Boehner…caught between a rock and a hard place
John Boehner
The Tea Partiers are growing impatient with House Republicans because they are not following through with their campaign promise of cutting $100 billion from the budget. The number right now is $61 billion but some say that it may be lower than that. John Boehner is the one sitting in the hottest seat right now and Tea Party leadership is threatening to find a primary opponent to replace him in the next election cycle.
(Fox) As U.S. lawmakers seek a compromise on how much federal spending to cut in order to avoid a government shutdown, Tea Party activists who helped propel Republicans back into power are growing impatient with the debate.
When Republicans captured the House in November, vowing to slash $100 billion in federal spending from the budget year ending in September, 76 percent of Tea Party activists supported their deficit-reduction plan, according to a new Pew Research poll released last week.
But after House Republicans approved a plan last month to cut federal spending by $61 billion, that Tea Party support fell to 52 percent.
Now Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips, arguably the most vocal critic of GOP leaders, is pushing for a primary opponent against House Speaker John Boehner in 2012 for breaking his campaign pledge to cut $100 billion and for what he sees as hints that he’s willing to cut less than $61 billion in a compromise with Senate Democrats.
“Charlie Sheen is now making more sense than John Boehner,” Phillips wrote in his blog earlier this month.
In an interview with FoxNews.com Thursday, Phillips said he stands by his comments and goal of seeking a primary challenger to Boehner.
“Charlie Sheen still makes more sense than John Boehner because at least Charlie Sheen is winning,” he said.
“This is the one message the Tea Party needs to be out there pushing,” he said. “If you don’t live up to your promise, we’re going to throw you out.”
Boehner’s camp acknowledged the frustration among Tea Party supporters, but didn’t accept responsibility for it.
“The speaker – and every Republican in the House – is frustrated by the pace of the debate, but the blame lies squarely with the Democrats who run Washington, D.C.,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said in an e-mail to FoxNews.com.
“The House passed a bill that funds the government for the remainder of the year while cutting spending,” he said. “It’s the Democrats who are insisting on the status quo, and no one should be happy with the status quo.”
Democrats controlling the White House and Senate have only two weeks to broker a deal with Republicans in charge of the House before the latest temporary spending bill keeping the government afloat expires April 8.
House Republicans have been digging their heels in on the $61 billion in cuts they approved last month but the Senate is not going along and Obama has threatened to veto it, making it unclear where they’ll find compromise.
Levi Russell, a spokesman for the Tea Party Express, told FoxNews.com that the midterm elections in November may have set expectations too high.
“We forget the Tea Party is only influential over one third of the government,” he said. “Tea Partiers are going to continue to be disappointed by what comes out of Washington until Republicans have control of the Senate and the White House.”
The Tea Party Express has set its sights on defeating two Republican senators — Olympia Snowe of Maine and Dick Lugar of Indiana— in 2012 primaries but is not targeting Boehner or other GOP leaders.
“We may not love everything that they do; we may wish they would be on the same page with us. But we know they got the message in 2010,” he said.
Boehner’s the “least of our worries,” he added.
What has many Democrats worried is a fight over the federal debt limit, which they cannot increase without some GOP support in both the Senate and House. The administration has warned Congress that failing to raise the debt limit would lead to an unprecedented default on the national debt and derail the national economic recovery.
The Treasury Department estimates the government will hit the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling sometime between April 15 and May 31. But Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has warned that GOP senators would not vote to increase the federal debt limit unless Obama agreed to significant long-term budget savings that could include cost curbs for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Phillips said Republicans should reject any kind of compromise over the budget, even if it leads to a government shutdown or a default.
“What is worse: a government shutdown or an economic collapse,” he said. “Is it worse to deal with a $14.3 trillion national debt or a national debt of $20 or $25 trillion and the whole thing collapses?”
So…what is Boehner to do?
Would a small victory ($61 billion) be better than an impossible to pass budget ($100 billion)?
Is $61 billion even a victory?
What are your thoughts?
