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 ...
Only two things concern me right now...
1. What damage will Boner do before he is out the door?
2. What damage will his replacement do assuming that Boner will be replaced with someone like minded.
Underappreciated by the DEMS/RINOS he represented?
John Barleycorn Boehner, like Mitch McConnell, has set a new standard for cowardly, craven outright surrender to Obozo and our Congressional enemies, a new standard of treasonweasel subservience to the Chamber of Crony Commerce, K Street, Wall Street and the greedypig wing of the GOP which long ago bought Boehner's soul. The care and feeding (our tax money) of the greedypigs is his only agenda and the only agenda f the GOP-E.
Bush spent the weekend heaping praise on the Speaker of the greedypigs. Buh=bye, Jebbie!
We have blood in the water. Time to stop McCarthy in the House and to force McConnell to leave right after the Republican victory for Governor of Kentucky. Senators not supporting an ouster of McConnell should be primaried or defeated as necessary.
If POS Boehner had fought Obozo half as much as he fought conservative Republicans, he would have proved himself not to have sold his soul. He should go to Ohio and then, if unrepentant, go straight to hell and he should take a bunch of greedypigs with him.
Boehner was never a “Speaker”, he was always just a lapdog............
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
We are not interested in “politics” we are interested in finding some leaders. Leaders do the impossible.............
With Boehner, the Republicans were in office and the Democrats were in power.
With Boehner, the Republicans were in office and the Democrats were in power.
Not buying the bs.
“The problem is he never, ever had a plan to accomplish ANY of what we want. “
And articles on his Speakership omit the Cromnibus bill which was the final straw.
Yeah. Under-appreciated by would-by tyrants, social-justice totalitarians, Progressives, and garden-variety, knee-jerk liberals. Because that's whose agenda Boehner was getting through in the House.
When we gave them Congress under G W they did even worse than Dems.
Crappola, crappola, is all we got from Boehner from the giddy up.
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