I noticed you didn’t respond to the charge that Boehner folded on the dent, the sequestration and now Obamacare.
All true and undeniable.
So I will say again—you are the deluded one. Boehner held nothing. Did’t even see his face during the campaign until the last weekend for Romney when he showed up at a campaign event.Where was he traveling anywhere to help GOP congressional candidates? You talk like he actually helped conservatives get elected.
Why won’t he say he’ll defund Obamacare if he is so conservative? When has he ever laid down the gauntlet to Reid and Obama? When has he ever told Pelosi off?
There’s your answer.
Boehner is not in any fight except for himself.
And the TEAs did not lose anything. In case you hadn’t noticed, it was Boehner and company that moved to isolate the TEAS when they came to Congress in Jan. 2011.
Why didn’t Boehner defund Obamacare then? Why did he just allow continuing resolutions into March 2013 to fund it when the American electorate overwhelming elected representatives to do just that in 2010?
Boehner just said Obamacare is the law of the land, and he wants the President to succeed. He just undercut your whole position.
You are deluded if you cannot see that.
The House of Representatives, were the constitutional system still functioning, would wield enormous power in our defense.
The Speaker (presuming the Speaker is of the majority) is the one official who can block unconstitutional Executive Branch activity.
This has been John Boehner’s job for the past two years, and he has been a miserable failure.
The House majority has to decide on open (political) war or appeasement. I have no illusions about who these Republican members are, but they’re all we have.
If the House fails to choose political war, by electing Paul Ryan Speaker, I fear that they will get the real thing before elections roll around again. THAT would be a disaster which we should take all possible measures to avoid - except the one measure Boehner seems capable of, which is appeasement.