Posted on 12/22/2011 10:38:06 AM PST by Nachum
Stop asking, Boehner. Start demanding.
Just sign it with the 1 year date — 12/22/2012. Two (2) months is a waste of time and money.
As this involves all Governors where are their voices. And
Gov. Chris Christi is a great speaker — get him out there.
also Paul Ryan
Speaker Boehner is correct on this issue, but needs support for the states.
The degree and depth of this Repub train wreck beggar the mind. The Pubbies look, act, and sound retarded. Over and over they fall for ploys that are 100 years old (literally). We are looking at an Obama re-election with the House returning to the Dems. How is this possible? It’s like your parakeet taking control of your house.
To let a dirty snake like Harry Reid and a flat-line cerebrum like Nancy Pelosi get the better of you (and to do so every time), you've got to be truly incompetent as well as congenitally fearful. I don't honestly know how McConnell (or Boehner) makes it look so easy, although the national GOP's more or less permanent Marcel Marceau approach to communications really helps to hasten the raising of the white flag.
How difficult would it have been for some Republican so-called leader to step forward to a bank of microphones and explain in two or three brief sentences what we all know: Democrats are intentionally short-changing Social Security, thus hastening its demise... and then blatantly lying about it in order to blame Republicans in demagogic fashion, complete with human props at the White House?
But then mon ami, why fight?
Establishment Pubbies are too polite. While snarl dogs like Durbin, Schumer, Jackson-Lee, and Frank rip Repubs to shreds, Pubbies reply in calm, measured tones. The public is sick of calm, measured tones. The Pubbies are screwing-up a free lunch. Boehner is incapable of fighting. I understand why the Tea Party freshmen are wild with frustration. McConnel seems capable, but then lets a fiasco like the 89-10 Senate vote happen. I suspect it will take an actual public massive passive resistance to Oahu Barry before things will begin to shift.
Yes, I think that many are. And yet, Establishment Republicans seem content to just turn the other cheek, only to have it roughly and repeatedly slapped by their "friends" across the aisle.
These days, one routinely hears Democrats saying things to and about Republicans that in a more (dare I say it?) masculine time would have been considered an invitation to Pistols at Dawn.
I understand we live in a more "refined" (read: wimpy) age, but still: where are the guts, the spines, the balls?
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