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Boehner on Obama Tax Plan: "You Can't Be Serious"

Jim Oakland Wrote: Dec 02, 2012 8:40 PM

Boehner, don't be confused. Just understand that Obama's plan is real simple: He wants to go off the fiscal cliff and blame it on the GOP. That is his plan. He offers a deal he also wants if you do not comply. It is impossible for Obama not to get what he wants unless you do something. What is it? The GOP must offer legislation to abandon the fiscal cliff deal; otherwise, checkmate.

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Boehner on Obama Tax Plan: "You Can't Be Serious"

The Obama Administration proposal to fix the "fiscal cliff" coming at the end of the year called for $1.6 trillion in tax hikes over current policy. House Speaker John Boehner said he was "flabbergasted" when presented with the proposal this week.

Boehner tells "Fox News Sunday" that after Geithner briefed him privately on Thursday, he looked at Geithner and said, "You can't be serious." Boehner called it "silliness" that the White House was, among other things, asking Congress to give up its power to set the nation's debt limit.

Earlier today, Geithner insisted that the Obama...

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