Is Boehner heading for the exits?

The reading of political tea leaves is one of Washington's most popular parlor games.

And when it comes to the future of House Speaker John Boehner, political soothsayers are busy divining patterns in tea leaves, wine sediments and coffee grounds to determine whether the Ohio Republican will stick around for another term. Questions are rampant as to whether Boehner could decide to leave on his own accord or be shoved out the door by a cabal of upstart conservatives intent to flip the House of Representatives on its ear.

This tasseography involving the speaker's gavel takes on many forms. The Capitol Hill clairvoyants interpreted the following events as harbingers that Boehner is sure to soon hang it up:

In December, the Ohio Republican took the rare step of blistering conservative advocacy groups like the Club for Growth and Heritage Foundation. Those organizations routinely pelt Republican offices with messages about how to vote on key issues. And Boehner had enough.

"Frankly, I just think they have lost all credibility," Boehner said. "I don't care what they do."

In particular, Boehner chastised the groups for driving conservatives to shutter the government unless they defunded the Affordable Care Act. Boehner said those same advocates later conceded they didn't think their approach would work.

"Are you kidding me?" Boehner vented. "I think they're pushing our members into places they don't want to be."

RE :”Those bast@rds are more than happy to rollover on their backs for obama. “

And much of their campaign funds come from Chamber of Commerce types who have a number of demands, amnesty is a big one.

I come to a conclusion that those types don't want cuts in government spending, but they do want cuts in entitlements(SS, medicare, medicaid, food stamps) , especially ones that start in the distant future(those retiring).

Ironically most of those they want amnesty for will support Dems who will support bills to suck businesses dry and will oppose what they want.

RE:” Never understood the point in that exercise in futility.
....
That does not surprise me in the least. “

That's a coincidence, it didn't surprise me the least how it ended.

It was so obvious,
I predicted it here a number of times how it did end and not a single freeper would go out on a limb and say they believed Obama would blink, they all knew it would end badly.

Rand Paul's immigration speech
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.

Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.

Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.

Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.

If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...

This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.

Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reform
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...
[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]

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