John Boehner: State Of Union Address May Be 'Pathetic'

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner doesn't sound like he's going to have a fun time listening to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night.

Obama is expected to outline an economic blueprint built around manufacturing, energy and education, and officials have said he'll propose fresh ideas to try to get the wealthy to pay more in taxes.

Boehner said it sounds to him like "the same old policies" of more spending, taxes and regulations that have hurt the economy.

The Ohio Republican told "Fox News Sunday" that if that's what Obama is going to talk about, then "I think it's pathetic."

In the interview, Boehner also hinted that he may link the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline to the payroll tax cut extension. "Every option is on the table. We are going to do everything we can to try to make sure that this Keystone pipeline is, in fact, approved," he said. When pressed by Chris Wallace on whether he would "link" the pipeline to the payoll tax cut, he replied, "We may. But as I said, all options are on the table."

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[bmarinez]

11:10 PM on 02/03/2012

I demand the United States of America to throw out to Africa the illegal criminal black African Barack hussein Obama immediately!!!
Do it right now!!!

[e-mail]

[DEF1]

04:46 PM on 01/25/2012

can someone tell me what the hell middle class is?, i think it is bulls##t, your either poor or wealthy!, the government needs to stop using the term middle class.

[BJRenick]

10:50 AM on 01/25/2012

The President's speech was good, touching upon various issues. Having to look at John Boehner's smirking face was a distraction as he predicted the speech to be "pathetic." AS A MAN SPEAKETH SO IS HE. The President's story of the flag that accompanied the Navy Seals as they took out Osama bin Laden stressed the importance of all Americans working with mutual trust towards one goal to achieve success, all lost on the clueless Boehner.

[ggs83]

01:02 PM on 01/24/2012

Mr. Boehner, if you want to see waht real pathetic looks like, just look in the mirror--and there it is

[sticks n stones]

12:07 PM on 01/24/2012

Wait till you hear the SOTU address he delivers next year, John! (And yes, he will be delivering one next year.)

[notmoderate]

11:12 AM on 01/24/2012

The GOP has been campaigning ever since they established a policy of making Obama a 1 term POTUS. That was a year and a half ago and given the state of our economy, THAT is pathetic.

[picval]

10:52 AM on 01/24/2012

Well Sir, you know Pathetic when you see it, since everyday you look at yourself in the Mirror!

[timber1647]

10:26 AM on 01/24/2012

The Keystone Pipeline project.....jobns would be created, but what about the ifs, specifically the possibility of damaging the aquafier if there is a leak. Isn't it more prudent to finish the enviromental studies before proceeding than risk causing problems for our grandchildren or great grandchildren? And besides does anyone really know how much of this Canadian oil will end up in the US? Mr. Boehner? Congress? Buehler?

[skmbho]

10:36 AM on 01/24/2012

Not to mention that all of the positive information is propaganda from the big oil. Real numbers were about 2500 jobs for 2 years to put our people and our environment at risk. If this is such a great and safe proposition, why won't Canada let them put it on tankers up there?

[pmoschetta]

10:37 AM on 01/24/2012

http://politicalcorrection.org/factcheck/201201180004

This keystone pipeline push seems fishy to me, and many others that are aware, because Boeher has invested massive amounts of personal money into every company that is affiliated with both the construction and the eventual refinement of the tar sands product
Ethics violations anyone?

[notmoderate]

11:16 AM on 01/24/2012

well, well! I'd be upset, too, were I he. Not sure I'd throw a hissyfit everytime I was in front of a camera, but I'd be upset.

[stingjim]

10:14 AM on 01/24/2012

Got to love Obama’s continued “blame Bush” strategy. He acts as if his record-setting spending and deficits have no blame for the mess we’re in. For someone who graduated from Harvard (where’s the transcript), one would think Obama would know that tax cuts don’t add to the deficits. Spending more than you bring in does that.

Obama ignore the FACT that these Bush tax cuts, you know.. the ones he signed into law in 2010, created more revenue for the government. Besides, how dare Americans want to keep more of THEIR money in THEIR pockets instead of the governments hands.

Obama know that wars are still ongoing and he actually increased the costs of the Afghanistan War with his troop surge? Obama also failed to mention that he has us involved in “kinetic military actions” in Libya, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia? Guess his wars are free of charge?

On the “expensive prescription drug program” comment, does Obama not remember ramming through his
Obama Care plan that costs way more than he admits? http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/fact-checking-obamas-prime-time-debt-ceiling-speech/

Why would anyone want a political system that restricts personal freedom instead of enhancing it; denounces personal responsibility instead of promoting it; surrenders personal sovereignty instead of honoring it; attacks the philosophical foundations of liberty instead of defending them; encourages government dependency instead of self-reliance; and undermines the character of the people by making them wards of the state?

