{"id":185413,"date":"2011-07-06T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/06\/steny-hoyer-tells-boehner-to-go-cheney-himself\/"},"modified":"2011-07-06T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T23:48:00","slug":"steny-hoyer-tells-boehner-to-go-cheney-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/06\/steny-hoyer-tells-boehner-to-go-cheney-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Steny Hoyer tells Boehner to Go Cheney Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoyer just said that Boehner won&#8217;t get the votes for raising the debt limit from his teabagger freshman, so he needs Democratic votes, and <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/07\/hoyer-no-help-for-boehner-on-raising-debt-limit-if-taxes-off-the-table.php?ref=fpblg\">he won&#8217;t get any without a tax increase<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve told Mr. Boehner that I will help,&#8221; Hoyer said. &#8220;Now I&#8217;m not going to help on some draconian do it my way or the highway vote, but we Democrats are prepared to co-operate in order to assure that the creditworthiness of the United States is not put at risk and to move towards a fiscally responsible path&#8230;everything needs to be on the table, and when I say everything I mean everything&#8230;. Revenues need to be a significant part of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats&#8217; vote-counter in the House of Representatives says the GOP will need his help to raise the national debt limit &#8212; but they won&#8217;t get it if they don&#8217;t put everything on the table, including tax revenues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speaker Boehner needed Democratic votes to pass keeping government running, even at minimal levels,&#8221; Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) told reporters at his weekly Capitol briefing, in response to a question from TPM. &#8220;So my presumption is [Senator] Schumer is right.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s more balls than I expected from Hoyer, who seems to spend most of his time sabotaging the efforts of real Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoyer just said that Boehner won&#8217;t get the votes for raising the debt limit from his teabagger freshman, so he needs Democratic votes, and he won&#8217;t get any without a tax increase: &#8220;I&#8217;ve told Mr. Boehner that I will help,&#8221; Hoyer said. &#8220;Now I&#8217;m not going to help on some draconian do it my way &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,978,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-politics","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185413"}],"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=185413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}