Posted on 02/12/2014 11:05:35 AM PST by PaulCruz2016
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) defended Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday after the House passed a clean debt-limit bill that raised the ire of conservatives.
King branded as “morons” many conservatives in the GOP caucus who consistently oppose any effort to pass the debt limit, asserting they are the same faction that led to the government shutdown last year.
“This is the same group that back in September and October went into a government shutdown that everybody knew was a disaster,” King said on MSNBC. “They ended up looking like morons following Ted Cruz over the cliff.”
King had been one of the most vocal critics of the strategy that led to the government shutdown last year. He said the Speaker tried everything to get appease his members Tuesday.
However, many of them didn’t have the "guts" to vote on any proposal to raise the borrowing limit, King said.
“John tried everything,” he said. "I was so disgusted with people in the Republican conference. So many got up and said they knew they had to pass the debt ceiling, but they didn’t have the guts to vote for it. And they wouldn’t vote for anything. And that’s why he had to do what he did.”
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Jim,
Did FR change post time-stamps?
Didn’t it post as Eastern until a few days ago?
I just called his office and told them that the real morons are the politicians that keep spending my tax dollars!
Go ahead call. You’ll feel better.
Washington, DC Office
phone: (202) 225-7896
fax: (202) 226-2279
Massapequa Park District Office
phone: (516) 541-4225
fax: (516) 541-6602
Peter King needs to be primaried. Is there a challenger? This guy is a brown stain
. . . rather than a conservative?
I frikin’ hate this guy. The sooner he is gone the better. If you are in his district, it’s time to go 3rd party or stay home and get him out. He’s a tyrant wanna-be.
King has gone south, I mean senile several years ago. Boehner is just a sycophant for Obama.
Oh look! More lesser evil some of our fellow ...ahem...’conservatives’ tell us we have to vote for “no matter what”.
They should be happy.
We caved on the debt ceiling last time because the american people turned against it and the govt. shutdown.
Not to my knowledge.
Funny post but poll after poll show the American people oppose a govt. shutdown.
It is the same American people who voted Obama in.
He’s been bought. You can smell it.
Too bad King doesn’t get lost, he just embarrasses himself now.
Takes one to know one, Peter.
More like the Harlem Globetrotters (’Rats) vs. Washington Generals (GOP).
The only question is what to do about that difference.
Both Conservatives and Liberals want to change the world.
Conservatives understand that real change comes by example, not by telling people what to think or do. We tend to trust people, by a leap of faith, that they will act in accordance with their self interest which in turn benefits society as a whole. So long as there is transparency and a known set of rules.
Liberals, on the other hand, have no faith in mankind. They don’t trust people and as a result they find it necessary to tell people what they should think and do.
Liberals have taken the reigns in this effort to “make the world better”. They have figured out that there are now enough people that actually do want to be told what to think.
Meanwhile, conservatives hope and pray that we can just slow down this liberal Juggernaut. Slow it down long enough for reality to set in. Long enough for a critical mass of thinking and thoughtful people to have a positive affect on our culture.
It reminds me of this song;
Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity
Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more
I’d love to change the world
But I don’t know what to do
So I’ll leave it up to you
It’d be an amazing and heartwarming development if these a-holes went after democrats with this level of zeal.
mirror mirror...
A Media poll is viewed by most respondents as a memory test on current events.
The respondents are given questions with fixed answers, (yes, no, uncertain, for, against, important, less important, etc).
The Media pollsters know that Americans want to please, and thus phrase the question in such a way as to draw out that American desire.
For example:
1.) “Do you agree that Most Americans want to invest more in their children’s quality of learning?”
2.) “Do you agree with most Americans that the Trillions of tax payer dollars have ruined our Nation’s Public Schools and Universities?”
are two questions designed to encourage the respondent to agree with “most Americans” and elicit the desired “Yes” response, with opposing conclusions.
Reid refused to Compromise. Obama refused to compromise.
Boehner compromised so often that his tan turned the same color as his eyes.
The low information voter has only heard that the Left Stream Media blames Boehner,.
Ergo, another slam dunk for the Left.
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