Posted on 02/12/2014 6:51:39 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
Do you have a GOP Representative? Contact him or her today and ask these two questions:
1. Do you support John Boehner continuing as Speaker of the House?
2. Will you make a —public— statement in that regard?
I, for one, would love to know who’s pulling Boehner’s strings and what leverage they have over him. If he were to plan his political demise by the numbers, he wouldn’t do it any differently than he is right now.
Recall that Boehner crticised Ted Cruz and the shutdown by saying that they were saving their ammunition for the debt ceiling fight.
Looks like he shot his wad a long time ago. Didn’t even resist.
Hope his donors and lobbyist firms got their 30 pieces.
Boehner was put on the throne by the Tea Party with the 2010 election.
They put him there, they can take him down again.
They should.
This vote was near complete repudiation of Boehner by his own party. He’s done and needs to be removed.
I got this monkey off your back and not one clap?
Boehner is exhibiting more than weakness; he’s showing outright fear. He has to be compromised. The Dems have something good on him and he’s their puppet.
Whatever it is, the Dems will still use it to finish him off after they have no more use for him.
That’s what lesser evil and “No matter what!” gets America. Lots of freepers and the general public need that fed to them on a cold dish until they get it.
Saving ammunition would imply he’d have to twist arms to get repubs to fight against the Dems on debt. Not only didn’t he do that, the concept itself, if people give it a moments thought, is either farcical or an admission there are a number of GOP that are willfully going to vote Democrat. Otherwise what ‘ammunition’ is needed? The Dems are supposed to be the other team. Not like they will side with Bhoner for anything the right wants.
Hello?
Ugggh, not again. WHY is there ALWAYS the assumption that a Repub who acts like an anti-conservative is somehow "compromised" or "has a file"????
We need to stop giving excuses for these jerks. Boehner, like all the others, is simply showing his true colors. He does what he does because he IS an anti-conservative, not because someone is blackmailing him.
Boner is a same member of the party all Democrats belong to, The Government Party.
I'm not even familiar with how a Speaker of the House is selected?
Nonsense. What he “fears” is losing his place on the cocktail circuit.
"I, for one, would love to know who’s pulling Boehner’s strings and what leverage they have over him."
Exactly.
To be honest, the first time I heard people say that Boehner was acting the way he is because Obama and Holder "had something on him", I dismissed it as tin foil hat stuff. The more I see how this administration spies on, and intimidates, all political opponents in an orchestrated manner, the more I wonder if it's really true. (You dig deep enough, and you'll probably find something on any politician- especially with the MSM's help in making a big issue out of whatever it is).
It's one thing to make foolish decisions because you're a fool... it's an entirely different thing to act a certain way out of fear of being exposed. What Boehner has been doing recently does not seem rational- if they really do have smething on him, he needs to be honest and come clean to his party...
Whatever it is, the Dems will still use it to finish him off after they have no more use for him.
This is what happens when you ‘vote for the R’. You get a “Republican” leadership that is indistinguishable from the Democrats.
Ted Cruz got it right (as he almost always does) yesterday when he said the House bill was the same one we’d have seen from a Speaker Pelosi.
Boehner must go, NOW.
Top Ten!!!!!!
Of course not. The more things change ...
Sad.
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