Posted on 06/12/2014 6:43:20 AM PDT by cotton1706
Before House Majority Leader Eric Cantor could tell his fellow Republicans that he was stepping down, Speaker of the House John Boehner began to cry Tuesday in the basement of the Capitol, as he praised his outgoing colleague at a caucus meeting behind closed doors, according to several members of Congress who were present.
Republicans had gathered to honor their leader as he announced plans to leave his leadership on July 31, after losing his primary race on Tuesday. For at least short time, his colleagues stopped their jockeying to replace him and offered words of praise. “Eric Cantor was one of the five most influential people in the United States of America in unseating Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker and giving us a Republican majority,” said Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.).
“There was a whole lot of standing ovations for everything that [Cantor] said,” Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah). “It felt like I was at a mortuary watching a viewing.”
Other members said they believed that Cantor lost his job to protect theirs. “I think Eric was in the awkward position of having to go around the nation and every weekend always take care of national issues and business that required him to be outside of his district,” said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who is running for Senate. “I’m home in Georgia every single weekend.”
“Ultimately it might have cost him his elected position but good leaders will sacrifice to do what they believe is right,” said Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.).
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
... John Boehner began to cry....
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As he ponders his own future.
“One must have a heart of stone to read Dickens’ account of the death of Little Nell without bursting out laughing.” — Oscar Wilde
You see Mo, we keep looking for gladiators, and instead we keep getting golf caddies.
(((
Good one!
Mind your language please; there are ladies present.
Mind your language please; there are ladies present.
I listened to some of their speeches on Hanity yesterday. Not one word of congratulation or conciliation to Brat.
Are the e-Republicans going to support him at all in the general election?
Do they hate conservatives so much that they would rather have a Democrat?
You are right. They are JERKS.
” - - - - Republican voters are not happy with the GOP’s establishment position on amnesty for illegal immigrants and other hot-button issues fracturing the party. - - - “
The above quote, from another (today) FR thread article by author Adrianna Cohen describes the disconnection between the GOP-E leadership and that of the Republican voter.
To her credit, she did not rely on the usual defensive Liberal smokescreen tactic of using Liberal Media Polls based on OPINIONS to magically transform her case into a beyond question “Scientific” Case.
What Ms. Cohen and much of the rest of the Right and Left Stream Media are mis-reporting is that there is a “fracture” in the Republican Party.
The basic assumption of these journalists is that a political party must be monolithic, united, and speak “with one voice.”
Any deviation of opinion within the party is viewed as a danger that must be quickly healed before it becomes, (gasp!), a fracture.
The current Democrat Party is a perfect end example of what today’s Journalists view as normal political party behavior.
The reality is that The GOP-E Leadership has chosen to arrogantly ISOLATE itself from its voters.
The triple Presidential losses of Dole, McCain and Romney has curiously served to strengthen the GOP-E Leadership’s resolve to isolate themselves even more from their former and present Republican voters.
While the GOP-E Leadership has been busy appeasing, caving-in and otherwise “marching to the drum beat” of Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi, they have marched themselves into ever-increasing isolation.
After 4 + years of handing Obama a blank check, ignoring all illegal bypasses of Congress and caving-in to whatever Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi demand, the GOP-E Leadership has effectively isolated itself in the eyes of the average Republican Voter.
Grow a pair Boehner
Maybe a closet homo!?
Boehner is always “lit”. Every public appearance you can see it in his eyes
Heh,Heh,Heh,Hehheh!
They didn’t even like each other. Boehner is such a ridiculous dude.
Bonehead shouldn’t drink so early in the morning.
John Bonehead, the greatest gift the Democrats could hope for, other than Mitch McConnell.
There's not a doubt in my mind. That's why they will double down to get amnesty done IMO.
They are creating a martyr. Guess who just became terrorists in this sick little metaphor.
I feel so bad and cry for my brother Rat as he must leave the rest of us Rats. I think the man has low T.
Alcoholics lose control of their emotions.
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