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Boehner: This is a Stalemate

bhowe Wrote: Dec 01, 2012 12:47 AM

I will not apologize to Ron Paul and Gary Johnson (my hometown too, incidentally) as they push to addict our kids as well as adults to drugs. I'm with them on most everything else but when they turn into drug pushers and glorifying drug use, they lose me and millions of others completely. We need less drugs, not politicians that glorify and push drug use like Ron Paul and Gary Johnson.

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Boehner: This is a Stalemate

In response to President Obama's new $1.6 trillion tax hike proposal, Speaker John Boehner said today fiscal cliff talks have reached a "stalemate."

"There is a stalemate," Boehner said. "I'm rather determined to solve our debt problem."

When asked about GOP solutions to the looming crisis, Boehner pointed to the work the House has done in the past two years for solutions.

"You can look at our budget in the past two years and there are plenty of specific proposals," he said, adding that significant and real spending cuts must be on the table in...