“If the president doesn’t get serious about the need to address our fiscal nightmare, yeah, there’s a chance it [the debt limit vote] could not happen,” Boehner told POLITICO after he toured a manufacturing company in this western Ohio town. “But that’s not my goal.”
Apparently going around making speeches and proposing solutions to the debt is not "serious." Serious is swallowing just enough wine so you can gurgle out a talking point and later threaten to create a huge mess by shutting down the government so you can score some political points with the Tea Party. [ Politico ]
Go back to Clinton tax rates -- everyone had a job and got rich. Add a gas tax or income surtax to fund all off-shore military operations.
He should smoke more. I think I'll send him a case of extra, extra, extra tar and nicotine cigarettes. Maybe some canned pork brains too.