Boehner: You bet your ** I told my caucus to get their ** in line (WATCH VIDEO)

Hotair ^ | 07/27/2011 | Ed Morrisey

[SeekAndFind]

Laura Ingraham got the man of the hour on her show this morning, who confirmed that he did indeed tell the House Republican caucus to “get their asses in line” to pass his debt-ceiling proposal — once the rewrite comes in. Speaker John Boehner also explained how he and Mitch McConnell would keep the deficit-reduction commission it creates from raising taxes, especially — as Boehner reminds us — some tax hikes are already in place. Boehner explains that he wants to push the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act, but he wants to make sure that he and a Republican Senate can present it to a Republican President in 2013:

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The key in this decision by Boehner seems to be his assessment that the GOP will lose leverage the closer we get to the deadline — whenever that might be. If that’s true, then Boehner is making a smart play by consolidating what rhetorical gains the GOP has made in this debate and getting to a rapid conclusion. After watching the Gang of Six play last week in the Senate take the momentum out of the CCB Act, it’s not hard to see why Boehner came to that conclusion. Can Boehner succeed in whipping his caucus to get the needed majority to pass his plan? At the moment, that seems iffy — but Boehner has had a good track record in holding his caucus in line over the last four years.

[tennmountainman]

Yes Mam,

I’ll gather my mule and my whoe’s and head back to de plantation

[MEGoody]

Any Republican representative worth his/her salt will tell Johnny that they were elected to represent the people of their district not to follow his orders.

[C.O. Correspondence]

WHAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH THE TEA PARTY?

Almost all the conservatives in the House are Tea Party Favorites. To answer your question with a question: What's the problem with the rest of the Republican Party?

They seem to be having a problem deciding if they are conservative patriots or progressive, which shouldn't be a problem because the differences between the two are phenomenal. There is unity among the conservatives...It's the progressives that seem to waiver where their loyalties lie.

The question The RINO’s should be asking is: Do they care about the Constitution? I think the answer to that question is already clear to those paying close attention.

[G Larry]

Perhaps you should get smarter about what is POSSIBLE in this environment.

I’m sure you’d prefer he write a bill outlawing Democrats and firing Obama, but that won’t get very far either.

It’s nice that Demint is playing Bad Cop, so the libs know they won’t get a better offer. But to believe a more conservative bill can pass the Senate and be signed by Obama, is to live in fantasy land.

[MEGoody]

Then WHY are the tea party members protesting to remove Boehner as Speaker.

I hadn't heard about this. Are you talking actual protests? Is it isolated to a few cities, or is it more wide spread?

[RetSignman]

Yeah Boehner, get tough with OUR party, now try some of that with obama and maybe we will think you have grown a pair.

[Psalm 144]

“Any Republican representative worth his/her salt will tell Johnny that they were elected to represent the people of their district not to follow his orders.”

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They need to unseat this gaydar pinging, cringe before Obama, curse the other Representative, hollow clothing store mannikin that cries real tears when its string is pulled.

[Psalm 144]

“Yeah Boehner, get tough with OUR party, now try some of that with obama and maybe we will think you have grown a pair.”

He is the trustee, the kapo, the overseer. A classic Vichy Republican. He needs to be removed from the speakership, ASAP.

[Made In The USA]

Have to be honest - I’m not certain I would get a good deal if I hired Boehner to negotiate a deal on a used car for me. I think he should have demanded more, dug in, held his ground, and fired up a communications effort to the American people. The budget issue is just that serious, it’s worthy of a long hard fight.

I acknowledge that I’m just a Monday morning QB, but do believe I’ve got some skin in the game.

[kcvl]

“Boehner has been in Wash, DC 25 yrs”

Therein lies the problem...

[kcvl]

REID VOWS TO KILL HOUSE GOP DEBT PLAN...
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Dem lawmaker: ‘Nobody I know’ has seen Reid plan...

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Al Franken Joshes on Senate Floor: ‘WELCOME TERRORISTS’...

For a moment Wednesday, Al Franken looked like he was back on the set of Saturday Night Live and not on the floor of the U.S. Senate. In a speech explaining that there would be no money to pay for military and security personnel if Congress doesn’t pass a bill increasing the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, Franken unveiled a large poster in the chamber that said, “Welcome Terrorists.”

http://www.startribune.com/politics/blogs/126262778.html

[Psalm 144]

“Perhaps you should get smarter about what is POSSIBLE in this environment.”

Perhaps you should get less servile about accepting your limits from your masters. Nothing is POSSIBLE to the servile, except more acquiescence and obsequious praise.

[kcvl]

McCain Blasts Tea Party House Members from the Senate Floor
New York Times ^

Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:53:56 PM by Windy City Conservative

Mr. McCain mocked Tea Party-allied Republicans in the House for believing — wrongly, he said — that President Obama and Democrats will get the blame for a default if Republicans refuse to increase the nation’s debt ceiling. By that flawed logic, “Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced budget amendment and reform entitlements and the Tea Party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth,” he said, quoting a Wall Street Journal editorial. “This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into G.O.P. nominees,” he jeered, referring to two losing Tea Party candidates for the Senate in 2010.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...

[newzjunkey]

“A house divided agains itself cannot stand”

You're making too much sense.

As usual Democrats are dividing Republicans against themselves and laughing at the results.

I've come to the conclusion some people are suicidal/homicidal.

Rather than 'win' this battle & keep a stalemate until 2012 can elect more Republicans to do what needs doing, they're looking to blow things up and ensure a Obama/Reid/Pelosi victory through at least 2017.

It's the definition of insanity.

Rush keeps talking up the Nov 2010 election but they weren't so great as to swing the Senate. He's smarter than this. He knows the limits of only having the House. Now he's threatening a third-party running on the Right in 2012!

Do not let the Democrats use the Tea Party to destroy America, to be used as radicalized scapegoats.

DO NOT PLAY INTO THEIR HANDS.

[Cboldt]

-- Are you saying that the meager spending cuts in Boehnher's plan aren't even real cuts, but rather reductions in projected spending increases? --

That's the only way to reconcile the difference in scoring; and, it comports with the federal politicians' view of the word "cut." Only in the parasite class known as politicians, an increase in spending is a cut in spending.

[Errant]

SAVE AMERICA!

[G Larry]

See how smug you are if we end up with Reid’s plan shoved down our throat, because we couldn’t get enough votes for Boehner’s plan.

[McKayopectate]

Stop jumping to conclusions, how childish!

Oh, fuck you!

[MamaDearest]

Boehner and Cantor do not represent me anymore. They are sellouts to obamma and the RATS. As far as I am concerned, the Republican Party is just a sham party, filled to the brim with Rinos.

E-mails to Boehner don't even warrant a reply from his office. I agree with you 100%. The GOP is Ignoring the Tea Party completely and the overwhelming number of voters supporting it. Boehner's statement to Rush was an eye-opener. RINOs are definitely running the GOP show without any competition whatsoever (they are ignoring the Tea Party completely). The 2012 election candidate is probably already a done deal.

[RetSignman]

They are trying to wipe our minds free of what happened in the 2010 elections.

They need a reminder that WE are still here and WE will still be there in 2012.