Posted on 11/10/2012 7:53:35 PM PST by tobyhill
On a conference call with House Republicans a day after the party’s electoral battering last week, Speaker John A. Boehner dished out some bitter medicine, and for the first time in the 112th Congress, most members took their dose.
Their party lost, badly, Mr. Boehner said, and while Republicans would still control the House and would continue to staunchly oppose tax rate increases as Congress grapples with the impending fiscal battle, they had to avoid the nasty showdowns that marked so much of the last two years.
Members on the call, subdued and dark, murmured words of support — even a few who had been a thorn in the speaker’s side for much of this Congress.
It was a striking contrast to a similar call last year, when Mr. Boehner tried to persuade members to compromise with Democrats on a deal to extend a temporary cut in payroll taxes, only to have them loudly revolt.
With President Obama re-elected and Democrats cementing control of the Senate, Mr. Boehner will need to capitalize on the chastened faction of the House G.O.P. that wants to cut a deal to avert sudden tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts in January that could send the economy back into recession. After spending two years marooned between the will of his loud and fractious members and the Democratic Senate majority, the speaker is trying to assert control, and many members seem to be offering support.
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Who made him king? He wouldn’t even be Speaker if other states didn’t have more sense than Ohio. Dump him, and do it on the first day back. Make Rand Paul Speaker and watch the fur fly.
Time for all of you guys to register as independent!!
Why does the GOP do things like allow the NYT to listen in on their conference calls?
NY Times is nothing more than a communist propaganda machine and has been agitating against the best interests of the American people since it’s founding, especially during Honest Apes war of aggression on the Sons of the Founders.
They are the enemy within, and will eventually face the consequences of their actions.
Funny how Nancy Pelosi never let being minority leader stop her from doing anything.
I’ll register as The Conservative Party.
Exactly what Rush said do. Let the Dims have everything they want
Time for the Texas GOP to withdraw from the National GOP and take our 38 EVs with us.
“the speaker is trying to assert control,”
That’s the phrase one has to look at. Under his watch and Priebus, the GOP faltered. Why would they listen to this clown?
Exactly what Rush said do. Let the Dims have everything they want
Rush also gave us “Operation Chaos” in 2008. That led to Obama in the first place!
They can do that without providing them the bipartisan cover they want.
FU Bonehead and Cantor.
We are truly living in the most leaderless times in this country’s history.
How do we know this is truthful? It is the NYT after all. I’m at the point of not caring any more. Boehner is a useless POS - always was and always will be. Let America sink - I don’t have a lot of fight left in me after this fraudulent election. I’m sick of the Republicans just rolling over and taking whatever the left dishes out. So, let it all go down the drain, and the RINOs with it.
That would be awesome but I doubt it would do that. It might be time to start launching Conservative or Conservative Parties in all states and getting them ballot status.
Give the Democrats their tax rate increases, and let everyone know that Democrats are getting what they want.
That would be awesome but I doubt it would do that. It might be time to start launching Conservative or Constitution Parties in all states and getting them ballot status.
I was telling my daughter about Operation Chaos earlier today. Rush started this and it backfired on us.
The dem's would just love that. Instead of facing one party, the dem's would face two mini-parties who would divide the conservative vote.
Since America has no run-off system, the end result: dem's win every election.
So what's the alternative? Conservatives have to rally around one good candidate early in the primaries. We continually split our primary votes and let the weak centrists slip through.
A better alternative would be some sort of run-off system, but that would require a constitutional amendment. Very tough.
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