 Thank you all very much!! Woo hoo!! And we’re now over 98%!! Less than $1.7k to go!! We can do this. Let's put this baby to bed!! |
Posted on 11/29/2012 9:03:06 PM PST by Arthurio
House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, made it clear that any bill that came to the House from the upper chamber as a result of Senate Democrats changing the rules on the filibuster would be "dead on arrival." In a statement released from Speaker Boehner's office, the Ohio GOP'er remarked:
“Senate Democrats’ attempt to break Senate rules in order to change Senate rules is clearly designed to marginalize Senate Republicans and their constituents while greasing the skids for controversial partisan measures. I question the wisdom of this maneuver, especially at a time when cooperation on Capitol Hill is critical, and fully support Leader McConnell’s efforts to protect minority rights, which are an essential part of our constitutional tradition. Any bill that reaches a Republican-led House based on Senate Democrats’ heavy-handed power play would be dead on arrival.”
Read more: PICKET: Boehner - Filibuster rule change bills 'dead on arrival' - Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/nov/29/picket-boehner-filibuster-rule-change-bills-dead-a/#ixzz2Dg9fMZKU Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
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Correct, but the side that can consistently get 51%+ of their agenda passed wins, again and again.
Speaking of the failed history of revolutions: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_EGYPT_CONSTITUTION_GLANCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-11-29-20-23-22
Thank you all very much!! Woo hoo!! And we’re now over 98%!! Less than $1.7k to go!! We can do this. Let's put this baby to bed!! |
I see. Thanks for the clarification.
Any bill passed via the filibuster rule change will be DOA in the House.
This crap is getting old. Boehner has been a bonehead, but we need to support him when he says the right thing. People here are more interested in being negative than they are in addressing the real problems. The real problems being the WH, Reid, et al.
Because women are emotional not logical.
It has nothing to do with abortion. Ever since women have been given the right to vote, they have looked towards govt as a provider in one way or another.
We had 20 years of pro-life presidents (Reagan, Bush I, Bush II) and not one of them denied a woman to an abortion.
“Until the Republicans drop their obsession with abortion, they will lose the vote among women.”
After hearing from so many here that they refused to vote for Romney BECAUSE he supported abortion, I don’t think that will happen.
It’s pretty much what separates us from the leftist freaks.
If married white women were the only ones allowed to vote in the last election, Romney would have kicked Obama ass.
Support the man's actions? What actions? Talk is cheap, and Boehner talks a great talk; it's in the follow-through where he fails. I heard lots of great talk in the debt limit negotiations. All that great talk got us nowhere. That's why you see all this negativity and cynicism on FR.
I'll get excited when I actually see some results.
That's correct. But, that hasn't stopped the left from demagoging every Republican on the threat that they might try. And, it is a factor in every US Senate election, due to their role in Supreme Court confirmations.
All you have to see is what happens when a Republican makes a comment like Akin did. It becomes national news. The state-run media turns it into an issue for every Republican candidate, who is put on the defensive. You aren't going to change that.
Look, I told the original poster that he wouldn't like it. I was wrong about him, but I was right about you.
Until the Republican party accepts the issue as settled and moves on, or forges a compromise with Democrats and finds a middle ground, they will continue to lose national elections -- because it will be resurrected every election as a "war on women" meme.
Of course, there aren't Democrats that will be willing to compromise, either. They have their own activists that would never let them.
My personal opinion about abortion is probably very close to yours. But, I consider economic issues to be far more important, and any chance the Republicans have to win on those issues are negated by their intransigence on abortion (and a couple of other issues).
Without a strong economy, we will go the way of Greece, and France, and the UK: stagnation, and eventually failure. If that occurs, abortion issues will be the least of our worries.
Since married white women are a minority in the population of women, that's not a very good strategy.
Dittos I can’t stand boehner but I also see no value it kicking him when he say or does something right. Carrot and stick rather than 24x7 cattle prod.
Ok, Boehner here ya go - chomp down on this here carrot. Good wabbit. I for one do appreciate it when you say something right even if it does occur right before a cave when you sell us out to the dems (oops broke my own rule). :-)
Agree completely.
We have thousands of keyboard "heroes" here on FR but how many put themselves up to be exposed to ridicule like Boehner does on a daily basis.
It amazes me how often an anti-Obama thread is posted and posters end up bashing Boehner and/or the GOP.
The GOP has been holding the line lately. And Boehner did NOT raise taxes last year although under considerable pressure to do so.
I'd rather have Boehner leading than the snarky posters on FR, that's for sure!
Bravo!
But Boehner’s threat was entirely necessary and is a bold action to save the country.
By making this statement, he has drawn a line in the sand that will definitely discourage some democrat senators that are on the fence from support Reid.
The Freepers that are crowing “so-and-so is going to cave, so I’ll criticize him before he actually does” is pure self-aggrandizing.
For me it’s a marketing issue. If a candidates audience spoke Esperanto and you communicated with them in Farsi you wouldn’t blame the audience for not getting your message. If you presented to the blind or the deaf you’d modify your presentation to fit their ability to receive the message.
We can win women, particularly white women, but also minorities with the right messenger and message. We have to speak to them in a “language” they understand. Romney failed to do that.
We will have to learn or we’ll even lose Texas:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/lone-star-swingin/
550 million years ago??? I will have to put you in touch with Franklin Graham
Here, John, a box of Kleenex for you.
Explain to me what Boehner has done as Speaker that demonstrates his courage, conviction, and spine against the Donkeys? He sets us up, we get our hopes up, and he folds like a house of cards. At least he's consistent: he's a wuss.
"Senate Democrats’ attempt to break Senate rules in order to change Senate rules is clearly designed to marginalize Senate Republicans and their constituents while greasing the skids for controversial partisan measures. I question the wisdom of this maneuver, especially at a time when cooperation on Capitol Hill is critical, and fully support Leader McConnell’s efforts to protect minority rights, which are an essential part of our constitutional tradition. Any bill that reaches a Republican-led House based on Senate Democrats’ heavy-handed power play would be dead on arrival."
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