Trey Gowdy ping!
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Thanks for posting this. I love to bash Boehner at every opportunity, but the Senate and the Wall Street Journal and Fox News left Boehner on an island - and we all know he doesn’t have the stones to man an island all by himself.
I take everything any politician says with a grain of salt. Mr. Gowdy says McConnell and the GOP senators should stand on principle. I ask Mr. Gowdy “Why didn’t you object yesterday and force a full vote?” He should have stood on “principle”.
Mark Levin plays the audio sometimes of McConnell saying, “I don’t want to be in a regional party,” after Obama was sworn in in 2009. McConnell was pushing to have the party not be as right wing.
Mitch McConnell he played the aliens in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and with no makeup
and said they were botching the politics by picking the wrong fight threatening the establishment's future by doing what they were elected to do: be fiscally responsible and stop the bleeding.
It will be a very cold day in Cowboy Hell before I vote for another RINO again. That includes Mitt Romney and both Georgia Senators, in fact. My Congressman is the only one I’d even consider voting for.....so, if Mitt’s there, it’s down-ticket below Senator for me....(yeah, I know the answers —— Obama will win - you have to stand somewhere)
Republicans continue to ignore the fact that they control only the House, but that Democrats control both the Senate and Presidency.
Do I think passing a 2 month extension is silly? Yep. Does my opinion overcome reality of democrat control of the legislative process? Nope.
I don’t even think that “payroll taxes” are even taxes, so republicans are dumb to even agree to call them taxes. Since they are payments returned at a later date, they should be called installments or something.
The only things they’ll get passed over the objections of the democrats are laws that every single American believes is in their best interest. IOW, they need an American consensus behind their plan before they try to twist arms. The dems need to know that they are flying directly into the face of what the people want and know that they want.
When you have fossilized leadership it means that possibly 2 generations will never get a chance to lead. When these coots go they will be replaced by men who are 40 years younger. 2 generations screwed.
This is the same GOP who betrayed Newt, and threw him under the Bus. We had Clinton as good as impeached and criminalized and Lott caved in to the Senate Democrats walk-out protest, so the spineless Republican’ts dropped the charges.
Imagine a President Romney at the head of these losers!?
Trey...what did you do to stop this?...oh wait a minute...you contributed to the unanimous consent.
Shut up...you phony.
Treason Greetings!
The only thing harming Boehner's speakership is his astonishing incompetence. He's been working against the Republican side for a couple years now (though, honestly, not as hard as McConnell has). Sooner or later people are going to get tired of that.
Hey, young people, thanks for letting me spend your future now. I think I’ll go buy some cheap beer now ($40 worth)in celebration.
Would some please explain to me why I’m supposed to support Tea Party Opposition to the two month extension, when their intent is to pass a year long extension either way? I don’t think they should pass an extension at all, but i certainly don’t think we should be expending any political capital whatseover to avoid kicking the can a few weeks on something I don’t want to happen in the first place.
This whole debate has been political idiocy from the start. Once Boehner and McConnell agreed to a 2 month deal, this round was over. If House Republicans wanted to hold the line, then Boehner should’ve told McConnell in time to hold the 2 month bill up in the senate.
We can’t claim that another innocuous kick-the-can bill is so horrible and objectionable that it’s worth waging war over and impacting taxpayers’ budgets after 40 Republican senators have already happily signed on to it. I’m with the Tea Party House members any time they have a plan, but this was nonsensical.
Year after year after year the establishment tells us its the wrong fight. Just when is the right fight. I assume, for McCain, it was even the wrong fight running against Obama in '08 since he never even stepped in the ring.
But like the House, the establishment knows most voters will cave and hold their noses once again like every other year. I am no longer among them. If there is no suitable Conservative candidate, I will write one in.
At this point, I no longer care if the GOP takes the Senate if they are simply going to operate as rudderless, Machiavellian backstabbers.
Support the most Conservative candidate in the Senate primaries- if they lose, so what? If they win, then maybe we can start to right this sinking ship.
The idea that they were dictated to by anyone seems to me to be a stretch. Boehner passed it by unanimous consent. Anyone could have objected. No one did.
Conservatives need to realize an important fact, which is that if you control only the House, not the Senate, and not the White House, then you can’t expect to get much of your agenda passed. You can sometimes block things, but you can’t force enactment of anything over the objection of the Senate and White House. The best you can do is posture, and then give in, which is what they did.