Pelosi: Boehner went to ‘dark side’ or something

No more deficit spending!

Via memeorandum: Pelosi: Boehner went to ‘dark side’

Right before the House voted to reject a Democratic debt-ceiling plan, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi didn’t mince words.

Pelosi pulled out a Star Wars reference on the House floor, saying that Speaker John Boehner “chose to go to the dark side” and court the most conservative members of his conference, rather than work on a bipartisan compromise.

And yes, this comes from the same Nancy "we have to pass the bill to find what is in it" Pelosi that rammed through ObamaCare without a single Republican vote, and with no one having read the bill.

It’s time for us to end this theater of the absurd,” she said. “It’s time for us to get real.”

The House struck down the Democratic measure, 173-246, in a vote that was designed to fail. Boehner brought the measure up under a special rule that required a two-third majority for passage.

Curious that The Politico decided to bring that up since the vote didn't even get a majority and 11 Democrats voted with the GOP making it about as bipartisan as it could get in this day and age. The video of Pelosi's hypocritical shrillage:

Just remember: Good news: National Debt Has Increased $5 Trillion Since Nancy Pelosi Vowed, "No New Deficit Spending". I agree with Jack Cafferty on this one thing at least: "what a horrible woman!" 

The 'New Civility' (Cont'd): Libtalker Mike Malloy: John Boehner's A 'Piece Of Human Waste'

More of that new tone the Democrats demanded of conservatives after the Giffords shooting in January:

Via The Radio Equalizer

The 'New Civility' (Cont'd): Libtalker Thom Hartmann: John Boehner's Just Like Norwegian Terrorist

The money quote comes at the end after a string of absurd statements:

Any prominent conservative shows say any such thing? How about this for more heated rhetoric from the left:

■ Conservatives Want to Kill Barack Obama: “I really think there are conservative broadcasters in this country who would love to see Obama taken out.” (Ed Schultz)

Mike Malloy: The face of true hate

■ Conservatives Are Terrorists: “Do you not understand that the people you hold up as heroes bombed your goddamn country? Do you not understand that Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly are as complicit of the September 11, 2001 terror attack as any one of the dumbass 15 who came from Saudi Arabia?” (Mike Malloy)

■ Conservatives Want You to Die: “If, in fact, the GOP doesn’t like any form of health careuninsured?…When they show up in the emergency room, just shoot ‘em! Kill them!…Do we have enough body bags? I don’t know.” (Montel Williams)

■ Conservative Congresswoman Would Have Liked the Holocaust: “[Representative Michele Bachmann is] a hatemonger. She’s the type of person that would have gladly rounded up the Jews in Germany and shipped them off to death camps….This is an evil bitch from Hell.” (Mike Malloy)

■ Dick Cheney Eats Babies: “Cheney, by the way, looks very ruddy. I couldn’t get over that. Like, he must have feasted on a Jewish baby, or a Muslim baby. He must have sent his people out to get one and bring it back so he could drink its blood.” (Mike Malloy)

■ Dick Cheney Should Die: “He is an enemy of the country, in my opinion. Dick Cheney is an enemy of the country….Lord, take him to the Promised Land, will you? See, I don’t even wish the guy goes to Hell, I just want to get him the hell out of here.” (Ed Schultz)

■ Rush Limbaugh Should Die: “I’m waiting for the day when I pick up the newspaper or click on the Internet and find that he’s choked to death on his own throat fat, or a great big wad of saliva or something, whatever. Go away, Limbaugh, you make me sick.” (Mike Malloy)

■ Michele Bachmann Should Die: “So, Michele, slit your wrist! Go ahead! I mean, you know, why not? I mean, if you want to — or, you know, do us all a better thing. Move that knife up about two feet. I mean, start right at the collarbone.” (Montel Williams)

It is the height of journalistic hypocrisy to perceive implied threats in conservative speech, while simultaneously ignoring explicit hateful, eliminationist rhetoric from the left.

Good Grief: Boehner Plan Doesn’t Cut Spending

OK - here's the scoop. If you want to cut your household spending, convince your spouse that your household spending is projected to go up by 20% next year, but since you are only getting a 3% raise, you will cut that 20% down to 3% so that spending matches revenue. Then convince her you just cut the budget by 17%. Good luck. But that's essentially what Boehner is doing - finding a way to say that he's cutting without actually cutting. From CATO: Boehner Plan Doesn’t Cut Spending

House Speaker John Boehner is scrambling to revise his budget plan after the CBO found that it would only cut spending by $850 billion, not the $1.2 trillion promised.

However, the Boehner plan doesn’t actually cut spending at all. The chart shows the discretionary spending caps in the Boehner plan. Spending increases every year—from $1.043 trillion in 2012 to $1,234 trillion in 2021. (This category of spending excludes the costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan).

