Blame Tom Cole, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee whose group pulled the money and wouldn’t honor their promise.
Boehner and Cole fought the whole election cycle about who to support. Cole should have been removed from the position but the Caucus didn’t want to create a problem so some of our people lost. Boehner wanted Cole OUT!
The fight between Boner and Cole goes back quite a ways.
The fact that Cole remained even after threatening to quit a year ago just shows Boner’s complete lack of leadership.
Everything Boner has done has highlighted incompetence.
He didn’t keep Republicans in-line on earmarks, spending, or ethics.
In fact, he has done everything he could to signal to his members and the voters that he was soft on all of these.
He opposed an earmark moratorium, he supported the bailout and sent his leadership team out to round up as many votes for it as he could. And he defended Bob Ney’s corruption.
This is not the leader the GOP needed then, and he is not the leader they need now.
He provided no message, no direction, no principles, nothing to run on at all. It is way past time for some new blood at the helm.