You mean besides being an open borders, homo rights supporting, non-principled surrender monkey and all around liberal GOP-e RINO. Ain’t that enough.
He’s what you’re going to get as a national coalition leader. The House GOP is more conservative than its been in a generation or two. That Boehner got reelected tells you that he has some skills and is valuable politically. Being Speaker of the House isn’t simple. You represent a diverse coalition and an even wider base of supporters, none of whom necessarily see eye to eye.
We’re not a nation of FReepers. It’s easy for us to agree 95% on everything and you still find long, long threads with FReepers debating all kinds of issues. Humans are political by nature. It takes a good sense of the possible to make things happen. We can wish for things, work for things and make things happen. Think of that as a Venn diagram of ever shrinking choices/opportunities.
There aren’t enough conservative votes to take back America today. There are enough conservative/moderate votes to begin to take back America today. We need to play it smart.
What the House GOP did was keep the focus on failure, abject failure via the Democratic Party. Not voting to continue this very “reasonable” bill (that’s how the media would carry it and the LIVs would hear it) would just take the heat off of Democratcare and the failure of the Democrats to properly run the country. Why do that?
I actually think the Framers had in mind any small arms available to the government’s men, e.g. flame throwers, machine guns, anti-tank guns, grenades, etc., but do you really think we could cobble together enough votes right now to get all the infringements on the 2nd removed?