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John Boehner vs. the 'crazies': Should GOP just let tea party win?
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | September 27, 2015 | Mark Sappenfield, Staff writer

Posted on 09/27/2015 9:22:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

John Boehner is leaving as speaker because he can't control the tea party. Should the whole GOP give in? It has happened before.

The Republican Party is barreling head-first toward a worst-case scenario – or is that a best-case scenario?

The tea party wing of the party has essentially toppled House Speaker John Boehner. His replacement will almost certainly need the tea party's stamp of approval.

Meanwhile, the Republican presidential campaign continues to confound the establishment. Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Ted Cruz together have more support than all other Republican candidates combined, according to polls....

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: Ohio; Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: boehner; cruz; defactodemocrats; gopestablishment; johnboehner; liberalagenda; liberalgop; ohio; rinos; speakerboehner; speakerjohnboehner; teaparty; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"John Boehner vs. the 'crazies'?"

Boehner's the crazy one. Guy cries at drop of a hat. Mentally together people don't do that.

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21 posted on 09/28/2015 2:21:18 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WE give the GOP the House & Senate and they want to lock us up in the basement, not to be seen or heard, only letting us out to vote Republican in each election.


22 posted on 09/28/2015 4:19:31 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Tea Party COULDN’T do worse than the GOP... and we certainly know B NOW they are NOT one and the same


23 posted on 09/28/2015 4:19:44 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Gope is mad. They will fight like hell to lose this presidential election. They will give Obama everything he wants to teach us a lesson.
24 posted on 09/28/2015 4:51:33 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes.


25 posted on 09/28/2015 5:32:06 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Boehner resigned.


26 posted on 09/28/2015 7:09:19 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: TornadoAlley3

That’s MAD then.


27 posted on 09/28/2015 2:25:38 PM PDT by Paladin2 (my non desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, and my grandma.)
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To: freespirit2012

That offends their sense of “know better”...


28 posted on 09/28/2015 2:27:41 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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