I am by far no Bohner fan but I am sick of this whining losing game, I can see exactly how they are using him as the goat.
They either need to step up to take his place or to get behind him to fight O. None of them want his job now it appears.
Get someone to run against him, its that simple.
Oct. 2012:
<snip “Most of these people are unemployed and their emergency benefits have run out. Despite what you hear there is a limit on the benefits an unemployed gets. More than that sometime around Jan 14th EVERYBODY’s federal emergency benefits end because that’s when the program expires. It does not matter if someone has just got on emergency unemployment in August, October or december - they all stop on that date.
What the republicans should do is put up a bill that extends the emergency unemployment benefits for 3 - 6 months. And offer cuts in other places (preferably in places Harry Reid would not like to see cuts) to offset the cost of the emergency unemployment.
This will put Harry Reid and his party in a very difficult position (between a rock and a hard place). It will NOT look good if his party votes against the unemployed victims of this pResident.
If this had been done earlier we would not be seeing 7.8% unemployment because the more people that get back into the program the higher the unemployment rate will reflect Realville as it heads up toward 11%.
Most likely we will see another drop in the unemployment rate next month. This is the time that those who went on emergency unemployment expire and are no longer counted as unemployed. This benefits Obama.
Mitt Romney is right, the rate is dropping as people’s unemployment benefits expire.” < end snip
I have been sending John Boehner my ideas for quite some time - the above idea was one of several I sent to him so it’s not like I’m doing nothing but complaining. I am engaged.
That said, I do not see the republicans maintaining the House in 2014. John Boehner is no match against Obama, the democrat poltical machine and their media. Boehner’s got no PR skills not is he articulate enough.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2941029/posts?page=14#14
I typically don’t open threads with “Ed Schultz” in the title... because the guy spews hate and is generally disgusting. Not even sure why he would be given the time of day on FR.
I believe Boehner is probably 1/4 of the problem if that much. If the Reps vote this crap through I have a harder time blaming John.