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Boehner appears safe--for now
Washington Examiner ^ | January 2, 2013 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 01/02/2013 11:07:36 AM PST by Qbert

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To: Qbert

By GOD I’m no Boehner fan and would just as soon see him out, but if he really did tell dingy Harry to go F himself he finally did something I wholeheartedly approve of.


21 posted on 01/02/2013 3:17:01 PM PST by Marathoner (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: mrsmith

Oh, please. We can skip a lot of that. We just have to get the race and gender cards out of play, badly.

The left has made it all about identity politics, and a lot of women voted for Obama yet again. “Looks like me” and “understands me” are two VERY important criteria for so-called minority low-info voters, who make up the large majority of the electorate.


22 posted on 01/02/2013 3:27:06 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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Your ‘qualifications’ are silly. That tokenism got Steele leading the RNC- to disaster.

Any Speaker who will allow the conservative majority of our caucus to win it’s fair share of fights is all we need.

It’s Boehner’s tactic of letting the conservatives vote against bad Democrat bills that will pass anyway that is demoralizing and destroying the Party.


23 posted on 01/02/2013 3:43:04 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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But he can BE Speaker, nothing in the Constitution say it has to be a congresscritter.


24 posted on 01/02/2013 4:25:01 PM PST by Happy Rain ("1/1/13: The day the RINO GOP-e died--long live the TEA Party!!!")
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To: mrsmith

Okay, you’re thinking I’m saying that those are the most important qualifications. I’m not, I’m saying that if we have multiple candidates for the position that are *equally* qualified and one is a minority, they should get the nod this time by.

We have a lot of minority conservatives in the House now - yet the media and Dems keep painting the Reps as the party of rich white guys. Kind of hard to do that when the person they have to cover as the Speaker of the House is a competent person that happens to be a minority.


25 posted on 01/02/2013 10:25:19 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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