[wmileo]

Hoekstra should stop giving us advice. We tell him and the rest of those GOP Politial fixtures what to do.

I never trust anyone who looks like he/she has a year round sun tan. That is why Boehner is the wrong guy to be in the fight on our behalf.

[COBOL2Java]

"Leave John alone!"

[maggief]

“Hoekstra: Tea Party Should Back Off on Boehner.”

Hell, no. Time to apply more pressure. They’re getting wobbly.

[Grunthor]

The only reason the G.O.P. is in controll of the House of REpresentatives is BECAUSE OF the TEA Party. I don’t think they should back off. Not one little bit.

[Dead Corpse]

No.

Insider jackasses protecting their own need to feel some heat too.

[dfwgator]

This is why Trump more and more appealing. I don’t know where Trump stands on all this, but the perception is, assume that he is on our side in this matter, he would fight tooth and nail, and get down and dirty to get his way, not like the milquetoast GOP politicians we’re stuck with now.

[houeto]

I just get tickled every time I hear somebody say the Tea Party should do this or that. There is NO Tea Party. It is nothing but a grassroot movement of American people.

They are still clueless.

[paulycy]

Credit where credit is due to all Republican leaders. But the state of the Republic is so dire we need to keep the pressure on all our "leaders" to make sure that the correct, Constitutional conservative agenda is being fought for and ACHIEVED at all times. Nothing less can be accepted.

This puts a big burden on our leaders but they are going to have to rise to the occasion. The Republic and the American people deserve no less.

[backwoods-engineer]

Hoekstra: Tea Party Should Back Off on Boehner

On the contrary: without Tea Party criticism, Boehner would be deeper into "business as usual" mode than he is. I WANT my government to fear us.

[Blogger]

Oh shut up! I’m tired of people bashing Boehner for idiotic things like crying and suntans. He’s standing firm which is why they are complaining. Bravo, John B!

As to Hoekstra, sorry, as American citizens we still have the right to petition our congressmen as persistently as we want to. You don’t get to decide that.

[Red in Blue PA]

IOW, citizens need to shut up.

Get rid of any Congresscritter who thinks this way.

[DTogo]

Wasn’t the Tea Party just a bunch of Astroturf “extremists” that are supposed to fade away soon???

[Qbert]

No true Conservative wants to see Boehner not succeed. But success comes from having confidence in yourself and the poise to follow through on your principles, especially when the odds seem overwhelming. I don’t get this sense with the leadership much of the time (and I don’t know what their principles are half the time).

Boehner should look to Wisconsin as an example- all the echo-chamber pundits and polls said there would be this massive backlash against them for passing the public sector union law... and instead (in the best indicator available so far) Prosser appears to have won in a resounding victory. But you don’t get from here to there by fighting minor skirmishes.

[circlecity]

"Conservatives are urging their grass-roots colleagues to mute their criticisms of House Speaker John Boehner and the GOP leadership, and to get behind their efforts to address out-of-control spending in Washington."

What efforts to address spending? Both plans being offered, even the Republicans', is like trying to bail water out of the Titanic with a thimble. It won't even make a dent. In both instances the ship is gonna sink if drastic measures are not employeed.

[Vendome]

There isn’t going to be any breathing room Pete.

We want results.

[11th_VA]

The GOP just needs a few better ‘talking points’> When the left brings up ‘Ideology’ and Planned Parenthood, the GOP should say “there will be NO Sacred Cows,” every item in the budget could be cut ...

[EGPWS]

Hoekstra: Tea Party Should Back Off on Boehner.

Tea Party, do what you know needs to be done.

Don't listen to the insiders and maintain the status quo.

[conservativebabe]

NO! No more breathing room. They’ve had it and squandered it every time.

We’re fed up with bipartisanship and compromise. Done, finished, end of story.

The Tea Party movement is the best thing to happen to this country and this party in a long time. Citizens fighting where the limp-wristed GOP won’t.

[luvie]

Conservative is as conservative does.

Let Boehner act conservative and conservatives approve.

[LibLieSlayer]

QUIT TELLING US WHAT TO A$$HOLE$... YOU POS BASTARDS WORK FOR US! EFF EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU POLITICAL PARASITES!

LLS

[Carry_Okie]

"Presidents, regardless of party, face constant pressures from the Left -- from the Big Brother government, neofascist, high tax, property-confiscating liberals, from the econazis and global warmists, from the pro-abortionists, from those who are pro-one world and anti-American and from those who advocate cradle-to-grave socialism. (Have I left anyone out?) And, unless there are constant counter-pressures from those on the Right who believe in small government, low taxes, America first and individual liberty, presidents, under Left-wing pressure, tend to drift that way." --Lyn Nofziger