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U.S. Speaker Boehner says doesn't like being called 'spineless'
Yahoo News ^ | 8 Jan 2015

Posted on 01/08/2015 3:27:56 PM PST by mandaladon

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday he doesn't like being called "spineless" or a "squish" by critics, and he vowed to prove his mettle to lawmakers who bopposed his re-election earlier this week.

Boehner was re-elected Speaker of the House on Tuesday even as 25 members of his own Republican party declined to support him, the biggest such intra-party rebellion against a speaker candidate since 1859. His detractors, many of them on the right wing of his party, say Boehner is too prone to compromise with Democrats.

Boehner said that portrayal is false.

"During my years here when I voted, I have the eighth most conservative voting record in the Congress. And it does pain me to be described as spineless or a squish," he told reporters.

Since becoming speaker in 2011, Boehner has faced a series of internal challenges to his leadership, particularly on his handling of budget matters in which small-government Tea Party Republicans have demanded a more aggressive confrontation of President Barack Obama's agenda.

In 2013, Boehner warned against a government shutdown, but Tea Party lawmakers pushed for a showdown over Obama's healthcare law that resulted in a 16-day closure of the federal government.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; boehner; cromnibus; cryingcheeto; fullyfunded; gop; gopestablishment; paping; reading; rino; rinos; spineless; squish
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To: mandaladon

as he wipes off his crocodile tears


21 posted on 01/08/2015 3:37:01 PM PST by drypowder
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To: mandaladon

He is not spineless when he is fighting for the left.


22 posted on 01/08/2015 3:37:45 PM PST by Revel
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To: mandaladon

Bonehead gave up the only leverage he had on the Cromibus bill.

They only thing left are Kabuki Dances, Show Votes and Grandstanding.


23 posted on 01/08/2015 3:39:33 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: mandaladon

The Coppertone Country Club Crony Capitalist?


24 posted on 01/08/2015 3:40:38 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: JaguarXKE
Ha Ha! Turgidity runs in the family as he is one of 11 children or so. It missed him.......
25 posted on 01/08/2015 3:40:47 PM PST by Fungi (Fungi--the reason we have antibiotics, cheese, bread, and wine.)
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To: mandaladon

Boehner is WORSE THAN SPINELESS, he’s an enabler of the progressive campaign to weaken and destroy America, its constitution, its traditions and its people. And THAT is what he will be remembered for and nothing more.

Can he turn around that impending legacy? Yes, that’s possible. Will he turn it around and change his ways/thinking? Probably not and that is a misfortune for his country. He’ll live to have a comfortable retirement and he may live long enough to realize what a cesspool he has helped create for his grandchildren to live in.


26 posted on 01/08/2015 3:40:51 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: mandaladon

27 posted on 01/08/2015 3:40:55 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: mandaladon

Well Boehner, it’s not so much that you have no spine at all, it’s that what little spine you do have..... is yellow.


28 posted on 01/08/2015 3:41:42 PM PST by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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To: mandaladon

I don’t suppose it would occur to this doofus that there might be a good reason for that.


29 posted on 01/08/2015 3:44:06 PM PST by Jean2 (ox)
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To: mandaladon
Boehner said what hurt the most was being called "establishment" by his fellow Republicans...

Uh huh. Here's a guy in a thousand-dollar suit whose mug has been splashed all across the front pages with Pelosi, 0bama, and every other fat cat inside that sump of corruption named the Beltway, whose party just won a historic landslide and who responded by giving the losers $1.1 Trillion worth of everything they wanted, and he isn't establishment? God help us from anyone who is.

30 posted on 01/08/2015 3:45:50 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: mandaladon

Boner you invertebrate KMA.


31 posted on 01/08/2015 3:46:37 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: mandaladon

How about calling you Obamahole, then?


32 posted on 01/08/2015 3:51:27 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: mandaladon

I defended Boner for a long time.
But he has never started to do his job, representing the people. He had (still has) a position that gives him a great opportunity to do a lot of good and make a good name for himself. Perhaps this is the msot frustrating aspect of Boner, he is wasting his opportunity.

Anyway, I wish him a long...and hopefully speedy...retirement....ASAP.


33 posted on 01/08/2015 3:53:35 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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To: mandaladon
"During my years here when I voted, I have the eighth most conservative voting record in the Congress. And it does pain me to be described as spineless or a squish," he told reporters.

Ugggh. A speaker is meant to be a leader. He should be pushing an agenda. It's not about his voting record like some backbencher.

34 posted on 01/08/2015 3:53:39 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: mandaladon

@-holes don’t have spines.

Therefore, you ARE spineless, Boner-head.


35 posted on 01/08/2015 3:55:00 PM PST by joethedrummer
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To: mandaladon

And the good news is Boehner is feeling the heat. :)


36 posted on 01/08/2015 3:55:13 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: mandaladon
Drunken Wuss is more appropriate. But I still like Spineless Drunkard.
And both are true when applied to Boehner.
37 posted on 01/08/2015 3:59:11 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: mandaladon
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38 posted on 01/08/2015 4:10:33 PM PST by MtnMan101
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To: mandaladon

39 posted on 01/08/2015 4:12:02 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: mandaladon

How about “cash Less”


40 posted on 01/08/2015 4:15:21 PM PST by WorksinKOP
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