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Boehner Calls Opponents To TARP "Knuckledraggers"
RealClearPolitics ^ | Tuesday August 14, 2012

Posted on 08/14/2012 5:29:21 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

VAN SUSTEREN, FOX News: People think of him as hawkish on the budget, on expenses, but he voted for TARP. He voted for the auto bailout, voted for two stimulus in '08, voted against the '09 -- February '09 President Obama stimulus. How does -- I mean, how does he explain those, or I mean, how does -- politically, how does he sell that?

BOEHNER: I mean, I think that he's a practical conservative. He's got a very conservative voting record, but he's not a knuckle-dragger, all right? He understood that TARP, while none of us wanted to do it, if we were going to save -- save our economy, save the world economy, it had to happen. I wish we didn't have to do it, either, but he understood that.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; boehner; knuckledraggers; paulryan; romney; tarp
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To: dfwgator

Khan Academy on TARP: http://www.khanacademy.org/finance-economics/paulson-bailout?k

Brilliant.


41 posted on 08/14/2012 6:25:46 PM PDT by Third Person (Proud to be a knuckledragger!)
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To: muawiyah

The problem is the gop e IS the gop. The only folks who are making a somewhat successful attempt to change it are the Ron Paul supporters. While I personally sympathize with them, they are not supported by most traditional conservatives.


42 posted on 08/14/2012 6:28:54 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Guns Save Lives! www.VCDL.org)
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To: DManA
Here we are 4 years later and they are STILL too big to fail and run by people that are too stupid to succeed.

Well, maybe we'll get another crisis and another shot at a TARP debate. Something to look forward to!

43 posted on 08/14/2012 6:30:12 PM PDT by Skulllspitter
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To: Bigtigermike

Boehner becomes less and less relevant by the day.


44 posted on 08/14/2012 6:30:17 PM PDT by pallis
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To: P.O.E.

I’d vote for Bertha Butts over Johnny Bonner.

Excuse me now, I gotta band-aid up my knuckles.


45 posted on 08/14/2012 6:32:15 PM PDT by DManA
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To: RKBA Democrat
Currently the fielded voting strength of the GOP-e is about 15% of all Republican votes. We have several different Conservative factions within the GOP coalition who have more voters than that. Together, hard core Conservative voters are at least 40% of the total party vote. There's another group of traditional Republicans who will usually turn out for whoever is nominated but they don't have any core values that influence party ideology.

I think it has come time to simply expel the GOP-e lock, stock and barrel. They contribute little to party success these days, so why should we allow them to run their toadies in our primaries!

46 posted on 08/14/2012 6:35:24 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Jim Robinson

If the Good Lord and the weather deliver in November, come January Boehner needs to be sent to the back bench alongside Harry in the Senate with either Bachmann or West as the new Speaker and DeMint in, Mitch put out to pasture.


47 posted on 08/14/2012 6:46:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Bigtigermike

Speaking of dragging..ah,never mind.


48 posted on 08/14/2012 6:55:56 PM PDT by Leep (I'm a Chic-Fil--A-merican)
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To: muawiyah

Unfortunately that 40% or 60% isn’t organized enough to do anything effective. While conservatives argue amongst themselves, the libertarians are taking over the party apparatus going state to state. On balance a good thing in my view, but they aren’t traditional conservatives in their views. And they’ll deal with the gop e in a heartbeat if it helps them to achieve their aims.


49 posted on 08/14/2012 6:58:50 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Guns Save Lives! www.VCDL.org)
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To: RKBA Democrat
The Libertarians aren't even real Republicans. They, too, will be purged, but most likely they'll be among the last.

This is long overdue. We were too forgiving of the Whigs, and here they are!

50 posted on 08/14/2012 7:01:24 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mark Levin Has it right....
Bohner is an “Obstical” to Conservative Progress.


51 posted on 08/14/2012 7:06:09 PM PDT by LtKerst
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To: RKBA Democrat

The only folks who are making a somewhat successful attempt to change it are the Ron Paul supporters. While I personally sympathize with them, they are not supported by most traditional conservatives.

All of this is just so sad. If you try to come up with solutions to change the outcome, those, even on FR. laugh and name call. If you say, “Fine, i’m not voting for your guy”, the same name calling.

How do we put up a fight when so many like minded individuals have given up. That is the loss that is America. Not the economic situation, or the gay agenda, but the fact that so many are not willing to try anything to change the current situation, while admitting they will be voting for the lesser of two evils.


52 posted on 08/14/2012 7:07:17 PM PDT by magglepuss (Don't tread on me)
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To: Bigtigermike
Hey gop/e... I am absolutely disgusted with your name calling and attacks on us when we disagree with your progressive ideology. Hey boehner, FU!

LLS

53 posted on 08/14/2012 7:10:13 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Sarah speaking at the romney convention would be like Led Zeppelin opening for The Monkees)
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To: Bigtigermike; All
It's just not the same since Barney Frank left.


54 posted on 08/14/2012 7:27:43 PM PDT by Dogbert41 ("...The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God" Zech. 12:5)
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To: Bigtigermike

They didn’t even use “TARP” for what they claimed it was going to be used for. What was it about TARP that he(and others) loves so much? The big banks would have surely survived without it, and if not, who cares. That’s what bankruptcy is for.... The entire thing was nothing but a massive theft of the American people, and given to those lowest people that are in the highest places.

Worst case scenario without TARP: Big banks would have failed and went away. Other smaller banks and or start-ups take their place to fill that market demand. Many homeowners would have been necessarily bankrupted, and the housing market would have cleared. It’s called a dammed free market! (for those of you in Rio Linda)

TARP didn’t prevent a recession, because we’re in a DEPRESSION as we speak, masked by continued cheap credit and government spending. As soon as interest rates return to their historical norm, at around 4-6%, this house of cards will blow away so fast, you would have never known it was there. We’ll be ‘Greece’, but with many more red ‘zeros’. It will be very difficult to get people back to work, because most of the jobs they would have taken to help a recovery get underway are now in the form of slave labor over in China.....


55 posted on 08/14/2012 7:34:49 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Skulllspitter

Bonehead has earned flogging and lots of it.
In fact, he deserves to be removed from his leadership post.
He is part of the problem, not the solution.


56 posted on 08/14/2012 7:35:33 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: Bigtigermike
Gee, Bonehead Boehner, is this the best insult you have for conservatives? I can do better against your spineless, gutless, drifty “leadership” with one brain cell tied behind my back. The more you blather, the more you need to be sent packing. That includes your buddies Cantor and McConnell, too.
57 posted on 08/14/2012 7:41:06 PM PDT by MasterGunner01 (11)
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To: Bigtigermike

BTW Ryan(The so called Fiscal conservative) also voted for Tarp.


58 posted on 08/14/2012 7:54:47 PM PDT by Revel
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To: tennmountainman

Bonehead calling opponents of TARP “knuckle draggers”

Christie calling opponents of traitorous muslims “crazy”

Newt calls Paul Ryan’s budget proposal “right-wing social engineering”

McCain defends H. Clinton’s muzzie collaborator, Huma Abedin, by claiming Michelle Bachmann has made “sinister allegations”

Ann Coulter slags conservative women.

The GOP establishment makes Christie their keynote speaker while putting Palin on the back of the bus.

Anyone notice a trend here? When it comes to being a “team player”, the RINOs never blink at disparaging conservatives.


59 posted on 08/14/2012 8:00:27 PM PDT by littleharbour
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To: Russ

Only wild-eyed conspiracy theorists talk about Bilderbergers and Illuminati.


60 posted on 08/14/2012 8:28:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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