the MSM will be screaming for him to apologize and my bet is the crybaby will. If he doesn´t, tho, he will make a baby step up in my estimation.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 1/2/2013 9:10:51 AM (No. 9094414)
He did? Wow! I sure feel better about how he handled this mess, now. Don´t you?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
jj1319, 1/2/2013 9:12:56 AM (No. 9094421)
Now, now, #14, rules are rules. /s
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
mickturn, 1/2/2013 9:21:40 AM (No. 9094444)
Reid obviously knows how to do that, he´s a Lib!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Lefticide, 1/2/2013 9:22:07 AM (No. 9094447)
As far as I´m concerned, most of those in the house, senate, and administration can do the same.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/2/2013 9:23:02 AM (No. 9094452)
Boehner should have said it. But then Boehner and the GOP votes for the Senate package, so the effect quickly evaporated. The GOP is on the road to a third party.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 1/2/2013 10:28:57 AM (No. 9094570)
Ok, I give in. You are all correct, with the exception of a couple of posters who think as I used to. Now I see the light. Nothing is the Democtrats´ fault. It is all the Republicans fault and if they were only braver they would be running the whole show, pushing the President, the Senate, the Supreme Court and the media aside. It´s really very easy if you have the cojones you guys are always talking about. On another post someone said that Palin/Gingrich would not have caved. They would not have had to. They would not have been elected.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 1/2/2013 10:33:38 AM (No. 9094585)
I stand with John Boehner. Now if the ankel-biters in our party would just leave him alone and let him do his difficult work...
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
globalwarmer, 1/2/2013 10:46:56 AM (No. 9094617)
Paul Ryan for Speaker (or Newt since you don´t have to be an elected representative to be Speaker).
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
yuban, 1/2/2013 10:50:31 AM (No. 9094624)
This "ankle biter" will continue to demand the GOP do what is right for America. Siding with the Left time and time again is not "hard work". It is demeaning.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
curious1, 1/2/2013 10:58:38 AM (No. 9094643)
It appears the entire Texas pubbie delegation in the house voted against the ´deal´. Good for Texas. All the other state delegations - better take names as libtards in the pubbie party are self-identifying. Boehner appears to be a libtard calling himself a pubbie.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
TakeBackAmerica, 1/2/2013 10:58:47 AM (No. 9094644)
#33: Apparently, I Can´t stem my racist tendencies (it says here)!
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
fritzilou, 1/2/2013 11:55:17 AM (No. 9094775)
It does offend me that out of frustration Speaker Boehner told Reid to go F himself, but what offends me more is that the Democrat side of the aisle and the POTUS don´t want to cut any spending....nada. And what offends me more than that is that, frankly my dear, they just don´t give a damn about the debt and deficit".
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
navybrat, 1/2/2013 1:29:33 PM (No. 9094945)
If Boehner said that, and I have doubts, it was for show. The whiner has no guts except when abusing his own party members.
I hope that he will be removed as speaker.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Bla Bla, 1/2/2013 1:52:37 PM (No. 9094978)
I was gonna say "GOOD!", until I read Reply #2. So true.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
judy, 1/2/2013 2:10:17 PM (No. 9095011)
Bohner & McConnell are both upset with Reid. My guess is Reid is the won´s mouth piece.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
enemyofthestate, 1/2/2013 2:38:37 PM (No. 9095043)
Throwing versions of the f-bomb has been done so many times before. It´s a sure sign of a limited ability to express oneself, a limited vocabulary. Can´t Boehner come up with something original?
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee, 1/2/2013 2:51:35 PM (No. 9095070)
No curiosity at all from our "truth seeking journalists" about the reason for Boehner´s comment. It was enough for them to report the comment along with their speculative generalities.
Boehner should have told him (and us), in front of those ´multiple sources´, exactly why he was making that comment, although Reid knew the answer.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
RoseOfTexas, 1/2/2013 6:18:23 PM (No. 9095452)
I´m fine with his tough talk. He´s never claimed to be an altar boy AFAIK. Doesn´t amount to a hill of beans without tough actions to back it up though.
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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