Posted on 11/08/2012 4:31:54 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
I really hope someone with more backbone challenges this feckless speaker:
ABC NEWS – Asked whether he will make another attempt to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act, Boehner said “the election changes that” and “Obamacare is the law of the land.”
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Akin/Mourdock-2016
EXACTLY!! And that is why I will REFUSE to participate
Considering that Boehner was one of the few Republicans who actually won this year, I think I’ll defer to his judgement. That’s all we need to do is lose the house of representatives in two years. that would surely help the conservative agenda.
we no longer have an opposition party, not even in name
If this man is Speaker again, it is so so so over
So what does this penalty tax buy you?
If you pay the penalty are you automatically enrolled in insurance. If so then everyone would choose this option because it is much cheaper than insurance.
The only problem is that the Government is broke and you get what you pay for.
The bad news is that, for those free human beings who chose not to buy health insurance in the past, the penalty was ZERO.
God, I can't believe I'm actually reading such a pathetic rationalization from someone on a conservative web site.
What's next? "The good news is that anyone with no history of any kind of mental illness anytime in their entire family tree going back to Adams will be allowed to have one .22 cal rifle locked in the basement at all times with a fingerprint release lock and one biometrically preidentified bullet. [Never chambered, of course.]"
But hey, it's not like (some of you) you can't own a gun!
Good Lord. The "good news" is the Federal Government arrogating a power it hasn't the slightest authority to exercise under the Constitution. What's the bad news? The death camps won't be operating at full vigor for several years?
That would have required a candidate with the credibility to attack Obamacare the way the Tea Party did in 2010. The author of Romneycare was in no position to repudiate Obama.
Paul Ryan = House Speaker
Great comment. Paul Ryan would make an outstanding Speaker of the House.
Right, Boehner will defeat Obamacare by quitting golf. Ty.
Guess what, all the businessmen I know are planning to drop healthcare and pay for the less expensive vouchers. everyone else gets to pick up the tab for the difference.
It’s a disaster.
No, he’s not dumb. Elections have consequences and he knows it.
Gingrich won the battle and lost the war.
Clinton's poll numbers soared and Newt's plummeted and the myth that Clinton balanced the budget emerged.(even though it was all smoke and mirrors.)
Then Newt got run out of Congress.
He also once said:”If it’s good enough for Hawaii, it’s good enough for me.” A little later Michelle Bachmann dug up her “violin,” tuned it and played the same tune to his notes!!!
Any takers??? (Paul Ryan?)
Doesn’t the House control the purse strings?
He was an effective leader with serious personal character flaws that could be exploited. He chose to leave instead of fighting.
He decided that it wasn't worth the effort when his own party refused to back him. He decided that writing books and giving speeches and making millions of dollars with his new young wife was better than constantly being pilloried for being effective at his job.
Clinton fought and kept his job, but history will record that he was a disgraced president who was impeached.
Gingrich won the battle and the war as he was able to force Clinton into the very concessions that effectively made Clinton a center right president and two termer. Gingrich saved Clinton's presidency. He knows it and Clinton knows it.
He also allowed for the House to remain in Republican hands for more than a decade until Hastert and Bush refused to operate in a Conservative manner. Remember how they lost the House in 2006 race they where branded as a party that ran a ‘culture of corruption’ by featherbedding their nests with pork and because a Congressman texted a page. They where called corrupt by of all people Nancy Pelosi.
If we had an effective negotiator and power broker like Gingrich instead of Boehner we would have effectively repealed Obomacare ALLREADY through the power of the purse strings. He could have forced Obama to repeal and replace the entire bill by simply using the power that the Constitution gave him. Some form of Medical Reform would have occurred, but it would have been better for all concerned. Including the President in the long run.
With the power of the Republican House, led by Gingrich, they effectively controlled the president. As is the entire idea of the Constitution. The House of Representatives is intended to have the most power, we simply need a ruthless Conservative leader who refused to buckle and is willing to put the hurt on the President. Gingrich did it. Had he been less morally ‘flexible’ he could have remained speaker for twenty years.
hahahahah OK How much did Super Newt CUT the budget?
You actually believe the hype. Its sad really. They didn't Control anything they promised to CUT the Budget they didn't they promised to fix Social Security they didn't. What they did was they increased the Budget a little less than what the Democrats would've done and they kicked the can down the road.
Gingrich played it fast and loose and talked a good game but in the end he increased the budget and didn't cut a single dollar. And them's the facts!
Anything can be the "law of the land," if one group ignores the fundamental laws of the land, and their strongest opposition rolls over and plays dead.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph, is for good (or cowardly) men to do nothing.
Put a fork in theGOP; they're done.
In my experience, the "bipartisanship" I've experienced in the last 10 years or so, is more accurately defined as the appeasement of losers, who prefer to call it "not lowering themelves" to the opponent's level : losers no less.
I don't care what a new party is called, so long as they are willing and able and unafraid to fight the enemy on their terms.
So many of us as simply waiting...
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