A new report notes that under the leadership of House Speaker John Boehner, Republicans in the body “avoided being held responsible for an across-the-board tax increase” and “gave up substantially less revenue than Obama demanded” in the fight over the so-called “fiscal cliff.”
The so-called cliff was avoided with a holiday vote by the U.S. House to approve a plan that raises more than $600 billion in new taxes, cuts an insignificant $15 billion from spending and allows huge new budget increases to develop under Barack Obama’s spending.
Boehner, however, isn’t getting credit for much, if anything, of the strategy by Republicans facing a Democratic White House and a Democratic Senate.
As of this afternoon, participants in an unscientific poll on the Drudge Report were rejecting Boehner as a future speaker of the House by a more than 6-1 margin. Read More:
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