I support every holdout. I fart in the general direction of the republican leadership.
retribution IS A WORD WE’LL BE SENDING COME NEXT YEAR IF THEY CAVE...you hear that BONEHEAD?
This should be highly illegal! It short circuits the whole democratic process.
Stand firm, TEXANS! They say you are the delegation standing in the breech, and we are so proud of you.
Boehner can’t touch you politically in Texas. He may cry if he loses, but just loan him your handkerchief and walk away. We have your back.
Remember the Alamo!
It diminishes the word “Leader” to apply it to the likes of Boner and Cantor.
Besides, Nancy Pelosi could kick Cantor’s a$$.
LLS
Ah! So now the Weeper of the House is a *THUG* b@st@rd!
Tagline updated accordingly.
Thomas Paine, The Crisis
Please call these House Republicans and ask them to Vote NO on the Boehner debt plan
They didn't miss it. They understood it and they are trying hard to mitigate its effects and co-opt the new members, to implicate them in traditional Republican chicanery so that their hands will be dirty, too, and their ties to the voters broken so that they truly will be dependent for any chances they have left for re-election on the Republican Party and its capos.
I heard they are threatening the Tea Party reps with their “career”.
I hope their response is 1) I don’t intend to make this a career out of my service in the House and 2) I will run for re-election on a third party ticket if I suffer *any* repercussions for my decision.
The elitist Republican establishment is evidently just hunky dory with their secret Messiah as President for 4 more years.
It's like the script has been written and those who go off script will be destroyed professionally and personally if need be to set the example.
Sad and harmful to the country when the leadership in Washington has the mind no better than that of an ape.
It’s a shame that Congress can’t just go back to naming another post office....oh, wait, that’s all the business they actually accomplished today......Ya just can’t make this stuff up!!! Talk about a bunch of clowns.
could this be the threat to Jim Jordan losing his district and Tim Scott (S. Carolina) losing the union/boeing decision??? Grrrrr
The House leadership needs to be reminded that they serve at the will and the whim of the majority. They are placed in that position to serve the members of the majority and not the other way around.
It’s amazing how boner will submissively urinate on himself when Zero speaks, yet acts this way to his own party.
FU Crybaby.
Conservatives are the only politicians the establishment EVER attack. They would NEVER treat Pelosi or Reid the way they treat conservatives.
But then, the establishment IS on the side of Pelosi and Reid.
The Republicans are acting no better than the democrats. We do not need to take lessons from Rahm Emanuel. If they keep it up The Tea Party will take over and I for one am ready for that to happen!
As ugly as all of this sounds - this is what it means to have political parties.
Parties have members, they have leaders, they have party agendas, and they have members.
Leaders have carrots and they have sticks.
Leaders use said carrots and said sticks on members to as to see the party agenda become law.
Many of the founders were against parties (or factions as the FF’s understood them to be). I think Madison in particular was of this opinion.
The fact is that we have parties and the fact is that this is how they work.
It really is like the making of sausage - you really don’t want to see it in action.