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House GOP freshmen turn Boehner’s dream job into a nightmare (It's the Tea Party's Fault!!)
Globe and Mail ^ | Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 9:09PM EDT | KONRAD YAKABUSKI

Posted on 07/13/2011 6:35:59 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

The 87 freshmen Republican congressmen who took their seats in the House of Representatives in January were supposed to ensure John Boehner’s place in American history books.

They still could. Just not in the way the Speaker might have hoped.

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Mr. Boehner mused this week that negotiating a debt deal acceptable to President Barack Obama, the Republican House majority and a Senate that is nearly evenly split between the parties is like solving a Rubik’s cube. But that is only partly true. At least every side moves on a Rubik’s cube.

“John Boehner is an old-style Republican. He’s conservative, but he doesn’t breathe fire,” said Randall Ripley, emeritus professor of political science at Ohio State University. “He was not prepared for just how far to the right these freshmen are, or for the extreme inflexibility of these people.”

Some House GOP freshmen have indicated they will not vote to increase the debt ceiling – period. Others have made their vote conditional on trillions of dollars in spending cuts over the next decade – and no tax increases.

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Mr. Boehner needs to muster 218 votes to get any debt-ceiling bill through the House. It appears unlikely he can find that many among his own 240-member caucus. But rallying enough Democrats to a debt-ceiling bill that includes cuts to social programs will not be any easier.

“None of the plans being discussed right now could garner the 218 votes needed,” Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican, warned on Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2010freshmen; boehner; debtceiling; debtlimit; suicidebytea; teaparty
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1 posted on 07/13/2011 6:36:06 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan
Without them, wouldn't his job be "House minority leader"?
2 posted on 07/13/2011 6:40:05 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic

You’ve been here long enough to know not to confuse a liberal on a rant with facts.


3 posted on 07/13/2011 6:42:25 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Has anyone seen any flexability on the left??


4 posted on 07/13/2011 6:43:24 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Pan_Yan

I love how the media quotes some random professor at a school somewhere in the country claiming to know how Boehner feels. This is news, apparently to get speculation.


5 posted on 07/13/2011 6:44:27 PM PDT by ilgipper ( political rhetoric is no substitute for competence (Thomas Sowell))
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6 posted on 07/13/2011 6:45:55 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: Pan_Yan

“John Boehner is an old-style Republican.”

Yep, the old “go-along-to-get-along,” Robert Michel
kind of guy that just wanted Tip O’Neil to like him and was perfectly content to be in the minority. That’s exactly why Boehner should never have been given the post in these crucial times.


7 posted on 07/13/2011 6:48:28 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Pan_Yan
For whatever reason, I think Boehner will warm up to the new folks and the new role better than most people think. I could easily just be optimistic or have a 24 hour virus coming on or something, but I'll wait a bit longer before I decide he's a total flop. Especially when it's a professor of PS that's trying to convince me that Boehner’s having a problem. I don't know a single PS major with a lick of sense, much less any of the ‘perfesserss’ that drained the brains of their students and left them totally stupid.
8 posted on 07/13/2011 6:50:27 PM PDT by Rashputin (Obama is insane but kept medicated and on golf courses to hide it)
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To: Pan_Yan

Sometimes I wonder if the enemy is posting fear and dissension here to discourage us. Before we jump all over Boehner let us see what he does first. He did vote not to increase the debt which is a great first start.


9 posted on 07/13/2011 6:55:39 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Pan_Yan

This cracks me up. None of the professional politicians or the leftists in the media or academia can make any sense of these freshman GOP. How inflexible they are! Why we usually just pass these debt ceiling increases by voice vote. These dumb rubes won’t make a deal! They won’t be bought! It doesn’t make any sense! Poor John Boehner. A RINO stuck with a caucus full of crazy Tea Party people who actually want to do what they were elected to do: cut government.


10 posted on 07/13/2011 6:56:42 PM PDT by Big E
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To: Pan_Yan

Thank God for America’s Tea-Party minded citizens. Without us, Bonehead and The Gobbler would have caved long ago. They may still cave, but THEY will PAY a heavy price in 2012. 2010 was just the warm-up.


11 posted on 07/13/2011 6:59:29 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: Pan_Yan
You’ve been here long enough to know not to confuse a liberal on a rant with facts.

I know, but I haven't been here long enough for it not to still be fun.

12 posted on 07/13/2011 6:59:49 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: kittymyrib
It is prudent to view with suspicion anyone who has been lurking inside the beltway for twenty years, just waiting his turn. Boehner still has something to prove, before earning the trust of real Americans.

This is a recipe for someone who will take you where you have been too often before, but who lacks the vision to crash through the underbrush to find higher ground.

13 posted on 07/13/2011 7:02:04 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: tacticalogic
Whole reason I posted the article. It's hilarious. I hope this becomes the new media talking point.
14 posted on 07/13/2011 7:03:08 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: tennmountainman

Absolutely. Cry Baby Boehner would have already capitulated if not for the Tea Party and the Angry Americans.

I think Mcconnell was stunned at the blowback he got when he announced his ridiculous plan.


15 posted on 07/13/2011 7:05:50 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: GeronL
Has anyone seen any flexibility on the left??

They are every bit as flexible as a steel I-beam.

16 posted on 07/13/2011 7:08:03 PM PDT by null and void (Day 904. When your only tools are a Hammer & Sickle, everything looks like a Capitalist...)
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To: RummyChick

The tea party supported freshmen are saying, “No more business as usual? and the beltway insiders just can’t understand this.


17 posted on 07/13/2011 7:10:10 PM PDT by TennTuxedo
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To: null and void
They are every bit as flexible as a steel I-beam.

Don't use fire, I heard it won't melt steel.

18 posted on 07/13/2011 7:10:18 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: RummyChick

The tea party supported freshmen are saying, “No more business as usual” and the beltway insiders just can’t understand this.


19 posted on 07/13/2011 7:10:26 PM PDT by TennTuxedo
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To: Pan_Yan

— Whole reason I posted the article. It’s hilarious. I hope this becomes the new media talking point. —

I know, I laughed when I read about how “far to the right” these new fire-breathing[!] guys are.
Now, if I were President, this guy would be shitting bricks; I’d likely make the “new guys” look like centrists.
{And after cutting things that aren’t Constitutionally mandated, like the DOE, the other DOE, NASA**, the Air Force**, the FCC,
the ATF, etc, I’d instruct my DOJ to read the Constitution’s Bill of Rights EVERY DAY, and these* two laws every week, and
apply them without prejudice to local law enforcement AND the Judiciary.}

*1) http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/718/usc_sec_18_00000241——000-.html and 2) http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/718/usc_sec_18_00000242——000-.html

** If they’re _REALLY_ needed then the Constitution can be amended to allow them.


20 posted on 07/13/2011 7:12:14 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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