Posted on 11/10/2008 8:33:29 AM PST by Islander7
The well-known definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. House Republicans appear to be insane.
When then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) stepped down in 2006, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) was elected to replace him. Boehner went on to lead Republicans with a bland, lame, uninspiring legislative agenda. Voters, led by conservatives who sat on their hands, rewarded him by kicking Republicans out of the majority in November of that year, hoping Republicans would wake up and change their evil ways before the White House was on the line.
They didn’t.
Learning nothing from that Election Day massacre, House Republicans re-elected Boehner as Minority Leader. He - and they, collectively, under his leadership - went on to bore the electorate with an unimaginative legislative agenda in opposition to a Democrat-led Congress under Speaker Nancy Pelosi which was even less popular, if you can believe it, than President Bush himself. Under Boehner’s leadership, Republicans couldn’t even agree to back a moratorium on “earmarks” and ended up backing that larded-up $700 billion Wall Street bailout.
(Excerpt) Read more at gopusa.com ...
And then Pence sold them out.
Even Newt knew when it was time to go.......Boehner needs a horse head..............
Content on drawing a paycheck it seems......
“I was sitting on the edge of the bed with my family watching our new president-elect,” actor/director Sean Penn said Thursday night...I have never been able to put the word ‘my’ before president before,” he added, prompting loud applause from the British-American film industry crowd that also honored actors Tilda Swinton and Don Cheadle and director Stephen Frears.”
A little incentive for us to get our act together, courtesy of the drug addled, semi-literate high school dropout crowd spreading the gospel of Obamanation...
Boehner wouldn’t no what the horse’s head meant, he’d think it was a compliment. This may be the true test of which direction the party will go. Boehner’s staying means RINO hunting has come up short, and if a conservative takes over the party still has some life in it. Congressman, now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their party!
Whaddayamean Pence sold them out?
The article says he abandoned the reformers wanting to replace the leadership in exchange for a spot with the existing leadership.
That would constitute a sell out.
Let’s bring back Tom DeLay, at least as a consultant!
Before he got Texas re-apportioned, we had 17 Dimocrat Congressmen, and 13 Republicans.
Now we have 20 Republicans, and 12 Dimocrats!
(Having also picked up 2 seats in the 2000 census)
Hear, Hear, thanks for posting this..I had hight hopes for Mike Pence, howerver IF (and I am not saying it is) true that he sold out then we need to search for a new Conservative Leader in the House which will represent Conservative beliefs-and actually challenge liberals (both in the Republican Party and without)!
Old amnesty lite pence, would screw over his mother for a dollar.
All you need to do is look at the amnesty that was amnesty by a different name he came up with to understand he will pi++ on you and try and tell you its raining.
No, Republicans were insane before this. Like a drug addict, they just haven’t “hit bottom” yet.
Certifiable...
Mike Pence goes native.
Apparently, this is a false report. Pence released a statement several hours after this story was published denying everything in it.
Let’s hope so.
I would certainly hope so, too.
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