The “cuts” in the Boehner plan are only cuts from the CBO baseline, which is an imaginary path of future spending designed as a planning tool for Congress. Boehner can propose to spend any amount in any future year he wants, and in this plan he choose to have a steadily rising spending path.

The Boehner plan also doesn’t cut spending in a more fundamental way. It doesn’t lay out any particular programs or agencies to terminate. I’m in favor of spending caps as a secondary enforcement mechanism, but actual cuts have to come first. A caps-only plan like Boehner’s just kicks the can down the road. At best, it simply nudges future legislators to actually cut something specific.

Good grief, man! STOP SPENDING! STOP SPENDING! STOP SPENDING! Which is exactly what Rick Santelli has been saying in exactly the same manner:

UPDATE: Boehner Defends Plan: ‘This Is the Time to Do What is Doable’

UPDATE #2: Townhall’s Benson: GOP Needs to Support Boehner

Video: House Speaker John Boehner addresses the nation on the debt ceiling

Far better than the partisan hack job Obama trotted out:

And then there was this before Boehner spoke:

An approprraite reaction: Krauthammer on Obama’s Address: “I Thought I Was Cynical Until I Heard That Speech” 

Reaction roundups at Instapundit:

PETER WEHNER: Our Petulant and Inept President. “The president and his team entered these negotiations believing he could strike a grand bargain that would allow him to present himself as a born-again budget cutter, as fiscally responsible, as a Man of the Center. And in the process, he kept instructing us, he would emerge as the only adult in the room. At this juncture, it looks like Obama is the most adolescent, even childish, figure in the negotiations – a petulant man who also happens to be an inept negotiator. This isn’t what the president and his supporters expected. But of course, that could be said for his entire presidency.”

More:

TONY KATZ ON OBAMA’S TALK: “This didn’t seem like a president who was effective. It looked like a panic-stricken leader who was now hoping the like-minded ideologues across America can place enough pressure on Washington to enact non-sensical tax increases. . . . The president was elected to make hard decisions, yet he is unwilling to make any decision. He is supposed to be a great speaker, but has proven he is a horrible listener. And now, he has gone from speaking to begging….begging America to do what he wants, rather than accepting the idea of ‘compromise’ himself.”

Related: Obama Blames Bush, Offers Nothing New. Out of his depth?

Plus this:

IRA STOLL: Boehner Was Better:

President Obama, in his televised talk tonight, trotted out the same false choices he provided in his USA Today oped. The same objections apply. He draped himself in Reagan, as I predicted in my column last week. He was more pointed and aggressive than he’s been in some other recent appearances in aiming at the ‘wealthiest,’ a term he used four times in a short speech. His delivery, particularly early on, was awkward, with almost a deer-in-the-headlights uncomfortable look. . . .

Speaker Boehner, by contrast, was a refreshing surprise, much better than expected. He got off some excellent lines. My favorite was this: “The president has often said we need a ‘balanced’ approach — which in Washington means: we spend more. . .you pay more…..the president wanted a blank check six months ago, and he wants a blank check today. ” He went on, “right now, we have a government so big and so expensive it’s sapping the drive of our people…There is no symptom of big government more menacing than our debt. Break its grip, and we begin to liberate our economy and our future.”

Where it all goes from here is anyone’s guess, but my bet is that it will be some time before Mr. Obama agrees to go on television in prime time if he knows the Republicans are going to have a chance to reply afterward in the same prime time.

And lastly:

OBAMA’S SPEECH: “BABY TALK.” “Consider the condescension implicit in the president’s statement—’a term that most people outside of Washington have probably never heard of before.’ These ‘people outside of Washington’ are not little children being lectured on an obscure subject by a worldly adult. These people outside Washington are … citizens. Judging by the polls, most of us have opinions about whether, and under what conditions, the debt ceiling should be raised. We don’t seem to be as ignorant as Obama thinks we are of the term or concept of a debt ceiling. But the president assumes we’ve never bothered our pretty little heads about such a thing.”

UPDATE: Peter Roff: Obama Shameless As Debt Crisis Looms.

UPDATE: Matthews: Obama "Shouldn't Have Gone On National Television To Give A Political Address"

The 'New Civility' (Cont'd): Bill Press Asks Why Hasn't Lightning Struck And Killed John Boehner?

Before the audio, let me just remind everyone of Bill Press circa January 2011 after the Gabriel Giffords shooting: Arizona’s Fiery Political Rhetoric and Tragic Consequences

...Only Jared Loughner knows whether he shot Gabrielle Giffords because she was a Democrat, because she voted for health care, because of some other issue, or just because she was part of the government he hated. But, as Sheriff Dupnik observed, he’s the direct product of some of the most hateful political rhetoric this country has ever seen.

With that: