He's not our leader. He's the current GOP House leader. What does it accomplish? It gets a proven loser out of power.
Actually, he is our leader. You may not like it, but that's a fact. Refusing to accept reality is not a way to make a coherent argument.
It gets the only leader we have out of power, hours before the August 2nd deadline.
It throws our side into disarray and makes us look like country bumpkins, incapable of running Congress.
It makes the TEA party look like the committed non-partisan grass roots movement it claims to be.
Boehner stepping down, the August 2nd deadline passing without a deal, makes the Tea Party look good? Guess which 70 members of Congress get blamed for the government shutting down on August 2nd. The Democrats? The Republicans? The Tea Party?
Yep, it casts the Tea Party as real winners alright. By the time Obama's thugs have raped this nation, the Tea Party will look like savage illiterates. Please don't act like you don't know how the media operates, and how this will be explained to the public non-stop for months.
It’s certainly not going to garner support for the best deal we can get.
No deal is the best deal we can get.
While I support that idea, you have to have run things correctly all along for it to work. Boehner hasn't. He has unintentionally/intentionally screwed us into the ground. He hasn't fought Obama with brilliant ideas. He has left his best arguments on the cutting room floor. Obama has outmaneuvered him. Even if Boehner steps down and the best Tea Party person takes control, he's not going to be able to win this one. We lost this one months ago.
Why you chose this opportunity to post something from six months ago that is negative about Boehner baffles me.
Just happened to be going over some old Tiabbi articles on a different topic, ran across this one and found it timely.
Yep, it's timely alright. I'm just surprised to see it here instead of on D.U.
What did you expect to gain by helping to trash Boehner now?
Diminishing him.
And thereby deminishing the only person in a postion to be effective against Obama, just when we need him most.
Do you honestly see a benefit to getting him to step down 72 hours before the budget deal needs to be made?
I don't expect him to step down in 72 hours. I also don't believe we need a deal in 72 hours. This is TARP style phony crisis nonsense. Not falling for it.
I don't give a damn if you're falling for it or not. The public is and you're not helping by doing this.