Boehner is no better than Pelosi. It’s way beyond time to abandon the GOP-E and start a new national Conservative Party from scratch. Leave these hacks where they sit to rot...they’ll never win another election again with garbage like this going on.
I sent Speaker Boehner a letter saying that I would support his primary opponent and any democrat who runs against him.
If Speaker Boehner was disciplining the nominally conservative Republicans to actually vote more conservative, then I’d applaud him. In other words, I don’t see anything wrong per se with enforcing party discipline. It’s how it’s used.
In fact, I admire Nancy Pelosi’s ability to keep her party in line on key (hard left) votes. She’s even managed to force some moderate Democrats to toe the line at the expense of their political careers. We should want Republicans to stick together in much the same way so long as their moving the political football to the right.
THAT’s the real problem! Mr. Boehner is NOT moving to the right. He’s capitulating for more big government.
Can someone please run against him??
Boehner spokesman Michael SteelBoehner spokesman Michael Steel??
How very interesting.
Steel moved over to the other side and is now a lib commentator on MSNBC.
I had no idea he was still involved with the republicans, just thought he melted into the background after his affirmative action stint as head of the RNC.
The republicans put him in that position for the same reason they gave the election to Obama twice:
Catering to political correctness and "History"
So that's it. MSNBC has one of their guys speaking for Boehner. Figures.
Time to throw Boner out as Speaker of the House.
He has become a democrat.
Maybe because Amash did not vote for the Ryan budget
Have we learned yet....
they are not our party,
we are not going to “take the party back.”
they never were our party...
Boehner looks at Pelosi with envy. He wants lockstep obedience as she gets, and is trying to force the troops into line. We have news for him....
These people Boehner is wantonly tossing from their assigned committees, and threatening others are “representatives” of the constituencies whom chose them, elected them to office for their ideology as it reflects upon their own.
Boehner is messing with the electorate that sent these Conservative “representatives” to the House.
The guy has to be gone from the leadership of the House ASAP.
Got a list and a drone - what else more does he need?
This is stunning to me and it appears the Republican Party is blowing up. I have to think this is a Boehner - Natl. Chairman Reince Priebus operation. Remember Priebus shut down conservatives at the national convention and Boehner was a party to that. The two of them are trying to stomp out the Party base and turn it into a more liberal party.
I wish our other Republican Representatives had enough guts to elect a speaker not in Boehner’s “click”.
The Geriatric Old Plotters strike again.
The Democrat Party is like an armed robber.
The GOP is like a embezzler that also molests your kids, drinks your whiskey and poisons your dog while you are away.
The enemy within is more odious and foul than the enemy at the gates.
And will FReepers ever realize that being a conservative is VERY different than being a Republican?
I suspect the GOPe would be doing EXACTLY the same things to get the party to vote for every stupid idea Mitt would have had also.
Yet many here talked all about how they were going to hold Mitt’s feet to the fire and make him do the right thing.
I left the plantation. I will not vote for a RINO, liberal, tax-loving, squish, nor be locked into voting for a One Party Plantation candidate.
I wouldn’t exaggerate what Boehner is doing. I can understand he may need to make a deal to avoid republican disaster if Obama pins the fiscal cliff on the GOP.
BUT the way this is being handled, Boehner is risking alienating the entire conservative base of the republican party. He ain’t going to be replacing that with any imagined slice of the hispanic, single mother, etc. vote.
Even if a deal has to be made, I can see so many better ways this should be handled.
Boehner is in a position to do a great deal of good. But he’s running in the wrong direction?? What gives!?
WTF?
I suspect that if there is going to be a revolt in the ranks that overthrows Boehner, Ryan would be in the cat-bird seat to become speaker. Importantly, Boehner is about 15th in seniority among Republicans.