White House decries stupidity..(The good news: the WH was not referring to liberals.)

[No Elephants]

The bad news. The moral high ground is starting to look like quicksand.

Dec 26, 2012 3:36pm
At Edge of ‘Cliff,’ White House Lashes Out at ‘Congressional Stupidity’

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President Obama cut his Hawaiian vacation short and headed back to Washington today while the Senate is scheduled to reconvene on Thursday. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said previously that he would give House members a 48-hour notice of any upcoming vote, which means that the soonest the House could consider a bill would be Saturday — just two days before a deadline to make a deal or trigger a rise in taxes and steep budget cuts.

Boehner and other GOP leaders issued a statement today following a conference call saying: “The House has acted on two bills which collectively would avert the entire fiscal cliff if enacted. Those bills await action by the Senate. If the Senate will not approve and send them to the president to be signed into law in their current form, they must be amended and returned to the House.”

While Boehner put the onus on the president and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a White House official used testy language to put the responsibility back on Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

“What we need is for the Senate Minority Leader not to block a vote and for Boehner to allow a vote,” a White House official told ABC News. “The hits to our economy aren’t coming from outside factors, they’re coming from congressional stupidity.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/12/fiscal-cliff-deal-in-reids-court/



Sure, being civil is never going to get the House to do what Obama wants, but being offensive sure won't do that, either. So, why look like disrespectful jerks to no useful purpose? I mean, how did calling liberals "retards" work for ya?

BTW, I love how we all tacitly agreed at some point to pretend that buildings talk to the press. They do it in the UK, too. For instance, I am always interested in learning what Buckingham Palace and Sandringham said.

Odder creatures than hobbits, we are. And most of the time, we don't even notice.

I wish I knew enough about procedure to know if Boehner is right about the ball being in Reid's court. Don't know, but, in this case, I am not sure I care.

Kabuki theater.

[Enthusiast]

1. At least we will get to cut social security.

:puke: