This is why we can't have nice government.
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Fiscal Cliff Negotiations Between John Boehner And Harry Reid Reportedly Got Heated
Fiscal cliff negotiations between House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) reportedly got heated last Friday. According to Politico, several sources claimed to have overheard a verbal altercation between the two men in the White House lobby. With no bipartisan agreement about the debt ceiling, spending cuts and tax increases in sight, Boehner reportedly pointed at Reid and said, “Go fuck yourself.” Read M…
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Without reading any further than the excerpted paragraph (and it's HuffPo, so …), I don't know that I agree. Â I don't mind "heated negotiations" or a few epithets thrown around. I care about being able to move past those to results.
We did get results. Not bad. Not great. Better than I had feared.Â
I don't care of Boehner gets cranky because, for once, he was backed into a corner. Ultimately, and at the thirteenth hour, we got results.
Until February, at least.
I don't mind heated negotiations, either, but I did think the idea of the F-bomb dropping near the Oval Office was a wee bit beyond the archaic rules of decorum the House and Senate pretend to follow.
I meant "this is why we can't have nice government" in the sense of saying "this is why we can't have nice things" after any messy, stupidly funny disaster – not that government must always be nice. Which brings me to a M*A*S*H reference inevitably, because it's nice to be nice… to the nice. 😉
I don't mind heated negotiations, either, but I did think the idea of the F-bomb dropping near the Oval Office was a wee bit beyond the archaic rules of decorum the House and Senate pretend to follow.
I meant "this is why we can't have nice government" in the sense of saying "this is why we can't have nice things" after any messy, stupidly funny disaster – not that government must always be nice. Which brings me to a M*A*S*H reference inevitably, because it's nice to be nice… to the nice. 😉
Whereas I see it, per se, as an example of how understandably tense the negotiations were.  If Boehner had turned to the press corps and told them that Henry Reid could "go fuck himself", I'd agree with you completely.
Oh, good point. And as a social transgression, it's not as bad as beating one's political opponent with a cane on the House floor and challenging them to a duel. It's quaintly embarrassing.