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I think it’s time for Boehner to dry his all-too-copious tears and man up in the best sense of the word. If the Dems won’t go along with the cuts, then shut the damned government down! It’ll certainly improve MY commute for a few days! That 51 miles each way is BRUTAL. Without the government workers, it’ll be a breeze.
John Boehner has all my support. He did an incredible job during the midterms raising money and getting GOP candidates elected. I support the Tea Party as well but they don’t have John’s experience in getting things done in washington. Congress right now is just trying to produce a budget for the rest of this year — the one the Democrats didn’t bother to do. We are only talking about a few months. If Tea Partiers think a government shutdown is the solution, I beg to differ. Why give government employees a paid vacation just because the Dems can’t get their act together? And not raising the debt ceiling means America doesn’t pay its bills. Do we really want that? I say take the 60 or 70 billion in cuts this cycle and then go after the rest next year. If the GOP freshmen act like children they will get spanked by the voters come 2012 and then Obamacare will live forever.
Boehner, grow a pair and do what you need to do without regard for the Dems getting all snarky with you. Shut the government down (which incidentally will improve my daily 51 miles each way commute – selfish of me but hey). I keep repeating myself but you do not stop bullies (Dems) by being reasonable. You stop them by being meaner and tougher than they are and slapping them down – hard and often!
GAYLE MILLER FOR SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE!
Well said. If you do not use your power you lose it!… First he was excused because he was the “minority” so, what could he do?…he did nothing!!!!
Then, the Tea Party hands them the majority and now it’s “we don’t have the WHOLE government, we are still a minority”
Well said, grow a pair or get out of the way!… He is the LEADER and he is behaving like a prima donna…
It’s all about tactics…like they say in the Leadership Institute (place that trains Conservatives to win)…
It is about the POLITICAL TECHNIQUE, not just “having the truth”…. his techniques are dated…just like his tan….
If he can’t accomplished what he promised, then he needs to get out of the way and let the “pesky” Freshmen (all from the Tea Party Movement–and not members of the Cocktail Party) take the lead….he doesn’t deserve it!
Boehner cannot force Obama to sign a bill. He can demand $100 billion in cuts and it gets vetoed and what happens? The GOP gets labeled a do-nothing party.
The economy is on the verge of collapse. What the mafia is doing right now is beyond comprehension. The left would love nothing more than to see the right cannibalize itself.
I am not going to attack Boehner..but I will make sure he knows I am watching…and I am paying attention…and if he does not do what we elected him to do we will replace him. It’s that simple.
Attacking him does NOTHING good for the GOP. Making clear our desires does. We can do that without attacking and beating him down. Donald Trump is doing a BRILLIANT strategy with the birth certificate right now. Would I vote for Trump? No..but that is not the point. He is using this as a STRATEGY….and it’s working.
I am very pleased with Boehner and his attacks on Obamacare. I am very pleased with his level of openness and communication. I think he is doing a good job. He IS listening. He needs to keep listening and he needs to make sure he keeps listening.
Bev, well said. Personally, I think John Boehner is doing a difficult job as well as anyone could be doing it. Remember, they are only talking about a budget for a few months — doing the job the Dems should have done. Take what you can this cycle and find the rest of the cuts next year when they can produce a proper budget for an entire year. This is the second time I know of John Boehner has had to rescue what someone else screwed up. During the midterms he filled the void left by Michael Steele’s lack of leadership. John raised a ton of cash for other candidates and campaigned endlessly to get them elected. He’s the single biggest reason (other than Obamacare) that the midterms went overwhelmingly for the GOP. So I’m not ready to throw a good man under the bus until he’s had a chance to get the job done. And I don’t approve of giving government employees a paid vacation due to a shutdown when so many Americans are out of work.
Liz -
Unless things have changed, if the government shuts down, government employees don’t get paid. I used to work on a federally funded project and watched folks go batsh*t a few years ago during a previous funding fight. (I figured what would happen would happen.)
Isn’t there such a thing as over riding the presidential veto? With the 47 Repub. Senators and the 23 Dem. Senators, it’s enough(70) to over ride O bummer’s veto in the Senate. Unless Claire and the rest of them want to lose their seats in 2012, they’d have to go along. All they need is 66 votes in the Senate.