[Fail]

10:21 AM on 01/24/2012

Linking to a wordpress blog makes this post 100% correct and legitimate.

[timber1647]

10:29 AM on 01/24/2012

The US is currently at its lowest effective tax rate in generational memory. We cannot solve the deficit problem with spending cuts alone. To many special interests in DC who lobby both sides for what they believe is the "fair" share. We need to have $3 in cuts coupled with $1 in new revenue. Then we need to simply the tax code, eliminating or capping some personal and corporate deductions. This needs to be fair across the board. Unfortunately both sides in Congress don't have a clue as to the meaning of the word FAIR.

[stingjim]

10:47 AM on 01/24/2012

I agree but Reduce Spending will go a lot futher and quicker in cutting the debt than Tax increases that will do more damage to the economy and job growth. the deficit was caused by both parties. Under Obama it has grown by 30% (so far and still growing).

The solution is simple. What would anyone do if they found themselves indebt, with less income and far to many bills to pay. CUT,CUT,CUT,CUT EXPENSES.

Given that half of Americans don’t actually pay federal income taxes – and that a whopping load of that half are Democrats who want other people’money “redistributed” to them – you can understand why these Democrat staffers mock those who actually pay taxes in this country. During Regan’s presidency on 19 % of American households didn’t pay any federal income tax.

Did you know the Top 10% of the taxpayers pay 70% of total pie??? THE BOTTOM 50% PAID 2.6%:
http://www.gopexiles.com/?p=6659.

[stingjim]

04:35 PM on 01/24/2012

I lay the blame on the current President that is the only President that CAN do something and he has chosen not to. In fact Obama wants to spend more. I don't even believe you believe in that.

Any economist can tell you that raising taxes, increasing debt, printing money and unbridled spending is not the way to handle a recession. So either Obama is ignorant, or willfully chooses to ignore the lessons of history. Or he is adopting a strategy outlined by Cloward - Pivens: The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis…. …the “Cloward - Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse…
The more one reads about the true Obama, the more one must face reality; Obama is the Cloward Piven President and he wants to make the USA weak.

Overwhelm the system until it fails, then replace it. Obama wants Big Government and More Government Control. Everyone knows that.

Based on Obama's actions to date, reasonable people must allow for the possibility that the change Obama promised may include destroying the free market economic system in order to replace it with an economy regulated by government entities.

Spending America into bankruptcy is Obama's way of leveling the playing field. By bringing Americas to its knees. Based on Obama's actions, and the actions of his appointees­, it's time to seriously consider if destroying our economy is

[Totto]

10:14 AM on 01/24/2012

Andrew Sullivan On Obama's Long Game: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/15/andrew-sullivan-how-obama-s-long-game-will-outsmart-his-critics.html

[Totto]

10:12 AM on 01/24/2012

The only thing that is pathetic is the Republican record of attempting to ruin the economy to regain power. It isn't working, in spite of everything they've tried.

[CSNC]

10:09 AM on 01/24/2012

"Boehner Makes 'Pathetic' Prediction"

I will make my own predictions:

1) Obama will promise a lot and delivery very, very little (if anything).
2) GOP will block anything that has to do with the "black president."
3) American people will retain GOP in power because stupidity
4) U.S. will slip into deeper depression because corporate greed and political dysfunctionality.
5) Get used to third world U.S.A. -- it is already here and will stay.

H

[MatadorMat]

09:12 AM on 01/24/2012

Obama is Getting warming up for making history in 2012

[pet rock]

09:08 AM on 01/24/2012

Can't be any more pathetic than the last 13 months of republicans in the house,

[b328]

08:32 AM on 01/24/2012

I DO BELIEVE BOEHNER WILL BE PROVEN RIGHT ONCE AGAIN.... MR. PRESIDEND HAS NO IDEAS, AND THOSE HE SEEMS TO IMPLEMENT ALL SEEM TO FAIL

[blisster]

08:53 AM on 01/24/2012

Burnt Sienna is a proven failure as Speaker. BTW where are all those jobs bills he and the newly elected baggers promised?

[Bombastic1892]

09:04 AM on 01/24/2012

Waiting for Harry Reid to allow them to the floor of the Senate for a vote. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz must have left that out of the daily talking points email.

[TallMagnolia]

08:53 AM on 01/24/2012

Proven right like he was about the payroll tax cut extension fight? I would ask you to define these failures you mentioned, but I have a feeling, based on your post, that I could refute them all handily. Ready... Set... GO!