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Date: December 23, 2012 8:01:19 PM GMT-06:00
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Subject: Obama Mocks Boehner: 'You Get Nothing'
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Dear Friend:    This weekend's Wall Street Journal featured a behind-the-scenes view of the collapse of Speaker John Boehner's negotiations on the "fiscal cliff" with President Obama.     With perhaps the exception of Speaker Boehner, this story confirms what so many already knew -- the negotiations were a total sham!     In fact, President Obama even mocked Speaker Boehner's job-killing "Plan B" -- an $800 billion tax hike.    At one point, according to notes taken by a participant, Mr. Boehner told the president, 'I put $800 billion [in tax revenue] on the table. What do I get for that?'   'You get nothing,' the president said. 'I get that for free.' (WSJ)    Ouch.    Some unsolicited advice -- while President Obama body surfs in Hawaii for his Christmas vacation -- Speaker Boehner (if he remains House Speaker) ought to reflect upon the many ways Congress can restrain spending with its "Power of the Purse".     After all, isn't spending the problem?    Enjoy the article!    Sincerely,    Bob Adams Revive America USA    Wall Street Journal     How 'Cliff' Talks Hit the Wall Behind Scenes, Boehner Failed to Sell Republicans on Taxes, While Obama's Spending Plans Rankled   By PATRICK O'CONNOR and PETER NICHOLAS   WASHINGTON-Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama called Friday for a return to negotiations to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, a day after talks cratered in a very public fashion when Republicans abandoned House Speaker John Boehner's backup plan.   In truth, talks to secure a big deficit-reduction deal had already broken down Monday afternoon in the office of Mr. Boehner (R., Ohio), a Wall Street Journal reconstruction shows. Mr. Boehner had been negotiating a deal with the White House to let tax rates rise for upper-income people.   Mr. Boehner, irritated with the White House, was finding it hard to keep his troops in line as details of his negotiations with Mr. Obama leaked out.    In the speaker's office just off the Capitol's majestic rotunda that afternoon, he told his top lieutenants that he was already thinking about a pared-down backup plan. "In the absence of an agreement, 'Plan B' is the plan," he told his deputies, according to a script he read them that afternoon.   One by one, they came out in favor of Plan B and against the broader deal.   House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R., Mich.) said the new tax revenue the broader plan called for was too high. Then Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), whom Mr. Boehner had spent weeks wooing, said he couldn't sign on because it didn't make structural changes in entitlements.   The speaker went ahead with Plan B, which collapsed Thursday night before he could even bring it to a vote, leaving talks at a perilous standstill just days before the year-end fiscal-cliff deadline. Even if an agreement can be reached by then, both sides expect it to be a small package doing little to tackle the long-term budget woes and deferring the battle until next year.   A review of the negotiations, based on interviews with a dozen aides and lawmakers, suggests the problems lay in Mr. Boehner's inability to coax his rank-and-file to support a deal that raises taxes on higher-income Americans. Another factor was what Republicans saw as President Obama's unwillingness to bend when a deal was in sight, jamming the speaker with a deal his party couldn't swallow.   The negotiations offer little evidence November's election brought the president and House Republicans closer together. If anything, the talks poisoned an already distrustful relationship.   Mr. Boehner could soon face a decision whether to call for a vote on some sort of plan that could avert the cliff's spending cuts and tax increases but might imperil his position if he had to rely on Democrats to pass it.   Mr. Obama repeatedly lost patience with the speaker as negotiations faltered. In an Oval Office meeting last week, he told Mr. Boehner that if the sides didn't reach agreement, he would use his inaugural address and his State of the Union speech to tell the country the Republicans were at fault.   At one point, according to notes taken by a participant, Mr. Boehner told the president, "I put $800 billion [in tax revenue] on the table. What do I get for that?"   "You get nothing," the president said. "I get that for free."   After the election, Boehner aides tried to shape the debate by offering early concessions, including that the GOP would agree to raise new tax revenue. A speech Mr. Boehner planned to give was rewritten 18 times and included input from top Republican leaders.   Go Here Now to Read the Full Story

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