Posted on 12/11/2013 8:55:12 AM PST by Beave Meister
House Speaker John Boehner went off on outside conservative groups Wednesday morning for pushing against the new budget deal.
"They're using our members and they're using the American people for their own goals," he said. "This is ridiculous."
Several key conservative groups are against the sequester relief within the new budget deal.
"Though conservatives support more spending restraint, the discretionary spending limits defined in the Budget Control Act represent a promise to the American people to marginally slow the growth of government," reads a letter signed by the heads of Heritage Action, the Family Research Council, and the American Conservative Union. Heritage Action's Michael Needham penned an op-ed in USA Today on Tuesday calling the deal "a step backward."
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Sometimes the people of OH do the silliest things.
Stockman may get some votes from cattlemen and stockholders but little else; people in TX like Cornball, but no one seems to know why.
What a list of the LOSING GOP HALL OF FAME. Nearly everyone it seems deserves to be there.
Okay, I’m sick of this clown and his pronouncements. Let’s get him out of there.
I'm sick of this clown, too. Get him out of there? How do you propose we do that? No one votes against him as Speaker (due to pressure, NSA or who knows what) and he just filed papers for re-election. Looks like there's no one in OH to run against said clown :-(
Disgusting Duo.
Yes, that was the assumption against Cruz too.
You can see how that worked out. Stockman gets Cruz backers and their money too is my bet.
Somebody else must have thought so too.
Somebody just tried to plant a virus in my computer.
Conservatives get zip from Ryan. He has thrown all in with the Establishment and it paid off.
Touted as the fiscal geek for the RINO way, he shares the ticket with a socialist and is guaranteed forever power with the big pay off— RINO pac money for reelection as far as the eye can see.
Now this, crushing the only leverage conservatives had—sequester. Treachery on steroids.
We’re on the right track.
Someone just tried to plant a virus in my computer.
“They’re using our members and they’re using the American people for their own goals,” he said.
As opposed to you (Boehner) using OUR members and using the American people for YOUR own goals?
I like Charlie Sykes but have not listened to him in awhile. I imagine he is talking about Holder’s ATF sting up there.
And he forgot how to tend bar.
You will not have a successful primary challenge to the Speaker, unfortunately. He’s way too powerful. The way to oust him is to urge the Tea Party to endorse the Democrat for his seat in the general election. That is do-able. We sacrifice one seat for one election cycle, and we get rid of a corrupt Speaker. And I think the Tea Party should threaten to do the same thing to any successor who will not stand up and fight.
Oh, and support a convention, called by the state legislatures, to draft a term limits amendment to the constitution.
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