Posted on 08/14/2012 5:29:21 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
VAN SUSTEREN, FOX News: People think of him as hawkish on the budget, on expenses, but he voted for TARP. He voted for the auto bailout, voted for two stimulus in '08, voted against the '09 -- February '09 President Obama stimulus. How does -- I mean, how does he explain those, or I mean, how does -- politically, how does he sell that?
BOEHNER: I mean, I think that he's a practical conservative. He's got a very conservative voting record, but he's not a knuckle-dragger, all right? He understood that TARP, while none of us wanted to do it, if we were going to save -- save our economy, save the world economy, it had to happen. I wish we didn't have to do it, either, but he understood that.
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The problem is the gop e IS the gop. The only folks who are making a somewhat successful attempt to change it are the Ron Paul supporters. While I personally sympathize with them, they are not supported by most traditional conservatives.
Well, maybe we'll get another crisis and another shot at a TARP debate. Something to look forward to!
Boehner becomes less and less relevant by the day.
I’d vote for Bertha Butts over Johnny Bonner.
Excuse me now, I gotta band-aid up my knuckles.
I think it has come time to simply expel the GOP-e lock, stock and barrel. They contribute little to party success these days, so why should we allow them to run their toadies in our primaries!
If the Good Lord and the weather deliver in November, come January Boehner needs to be sent to the back bench alongside Harry in the Senate with either Bachmann or West as the new Speaker and DeMint in, Mitch put out to pasture.
Speaking of dragging..ah,never mind.
Unfortunately that 40% or 60% isn’t organized enough to do anything effective. While conservatives argue amongst themselves, the libertarians are taking over the party apparatus going state to state. On balance a good thing in my view, but they aren’t traditional conservatives in their views. And they’ll deal with the gop e in a heartbeat if it helps them to achieve their aims.
This is long overdue. We were too forgiving of the Whigs, and here they are!
Mark Levin Has it right....
Bohner is an “Obstical” to Conservative Progress.
The only folks who are making a somewhat successful attempt to change it are the Ron Paul supporters. While I personally sympathize with them, they are not supported by most traditional conservatives.
All of this is just so sad. If you try to come up with solutions to change the outcome, those, even on FR. laugh and name call. If you say, “Fine, i’m not voting for your guy”, the same name calling.
How do we put up a fight when so many like minded individuals have given up. That is the loss that is America. Not the economic situation, or the gay agenda, but the fact that so many are not willing to try anything to change the current situation, while admitting they will be voting for the lesser of two evils.
LLS
They didn’t even use “TARP” for what they claimed it was going to be used for. What was it about TARP that he(and others) loves so much? The big banks would have surely survived without it, and if not, who cares. That’s what bankruptcy is for.... The entire thing was nothing but a massive theft of the American people, and given to those lowest people that are in the highest places.
Worst case scenario without TARP: Big banks would have failed and went away. Other smaller banks and or start-ups take their place to fill that market demand. Many homeowners would have been necessarily bankrupted, and the housing market would have cleared. It’s called a dammed free market! (for those of you in Rio Linda)
TARP didn’t prevent a recession, because we’re in a DEPRESSION as we speak, masked by continued cheap credit and government spending. As soon as interest rates return to their historical norm, at around 4-6%, this house of cards will blow away so fast, you would have never known it was there. We’ll be ‘Greece’, but with many more red ‘zeros’. It will be very difficult to get people back to work, because most of the jobs they would have taken to help a recovery get underway are now in the form of slave labor over in China.....
Bonehead has earned flogging and lots of it.
In fact, he deserves to be removed from his leadership post.
He is part of the problem, not the solution.
BTW Ryan(The so called Fiscal conservative) also voted for Tarp.
Bonehead calling opponents of TARP “knuckle draggers”
Christie calling opponents of traitorous muslims “crazy”
Newt calls Paul Ryan’s budget proposal “right-wing social engineering”
McCain defends H. Clinton’s muzzie collaborator, Huma Abedin, by claiming Michelle Bachmann has made “sinister allegations”
Ann Coulter slags conservative women.
The GOP establishment makes Christie their keynote speaker while putting Palin on the back of the bus.
Anyone notice a trend here? When it comes to being a “team player”, the RINOs never blink at disparaging conservatives.
Only wild-eyed conspiracy theorists talk about Bilderbergers and Illuminati.
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