Posted on 09/28/2015 8:10:52 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Boehner's tenure has been viewed with suspicion by many conservatives, and it has coincided with a general loss of faith in the party's leadership. Even so, right wingers give him an undeservedly bad rap. As a Republican speaker with a Democratic president, he never had a chance to do several of the things they clamored for him to do. Sometimes his most critical Republican colleagues' demands that he get rid of Obamacare or, more recently, defund Planned Parenthood, have suggested a fundamental failure to grasp the mechanics of the system of government in which they work.
Boehner was not in a position to enact a sweeping, positive agenda. It could not have progressed through the narrowly divided Senate, let alone of overridden President Obama's inevitable veto. .......
.... During the Senate-initiated government shutdown of 2013, Boehner played along with conservative attempts to defund Obamacare as long as he could. But in the absence of any endgame that led to a win, and lacking any serious counter-threat to make against Obama (who was more than happy to keep the government closed as long as he had to), Boehner never had much of a choice about whether he could capitulate in the end. .....
Some conservatives have reacted to Boehner's exit with unattractive jubilation....But they should remember that their outgoing leader was also a conservative and they would do well to recall the truth of the old maxim that politics is the art of the possible. Whoever becomes the next speaker and whatever his personal ideology, he will not find the job easy. ..... Boehner did his job well, and with the sort of patience that conservatives may not appreciate until he is gone.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
People saw Boehner's biggest sin (or failure) as treating the base, which gave GOP control of Congress with explicit instructions, as the real enemy DC faced.
The House controls the purse strings; he could have accomplished everything.
When we win the Presidency and have both houses of Congress, they’ll be telling us the problem is the Supreme Court.
The result is always the same: the agenda of the elites keeps moving forward, no matter who or what we vote for.
Under Boehner they did nothing but make excuses.
That is the measure of Boehner's leadership. Fail.
I couldn't disagree more:
Barack, GOPe, Democrats & MSM surely appreciate Boehner advancing Obama's policies and agenda.
I appreciate Boehner for his expertise as a liar, coward, and poster child for a GOPe that is soon to be dismantled. A Boehner clone (Kevin McCarthy) will be the new Speaker. That will be the last punch thrown at the conservative base and spell the end of the GOPe.
Some conservatives have reacted to Boehners exit with unattractive jubilation. But they should remember that their outgoing leader was also a conservative and they would do well to recall the truth of the old maxim that politics is the art of the possibleNo conservative attacks other conservatives and pushes the liberal agenda so readily.
the problem with boner is not that he did not accomplish all that we want. The problem is he never, ever had a plan to accomplish ANY of what we want. His only solution was to give the RATs and Obola 100% of what they wanted - never any compromise to get us any of what we expect - only surrender like a French army.
HE NEVER TRIED!
Newt Gingrich had a Dem prez, yet he accomplished a lot.
I sure appreciate him for what he’s done in exactly the correct amount...
negative numbers.
Also under qualified and overpaid.
Just like with McConnell in the Senate, Boehner didn't just oppose the message of the People, he collaborated against them.
-PJ
... the House was more immediately the representatives of the people, and it was a maxim that the people ought to hold the purse-strings.
"This end would . . . be best attained, if money affairs were to be confined to the immediate representatives of the people.
"The framers were unanimous that Congress, as the representatives of the people, should be in control of public fundsnot the President or executive branch agencies."
Boehner ceded the House's authority over budgetary matters to the President. He utterly failed in his Constitutional obligations and breached his oath of office.
The biggest issue with Boehner is that he would compromise when the goal was attainable and capitulate when it was not. If he had striven for success when possible and settled for a partial win when complete victory was not possible, he would not have needed to resign.
The condescension toward conservatives he needed for the votes was just the icing on the cake, although that was the trigger for much of the anger, on top of the deep disgust with his “leadership” practices mentioned above.
Bull Crap. Does anyone think Obama would veto a bill that gave him $1 less than he wanted? OK, then how about $2. The job of a Speaker, one with cojones larger than the dot at the end of this sentence, is to find out where that limit is. Boehner simply conceded on every point, and then went off to whimper in the corner.
He is only underappreciated by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and 0bama.
Boehner Is Speaker Of The House Who LOVES Golf AND the best lobbyists in DC Click Any Pic To Enlarge ![]() |
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![]() I have emails concerning Boehner's crying. I am trying to find a source to verify those. It is said that Boehner has been coached. He has been given "acting lessons" as it were. His "crying" is as phoney as everything else he does. |
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I’ve been following the libs line lately and here’s one I didn’t expect.. all the problems today can be traced back to Ronald Reagan. Democrats take responsibility for nothing that goes badly. I’m so sick of it.
Gutless writer praises gutless soon to be ex-Speaker
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