Posted on 09/27/2015 6:52:29 AM PDT by cotton1706
Why the Speaker's resignation is great news for conservatives.
“We want to give Boehner a governable majority so the crazies you hate will be irrelevant.”
This is how the Washington Republican Establishment talks to its K Street allies. It’s a quote from last October when a Republican campaign operative told the business community why it was important for Republicans to capture 245 House seats. The establishment isn’t focused on marginalizing liberal lawmakers trying to grow the size and scope of government. They want to marginalize conservative lawmakers fighting to keep the reasonable promises they have made to their constituents.
The friction of the last several years has not been about differences in tactics. It has been about deep and irreconcilable disagreements over the goals the GOP should pursue. It has been a dispute over how much the center-right should try to disrupt the status quo. Armed with his 245-seat majority, Speaker John Boehner opted against pursuing any reform agenda. He ignored the hopes and dreams of those Republican voters who delivered the GOP control of the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014 and instead pushed the agenda of Washington’s ruling class.
The legislative history validates this thesis.
Those within Speaker Boehner’s tight-knit circle will point to the “accomplishments” of the past nine months as reasons why he’ll be missed.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Yes, remember this quote from last year?? That scheme didn't work out as they planned so they had to turn to the democrats for help...over and over again. And that was the last straw!!
Boehner betrayed his party.
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No, he was true to his party interests and its financial support apparatus. Its just the party’s voters that he betrayed.
Because we have a political duopoly. The barriers to entry for a party at the national level are very, very high. So, there's only two choices in the political market. The GOPe has decided that it's not really necessary to please their voters.
‘Boehnerized’....love it.
Freeper Publius tells us why they think those who want a smaller government are crazy:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2755395/posts?page=64#64
Great article from the Politico of all places.
Michael Needham is CEO of Heritage Foundation. He’s a great guy, but will hardly be a regular on Politico
The storm rolls again, just like 2010, 2014. There is no Obama running in '16, and no "charismatic" Dem to bring out the vote which slowed us down in 2012. GOPe has weakened ...we've gotten stronger.
If McCarthy is to grab the reins, he'd be wise to see the storm coming and revise his strategy. I doubt the Chamber of Commerce would allow that....too much tied up in cheap labor and the health care industry. Wise up guys....we ain't going away.
I've yet to read why he actually resigned, other than he was "pressured."
Has the GOP funding dried up? I think that's the likely case.
POLITICO’s masters want the conservatives to “go too far” so that ‘moderates’ can be turned against us... And we will.
Nice article though.
Great Article.
It was hard to click on Politico but it was worth it.
I hope Boner gets to feel some of the pain he inflicted on this nation.
I think the Tea Party had the potential to become a viable third party. You’re right about the challenges of the entry problem on a national scale, but with social media movements can happen very quickly.
The Dems were scared to death of the Tea Party. They too knew the potential which is why they and their allies in the media attacked it with everything they had.
I prefer my Congress de-Boehned.
Ditto. Very well written and actually contains the truth.
We all had our mail boxes spammed by these scoundrels and they got party loyalist we like to do so as well.
Who here ever liked Boehner? I daresay practically nobody. He was the judas goat that knifed Speaker Newt Gingrich in the back. Newt might be a bit out there but at least Newt attempted to be a visionary and he led us out of the desert. Boehner just a straight on old time party crook and we just don't need to put up with this crap anymore.
Somebody above mentioned the daily townhall and its a great point. We have that here and Obama through his Svengali hold on the popular imagination had depressed many of us into a state beyond apathy. Trump helped snap us out of it. He is the slap in the face we need as nation.
Power may corrupt the few but weakness corrupts the many. The rapid pace of destruction of the traditions and institutions that defined this country caused many to feel helpless. Living in denial was disengaging and abandoned the ideological playing field. Fertile soil for the likes of Boehner to thrive.
Now it seems many have sobered up and are attenting their daily meetings. Maybe that will happen to the tearful Mr. Soon To Be Former Don't Let The Door Hit You Speaker John Boehner
Publish is correct. If the citizens of the states were not forced to fork over so much of their income to the federal gov’t, which in turn doles it back to the states ( for things the federal gov’t doesn’t have constitutional authority over) only if the states and their elected representatives comply with it’s demands.
Well when you are being blackmailed those type of things do happen.
I suspect instead - considering that this is written and approved by Politico's liberal extremists - that it is indeed “those within Boehner’s tight circle” who listen to Politico instead of America's citizens that are the reasons that he won't be missed!
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