Then they need 2/3 in the house, which means that they would have to strong arm 51 democrats in the house. The question IS, can Boehner pull 51 blue dogs over to his side?
How many are up for re-election?
They could also overturn ObamaCare.
They have to make el duche own obamacare. Make him Veto it every month and go on record supporting this crap. Barry’s SOP is to vote present and play good cop to pelosi/ Reid bad cop. If the GOP don’t force him to veto bill after bill they risk angering the base. And if all they can say, we did lots of stuff but media didn’t report it, they will lose.
They have the support of the country to slash the budget by AT LEAST the 100B they promised. They should be listening to the taxpayers, not making deals with politicians!!!!!
If they can’t do it with this level of support, when can they?
By the way, A.B. Stoddard over at The Hill writes excellent commentary about the budget and other matters as well. She also does an occasional video interview. It’s worth checking her out for up to date info on Congress. Your comment above is true, GOP does have a lot of support, but they could lose it just as easily as they gained it if they behave like children. Cutting programs is great until they impact your state or you personally, then the backlash can be tremendous. Look at Wisconsin. My point is, getting the budget fixed will not happen in day or even a year. It will take several years but it will happen if we continue to hold everyone’s feet to the fire. As John Boehner said “The American people have us on a short leash, we need to do what we said we’d do.” But he’s not a magician and he’s not a dictator. He needs more than a few months to see it through.
Only when Republicans control the Senate and White House. Until then, they have to take what they can get – it is better than the nothing they will end up with with no compromise. We have a VERY conservative freshman in the House and she is privy to much more info than the public and she firmly believes a shutdown is NOT GOOD. And I agree with Liz above – why should the government workers get a paid vacation when those deemed “nonessential” should be laid off just like we are? Let the jerks keep schlepping to work to get that paycheck.
AJ -
As I mentioned to Liz (above), if the government shuts down, the government employees will probably take a hit in the paycheck. (Unless the rules have changed.)
Exactly! They always have an excuse for their failure to act. They are totally misreading the mood of the voters. Even Hugh Hewitt, the ultimate gop party guy, said that Boehner and Cantor don’t have a plan and they are squandering the 2010 victory. When Miss Manners is questioning your fighting chops, you are hosed!
Well I’m not attacking the GOP. I can hold their feet to the fire without trashing them.
I see them being very smart at the moment. I see the Dems desperately trying to goad the 2012 candidates to out themselves so they can have target practice…and they aren’t taking the bait. The left is wallowing in its own sewage and I am rather enjoying it.
I completely agree, its only been a few months and they are already talking about taking Boehner out. It’s crazy, what makes the man think that this next fight is not going to be a bloodier fight then 2010. The 2012 election is going to be the toughest fight we will ever see in our lifetimes. It’s a fight for this country, literally. THEY are not going to go easily. To fight battles we don’t need to is a waste of cash we’ll need to beat Obama and the 23 democrats in the Senate. The tea party members should not take their eyes off the ball.
Bev, I’ve been following HB for several months and yours are always the comments that resonate the most with the way I think.
This particular issue is another perfect example of that. I agree with your approach and know from personal experience in public service it’s voices like yours that cut through the static to be heard by staffers and office holders.
And d55may, you’ve just said a mouthful…this is the big throwdown, and we have no option but to win it. This means we’ll be confronting a desperate, vicious and entrenched enemy that feels entitled to hold its territory. We’ll need steel spines, dry powder and a sharp focus on ‘the ball’ in order to defeat them.
Trashing and threatening those on our side only plays into the hands of the enemy.
Conservatives should focus their time and money on a
Scorched Earth policy to destroy el duche’s agenda. At this point, boehner and cantor face death by a thousand cuts and their only plan seems to be- hope they don’t bleed out by 2012. Plus the fact that growing numbers of the base feel that they are doing nothing vs the dems. The tea partiers are simply laying down their marker- if boehner breaks his word on the 100b, they will primary him. The ball is now in his court.
