So Be It? Pelosi Rips Boehner’s Dismissal of Potential Job Loss

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/02/so-be-it-pelosi-rips-boehners-dismissal-of-potential-job-loss.html

On the House floor this afternoon, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi seized on Speaker John Boehner’s “so be it” remarks in response to a question about potential job loss related to the Republicans’ plan to cut $100 billion from the continuing resolution.

Pelosi went after Boehner for the apparent gaffe and said that House Republicans “have not presented a responsible plan for addressing the deficit.”

“Just today, Speaker Boehner said that if jobs are lost as a result of Republican spending cuts, ‘So be it.’ So be it?” Pelosi, D-Calif., asked incredulously. “Democrats do not subscribe to Speaker Boehner’s verdict that if jobs are lost in this Continuing Resolution, ‘So be it.’ Maybe ‘So be it’ for him. But not ‘So be it’ for the people who are losing their jobs. Instead, we support President Obama’s budget to ‘out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world.’”

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Pelosi said that the budget “should be a statement of our national values” and criticized Republicans for proposing cuts to programs like education, public safety and veterans’ benefits.


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http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7352706n

[chelsea0011]

1. Did Boehner start crying about people losing their rotten jobs

[FreakinDJ]

2. I think you know the answer to that question already

Not only No - But FUCK NO

[damntexdem]

3. Boehner pulled a real boner on this one.

And the Dems should really dig into him for it. Good going, Nancy!

[Monique1]

4. Everyone should go after the Orange Man

he has had one too many martinis

[Control-Z]

5. Late to the game on this one,

so I have to ask - Was Boner's statement caught on any kind of audio or video recording? What a great ad that would make. With Pelosi's response, even better.

[BlueCheese]

7. Yes. I heard it on the news (radio).

It would make for a great campaign soundbite. Just to be clear, from the snippet I heard, it sounded like he was referring to government employees.

[dennis4868]

6. Boehner during the campaign said:

Repubs are gpong to put people back to work; After the election: if people lose their jobs "so be it."

[gratuitous]

8. How generous of ABC to admit that it's an "apparent" gaffe

But ABC will surely come under fire from the usual corners for "editorializing" the news by characterizing Boehner's stupid statement as a gaffe, albeit only an "apparent" one.