Posted on 09/26/2015 12:11:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The real religion of Washington conservatives is that having a government at all is offensive to the market. No wonder leading a branch of it is thankless work.
House Speaker John Boehner’s last official moment in the media spotlight found him crying: sitting behind Pope Francis during the pontiff’s address to Congress, Boehner – a notorious public cryer – teared up at the homiletic spectacle, and was forced to dry his eyes with a handkerchief.
It was fitting because, over the past five years, Boehner himself has presided over a far less decorous and infinitely more fractious show of ardent faith, as the House Republican majority has been inundated with true believers in the government-hating, austerity-addled Tea Party gospel.
Three years into his tenure, he was forced to broker a disagreeable truce over a Republican-led government shutdown composed of little more than histrionics over the alleged infamies of the Affordable Care Act, long after every branch of government had weighed in, affirmatively, on its soundness. (That this particular uprising was actually spearheaded in the Senate, by arch ideological exhibitionist Ted Cruz, scarcely mattered. Heeding the winds of Tea Party change, Boehner, a deal-making Midwestern business conservative of the old school, knew all too well that the restive Tea Party would send him packing, and so duly hit the Sunday talk show circuit to proclaim that his caucus was determined to “make a stand” regardless of that stand’s doomed practical import or fundamental coherence.)
Before his announcement, Boehner was facing the same demented scenario, with the purist fomenters of Tea Party rebellion reassembling to stage another futile and self-defeating shutdown over the phony culture-war urban legend that Planned Parenthood is carving up fetal body parts for profit....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
He left because when you lie to get elected, the stupid voters expect you to perform. Voters are crazies.
Lies, alcohol and back stabbing had nothing to do with it.
Boy, these journalism types are far more stupid than even I had thought.
Oh well, they are doing a superb job of destroying what little respect (if any) they have.
Balance the budget and pay off the debt.
Another spreading more liberal paper little liberal pap!!!
Memo To Chris Lehmann :
Click the Pic
Another little liberal spreading liberal pap!!
Are we ever going to be able to rehabilitate these lefties back into society? Really?...
The Manchester Guardian is one of the most far left of the British newspapers.
The business of government is to promote a climate of growth and freedom to practice the “pursuit of happiness”.
“Government” connotes the restrictions put upon any kind of free expression, whether it be words, ideas or units of currency. The concept of limiting government, and trusting in the good judgment of multitudes of people, those who put up the capital, those who turn that capital into goods and services widely sought by the consumer, and those consumers who make the selections to fit THEIR personal needs, was enshrined in the words of the Declaration of Independence, a document that provided the rationale to throw off oppression and limits to personal initiative.
And it has worked remarkably well, everywhere it is tried. But there is a basic requirement - just about everybody has to be able to make those choices in critical thinking as to what is the best course for THEMSELVES to follow.
My GAYDAR is off the charts!
phony culture-war urban legend that Planned Parenthood is carving up fetal body parts for profit....
It isn’t phony.
It’s not a legend.
It’s real.
It’s real ugly.
The progressive socialists are trotting out this old hag of a meme?
If you want limited government then you want no government at all?
My response is if you want unlimited government then you want tyranny, which progressive socialists do.
Where is the “Barf Alert”?
Hey Brits, we kicked your @sses once...don’t make us come over there.
Looks like New Hampshire Chrissy boy would not like to live free but would rather die.
Twice, actually.
Right here: The Manchester Guardian
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