Nobody elected Boehner to work with Obama but that is all Boehner says – you know – we do not like Nancy Pelosi – but she did exactly what she said she would do if elected.
Boehner told us he heard us and would do what he promised – then once he was handed that ginormous silly gavel from Nancy all we hear from him is how he wants to work with Nancy and Obama (while sending his surrogates henchmen and lobbyist friend to attack us!!!)
Tammy Fay: You can’t fulfill your promises to us if you are working to compromise every day with the DEMS and Obama!!!
A 100 billion is less than 3 tenths of a percent of the federal budget (3.5 trillion). And the Republicans will not stand behind this paltry cut pledge, but are trying to “compromise”? Not surprising the TEA Party is losing patience. I think most Americans are.
Well said!… The cocktail party seems to believe that the Tea Party movement is dead, and that they actually won because of their same ol’ same ol’ postures!
GOP get a CLUE! it is politics 2.0, and you are looking like last century’s has-beens (yes the 1980/90–where his tan comes from–is last century)
America is tired of Barry…and his golf buddy Boehner is next….
has anyone noticed that we are now in a new WAR, and everyone in DC is on vacation?…
FEDERAL RESERVE = PONZI SCHEME – CRISIS COMING, WATCH THE VIDEO
Ok… now you got this far… dig deeper… we are the Creditors we are not in debt….. we do not own the Debt of the 10 sq miles in Washington D.C.
All the laws that they create… DO NOT apply to us… but we have been brain washed into believing they are our laws. You could say we GO A LONG WITH IT.
We are under COMMON LAW,,,, GODS law,,,,, they produce the COLOUR OF LAW.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/mcfadden.html
John Boehner Corners Obama on Odyssey Dawn – BRILLIANT!
http://drscoundrels.com/2011/03/24/john-boehner-corners-obama-on-odyssey-dawn-brilliant/
And another thing: “Odyssey Dawn” sounds like a New York stripper. Who the heck pulled that name out of the hat? (h/t Jerry and Dan)
Really awesome letter by Boehner!
Yeah. A strongly-worded letter will do it every time.
I’ve had it with Boehner. He is not doing what he said he would do. Time to replace him.
He is just behaving like the “Miss America” he believes he is… (with all the crying on election night, on the floor and on 60 mins)
My, oh my…a letter… I think I am getting the vapors….
For a class at SAIS…Not for the 3rd in line to the presidency…
He is beginning to sound like…, dare I say, Al Gore!….
Such a brilliant scholarly mind…
A nicely written undergraduate TREATISE for an HONORS SEMINAR does not inspire confidence…
Boehner…. GET OFF YOUR BUTT, and stop using COLLEGE WORK from the “little children” (those awesome 20 somethings) your office is hiring!
Call the house back to work and ditch the vacation!… Oh wait, then his staff would miss out on Spring Break in Florida..my bad!
Lamestream Media: Reload or White Flag?
http://sarahpalininformation.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/lamestream-media-reload-or-white-flag/
http://sarahpalininformation.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/lamestream-media-reload-or-white-flag/
http://sarahpalininformation.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/lamestream-media-reload-or-white-flag/
Shutting down the government might be a blessing. I know – the national parks would be closed, ditto to the post office, and social security checks wouldn’t go out on time. But this temporary situation might make those dependent on government realize THEY will be the first to plotz if the entire thing collapses, so they should be the first to demand excess spending (e.g. funding for NPR, Planned Parenthood and other nonsense) should be eliminated.
If I was in a budget crisis, I would start by shedding the non-essentials (cutting spending) and improving efficiency (merging departments), not by getting a second or third job (attempting to raise revenue) or maxing out my credit cards and trying to get new ones without paying them down (increasing debt). Credit is useful in an unusual dire emergency, and I’ve worked two jobs before, but it’s unpleasant and causes other problems. Best avoided unless other methods fail.
Democrats and their supporters fail to realize (or willfully ignore) that borrowing more and raising taxes will do more harm than cutting off the fat. Duplicate agencies, unnecessary building projects nobody wants, and publicly funded media and art (I like art and radio programs, but they’re not so essential that tax dollars need to prop them up.) We will have to tackle entitlements, no doubt. But if we can’t even rationally discuss reducing waste and fraud and dumping the pure junk, we’re screwed.
