Posted on 12/05/2014 2:23:39 PM PST by xzins
Our friend Erick Erickson of Red State set off an amusing avalanche of double entendre in conservative cyberspace by posting an article in which he ridiculed Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner by saying, “I guess Barack Obama took John Boehner’s balls because Boehner is playing with the President’s balls instead of his own,” and then offering a link through which readers could send Boehner some “Blue Bullet balls” from Amazon.
After the 13-year-old part of our brain got done laughing at Erickson’s locker room humor, we got to thinking more seriously about the problem of Speaker Boehner’s apparent lack of fortitude in the face of President Obama’s unconstitutional plan to grant amnesty to illegal aliens and other instances where the Speaker appeared to cave-in to Obama, such as on the massive growth in spending during the past six years, and the concurrent growth in the national debt.
And it struck us that in reality Boehner has actually shown plenty of masculine fortitude and has faced down opponents on numerous occasions – the problem is those opponents are always conservatives, not President Obama and the Democrats.
After the 2012 election Boehner didn’t show any hesitation in batting down conservative critics, such as Representatives Tim Huelskamp and Justin Amash, by depriving them of their committee assignments. This year the Speaker and his minions rammed through a Republican Conference rule mandating that any Member who voted against Boehner for Speaker would likewise be kicked-off their committees.
Indeed, in the present fight over Obama’s unconstitutional plan to grant amnesty, Social Security and Medicare benefits to millions of illegal aliens Boehner has been steady and consistent in undercutting and defeating conservative opponents of amnesty.
He skillfully gave Americans who were looking forward to Christmas and already distracted by the multiple Obama disasters in the Middle East and Ferguson, Missouri a shiny object to focus on – the meaningless Yoho bill.
And he made the gutsy move of putting three major big government proposals on the Floor that would have been under severe conservative pressure had they come before the House in regular order; the public lands bill, now part of the National Defense Authorization Act, the Omnibus Appropriation that continues to fund government spending at ruinous levels through the end of the fiscal year, and the most gutsy play of all, the continuing resolution for funding the Department of Homeland Security that does nothing to prohibit President Obama from implementing his unconstitutional amnesty plan.
Each of these moves took skill and fortitude and showed Boehner and his House leadership team to have plenty of spine – the problem is that all of that skill and fortitude has been directed at resisting conservatives, and advancing big government, not at defeating Obama and the Democrats.
CHQ Chairman Richard A. Viguerie made the point in his book TAKEOVER that the greatest impediment to governing America according to conservative principles is not the Democrats – it is the progressive establishment of the Republican Party.
Conservatives should keep that in mind when they contemplate buying Speaker Boehner and the rest of the House leadership team a new can of balls, because especially in the fight over Obama’s unconstitutional amnesty for illegal aliens, it is not balls, but a commitment to conservative principles that Boehner and other GOP leaders lack.
We urge you to call or write your Representative and Senators (the Capitol switchboard is 1-866-220-0044) to tell them they must vote to defund Obama’s plan to hire 1,000 new amnesty bureaucrats NOW, not in March after they have already sent millions of Social Security cards to illegal aliens. SIGN and SHARE OUR PETITION TO STOP OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE AMNESTY!
More than doing nothing which is guaranteed to result in nothing. It’s the old lottery ticket argument. Odds are you won’t win, but you CAN’T win without a ticket.
“Where would he put them ?”
Throw them over his shoulder,
Like a Continental soldier.
That’s what the article says
Maybe we should flood our GOP reps with some Mountain Oysters
I wouldn’t bother. I hear he just regifts them to Nancy Pelosi.
Good to see the 'but its too haaaard' ploy isn't working for the GOPe anymore.
I’m sure in his earlier career in industrial sales JB was quite good. But dealing with Pelosi, Reid, and Baraq is like negotiating with the mafia.
No, we should replace both him and Kevin McCarthy at the start of the new congress.
The other day Boehner lit one of DC’s Christmas trees.
A “real” newspaper headline should have read “Both Christmas Tree and Boehner were lit tonight”.
Other nicknames for Mr. Suntan would be:
* Ball-less Boehner
* Limp Boehner (i.e. LimpBizkit rock group)
Boehner’s activities:
* Somewhere in the DC Village, a House Speaker is missing his balls
* Boehner was seen shopping at “Balls R Us”
* Boehner, the golfer, was seen playing with his putter and balls just like Obama does
His Slogan:
“We don’t need no stinkin’ balls” because we are not going to do anything against Obama
“Remember, Sunscreen #70, 24/7”
“When the going gets tough, I get going, right out the door”
“I had a great Thanksgiving dinner. A turkey named McConnell”
“I’ve got one helluva pension. Screw you America”
“Leadership: It Ain’t Us”
It might have more effect if 1000’s of people mailed him a set of neuticles and widely publicized the effort. He could be told to keep some extras in reserve in case he loses his and the rest he can hand out to the other nadless GOP in the house and senate.
But I DID buy the ticket...November 4th. Initially, thought we had won, and then they surrendered. The GOP DOESN'T CARE one bit what you or I have to say.
Gotta first have a spine to attach them
She is from Baltimore.
They would just shrivel up and roll down his pants leg AGAIN...waste of money.
Tar, feather, repeat.
That’s not a bad idea at all. Truck Nutz or off-brand variants would be cheaper, though, I’m guessing.
Pelosi’s brother Tommy D’Alessandro III or IXth, was also the mayor of Baltimore in the late 1960’s and let black mobs burn out almost all of the Jewish stores in East Baltimore.
My friends lost those small stores and often had to retire because they were too old to start again. The riots put a lot of good, hard-working black people out of work when D’Alessandro caved into the rioters and did almost nothing to stop them.
We had a family business in Baltimore and our block was essentially protected (whites, blacks, American Indian) by the local liquor store that armed its staff, put hoses and ammo on the roof, and spread the word around the area of Orleans and N. Washington/Chester Streets that any rioter/looter would be shot and killed. No problems.
The was the old “Baltimore Way”. Fuck with us and you die.’
Under D’Allessandro it became, “Loot all you want, just don’t hit the Italian area (below Lombard and Albermarle Streets).
After that, Baltimore began its long descent down the cesspool of liberal Democrat rule (with the exception of Mayor Schaeffer), that included the regime of Gov. Martin O’Malley (who could have become a great leader except that he turned out to be a Marxist).
I left Baltimore in 1966 after having been born and raised there, a time of pride, jobs and stability, and an increasing, peaceful racial integration.
D’Allessandro and the riots set back these relations for decades, just like Holder and Obama had done on a national level.
Yes, Nancy Pelosi is a product of a cowardly brother and a crooked husband. That is why she was picked to be the Speaker of the House.
I wonder if JFK hit on her? Why not, unfortunately, he hit on a lot of young women.
Did Nancy sleep her way to the top? Inquiring minds want to know.
Interesting post.
Of course they sent Nan west as the Dem plot to conquer Cali unfolded....
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