Posted on 01/13/2012 7:51:20 AM PST by jimbo123
House Speaker John Boehner, hoping to spare fellow Republicans a second embarrassing defeat over payroll tax cuts, is prepared to navigate around rebellious Tea Party-aligned lawmakers to get a deal, according to congressional aides.
Republicans in the House of Representatives got a public drubbing from critics within and outside the party in December for initially refusing to approve a Senate plan to extend the tax break for 160 million Americans through February.
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I’m working at the grass roots level to get conservatives elected. Step away from your keyboard and make a difference.
Bub, you have no idea about the many things I do at the grassroots level, so don’t presume to lecture me.
I’m not a “bub.” And I was responding to the tone of your comment. Sorry if I misinterpreted it.
“Precisely the objective. ‘Greedy’ businesses don’t vote.”
I never used to think this needed explaining, but some people still don’t get how democracy works. They come up with all sorts of moral and economic justifications for soaking the rich (or, I should say, “the rich”)—and the people who would have been paid by the rich had the state not stepped inbetween—when it all comes down to the fact that less rich than other people vote.
You, sir sound very much like an agent provacateur.
The only way to change things is to change the GOP from within. To try the way of the third party is to work for a crushing defeat of all we hold dear. The Tea Party is the starting point of that change.
You know, I've been hearing that for twenty years now, and nothing has changed. So it about time that the GOP was burned to the ground and rebuilt by real Conservatives and not the DC-Northeast hacks who currently control it and its machinery.
20 years? The Tea Party is relatively new. Rather than “burning to the ground”, they are working on incremental change. The more who join in, the faster that change will come.
They are liberals, they are dime store liberals who just have an R in front of their names, but they are liberals nonetheless.
Mark it down, even if the Republicans win the White House and take the senate, nothing will change in Washington, we will still run deficits and government will continue to grow, not as fast as with obama but it will happen.
The Republican Party long ago sold its soul and with it the country down the river.
A mediocre third party would destroy the GOP...they are only hanging on by a thread now...if they lost 10-20% of their members to a third party, the GOP is finished.
Gimme a break! The whole "let's change the Republican Party from the inside" mantra has been spouted over and over again since Bush 41 (beginning when Perot ran against him). And every election cycle since then, we've been told by the Party-first people to "hold our noses" and vote for "lesser evils" as part of that slow inside change. It hasn't happened, and it won't happen with the same professional, unelected party hacks in charge of the machinery and content with the status quo.
With "leaders" like Boehner and McConnell doing everything they can to freeze out the TEA party, it's high time to send the corrupt, decrepit GOP to the dustbin and start over.
Period.
BOehner ain’t selling out to no one. He long ago bought in to the deal.
You show yourself to be delusional by editorializing the headline is such a manner.
So you signed on to FR two months ago because....? Who are you supporting? What kind of “grass roots” work are you doing and for who?? Boehner and McConnell were not backed by the Tea Party. Change is coming....
Santorum, but lukewarmly. Before him, Sarah Palin.
What kind of “grass roots” work are you doing and for who??
Campaigning for state and local TEA Party candidates, and promoting the TEA Party movement online and on social media. So what have you been doing besides running your mouth?
Boehner and McConnell were not backed by the Tea Party.
Well, duh!
Change is coming....
So much so that the GOP-E has fixed the primaries and is going to annoint Romney as its nominee. Yeah, that's real change.
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