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...
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I say, elect Romney as House Speaker.
Paul Ryan. Gloves off. He ‘lost’ so, nothing to lose. It’s time to play hard ball.. Call the media ‘government propagandists’, call the Dems out on voter fraud, Shove Pelosi’s talking points down her throat, illustrate with charts HOW unions bankrupt entire States like California, etc.. It’s either that or we’ll never see a Republican President again in our lifetimes.
Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA4)
Glenn Beck!!
Used to be the the CPUSA and their homosexual COMINTERN buddies would meet in secret.
Now they are in your face, large and in charge, from the WH to the local apparatchik at the county commission.
Any attempt to suppress domestic communism is now branded as hate speech or domestic terrorism.
The Republicans are useless.
Its time to start developing a strategy to cripple the marxists, and it must be done totally outside of the electoral process through acts of civil disobedience and counter propaganda, with sympathetic State Governors and legislators assisting in the process.
All else fails, the military can fire the scumbags wholesale in all three branches, provisional military government for six months, then new elections (no incumbents need apply) only taxpayers and veterans enfranchised, all amendments repealed except the Bill of Rights, dueling legalized for for members of the House and Senate
utterly priceless ~ how about we elect Romney king of somalia or something and send him packing
Sarah Palin!!
Democrats are merely the communist faction of the Washingtonians.
Republicans are the blue blood country club banker faction of the Washingtonians.
Nothing comes from DC other than higher taxes and more restrictions on our freedoms.
European Kings and Queens moved their courts to different parts of their realms.
The productive class are now all slaves to DC and the Federal apparatchiks in Maryland and Virginia.
Lincoln murdered the Republic and waged war on the Sons of the Founders.
The greatest threat to the Liberty and Prosperity of the productive class are not a bunch of demented ragheads in the middle east, but the Federal apparatus.
In the first place, Boner is not a conservative. But I think we all agree that he needs to be replaced.
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.
It’s difficult, because the more conservative and honest congressmen usually haven’t had much time in office. But there must be numerous candidates who would be better than Boner.
“I say, elect Romney as House Speaker.”
Horse manure... Why would we want a left leaning RINO? If he was worth a sh!t he would have been president.
utterly priceless ~ how about we elect Romney king of somalia or something and send him packing
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I say have him take over the FULLY privitized Postal Service as it emerges from its upcoming bankruptcy. Once, as part of the bankruptcy process, the USPS has shed its huge numbers of unneeded workers, closed its unnecessary offices, redone its agreements with the postal unions and shed its pension obligations it will be “lean & mean” and ready to actually compete for its business.
Either that or just let him go back to his private life.
>> Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA4)
Yes!
Well, one could argue that Romney carries a mandate equal to Obama’s.
LOL! If you can get a PBS TV station now, the Rolling Stones are on live now. A bunch of bands are doing a concert for Sandy victims.
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." - Federalist Papers, No. 58, 1788
"This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure." - Federalist Papers, No. 58, 1788
"The propensity of all single and numerous assemblies (is) to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
"Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
Note particularly the following words of wisdom from Federalist No. 63:
"As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind?" - Federalist Papers, No. 63, 1788
We (republicans/conservatives) NEED SOMEONE THAT CAN SPEAK.
Jesh it’s just so frustrating. I am getting to the point I don’t even want to look at the man.
I know he’s up against the Lamestream media, but we have people that can break through and get our message out. Let’s use them!
Boehner is no match for Donald Duck and about as easy to understand.
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