Social Security Checks (and VA checks and all of the other checks all went out on time when the Government was shut down in the ’90′s. The republicans lost a grand total of two seats in the next election. This nonsense about how big a mistake shutting down was for the Republicans is just more MSM propaganda.
The social security checks would go out on time. They did when the government shut down under Clinton. They only shut down things like the parks, and other lower level dept. And the offices like Dept of Education, dept of transportation work with skeleton crews.
To bad the people off work still get paid, it could save millions. I do not think LOCAL Gov closes down because they are state not federal.
I think the Republicans are making a decent effort but the reality is the kind of cuts necessary to stave off disaster are not going to happen. Think of it this way: an across the board 20% cut is only HALF the deficit, and even this huge remaining deficit will still only result in avoiding a disaster maybe 4 or 5 years. Who in Washington has the courage to even propose something like this, much less implement it? Not anybody that wants to be re-elected.
The sad reality is the majority of the public is either dependent on govt. largess or indifferent to what is going on. Even minor trimming around the edges results in the howling that Dems and the MSM encourage and feed on. Unless we have a majority willing to accept that many of them will not be returned to office and take the heat, which will be 100 times worse than cutting a lousy 61 billion, nothing will be done. I am convinced we are headed to catastrophe, maybe 5 years, and cuts and austerity will be forced on the nation by reality, not any political party.
Something else that confuses me is the fact that Libya, with a well known Gaddafi at the helm was awarded a seat on the
U. N. Human Rights Council, and was embraced by Obama and Hillary Clinton so much that they joined him on this council. And, they even intended to answer Gaddafi’s “concerns” about OUR human rights activities in our own country. And yet Obama says that this whole force against Libya is based on humanitarian concerns? Where were their humanitarian concerns when Libya was welcomed into the U.N. HRC?? I’m just sayin’
http://drscoundrels.com/2011/03/22/obama-promises-u-s-that-he-knows-what-hes-doing-in-libya/
Did you watch Beck’s show yesterday? If not, it will make you think, this Administration along with Soros have been working to improve Libya’s image
http://www.therightscoop.com/glenn-beck-show-march-24-2011/
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/03/23/from-tv-harvard-professors-want-gadaffi-to-look-good/
There is really no point in trying to make sense of someone as insane as Qaddafi! And clearly, the Ditherer-in-Chief isn’t even making the attempt. THE worst president of the last 100 years! I mean he has not only outdone Carter, but also Warren G. Harding in his paucity of leadership.
I like Boehner. I don’t think we should be trashing him in public because it undermines his ability to do his job effectively.
That being said, I have no sympathy for Boehner and Cantor going weaselly on us. We gave them a MASSIVE victory in November to stop the insanity and I DO NOT want to hear that “it’s hard.” When the Dems win, even with just 29 votes found in the back of the union boss’ car, they take it as an absolute mandate and immediately begin shoving their agenda in our faces. El Duche said “I won” and then proceeded to shut the republicans out of every thing. When the republicans win in a BLOWOUT and the voters issue a restraining order to stop the insanity, the GOP shows up at the door hat in hand whining “will you please, please stop destroying our country… pretty please?”
Conservatives want Boehner to be John Wayne kicking in the door and taking care of business. Hey Boehner, EMBRACE THE SUCK and DO YOUR JOB! If not, you can be thrown out, too.
The real problem the GOP has is that their base doesn’t trust them because a lot of them turned out to be big spending liars. So if they had a rep for being strong fighters instead of whining sell-outs, the base would be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. But, they pissed away our good will and trust. Now, the conservative base is playing “Rise and Fly” i.e. if you don’t win the fight, get out! Simple as that.
