[Starboard]

Boehner has to be compromised. There can be no other explanation for someone who is so politically weak and self-destructive.

[af_vet_rr]

Boehner has to be compromised. There can be no other explanation for someone who is so politically weak and self-destructive.

You are looking at the trees and missing the forest. Boehner wasn't compromised, the GOP compromised its principles. Let me give you a little timeline over the past 25 years:

1988 - George H.W. Bush nominated, wins. Big Government fan.

1996 - Big Government Bob Dole nominated as the GOP candidate.

2000 - George W. Bush, a pro-amnesty, pro-big government Republican nominated as the GOP candidate, elected, wins.

Early 2000s - with George W. Bush in the White House and Republican control of Congress, the federal government grew more powerful, more expensive, and more intrusive.

2006 - George W. Bush, John McCain, and Teddy Kennedy tried to get an amnesty pushed through (or "Guest Worker" program as they called it).

2008 - John McCain, a pro-amnesty, pro-big government Republican nominated as the GOP candidate.

2012 - Mitt Romney, another liberal Big Government Republican nominated as the GOP candidate. A fan of the illegals, especially when they are doing his lawn care.

2013 - George W. Bush campaigning for Chris Christie, another big government, pro-amnesty Republican.

[af_vet_rr]

And it's not just at the national level. Here in my state, Texas, our Governor, Rick Perry, pushed for amnesty when Bush/Kennedy/McCain were pushing it in Congress. Just three years ago, he was supporting La Raza, which is a huge pro-illegal immigrant group, arguably one of the largest and best-organized.

The GOP is going to give us some kind of amnesty, whether we want it or not.