Posted on 10/01/2015 2:32:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
John Boehner is a decent, honorable man who displayed his deep commitment to country and party last week, announcing that he will resign from the House of Representatives in October and relinquish the speaker’s gavel.
Mr. Boehner would have easily beaten any challenge to his leadership. But having decided some time ago that a quarter-century in Congress was enough, he chose to spare his Republican colleagues and the institution he loves a bruising fight.
As Republicans’ leader in the House, Mr. Boehner’s record has been impressive. He marshaled united GOP opposition to President Barack Obama’s stimulus and to ObamaCare. He led the GOP House in forcing Mr. Obama in 2011 to agree to spending caps that slashed $2.1 trillion from federal outlays over a decade. This reduced the federal government’s share of the economy from 24% of GDP to 21%—a figure only slightly above its post-World War II average.
When Mr. Obama planned to dramatically increase income and other taxes at the beginning of 2013, Mr. Boehner forced him to keep President George W. Bush’s tax cuts intact for 99% of Americans. All this did far more to shrink Washington than the government shutdown pushed by the speaker’s intraparty critics.
The straight-talking, chain-smoking Ohioan was also the architect of this year’s entitlement reforms. Each year for nearly the past 20, Congress spent time crafting a short-term “doc fix” to stave off mandated cuts in Medicare payments to doctors. Mr. Boehner engineered a permanent solution to the problem and, in the process, passed the first significant reforms in entitlement spending in a decade.
Since his first days in Congress, Mr. Boehner has opposed earmarks as wasteful and corrupting, and he ended their use when he became speaker.
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Sure Karl, whatever you say.
Of course its true. He’s just wearing the wrong team jersey.
So he blocked every conservatives’ bills and instead did a series of show votes. Yet he ‘accomplished’ more than those he blocked. Interesting logic there, rove.
WSJ/Murdoch is really boosting Rove a lot lately. Full court press is on!
Didn’t I just read this nauseating butt kiss up screed?
Oh wait. It was the same old (Obama). Just written by Yeb Bush.
Let’s not ignore the good he’s done. Boehner is a GOPe hack, but credit him with those things he’s done well.
and I'll cry if I want to ....
If pursued with purpose, politics is pretty much an unending series of ‘bruising battles’. And that’s only if your opponents didn’t bring knives to the fist fight.
Circle jerk.
He may well have done more than the critics think... so what ?
He has done far less than he should have.
Get your hip boots on, Karl is opening his mouth again.
I actually did not read the article. Seeing that Karl Rove wrote it was enough to tell me all I need to know.
Being a recovering alkie and knowing many alkies, Boner has alcoholic crying jags.
I really don't think he ever WANTED to win the Windsor case.
Bite me, Karl.
FUKR
that cut that rove mentioned was already reversed, so boehner achieved nothing for conservatives
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