{"id":183647,"date":"2013-01-02T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/02\/boehner-told-reid-to-go-cheney-himself\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T01:04:00","slug":"boehner-told-reid-to-go-cheney-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/02\/boehner-told-reid-to-go-cheney-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Boehner told Reid to go Cheney Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/01\/the-fiscal-cliff-deal-that-almost-wasnt-85663.html\">such classy people<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">House Speaker John Boehner couldn\u2019t hold back when he spotted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the White House lobby last Friday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It was only a few days before the nation would go over the fiscal cliff, no bipartisan agreement was in sight, and Reid had just publicly accused Boehner of running a \u201cdictatorship\u201d in the House and caring more about holding onto his gavel than striking a deal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cGo f\u2014 yourself,\u201d Boehner sniped as he pointed his finger at Reid, according to multiple sources present.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Reid, a bit startled, replied: \u201cWhat are you talking about?\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Boehner repeated: \u201cGo f\u2014 yourself.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The harsh exchange just a few steps from the Oval Office \u2014 which Boehner later bragged about to fellow Republicans \u2014 was only one episode in nearly two months of high-stakes negotiations laced with distrust, miscommunication, false starts and yelling matches as Washington struggled to ward off $500 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, this sort of childish sh%$ is <b>not<\/b> the mark of someone who you can negotiate with in good faith.<\/p>\n<p>Saying it in the middle of a contentious meeting is one thing, but this was a &#8220;drive by&#8221; f%$# you, and then he bragged about it to colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>This is College Republican bullsh%$, and it is an indication of just how unserious the Republican leadership is about doing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>I experienced this when I was in the SGA Senate at UMass, and dealt with people who later figured in the Abramhoff, and they freuently behaved the same way, but they <b>were in their early 20s<\/b>, and it was the <b>student senate<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>That is why this deal is so bad.&nbsp; Barack Obama just gave the keys to Eddie Haskell, and this does not bode well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans, such classy people: House Speaker John Boehner couldn\u2019t hold back when he spotted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the White House lobby last Friday.It was only a few days before the nation would go over the fiscal cliff, no bipartisan agreement was in sight, and Reid had just publicly accused Boehner of running &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,978,1104,982,983,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-politics","category-psychology","category-stupid","category-taxes","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}