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How President Obama Lost His Shirt to John Boehner

MacQ - Texas Wrote: Jan 30, 2013 10:42 AM

I agree, Mr. Benko. Seems many have no idea what COULD have been the outcome had the profligate spender in chief had his way. Seems that many here seem to think that a majority on one house of congress (facing nasty controllers in the other branches) confers unlimited power. Mr. Boehner is doing a yeoman's job.

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How President Obama Lost His Shirt to John Boehner

The House, under the leadership of Speaker John Boehner, has precipitated a postponement in the debt ceiling fight until May. This represents a strategic choice by Boehner to make the Sequester fight, not the debt ceiling fight, the next major engagement. Much of the mainstream media now is accusing Congress of “kicking the can down the road.” They are missing the strategic implications.

In retrospect, at the Battle at Fiscal Cliff, Boehner took President Obama to the cleaners. He did it suavely, without histrionics. While Obama churlishly, and in a politically amateurish manner, publicly strutted about having forced the Republicans...