Posted on 09/25/2015 7:24:09 PM PDT by cotton1706
That sound you hear around Washington right now is the sound of the Republican establishment shaking.
House Speaker John Boehner’s resignation under duress—a move that was both a shock and years in the making at the same time—means tea-party-styled forces have further ratcheted up their power within the party. With each such move, the grip of what people think of as the Republican party establishment—big business donors, official party leaders, congressional leaders whose tenure dates back more than a decade or so—is loosened a bit more.
It’s worth remembering that the Boehner departure, while a big blow to that establishment, is hardly the first one. Utah Sen. Robert Bennett, previously considered a thoroughly reliable conservative, was defeated in 2010 in a tea-party revolt. Next came Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, another party icon, defeated in similar fashion in 2012.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor—the man once positioned to take Mr. Boehner’s place—was defeated in a 2014 primary at the hands of the very tea-party forces he had tried to corral. Meanwhile, in the nascent 2016 presidential campaign, establishment favorite Jeb Bush has been marginalized by populist voters more enamored of complete outsiders Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson.
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He’s been having mini-nervous breakdowns for months. His departure is way overdue.
Hillary is in even worse shape.
McCarthy is another Eric C just more of the same with the same boss man. No round of drinks just yet. Boehner will burn the house down before leaving. Funding for oh, the dark won and amnesty. Not to mention the ‘Iran deal’ If our Conservative boys (and girls) elect Kevin, then all bets are off and this battle for our Nation continues. Mike Lee, Gohmert, Brat, are all three much better than the Shifty McCarthy. We then take on Mitchie the turtle and his ninja squad.
“Establishment figures point to the electoral disaster that befell Republicans after the government shutdown in the 1990s”
What “electoral disaster”? The shutdown was in 1995. The Republicans (mostly) held Congress until 2007 - only losing it when Bush went on his quest for Amnesty.
The Republicans then shut down Congress in 2013 and were ‘punished’ by WINNING THE SENATE in 2014.
We’re being played.
Correct....and in that case I’d want to vote for Dick Chaney if he were available. Will settle for Gohmert, Brat, or DeLay.
I think you are right on and to put anything past these cunning runts would be very foolish on our part.
;)
“Conservatives have an opening to get a more conservative speaker.”
I’m not sure they do. I think the GOP E guys will probably threaten to ally with D’s to prevent a conservative speaker. I don’t think the liberty caucus in the house is big enough yet to prevent that. Our big threat is that there will be a wholesale revolt of the base in the 2015 election if the GOP E and D’s ally against us.
LOL. Stone played Nixon as a conservative.
I anticipate my liberty will continue to trickle like tears from his eyes. The man should resign immediately, and save us his lame-duck activities, where many a sympathetic republican will not challenge his actions out of, “respect.”
Good riddance Boehner!
Trump tidal wave coming.
More like PTSD, like a kidnapping and sexually abused victim experiences when their captor(s) are removed, captured, tried, convicted and incarcerated... or a soldier who was held as a POW is released from captivity and abuse.
Politically conservatives have been held captive by the abusive False Republicans, who HATE them and ABUSE them without remorse, for TooDangLong...
Gaining equilibrium, is what we need nationally.. I think of boner quitting much like preemptive presidential coattails sweeping the bad guys on our team, OUT OF OFFICE... Boehner may not be the last representative to leave, or perhaps switch parties to try and stay in power as democrats through the coming tsunami of rage, that is going to shred the RINOS from their towers of power.
They know that some of them are going to jail for what they have done. And their sins... political, ethical and moral, are probably going to be exposed... PUBLICLY... the party is experiencing the death throes of its RINO faction in anticipation of the coming purge.
IMHO
When Bush 43 referred to Obama as a cat it was racist.
On the other hand the rumor was that Boehner would avoid being toppled because the Democrats would side with him....
You may be right but Boehner’s resignation surprised me.
Nah they’re not shaking any more than they were when Cantor got the axe. The WSJ turds just wants us to think these insidious schemers are nervous.
Indeed victories such as these should be savored, because the establishment will come out with the long knives.
I disagree. We shouldn’t hold the cheers. This is huge. We know they’re going to be coming after us with everything they have, but there is nothing wrong with celebrating the victory.
Hmm. Head feint. Kidney lunch, on the way. Can’t see the move, but it is there.
As ludicrous as Stone’s “W.” was. If Bush, Sr. were as tough and ruthless as James Cromwell portrayed him, he’d never been called a wimp or lost an election.
The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another domino falling due to the Trump Effect, as Trump’s unabashed rhetoric and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses and emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs ...
I don’t think that anyone who has been really paying attention would believe in their wildest imagination that Boehner would be slinking out of the House with his tail tucked between his legs if it weren’t for Donald Trump taking on the kommie media, the DC establishment, the GOP establishment, and the “politics of purchasing candidates as usual” establishment. Those people too can read the polls and understand exactly what it means for the status quo.
Maybe so. But I have to ask. To what end? To perpetuate the idea that the GOPe is weakened in the hopes we overreach and they make some sort of comeback and eradicate the tea party conservatives from their midst?
Is everything just a lie? Everything a conspiracy? Based on that thinking I would have to believe that the tea party movement is nothing but a creature of the GOPe as a vehicle for conservatives to vent themselves into thinking they are creating change in the political establishment. Cynicism demands that kind of logic.
Ted Cruz is beholden to his Goldman Sachs employed wife. Should he become President he would be nothing but a tool of the CFR, etc., etc., ad nauseam. A win is never a win. There's always some higher order deceiving us into thinking that something has been accomplished.
Too many people use cynicism as a blanket to keep themselves warm at night.
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