"It's time to leave Reagan behind"
Posted on 07/27/2011 5:13:31 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet
Washington (CNN) – House Speaker John Boehner leveled tough words at fellow Republicans Wednesday, telling conservatives who are unhappy his bill doesn't go far enough to "Get your ass in line."
Boehner's admonishment came during a closed-door meeting, during which House GOP leaders sought to rally support for their debt bill, according to two Republican sources who attended the meeting.
The Ohio Republican told members he was working hard and didn't want to turn around and not see an army behind him.
House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia also said it was time to pull together and pass the House GOP debt bill, instead of feeding a storyline that pits Republican against Republican.
But the meeting turned into exactly that-a venting session with Republicans turning on each the other-and exposing an ugly split among the rank and file.
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Boehner is only as bad as the next speaker whom the Tea Party will savage during his/her first month in office thus remaining a faction without a leader forever.
So it's better to pit the Republican Party against all those who came out last November and gave the GOP a majority in the House in a landslide election? The House leadership is playing with fire.
Its the beginning of the beginning...The Republican leadership didn’t get the message the last election. Time to wake them up this coming election.
True!
The smell of desperation is strong with this one.
Maybe he isn't really John Boehner, he's John Belushi...
"Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!"
Boehner along with Cantor and the rest of the filthy RINO House Republicans.
Traitors is what they are.
You could see it in their eyes last November. They HATE the Tea Party. And some of them played the Tea Party. McCain comes to mind. The Tea Party voted for McCain because of their love affair with Palin. Palin played them, too.
Hopefully the rank and file are offering direct counsel to Boner behind closed doors.
He's about to lose his Speaker's seat.
The deficit and debt limit are deadly serious issues, but they have been for many years. before those problems can be solved the conservatives have to break the back of the socialists who control the government and the media. This debt limit confrontation is not the end game.
Take what we've got -- no tax hikes and a one year ceiling deal. It comes up again just in time for the election.
This is a win -- don't try to portray it otherwise.
Cantor probably sold out for plum committee leadership position. Every man has a price..... Tropic Thunder: “G5”!
Boehner, along with Cantor & McConnell, needs to be impaled with a pike and it then placed outside the Capitol bldg.
Soon he'll turn around to find there's nothing but a cold wind behind him.
I’m really sick of idiotic, overpaid politicians telling me what my opinions should be.
Ummmm, the lack of an army behind you is a damn good sign that you are heading in the wrong direction.
Why don't the conservative freshmen in the House force Boehner to step down from being Speaker? Is that even an option? They should at least try, because at the rate this dumba$$ speaker is going they won't have a job come next election.
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"It's time to leave Reagan behind"
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