Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Speaker John Boehner twice walked out of the negotiations because, as he stated, he felt like he was trying to nail Jell-O to the wall. We are learning more about how the debt limit deal got done. One thing is clear – presidential leadership did not prevent a default. In fact, a report yesterday hints that the White House nearly caused one.
In retaliation, Nancy Pelosi was instructed by the White House to not participate in a scheduled conference call with Boehner and Senate leaders Reid and McConnell.
Without Pelosi’s participation, Reid backed out and the call was eventually canceled. Thus, at the same time the president was demanding action, administration officials blew up the negotiations.
Congressional leaders evidently got tired of being played by the White House. Consider this excerpt:
“Later that day, the four leaders met with Obama at the White House. At one point … the Democratic and Republican leaders asked Obama and his aides to leave the room to let them negotiate. A tentative deal was subsequently struck, but Obama privately threatened to veto it…”
According to The Hill, Speaker John Boehner asked the networks to broadcast his response to Obama’s address to the nation on July 25th. The request
reportedly “infuriated the White House.”
For example, on the morning of Monday, July 25th, Obama endorsed a plan by Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid that did not have any tax increases.
But in his address to the nation later that night, Obama demanded that tax hikes be part of any deal. That led one liberal pundit at CNN to comment, “nobody today is talking about tax increases, except Barack Obama.”
Rollback Job-Killing Regulations
Kudos to Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), who is leading the fight in Congress to roll back job-killing regulations.
This week, the senator released a report noting that the federal bureaucracy had issued more than 600 new rules and regulations with an estimated cost of nearly $10 billion — in the past month alone!
Let me give you one example.
Dendreon is a Seattle-based pharmaceutical company that spent 15 years developing a promising treatment for prostate cancer.
So promising, in fact, that JP Morgan labeled the company “our top pick for 2011.” But after years of clinical trials and years of jumping FDA hoops, the company is “on the ropes.”
In retaliation, Nancy Pelosi was instructed by the White House to not participate in a scheduled conference call with Boehner and Senate leaders Reid and McConnell.
Without Pelosi’s participation, Reid backed out and the call was eventually canceled. Thus, at the same time the president was demanding action, administration officials blew up the negotiations.
Congressional leaders evidently got tired of being played by the White House. Consider this excerpt:
“Later that day, the four leaders met with Obama at the White House. At one point … the Democratic and Republican leaders asked Obama and his aides to leave the room to let them negotiate. A tentative deal was subsequently struck, but Obama privately threatened to veto it…”
According to The Hill, Speaker John Boehner asked the networks to broadcast his response to Obama’s address to the nation on July 25th. The request
reportedly “infuriated the White House.”
For example, on the morning of Monday, July 25th, Obama endorsed a plan by Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid that did not have any tax increases.
But in his address to the nation later that night, Obama demanded that tax hikes be part of any deal. That led one liberal pundit at CNN to comment, “nobody today is talking about tax increases, except Barack Obama.”
Rollback Job-Killing Regulations
Kudos to Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), who is leading the fight in Congress to roll back job-killing regulations.
This week, the senator released a report noting that the federal bureaucracy had issued more than 600 new rules and regulations with an estimated cost of nearly $10 billion — in the past month alone!
Let me give you one example.
Dendreon is a Seattle-based pharmaceutical company that spent 15 years developing a promising treatment for prostate cancer.
So promising, in fact, that JP Morgan labeled the company “our top pick for 2011.” But after years of clinical trials and years of jumping FDA hoops, the company is “on the ropes.”
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