And no one is buying the lie that the GOP can’t do anything unless they have the Senate and the White House. First, if you can’t handle the power the voters just gave you, why should we give you more? Conservatives are smart, we know you can’t win every battle but we expect you to ENGAGE the enemy at every opportunity. If you are kicking a$$ but outnumbered, conservatives WILL send you reinforcements in 2012. But, if you are doing nothing but WHINING that you are outnumbered and you might get hurt if you fight back, then you are a loser and we will vote you out. CHOOSE…because the voters have and we’re backing fighters. If you can’t or won’t fight, then Rise-and-Fly.
It doesn’t seem like a lot is happening because the lamestream media doesn’t report it. That’s a problem. I can tell that Issa and DeMint and Boehner are hitting nerves by the way Obama is acting. A great big arrogant chip on his shoulder. He flipped off the entire country with this Libya debacle. He is so arrogant he thinks he can just go bomb another country without even telling us what the hell he is doing. He doesn’t think he HAS TO answer to us. That attitude is a direct slap in Congress’ face…because they are digging deeper and deeper, and Obama knows 2012 is history. There is no way on God’s green earth he can win in 2012. But is that good or bad? He’s going to drag this country down with him. That has me worried.
I personally think he is just a stooge of the Mafia that is George Soros. I don’t think Obama has any power at all. I think some real damage has been done by Beck and that more got exposed than they bet on.
I think the GOP is smart to watch the Dems shoot themselves in the foot.
BlackRedneck for President.
You are absolutely right!The GOP has always been afraid of being called a racist!
They MUST get a backbone and say “truth is not racist, it’s the truth.”
I do not believe they ever will, but hope springs eternally!
What Boehner is NOT doing and really needs to be doing is getting out in front of the American public and explaining why cutting 100 billion is not only not “slashing” the budget, it’s hardly denting the damn thing. He needs to make the numbers real like this from Time (Jan 2009)
“But that similarity trips us up when it comes time to imagine how those figures translate to the real world, where three more zeros make all the difference. “My favorite way to think of it is in terms of seconds,” says David Schwartz, a children’s book author whose How Much Is a Million? tries to wrap young minds around the concept. “One million seconds comes out to be about 11½ days. A billion seconds is 32 years. And a trillion seconds is 32,000 years. I like to say that I have a pretty good idea what I’ll be doing a million seconds from now, no idea what I’ll be doing a billion seconds from now, and an excellent idea of what I’ll be doing a trillion seconds from now.”
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1870699,00.html#ixzz1HddwGokI
Boehner: “ooooh $100 Billion is such a big number”
He promised a paltry 100 Billion as a token – that’s it – and we now find out he knew all along he had no intention of honoring a token!
Guys quit defending this guy due to “a letter” written by a 20-something future lobbyist (or more likely current lobbyist)..Newsflash – Boehner wasn’t just delivered by the stork – Boehner has been there over 20 years learning at the knee of Gingrich, Tom Delay and a host of other Cocktail Repubs – all of whom who have either resigned in disgrace or are now in prison
Tammy Faye Boehner single-handedly reversed the momentum we handed him after the historic Tea Party landslide – yes Tammy Fay… the Tea Party victory – it was not your victory!…
please step aside Boehner, Cantor and the rest of the clones (yes we need diversity too) and let Bachmann, West, and even DeMint step forward.
and rather than $2-4 billion in cuts in each CR- cuts that the Dems and Obama brilliantly played as being their ideas to begin with – Mr. Speaker – How about $100 BILLION each CR – now that would be leadership – but naaahhh- that would cut into all those lobbyist vacations thanks to the do-nothing 2011 calendar – we should have seen that as a sign of things to come!!
In the immortal words of Lawrence Welk (yes, I AM that old) there is only one way to make sure you can pay ALL your bills: Increase income or decrease outgo! Since increasing income isn’t on the table, nor should it be, decreasing spending is the only and obvious answer! I don’t understand what about it is so difficult to understand!
I agree.
NO MORE FOREIGN AID TO ANYONE!
try again
Allen West has message for Harry Reid, Boehner and Freshman House members who have caved to Boehner and his paltry CRs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXieflLr63k&feature=player_embedded
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXieflLr63k?rel=0&w=640&h=390
The only area where I am really having a problem with Boehner is concerning the defunding of Obamacare. The $105 billion dollars that was secretly put in the bill for implementation EVERY YEAR bothers me a great deal. This is reckless spending that does not need to happen. And Boehner, who I know wants to stick to the rules, needs to find some way to kill this. By doing so he would regain the trust of the Tea Party, and decrease spending. It is something that can not be negotiated, or ignored. Because we are all watching him.
