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I urge all Freepers to change your tag line to this question: 'Is John Boenher the Neville Chamberlain of modern American Politics?'

IF we all do this we may put pressure on leadership. It may help persuade them to dump him, if we make this a pop phrase, then at least it WILL put pressure on John Boehner and the leaders not to drift left.

PLEASE CHANGE YOUR TAG LINE (and then ask others this question as well). "Is John Boehner the Neville Chamberlain of American poltiics?". We may get a grassroots movement going?

What do ya'll say?

Boehner is scared -- the congressional Republicans from swing districts are scared -- that they'll be characterized as the "Party of No" in a way that will cost them their seats and their majority in the next elections.

Things like that have certainly happened in the past. It's not something any of us has to worry about -- at least it doesn't come very close to home for us. For them it does.

Boehner is not above criticism, but he deserves recognition and approval for his accomplishments. In spite of the defeats of 2012, Boehner maintained GOP control of the House and prevented a political rout after that by avoiding battle in unfavorable circumstances.

Moreover, to the credit of Boehner and his GOP colleagues in Congress, they have leveraged control of the House into a victory on the sequester issue. Not only is a sequester process to limit the growth of federal spending going into effect this year and in coming years, but, on the merits, the public is unpersuaded by Obama's sequester scare tactics and now believes that federal spending must be reined in.

Obama's popularity has been dented and the Democrats are suddenly at a disadvantage on the defining domestic policy issue because the GOP is now seen as the better party to deal with the national economy. In addition, there is unlikely to be a gun bill out of Congress, Obama's expansive second term agenda is toast, and the GOP is poised to make incremental gains on other issues.

Democratic retirements and the salience of conservative issues are boosting GOP prospects in the 2014 Congressional elections. Obama is beginning to look like a lame duck, and, if the GOP wins big in 2014, Obamacare will be in jeopardy and the election of a conservative Republican President in 2016 will be plausible.

He is far stupider than N. Chamberlain , He is right there in the midst of his enemies camp and yet he cannot see their methods and plans despite those same plans being implemented time after time... Neville had just endured an unbelievably bloody world war and had somewhat believable assurances , it was inconceivable in the late 1930’s that anyone would want a second world war and a military buildup could be explained as defensive posturing to avert war.