JOHN BOEHNER: The Very Best DemocRAT Speaker Ever!
Posted on 09/22/2015 9:41:30 AM PDT by cotton1706
Speaker John Boehner's future was on Rep. Henry Cuellar's mind when he was speaking with fellow House Democrats last week.
The question they were mulling: Would they throw Boehner a lifeline and save his job if he needed their votes to survive?
"Heck yes!" Cuellar said in an interview when asked if he'd consider it.
The Texas Democrat is one of more than a dozen House Democrats who told CNN they'd be willing to vote to keep Boehner in place if he faces a rebellion from the tea party wing of his caucus this fall. In interviews, a number of Democrats said they would use the dilemma as leverage to demand Boehner take a list of unspecified actions before casting a vote to spare his speakership.
The openness of Democrats to help the Ohio Republican could give Boehner more breathing room as he faces a revolt from roughly two dozen House conservatives who are plotting how to boot him from his position because, they believe, he has not taken a more confrontational line with President Barack Obama.
"If you look clinically at every instance in which John Boehner was in trouble with his own caucus, you'll notice that Democrats were always there to put things over the top," said Rep. Steve Israel, a New York Democrat and close ally of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. "I, for one, would work with him so long as he's doing the right thing for the country and meeting us half-way on the values and priorities that we have."
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No surprise there. He helps them more than he helps his fellow republicans. It is always great to have a traitor from the other side on your team.
You know where people stand by their enemies.
Is anyone surprised that Pelosi is still running the House while Boner cries and lies to Republicans? However, any Republican who votes to save Boner should be primaried next year.
Thank the people that screamed at you to vote for lesser evil no matter what because the dems were worse.
Clearly they are not.
This would actually be great.
What other proof would be needed?
It would be an unequivocal condemnation.
If the Rats save Boner, they will own him. He has to go, for the sake of our country.
Of course. He's a closet democrat, anyway. Waddapansey!!
They own him and have owned him since day 1.
So why doesn’t Boner just change his party affiliation to democrat and be done with it. This is just too funny. You can’t make this sh**t up.
GO TRUMP GO!
“The openness of Democrats to help the Ohio Republican”
Birds of a feather flock together and the Dim birds know Boehner is one of them and is a reliable big government vote.
I believe they would be.
I hold that 'voting the lesser evil' is actually voting the GREATER evil.
People too stupid to understand the first will never ever accept the reality of what they are actually doing. And yes, it is in fact, GREATER evil.
For the same reason leftists flood FR with lesser evil/no matter what demands. To destroy from within.
Boner will rise again!
> more than a dozen House Democrats who told CNN they’d be willing to vote to keep Boehner in place
And THAT is why he needs to go.
Next time some resident GOP-e stalwart takes umbrage at the expression: “the Democrats and their GOP allies,” remind them of this article.
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