The Republican party is a dead party walking.
Lead by a brain-dead zombie that cries.
Shove it, Boehner...just declare yourself a dim-bulb-crat, you’rea already 90% there.
Yet ANOTHER FAT, DISGUSTING BASTARD from Past GOP-e’s oinks his “comment”!
I have said that the GOP should just vote "present" and allow Obama to do whatever he wants -- but put his fingerprints on absolutely everything, and not allow the Republicans to get blamed for anything. That's risky, and it might be stupid. But even stupider is to allow Obama to do whatever he wants and allow the Democrats to blame any disaster on the Republicans. That's basically what Boehner has achieved.
It's stunning.
GOP’s ability to lead?
What the f*ck is that supposed to even mean...
Denny is whitewashing the problem.
The Constitution says ALL spending bills MUST originate in the House.
That means if they don’t, they are by default NOT CONSTITUTIONAL. They are not following the process mandated by the Constitution. Therefore, they are inherently unconstitutional.
Denny it is hardly a matter of giving up leadership. It is blatantly unconstitutional. That bill is not lawful due to the way it originated. The Senate created it. Not the House. It’s a fundamental problem. The Senate is not given that governing power. Whehter the House doesn’t put forth a spending bill of its own or not.
This is the difference between giving lip service to the Constitution and doing whatever the hell you want, and actually FOLLOWING the Constitution, being both legally empowered to do only certain specific things, in certain, clearly spelled-out ways.
GOP ability to lead??? What a cruel joke!
“Tuesday’s vote on the fiscal cliff compromise deal passed the House 257-167, but Republicans voted 151-85 against.”
Everything else aside, looks like he stuck the Democrats with responsibility for it, and on the Republican side he separated the sheep from the goats.
Now I say that only after reading through Hastert's statement, but he's saying that between the lines ~ as is Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro ~ she knows all about those rules.
The Republic off Venice only had to retire on Doge for all the others through time to UNDERSTAND the grave responsibility of holding that office.
What threatens their ability to lead is their lack of leadership - at the risk of sounding tautological.
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Hastert’s exactly right.
Boehner thinks it a success when the majority of his caucus doesn’t have to vote ‘aye’ to pass a bad bill. He’s certifiable.
We’re toast.
Boehner’s breaking of that unwritten rule says he has few political principles other than simply to be in politics and as such he cares 10 times more about his personal power than he does about true majority power of his own party in the House of Representatives, when it has it.
If he had any true ethics as a party “leader” he would not have ran again for speaker of the House after he could not hold his own party with him on the dubious not-a-fiscal-remedy “fiscal cliff” deal.
The true interest rate (when actual inflation is considered) that the Fed is now charging banks is less than zero, and though I never thought my respect for Boehner could fall to below zero, it has now.