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Why are Republicans not holding Boehner accountable?

Why are Republicans not holding Boehner and other congressional Republicans accountable for not reducing spending as they promised?

Update:

crash.override do you understand Obama only has control of the executive branch, but you people want to claim he is a liar for being blocked by congress?

I guess Republicans don't have enough control to get any bill passed just enough to block them right?

Update 2:

thanks zombama for your honesty. We realize you must hold all Democrat accountable for the affects of Republican actions.

Update 3:

owa, nice examples of your claims. Shows you are well informed and educated on the matter.

Update 4:

quoting smsmith500 "How can we hold Boehner accountable for something that is the fault of the democrats."

Answer: the same way you hold Obama accountable for things, claiming he lied because his policies were blocked by Boehner, would be my guess.

Are you claiming you are are hypocrite?

Update 5:

yes BadWolf63, if you allow Bush era tax cuts to expire on the working class as Republicans are willing to do if they don't get to keep their tax cuts on the rich, it will reduce consumer confidence. Comprehending reality isn't your strong point is it?

Update 6:

Quoting e: " The only thing this president has produced for the American people is more debt and deficit. "

Mindless nonsense and drivel.

Deficits go up when you reduce taxes(tea party and Bush agenda).

Deficits go up during recession as a result of less consumer spending, as History shows.

Deficits go up when you outsource jobs(results of Reagan era policies)

Deficits go up when you start a prolonged war.(Bush agenda)

Please tell me what these things have to do with Obama, other than you being misinformed on how reality works.

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  • 9 years ago
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    Republicans only expect accountability from liberals and Democrats. Republicans never hold each other accountable for anything.

    Take George W. Bush for example. No Republican running for office wants to be seen in public with him, yet they never admit that Bush did anything wrong while serving as president.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    We have the most politically polarized Congress since Reconstruction, with record low approval ratings.

    Repubs have the House but Dems have the Senate and White House... The only thing this president has produced for the American people is more debt and deficit.

    Not only has he not produced ANY kind of budget he all my himself has borrowed more money than every other president before him COMBINED.

    And you want to bring up Boehner? pft

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    "Allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire coupled with a scheduled round of automatic spending cuts would probably throw the U.S. economy into a tailspin. That’s the dire warning from a ***new Congressional Budget Office report*** that says the economy would contract by 1.3 percent in the first half 2013, pushing off a ”fiscal cliff” on Jan. 1."

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/fisca...

    Now the House is trying, with the bill passed the 1st (BIPARTISAN), to save the economy...

    "WASHINGTON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a largely symbolic plan to extend all expiring individual income tax cuts, leaving a deep rift over tax policy unresolved until after November's elections."

    http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/01/usa-congr...

    Will Obama, Reid and his minions show that they want to destroy it?

  • 9 years ago

    They've been aggressively trying to reduce spending, except Harry Reid and Pelosi Galore in the Senate will not vote on any of the bills they submit. If Reid and Pelosi are reelected, the whole USA will turn into California where the local governments are dropping like flies since they cannot control their spending.

    ROMNEY 2012!!! Let's DO THIS America just like ROMNEY balanced the Massachusetts budget while he served as their Governor.

  • 9 years ago

    Because the Republicans are a bunch of liars. All they want is the power to rule. They could care less about others who don't fit their class. They feel they can do or have whatever they want because in there mind the country allows them to because of their class. WE THE PEOPLE MUST KEEP THIS COUNTRY FROM UNWELCOME FORCED CONSERVATISM. IT IS BRINGING THIS COUNTRY TO A DOWNWARD SPIRAL!!!!

    Source(s): I got this info from an article in Busty magazine.
  • 9 years ago

    Because we are well aware that the majority of bills passed in the House have been blocked or tabled by Harry Reid in the Senate. How can we hold Boehner accountable for something that is the fault of the democrats.

  • 9 years ago

    Do you understand that the Republicans only have control of the House? The Dems still control the Senate and the WH. There is only so much the Repubs can do with Harry in the Senate who STILL has not produced a budget like he was supposed to for the past 4 years.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Republicans do what they're told by FOX FAKE "News" and Lush Limbo. No republican would EVER think of doing anything not specifically sanctioned by these heads of their moron party.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    There could be one Democrat left in Washington and Republicans would still blame everything on them.

  • 9 years ago

    Democrats are like the cartoon character "Jeffrey" from "Family Circus": "NOT ME"... show me a Republican that thinks OJ did not kill his ex-wife and Goldman and I will become a Libertarian! Its ALWAYS someone or something else but NEVER what they do!

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