Posted on 09/01/2015 2:18:00 AM PDT by maddog55
Hillary Clinton confidant Sid Blumenthal had nothing but bad things to say about incoming House Speaker John Boehner on the day Republicans won back the House from Democrats in 2010, according to new emails released by the State Department late Monday.
"Boehner is despised by the younger, more conservative members of the House Republican Conference," Blumenthal wrote to Clinton. "They are repelled by his personal behavior."
"He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle," he added.
According to dictionary.com, "louche" means "dubious, shady, disreputable."
"He is not Gingrich, the natural leader of a 'revolution,' riding the crest into power," Blumenthal continued as he described Boehner, R-Ohio. "He is careworn and threadbare, banal and hollow, holding nobody's enduring loyalty."
He also said Boehner "twitches" if the conservative base makes "gestures that might undermine his position."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Uh, no.
Uh, yes.
What, and lose their access to GOP guests? Not likely.
Will have to call one of his state offices to let them know I agree. Fun.
Not sure I'd call it a "wing". It may be an appendage but very small and without any evident function.
Nailed it......and that's scary coming from the enemy camp
If British intelligence had uncovered a Nazi intelligence report saying Chamberlain was a fool and patsy, should they have dismissed it because of its source?
Not that small. It manages to steer plenty of readers away from conservatives and to liberal candidates in the name of ‘pragmatism’. Which is of course, it’s function.
Witness how ‘pragmatism’ resulted in a second Obama term and a house and senate that campaigned on working WITH him.
I’d say they are pretty good at what they do. Too bad it’s bad for America. But then if they cared about their country they wouldn’t be liberals to begin with.
https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_August_Web/IPS-0106/DOC_0C05771375/C05771375.pdf
November 2, 2010
For: Hillary
From: Sid
Re: Post mid-terms strategy
What I hear from Republican sources and elsewhere and what it means for Republican strategy:
1. Rove is telling his donors that the ticket in 2012 is Romney/Barbour. Haley Barbour is Rove’s ally. Together they constitute the heart of the GOP establishment. In a potential Republican
administration Barbour would be a new kind of Cheney, but more politically skillful.
2. Rove is at war with Palin. He has told his donors she must be stopped. Palin is well aware. The Politico story filled with anonymous quotes about a murky establishment vs. Palin is about the Death Star of Rove/Barbour. Ironies: Rove doubled down on a base strategy for Bush, galvanizing the right wing, now spun out of his control to Palin. The GOP used the far right and Palin in the mid-terms and now have to kill them in presidential nomination politics. Attacking Palin only builds her stature with the right. She plays instinctively to the base, but can she play a long game against the big boys determined to destroy her?
3. Palin has already aligned Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh on her side. Fox News is being split. Murdoch gave his big donation to the Republican Governors Association, headed by Barbour.
4. Malcolm Hoenlein has been raising money hand over fist for the Republicans through Eric Cantor, now his vehicle. The donors are many of the same US donors to Bibi and Likud. Implications obvious.
5. The House Republicans have already planned to primary all Senate Republican moderates in the next cycle. Olympia Snowe is a particular target.
6. In the Senate, Jim DeMint continues to be a Fifth Column of the right, allied to the House Republicans, against remaining Senate GOP moderates. He will be reinforced after this election with Rand Paul, et al. Paul, of course, hates Mitch McConnell, and vice versa.
7. McConnell’s statement the day before the mid-terms that the goal of the GOP is to make Obama a one term president is, in fact, their agenda. Everything in the House and Senate will be bent to that end.
8.Can the House Republicans and Senate Republicans restrain themselves in their own interest and McConnell’s stated aim? Boehner is despised by the younger, more conservative members of the House Republican Conference. They are repelled by his personal behavior. He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle. Boehner has already tried to buy the members with campaign contributions and committee assignments, which he has already promised to potentially difficult members. His hold is insecure. He is not Gingrich, the natural leader of a “revolution,” riding the crest into power. He is careworn and threadbare, banal and hollow, holding nobody’s enduring loyalty. Boehner is beholden and somewhat scared of his base. He twitches when they make gestures that might undermine his position. His impulse is to
hand out money. His aim is to recreate DeLay, Inc, with Jerry Lewis, who will be the new chairman of Appropriations. But Boehner is neither feared nor loved. He’s a would-be DeLay without the whip. He’s the one at the end of the lash. Which means he will be under great pressure and find it hard to sustain a moderate, reasonable strategy of restraint. McConnell is relatively in the same position in the Senate. On the other hand, the Congressional Republicans are vulnerable to a strategy that takes advantage of their internal divisions. Policies/tactics should be calculated to locate GOP fissures, find political space by widening schisms, and ultimately break them apart. This is, emphatically, not a strategy of bipartisanship as Obama has pursued it so far. It is a different and more informed approach.
“The GOP used the far right and Palin in the mid-terms and now have to kill them in presidential nomination politics. Attacking Palin only builds her stature with the right. She plays instinctively to the base, but can she play a long game against the big boys determined to destroy her?”
Sure explains all the PDS idiocy here huh? Just as I said. Liberal GOP plants on FR.
Oh...but I was the tinfoiler...
"Don’t you hate to agree with Syd?"
You got that right. Blumenthal is one nasty piece of work. This is the purest Alinsky vermin Clintonista that exists, conveniently embedded in the major media. He makes Stephanopoulos, Begala and Carville look like rookie league amateurs. They are all the people that McCarthy warned about.
Having said that, he sure has Boner down to a tee. In fact it begs the question, did the Clinton FBI files and subsequent J. Edgar Hoover style operations yield fruit and was this fruit plucked?
-PJ
Sid nailed it.
Let's just say Syd agrees with us. Does that make him one of those anti-establishment types Barnacle does not want to live near?
Syd himself was popped for DUI in New Hampshire when he was trying to get cankles elected the first time.
If you got it you can spot it.
Pretty much sums up most do it not?
May be why Donald is out front.
hey !!!!!! he cant call our POS names!!!
Jaw-dropping...
I feel so good over how public this beat down on GOP leadership. I bet Boehner might even cry over it.
pretty good analysis of Bohener there Syd.
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