Posted on 10/10/2015 2:14:19 PM PDT by FourPeas
IN an earlier, cozier Washington, D.C., John Boehner could have been the kind of House speaker whose memory is held dear by high-minded chin strokers on Sunday morning television programs: An icon of sadly bygone bipartisanship, a cutter of the grandest bargains, a man who, by God, made legislation move.
In this Washington, D.C., alas for him, Boehner was a humble bomb defuser, and the only grand bargains he cut were between his more intransigent backbenchers and the demands of political and constitutional reality. And now D.C. looks at his record, his resignation and his possible successors and asks: Can anyone do better?
Probably not anyone with Boehner’s precise profile. Probably not Kevin McCarthy, another genial dealcutter distrusted on the right, who would have recapitulated Boehner’s struggles had his candidacy not been doomed by gaffes and whiffs of scandal.
But maybe the lesson of those struggles is that the speakership simply isn’t a job for a professional dealmaker and institutionalist at the moment. Instead, maybe it’s a job for a conviction politician, an ideologue (in the best way!) who’s also interested in governing.
Maybe, in other words, House Republicans need a speaker who’s an ambassador from the Tea Party to the G.O.P.’s K Street/Chamber of Commerce wing, rather than the other way around.
The reality is this: The only way the Republican House majority can become less dysfunctional and chaotic in the short run is if the next speaker wins the trust of enough conservative backbenchers to quell or crush revolts from the rest.
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GOPe bitter? Nah...
MARSHA BLACKBURN!!!!
Still trying to follow a narrative, Tea Party poisons the well of acceptability unfortunately to folks more averse to change, even if it is evolutionary versus cut and go...
Then they play that song and the Sheep run to the Cannons...
Amen. Love to see it. Keep shouting it from the rooftops!
The Republucrat party still doesn’t have a friggin’ clue.
I’ve heard that name screamed before. What about Marsha Blackburn?
A potential speaker getting mentioned around these parts is Candace miller. She intends to leave the House after 2016 and run for US Senator for michigan.
How idiotic......around your parts they want someone who is running for Senator?? OMG!
He would have been a great minority leader during the 1940s through 1994. The era of one party rule in Congress, when Republican would go along to get along. He was completely out of his depth as leader of an opposition to a tyrannical anti-American president.
Seriously why do you keep shouting Marsha Blackburn? I presume you think she’s a serious candidate but why?
She’s pretty consistent conservtaive and sharp, would make a better presentation on camera than some of the other people mentioned, Just mho
Thanks. That helps a little. I know almost nothing about her. I do know I don’t like or am not particularly fond of Boehner, McCarthy, Chaffetz, Issa or Ryan.
We need a tea party speaker. We’ll get worse than bonehead.
But we gotta vote, we just gotta. Otherwise the ‘rats win!
(As if there was any difference)
Another whiney expose about how conservatives are too extreme. Looking down his haute nose at all of us unwashed, explaining what everyone with half a brain knows, the answer to every societal question is socialism, or more socialism. They only point he really makes is that the ability to string together lofty prose, does not mean the writer has the ability to think critically. Does he even understand what the term compromise means? And since when did deal making mean surrendering before you sat down at the table? The reason Boehner is gone is because he did not have the ability to make deals, and could not form compromise.
I have no illusions about getting a tea party type as Speaker.
However, it should at least be someone who is not owned by The Cheap Labor Express.
Someone who is on the side of the citizens and the rule of law.
Seems like a minimum requirement.
Cause be-baw, some people are DEAF!
And DUMB!!!
WELL I’M NOT DEAF ANN ARCHY BUT I’M SURE NOT HEARING WHAT YOURE TRYING TO SAY!!
Okay you like Marsha Blackburn and don’t want to trouble us with why you do. I only asked because I know almost nothing about her.
Well, look her record up, be-baw!!!!! She is FAB!!! Maybe you aren’t deaf, but........
Nope. At this point in time I have no reason to look up Marsha Blackburn. You’re the only one I know who’s promoting her and if you don’t think highly enough of her to properly promote her, then I’m not sure it’s worth the time to research her. I will note that you’ve been here for quite some time and I believe you to be of sound mind and good character so I certainly won’t disregard her. Besides there’s nothing I can do about it.
Tea Party poisons the well of acceptability unfortunately to folks more averse to change...
I’m actually training my dad to use the term Conservative instead of Tea Party. I think the term has passed its political usefulness plus Conservative is self-defining and broader in its scope to include the Tea Party as well as other non-Tea Party groups who believe in constitutional rights and religious freedom. The danger with the term Conservative is that it is widely and loosely used by candidates, but Tea Party candidates have betrayed the principles they campaigned on, too, so we need to vet everyone carefully, as always.
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