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'Speaker Obama' (biting piece by Jeffrey Lord)
conservativereview.com ^ | 12/16/14 | Jeffrey Lord

Posted on 12/17/2014 5:29:53 AM PST by cotton1706

Well that didn’t take long. The election is over and the House Republicans have deposed John Boehner (R-OH) as Speaker.

Meet Speaker Barack Obama.

"The Republicans responded to Speaker Obama’s requests. Violating quickly, briskly and exactly every last word of their campaign promises to defund Obamacare and to fight amnesty. The fix was in.”

Speaker Obama and his loyal number two, Joe Biden, spent last week rounding up the votes to get their Republican colleagues in the House to fund Obamacare and amnesty plus all manner of spending programs. The Republicans responded to Speaker Obama’s requests. Violating quickly, briskly and exactly every last word of their campaign promises to defund Obamacare and to fight amnesty. The fix was in.

And in an amazing feat over in the Senate, Speaker Obama has won an agreement that has him running Senate Republicans as well. After all that huffing and puffing about the executive order on amnesty, a number of Senate Republicans quickly signed up to help the Speaker get his funding for both Obamacare and amnesty.

As noted by my colleague Gaston Mooney yesterday, nine GOP Senators quite specifically made it a point to vote to support Speaker Obama’s so-called “CROmnibus” bill, which funded the Speaker’s amnesty order. This was moments after voting on a point of order made by Texas Senator Ted Cruz that said the amnesty was un-constitutional. Those nine senators, as Mooney pointed out, were Senators Roberts (R-KS), Thune (R-SD), Burr (R-NC), Fischer (R-NE), Boozman (R-AR), Isakson (R-GA), Johanns (R-NE), Blunt (R-MO) and Hoeven (N-ND).

The Obama lieutenants were out in full force in the Senate over the weekend. There was Pennsylvania’s Arlen Toomey – oops, sorry – that would be Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) doing everything he could to rustle up votes for the Speaker’s amnesty

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; elections
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1 posted on 12/17/2014 5:29:53 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Traitors to the Republic!


2 posted on 12/17/2014 5:33:06 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: cotton1706

I respect Nancy Pelosi more than John Boehner. She is more truthful than that slimy Benedict Arnold.


3 posted on 12/17/2014 5:34:27 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: BCW

Worthless. Why would any political side willingly give their opponents control over the entire agenda? In two weeks, the opposition no longer run the Senate, but they gave that side everything they want. Worst Speaker of the House in American history. Period.


4 posted on 12/17/2014 5:35:27 AM PST by ilgipper
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To: cotton1706

The Republicans have effectively killed themselves as a party.


5 posted on 12/17/2014 5:35:35 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: cotton1706

Say good bye to the GOP. They are finished...history.The TP now must become a 3rd party....and it will be called the “American Party.”


6 posted on 12/17/2014 5:42:10 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: cotton1706

I’ll lay odds that Obama carried NSA file folders into every one those meetings with their names in bold type font clearly displayed sitting on top of the desk while they “negotiated”


7 posted on 12/17/2014 5:42:36 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Candor7

Right.

Politically, the GOP is a dead letter. However, it is a ‘clearinghouse’ for political $$$$$$$$$$$$$, and nothing more.

The new Republican/Conservative politics of the United States will be shaping up in the Tea Party. And under the circumstances, it’s not exactly right to call the Tea Party a ‘third party’ choice, since the GOP is functionally inert and politically neuter.

Conservatives and most Republicans will have to go somewhere. The Tea Party, without compromising it’s ideology, must consolidate its position to absorb the ‘refugees’ from the GOP.

Notice, I say that there must be NO compromise on the very principles without which the Tea Party could never be or see itself as distinct from the GOP.


8 posted on 12/17/2014 5:50:47 AM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: ilgipper

“Why would any political side willingly give their opponents control over the entire agenda?”

The answer is easy, the Republican leadership are also big government socialists just like their democrat friends, they are NOT opponents of the left, they are opponents to the rule of law, to conservatives, to the US Constitution.

“A PEOPLE UNWILLING TO USE EXTREME VIOLENT FORCE TO SECURE OF MAINTAIN THEIR LIBERTY DESERVES THE TYRANTS THAT RULE THEM” STOCKPIRATE


9 posted on 12/17/2014 5:53:02 AM PST by stockpirate (The Republican leadership are all fascist/Socialists, just like the fascist democrats.)
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To: stockpirate

“A PEOPLE UNWILLING TO USE EXTREME VIOLENT FORCE TO SECURE OR MAINTAIN THEIR LIBERTY DESERVES THE TYRANTS THAT RULE THEM” STOCKPIRATE

typo fixed


10 posted on 12/17/2014 5:54:58 AM PST by stockpirate (The Republican leadership are all fascist/Socialists, just like the fascist democrats.)
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To: SMARTY

Notice, I say that there must be NO compromise on the very principles without which the Tea Party could never be or see itself as distinct from the GOP.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Agreed. They need to move and organize immediately to that end.


11 posted on 12/17/2014 5:58:44 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Arm_Bears
I must say that I owe an apology to all those Freepers who argued that voting Republican was no better than voting Democrat and with whom I disagreed.

You were right.

12 posted on 12/17/2014 6:02:59 AM PST by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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To: stockpirate

True. It is clear they are on the side of the lobbyists and the ruling class and don’t give a damn about the voters.


13 posted on 12/17/2014 6:03:47 AM PST by ilgipper
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To: cotton1706

Its time for the third party; so-called “conservatives” like Deb Fischer, Pat Roberts and Toomey have lied out their tails. They have no use for us (except at election time) we should have no use for them (particularly at election time). Obama has his “willing servants” in McConnell and Boehner, if the latter can get his face out of a whiskey bottle every now and then. Its too bad they have the majority of the so-called “republicans” who campaigned (lied) exactly the opposite positions nin both Houses with them.


14 posted on 12/17/2014 6:07:20 AM PST by laconic
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To: cotton1706

Not that it mattered this time but I voted against my Obama Republican Senator and Representative. Maybe next time?


15 posted on 12/17/2014 6:08:18 AM PST by MulberryDraw (Repeal it.)
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To: SMARTY

As Pres. Reagan said: I didn’t leave the the Democrat party, they left me...

So he joined the only party available and the RINOs then tried to keep him down for 30+ years until he got elected and the RINOs since have tried to quash his principles for the last 25 years...


16 posted on 12/17/2014 6:13:50 AM PST by shotgun
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To: cotton1706

Anyone can be elected Speaker, not just House members.


17 posted on 12/17/2014 6:19:35 AM PST by Lisbon1940
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To: Candor7

Donations to the GOP have to be choked off.

The average Joe in the American Conservative camp can send HIS campaign dollars to the Tea Party... I do.


18 posted on 12/17/2014 6:20:01 AM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: cotton1706

Boehner no backbone and no balls. Uses a Golf Club for a spine and two golf balls in a sack and Obama calls them test- icicles


19 posted on 12/17/2014 6:30:11 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: BCW
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20 posted on 12/17/2014 6:46:53 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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