Posted on 12/13/2010 8:37:36 AM PST by Hojczyk
Boehner is a tough, wily and underestimated son of Ohio, one of 12 children, a product of Catholic schools, a Bishop Moeller Crusader through and through.
He is said to be loyal to his friends and to the traditions of the House, and last week he promoted three long-serving Republicans to the leadership of three committees where various sets of reformers had hoped to see new faces for a new era.
Tea Party activists are outraged and, worse by far, the Pledge to America that Boehner and his colleagues promulgated on a House Web site as binding on the Republicans of the current House seems to be in shreds because of the "tax deal" that turned into a Christmas tree with ethanol and windmills under its branches.
Now Boehner faces a choice. He can in good conscience declare that the deal he agreed to has been buried under a mountain of pork and that, upon further reflection, he ought not to have gone along with it in the first place because of the explicit, specific provisions in the Pledge to America he captained and is now in a position to advance.
Boehner can make a stand as memorable as the one he took on Feb. 13, 2009, when he dropped 1,100 pages of an unread stimulus bill on the floor of the House and denounced the process that produced in near-secrecy such a deficit-driving monster.
There are enormous risks to that course. Markets could be unsettled and even sell off for a few days. The president will denounce Boehner as untrustworthy, and the Washington Post, the New York Times and Politico will repeat the charge without examination of the White House's capitulation to the spending frenzy demanded by Democrats as an additional bit of blackmail necessary to
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And what makes you think Boehner didn't know about that ahead of time?
Ethanol is the Ultimate Earmark. If the GOP goes along with this, as I think it surely will, it will be interesting to see how many self-described fiscal conservatives try to rationalize this obvious betrayal.
Who is on our RINO hunting list? Let’s get ready now...
Yeah!
That third party will be the Chinese Communist party!
Ag subsidies are less than 0.5% of the budget. It may be an earmark, but chasing straws and ignoring the strangling and ever-growing entitlements is not going to help with fiscal stability. People recieving handouts for sitting still should be the target for cuts, not people producing valuable products.
No, us Americans are toast and the next forty years will be spent in the construction of a new political party.
Ethanol is the last straw. It is symbolic of everything that is wrong with our regulatory system. For a while, the environmentalists were fooled into supporting it, but I don’t know any who support it now.
It wrecks engines.
I don’t care if there are more expensive boondoggles. This is one of the worst. If Boehner allows it he is toast.
And there’s a second problem with this. If he allows himself to be run over by a bunch of lame duck losers, he will never win another battle in congress. An effective party requires strong, smart leadership.
First the put the light bulb destroyer in charge of energy, then they put the king of pork in charge of pork. And now this. No, it won’t fly.
Amen!
LLS
If the government has to subsidize it we don’t need it!!!
“Us” [sic] Americans are not toast. The way things are going there will be a Tea Party national political convention held in March-April of 2012. The Republican Convention will be an afterthought.
That would require that all the Tea Party groups join hands and vote together. I don’t think that is likely to happen.
Agreed, but not until all government subsidies are eliminated can I support your assertion. No check of any kind should come from government except to those that earn it. That is where we differ. I favor eliminating support for all that are not making a contribution.
It's like wackamole. They keep popping up. Right now I'm closely following a really good conservative candidate, Charles Lollar. He ran against Steny and is still running. He is a USMC veteran and he is regrouping for another operation to knock the weasle Steny out of congress.
That’s quite a megaphone you gave me. Now if I could only find my soapbox...
What in my post suggests I don’t agree with what you just posted?
Farmers work very hard in a high-stress, high risk occupation. They do not receive government checks without making significant contributions in taxes and in support of society by raising cheap food and providing the nation’s #1 export—agricultural products. The receivers of entitlement checks to those who do nothing is where my strongest objections reside—farmers are not in this category.
I agree but farmers should not be paid NOT to grow something.
I am guessing you don’t farm. I ask you to consider what is our nation’s most valuable resource—topsoil. Largely because of agribusiness, the US is a world power and is responsible for more than 20% of the trade in global agriculture products. Trust me, the conservation reserve program which allows topsoil to be regenerated is not a bad investment in the our nations future.
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