Posted on 12/12/2012 7:07:59 PM PST by neverdem
John Boehner is a good man in a hard place. He has served in public office as a lifelong conservative, not a RINO. His position on the Obama tax increases has been better than almost any other Republican who has been speaking out lately, given the Obama/Democrat election victories -- close loopholes and deductions for $800 billion in new revenue over a decade, but no increases in rates.
But face it. Boehner is no match for Obama on the national stage. He cannot press the economic arguments articulately. He does not have a compelling personality. Obama is running circles around Boehner with outrageous falsehoods, and Boehner cannot raise a peep to challenge him. Boehner has managed to allow Obama to turn the Bush middle class tax cuts, passed by a Republican majority Congress over 10 years ago, into the Obama middle class tax cuts, supposedly opposed by the House majority Republicans.
Reagan-era Democrat Speaker Tip O'Neill used to say Reagan's budgets were dead on arrival. He used to counter Reagan proposals by saying they just could not get through the House. After the Reagan landslide reelection of 1984, O'Neill responded that the people had elected a Democrat House majority too, and they had as much right to pursue their policies in the House as Reagan had to pursue his policies as President. And O'Neill had a personality that was easily dismissive of questioners. But...
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Anyone can serve as Speaker!!!
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Steve Forbes could be named Speaker of the House. Or Larry Kudlow. Or Steve Moore. Or Paul Gigot. Or Grover Norquist. Or Rush Limbaugh. Or Sean Hannity. Or Mark Levin. Someone who can talk, explain, tutor, and at last who knows what he is talking about. How about R. Emmett Tyrrell? Hell, they could even bring Gingrich back...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
NO!
"Why all this talk about bringing in an outsider as Speaker? It may be constitutional, but it would be unprecedented in anyone’s living memory, and probably counterproductive, as GOP House Members would inevitably resent it, and the Democrats and the press would play on that."
Why do we always have to base our decisions upon what the media will supposedly say? They are going to attack us no matter what we say or do. Why not live a little, for a change?
True ... but it sure is fun to imagine the stunned emotional reactions -- the screaming (literally)-- of the Democrat Socialists and their seriously flawed messiah if Gingrich was elected speaker? Talk about a thrill up the leg ...
...and his Boehner loves being stroked.
Newt would be an excellent choice. He has the ability to take it to Obama!
I also liked the author’s description of McConnell, who also needs to be replaced. If either of these “men” had the “best interests”of the country primary in their minds, they would both offer to quit right now.
Newt would be an excellent choice. He has the ability to take it to Obama!
I also liked the author’s description of McConnell, who also needs to be replaced. If either of these “men” had the “best interests”of the country primary in their minds, they would both offer to quit right now.
As we know, Mr. Jefferson and the Board of Visitors of his University of Virginia ordered that they should be required study at that place of learning.
Just imagine, if every American citizen understood that individual liberty, under a system of laws protecting that liberty, was their inheritance, or their acquired right as an American citizen!
Such understanding would empower citizens to reject the clever attempts of unprincipled men and women who seek power for themselves at the expense of their fellow!
Witness today's events!!!!
And if a more conservative Republican did give a good speech, do you think anyone outside that room would ever hear of it? Boehner is simply the most conservative person the old Media will tolerate, and only because he is speaker.
Of course, the major reason for this is that the idiot Republicans have not figured out the new Media. Sure, there are a few folks at PJMedia who do a good job, but every major Republican speech or even simple pronouncement should be on the web instantly. The RNC should have it's own media arm to make sure that it's all available. Instead, they rely on the old Media.
Relying on the old Media is just like sheep rely on the farmer. It never results in the sheep being free, and only works somewhat until the farmer gets hungry.
That's why Newt is the better choice. They fear him (Rino's) so I doubt the majority will pick him and it would ensue ANOTHER attack of lies about him supported by the 'rats, also, as Obama would be put against the wall as The Constitution runs through Newt's veins.
John Boehner is a good man in a hard place. He has served in public office as a lifelong conservative, not a RINO. His position on the Obama tax increases has been better than almost any other Republican who has been speaking out lately, given the Obama/Democrat election victories -- close loopholes and deductions for $800 billion in new revenue over a decade, but no increases in rates. But face it. Boehner is no match for Obama on the national stage.But face it -- no one is, and Boehner has consolidated his hold on the House, which is what will have to be done and lived with in order to try to slow Obama down. That's why there's so much shilling against Boehner, present company not excepted.
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