The Speaker is a Rovian tool; ditto for the joke Cantor and I dont much trust Ryan either.
Boehner also is a borderline alcoholic, is he not?
Well having all this vacation time is either a curse or a blessing depending stage of alcoholism a person may have
check out this calendar created by Eric Cantor just after he and Boehner claim they “HEARD US”- can you imagine working only about a 100 days a year like our cocktail party?
http://majorityleader.house.gov/Calendar/
post office workers and union teachers work longer longer than these guys.
Allen West doesn’t trust them either!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXieflLr63k?rel=0&w=640&h=390
I love Rep. Chafezz.
We’re sipposed to trust the guy who handed out tobacco lobby check on the floor o fthe Josue just before a key vote? How is he still in office?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAC2xeT2yOg?rel=0&w=480&h=390
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAC2xeT2yOg
We know is the NYT’s but still provides some key Boehner factoids we did not know we are trusting this guy with our Country’s future at this critical time?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/us/politics/12boehner.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
here are some nuggets: Mr. Boehner won some of his first national headlines in 1996 after he was caught handing out checks from tobacco lobbyists to fellow Republicans on the House floor. Then the fourth-ranking House Republican, he said he had broken no rules and was simply assisting his lobbyist friends, who were contributing to other Republicans’ campaigns.
“He knows this is going to be a tough election,” said Samuel J. Baptista, a friend, golf partner and lobbyist whose clients include Goldman Sachs and Discover Financial. “But people who underestimate him really do so at their own peril.”
From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Boehner flew at least 45 times, often with his wife, Debbie, on corporate jets provided by companies including R. J. Reynolds.
In addition, over the last decade he has taken 41 other trips paid for by corporate sponsors or industry groups, often to popular golf spots. That makes him one of the top House beneficiaries of such travel,
Mr. Boehner continues to travel to golf destinations on a corporate-subsidized tab, though now it is paid for through his political action committee, the Freedom Project. In the last 18 months, it has spent at least $67,000 at the Ritz-Carlton Naples in Florida, at least $20,000 at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Va., and at least $29,000 at the Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, federal records show, for fund-raising events.
Thanks for the great info. Boehner is part of the establishment that needs to go.
Our country’s only hope is Ron or Rand Paul. Of course, Fox News would rather support scum like Rudy Giuliani and their voice is very powerful with the sheeple.
Ron or Rand would be good for their positions on The Federal Reserve Bank and it’s need to go away, a position that ciuld just get you killed. But they are hard core libertarians and I don’t like the idea of making things like prostitution and drugs legal. On foreign policy they would be a disaster. But I do resect them both for their economic policy ideas. Too bad thats not enough.
I’m giving Boehner a break,
and I agree, with only control of the House, there is only so much that can be done.
the WH and Senate has to be turned over to limited govt, constiutional conservatives.
2012 I am donating and campaiging.
Then tell us how the Dems win regardless of whether they hold the House, Senate or WH – face it Tammy Fay Boehner has been a fifth column rep for his 25-plus years in power
If Boehner’s 25 years in Congress were declared a crime scene – he would be arrested and questioned by virtue of being at the scene of every crime over 25-plus years
The Tea Party movement is the most important and positive political movement I have ever witnessed in my country. They don’t do double standards. They hold the republican party accountable and are effecting the only real change in Washington. I make it a point to call my elected officials in Washington even if I know they won’t do what their constituents are demanding, because I find that their is always a young voice on the line; most likely a young intern who is as impressionable and perhaps naive as I was when I was still a democrat. I explain my concerns rationally and reference facts that can be verified. I nothing else, perhaps my calls will help a young generation of well meaning political minds come to their senses about the dumbocraps and the establishment republicans who only create opportunity for lawyers and leaches.