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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Sympathy ploy is the drunks way of getting others to excuse bad behavior.
“Cut him some slack, he’s going through spot”
“I’m convinced that Boehner had MUCH to do with the imposition of sodomy on America by failing to appoint competent, serious, zealous legal counsel to defend DOMA. The defense in 2013 was deplorable! All the wrong arguments were advanced, and NONE of the most credible witnesses were called upon.
I really don’t think he ever WANTED to win the Windsor case. “
No doubt! Anything looks good to tap if you are drunk 24-7-365 like Boner.
Does it strike you as at all unusual that an alky is Speaker or that so many have been?
I can't figure out a nice way to say this, so I'm just going to say it.
You're either woefully ignorant of the cultural/social wave that's battering the political establishment, or you're a kept member of that cabal.
"Winning"?
If you mean political races, yes, the GOP has racked up quite an impressive win/loss ratio over the last couple of elections, due to the base turning out in droves to unelect Democrats.
We've helped a lot of Republicans come to office, but what exactly have the people 'won' for their efforts on the national level? The lousy GOPe has done a great job of tidying up the quarters of their congressional houses, but what about the real fight they were sent to Washington to wage on our behalf?
Have they stopped Obama in any appreciable, measurable way? No, they have not, and to insinuate that they've done a damn thing to move the ball downfield, is straight up lying. The congressional Repukes have given up yardage to Obama on every single critical play. It's been one touchdown after another for the Muslim Marxist, and you know it.
I couldn't give a rat's ass about winning seats, if it doesn't translate into honest gains for freedom and liberty.
And people wonder why an insurgent candidate like Trump is eating the GOPe's lunch.
We’ve been losing liberty since Marbury, so it’ll take a long time to get it back. You get it back by holding on to the levers of power. In 24 states we’re doing that and changing policy. The best policy changes are those in which the people themselves become your allies see: Progressivism starting in the late 19th century in America.
Teddy started it, Wilson worked to make it policy, then Hoover kicked it into high gear just in time for FDR. Toss in Democrat Congresses that lasted for generations with Johnson’s Great Society, Nixon, Carter, Clinton and now Obama. Republicans in between helped little.
Now we have the chance to hold on for a generation in Congress. That’s where real incremental change is happening. Step by step and in a constitutional republic that’s the only way.
We don't have another generation to fix what's ailing America. Slow and steady incrementalism from the left, got us to where we are today, over a period of a hundred years. Now that we're at the precipice they've brought us to, only a rapid, violent shift of gears, will keep us from going off that cliff.
The standard model of our country's political system is too slow and cumbersome to effect the sort of corrections we need, in the time available to save us. At least that's how it appears to me.
If we get a president in office who's committed to undoing what liberals have built, and if he's got a Congress who will fully back him up, perhaps the job could be done in time. I have my doubts. We're so far removed from the brilliant and workable systems of the Framers, I feel it would take a lifetime to restore this nation incrementally. It's time we just don't have.
We’re winning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-gwjJ_NXKU&feature=youtu.be
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