Man Of Orange Concedes

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So what if it fails in the Senate? The House should toss aside their principles and beliefs because the Senate disagrees with them?

You are beginning to understand.  The Democrats stand for principles, Republicans are obstructionists.

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Ohhhhh....You ment this man in Orange....

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John Boehner says his speakership is not in danger

http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/john-boehner-says-his-speakership-is-not-in-danger-85407.html

Speaker John Boehner said "God only knows" how Washington will solve the fiscal cliff, but he remained confidant that he would remain the House's top Republican after his colleagues forced him to cancel a vote on his fallback tax bill Thursday night.
The Ohio Republican – standing next to his No. 2, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) – said the House Republican Conference rejected his proposal to extend tax rates for income under $1 million because there was "a perception created that that vote last night was going to increase taxes."

"Now I disagree with that characterization of the bill, but that impression was out there," Boehner said. "And we had a number of our members who just really didn't want to be perceived as having raised taxes. That was the real issue."

The Thursday night episode was one of the most dramatic nights of Boehner's speakership and changed the dynamics in the negotiations to solve expiring tax rates and spending cuts set to take hold at year's end. Now, much of the action will shift over to the White House and the Senate — two entities that will have heavy sway over a final agreement.

Asked if he would take up a Senate-passed bill to extend rates for everyone under $250,000, Boehner said the bill has not reached the House because of "blue slip problems" — a mostly procedural issue that relates to revenue bill needing to originate in the lower chamber.

But the dynamics have absolutely shifted.

First, the drama significantly weakened House Republicans' hand as they try to force President Barack Obama to agree to deeper spending reductions – Boehner says Obama's unwillingness to do so has stalled negotiations.

"The president and I had a series of conversations," Boehner said. "I told the president on Monday were my bottom lines. The president told me that his numbers – $1.2 trillion in new revenues, $850 billion in spending cuts – were his bottom line. That he couldn't go any further. And so we see a situation where, because of the political divide in the country, also the divide here in Washington, trying to bridge these differences have been difficult."

Second, it injects fresh questions about Boehner's power over House Republicans – queries that the speaker brushes off. The optics of Cantor standing next to Boehner reinforced that the No. 2 was squarely behind him. Asked if he was concerned about his grasp on power, Boehner said "No, I'm not."

"Listen, you've all heard me say this and I've told my colleagues," Boehner said Friday morning. "If you do the right things every day for the right reasons, the right things will happen. While we 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. They were dealing with the perception that somebody might accuse them of raising taxes."

Boehner said he was "proud" of the House Republican Conference.