Posted on 03/30/2011 6:19:19 PM PDT by Qbert
A national tea party group is in revolt against House Speaker John Boehner and wants to see him defeated in a 2012 primary, arguing that he looks “like a fool” in the debate over spending cuts and makes less sense than actor Charlie Sheen.
“You look like a fool,” Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips wrote in a post on the group’s website, directing his message at the Ohio Republican. “Charlie Sheen is now making more sense than John Boehner.”
Boehner “did not get the message” from the tea party movement demanding big cuts to federal spending, Phillips said, and “the honeymoon is over.” The movement should respond, he said, by finding “a candidate to run against John Boehner in 2012 and should set as a goal, to defeat in a primary, the sitting Speaker of the House of Representatives.”
Phillips said Boehner has backpedaled on his promise to cut $100 billion from the 2011 budget with a continuing resolution spending bill passed in the House last month that included $61 billion in cuts, and is declaring victory before the House and Senate have agreed on a bill that funds the government for the rest of the year and not just the next two weeks. And the messages coming from the speaker have been confusing and contradictory, Phillips said.
“John Boehner is saying when the Senate comes back and they start negotiating with ‘Dingy’ Harry Reid, who does not want to make any cuts, the $61 billion figure is not safe,” Phillips wrote. “Then, Boehner had the gall to have a ‘mission accomplished’ moment when he declared they had fulfilled their commitment by passing a budget in the House that cut only $61 billion. Not making it law or making it happen, but only by passing the budget in the House.”
Boehner, Phillips said, needs to be bolder in his actions on federal spending. “Where are the calls for the cutting of ‘hundreds of billions?’ They certainly are not coming from Boehner. Boehner is simply going to the old tried and true Republican tactic of saying, ‘we promised you we would vote on it, and we did!’”
He continued: “No, John. You were not put in the Speaker’s chair simply to have votes and pat yourself on the back. You were put in the Speaker’s chair to do something.”
Boehner’s political communications director Cory Fritz declined to comment.
Fine by me.
Cantor too.
Odd, their names.
A Repablumcan. Yes oust him.
The GOP are being bullied and outmaneuvered. No wonder the true Tea members are grumbling.
Yer gonna make him cry!!!!
We now have the tears that you are a wuuus not capable of defending us from this onslaught or even representing us.....be gone..
Think nothing odd about their names. But Boehner’s tears; not nearly a big as many of us, ‘out here’; waiting; holding out hope, for authentic Leadership.
Why didn’t they start out with $250 billion in cuts and then negotiated down to the $100 billion. I would have had more respect if they did that. There’s a term for that in Pyschology or Sociology, where one starts off with a high demand and then “compromises” down to what he really wanted anyway. Can’t remember the term or phrase for it though.
The pathetic thing is, the Dems aren’t even very good at what they’re doing (this isn’t Reagan-Gorbachev facing off in Reykjavik by any means), and the Establishment GOP is still looking like oafs.
Absolutely! He’s a RINO from the get-go . . . can’t figure out how to stop funding of Obambicare . . . doesn’t want to break rules that the dummycrats crapped all over when they were in power. He’s another one that I wonder what Hitlery has on him in the FBI files she had stolen.
Worthless . . . lots of talk . . . as long as we have CRs every other day, then Boehner is a total waste. Never was impressed by him.
Yup. These idiot GOP already have a bumbling Dummycrat organization who got punched in the face yet the “new” Congress do not know how to capitalize.
The TEa Party got suckered in by Boehner the same way they got used by Scott brown.
“Why didn’t they start out with $250 billion in cuts and then negotiated down to the $100 billion....”
Because the SYSTEM has been so reinforced with stimulus dollars...that Congress is irrelevant.
BTW...that word your looking for..is spelled S_U_C_K_E_R
“Why didn’t they start out with $250 billion in cuts and then negotiated down to the $100 billion. I would have had more respect if they did that.”
He’s weak, and everybody knows it.
The Dems got 862 Billion for stimulus passed within weeks when they wanted, without sweat. And he’s biting his nails over a tiny fraction of that amount.
If I EVER come to an opinion based on ANY article from Politico, please, somebody please............ put a bullet in my head.
I am first:
At least Charlie Sheen doesn’t cry...Not in public anyways ( I do imagine Sheen has been crying alot lately...)...
IBTZ
That's what drives the left MAD.
“The TEa Party got suckered in by Boehner the same way they got used by Scott brown.”
Sadly, I don’t think either of those guys has some insidious, ulterior motive to betray people. I just think they aren’t very shrewd politicians, and they freak out when they face a lot of political heat, instead of communicating their goals adequately to the public.
Boner
Cant or
Republicans were given the power to change the direction the country is headed, use it or loose it.
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