Posted on 07/31/2012 7:25:22 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Those dissatisfied moderates hit Boehner with a one-two punch Monday.
First, the Columbus Dispatch reported that Rep. Steve LaTourette had abruptly decided to retire. That decision shocked many Republicans, in part because LaTourette – who like Boehner is a from Ohio – has had, at least until recently, an extremely close relationship with the Speaker.
At the same time, Syracuse Republican Rep. Hanna harshly criticized the GOP, arguing leadership has gone too far in deferring to the demands of conservatives. “I have to say that I’m frustrated by how much we — I mean the Republican Party — are willing to give deferential treatment to our extremes in this moment in history,” Hanna told the Post-Standard.
According to Republicans, moderate members of the House GOP conference feel that Boehner, who has struggled with an often raucous and openly defiant right wing, has forced them to go along with conservative demands but has provided them little in return.
One Republican familiar with the dynamics within the GOP argued part of the difficulty for Boehner has been the fact that conservatives -- and not moderates -- have been the "squeaky wheel" within the conference, which has forced him to focus on them for much of the 112th Congress.
Rather than work with his entire conference Boehner has had to "prove to conservatives constantly that he's advocating for them and not screwing them behind their backs," the Republican said.
Boehner remains deeply popular within his conference, and despite the frustration of moderates he faces virtually no chance of an effort oust him as Speaker.
Although a spokesman for Boehner declined to comment, one Republican lawmaker privately downplayed Hanna's complaints, noting that pushing back against leadership is a favored past time of lawmakers in swing districts like Hanna's.
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Ya know, if these people had a working neuron in their head, they’d realize that “social issues” ARE fiscal issues. We’ve wiped out 50,000,000+ potential tax-payers who could be paying for the social programs to which Congress seems so attached.
We’ve tried to replace them with illegal aliens, but semi-literate, non-English speaking illegals and their spawn are net tax-consumers rather than net tax-payers.
Good, the RINOs are leaving. That should have always been the plan, that and taking party leadership away from those clowns. We’re on our way! Hope to see it completed within my lifetime.......
Republicans should be the party of Wahlberg, not the party of Schwartz. (I believe you're getting hung up on that point - maybe now we're clear.)
Those Republicans could then work with non-moonbats, regardless of party - say, Dale Kildee on a pro-life issue (or did he give that up finally?), Ron Paul on monetary policy - to pass a strong agenda. Get the non-moonbats (moderates, libertarians, blue dog, fiscal con, whatever) to work for us, instead of the reverse, as often happens today. If we replaced every Carolyn Cheeks Kirkpatrick and Carl Levin with an Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, it would be a simple matter to turn around the country.
Gee, I must have missed that tilt.
Yeah and the author of this, John Stanton, and his editor knew that and knew there was no point to this article in the real world.
What a media... pushing their liberal memes no matter what.
If Boehner is having a hard time dealing with real conservatives, after November he might find the speaker job too much for him. Considering how they have ignored most of the new members, it will take a few more to wake him up. Boehner has had enough evidence to impeach King Obama for years, but has not the hair on his arse to pull the switch (lest i use the word trigger).
This article is bull crap. I don't know of a single conservative who believes that Boehner is anything other than an inside-the-beltway party hack who needs to be put out to pasture. The day that conservative representatives actually hold power in the House (as this article falsely implies) Boehner is out on his butt.
Nothing would make me happier to be wrong about Mitt. There are times when being wrong is a good thing and this would definitely be one of those times.
It’s going to be a long march. The role of the Tea Party will be to purge every last RINO from the party via the primary process. That’s what the Tea Party should stay focused on.
Yes, this article has been posted periodically for decades now, with just the names changed, maybe "Tea Party" instead of "Radical Right" - remember that one?
And there's certainly no comparing Dingy with Romney.
If you think Romney is just pretending to be a liberal, you are the one in for a big surprise. His parents were both big time liberals (the apple does not fall far from the tree). He hated Ronald Reagan. He went to France rather than go to Vietnam. He still believes in socialized medicine. Just recently, Romney was in Israel singing praise about socialized medicine. He believes the “rich” should pay more. Whereas Obama imagines everyone with a paycheck is “rich,” I’ll admit Romney’s idea of who is rich may concern people with a bit more income. He has no problem using every dirty despicable tactic he can think of to run against conservatives, but he only uses niceties when running against Obama and the democrats. He had to be taught what conservatives believe and he totally ignores conservatives except to attempt to brow beat and strong arm them into supporting him. He surrounds himself, even now, with godless liberals.
If you want to continue to fool yourself into believing there is really a conservative hiding under all that liberalism you are the one who will be “dumb-struck” when Romney’s desire to reform immigration means even more illegals are allowed to stay and citizens will have to pay, Obamacare repeal will change to Obamacare tweaking, and taxes will increase in the form of increased fees. Those AK-47s will become banned weapons and the ability to own any weapon will be infringed upon in the name of safety. Don’t look to Romney’s picks for the Supreme Court. His hand picked Souters and Sandra Day O’Connors will only go against the will of the RINOs to do the will of the Marxists. That piece of paper called the Constitution will get plenty of use as his personal toilet paper. We may even get to see evidence of that before the election if he chooses Rubio or Jindal as his running mate.
You can vote for Romney or anyone else you like. Just stop fooling yourself and others by imagining Mitt is anything other than what he has always been, a stone cold, legacy, liberal socialist.
Just a sign of irrelevancy.
Some of them had actually been candidates for office under other than a Republican label, or they'd been donors to Democrats, or they worked in Democrat campaigns.
Your first definition of a RINO is someone who came over ~ kinda ~ from the Democrats or some other party!
Ideologically it's difficult to pin them down since yesterdays hard core Conservative idea (e.g. increase the percentage of the population NOT subject to income tax) becomes a leftwingtard idea to some others who imagine themselves to be Republican Conservatives.
So, if Hannity says "no skin in the game" and Obama says "no skin in the game", who becomes a RINO?
I think just taking a look at their former political affiliations, particularly if they were donors, campaign workers, or even candidates, is a good guide to isolating them and ferreting them out. And, as has been demonstrated numerous times if all we knew about Romney was his donation history we'd know he was a mind numbed knee jerk Leftwingtard (aka a RINO) and we could guess that Perry was going to prefer Mexicans to Americans (again, a sure sign of RINOdom).
Boehner was never a Democrat, nor did he work for them. He's pretty much as Conservative as our three LIFELONG Conservative Republicans though.
May the Rino’s slave chains rest lightly upon him & may the rest of us forget he was ever our countryman . Also may he enjoy the rest of his life of Donkey dick sucking.
Boo Hoo Hoo! Don’t like it “moderates” (read: liberal scum)?
Change parties since you vote that way most of the time anyway. Maybe once you have a D after your name, they’ll use KY.
Boehner needs to be primaried.
If Cruz wins in Texas tonite, no RINO is safe.
Not Bonehead, Not Cantor, Not Mitch “The Gobler” McConnell.
None of them! Go Cruz!
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