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John Boehner ‘Not’ Concerned About Losing Speakership After ‘Plan B’ Failure
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) contended Friday that he was not worried about his future as speaker of the House after his members rejected his “Plan B” fiscal cliff bill.
Boehner had floated a measure that would have kept tax rates in place for all incomes below $1 million after Jan. 1, when the Bush-era tax rates expire under current law.
But the Tea Party-dominated House rebelled, deciding that raising any taxes was simply too much, and it spurned Boehner’s plan Thursday night, even after the GOP leadership had predicted only hours before that the plan would pass.
Asked at a Captiol Hill news conference about the future of his speakership in light the failure, Boehner at first dodged.
But asked again if he was concerned, he said, “No, I’m not.”
“Listen, you have all heard me say this, and I have told my colleagues this. If you do the right things every day for the right reasons, the right things will happen,” he added.
Boehner said that the problem was not him — it was simply that his members and their supporters had come to see his plan as a tax hike.
“And while we may have not been able to get the votes last night to avert 99.81 percent of the tax increases, I don’t think — they weren’t taking that out on me,” he continued. “They were dealing with the perception that somebody might accuse them of raising taxes.”
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Bastard is cock sure I’m telling you full of himself!
2012-12-21 09:35:13
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