Posted on 05/17/2012 5:26:16 AM PDT by iowamark
“Boehner definitely played them, giving them their symbolic votes and afterward getting them to vote for the Obama-Boehner compromises which did go into law.
The Debt limit/deficit reduction bill is the worse example of this shameless effective strategy.”
Trent Lott(Drudge & FR) “ We have to co-opt the Tea Party guys
as soon as they get here”
The HotAir source is the same Politco story.
The ONLY source is Politico. I wouldn’t give it any credence.
Not that i can’t imagine it being true.
That is the problem, it sounds exactly like what they say when they are interrogated on it, to just do the politically easy stuff.
The other problem is that the Republican channel is so committed to electing Republicans, much like the Dem channel with Dems, that there is no way they would report this even if they got the info.
“The only goal of this story is to depress and destroy the Tea Party.”
Yes, the Tea Party consistently came up 20 to 40 votes short when the heat was on.
The lesson they don’t want us to learn is to get 20 to 40 more Tea Party congressmen!
Then the Senate RINO and Dems can play all the tricks they want and it’ll do them no good.
I think the goal of this story is to remind conservatives that the work of reshaping government is difficult and is going to take time. I'm not discouraged by this even though my Tea Party frosh only checked in at 57% (Cravaack).
Both the major party candidates will make this process immeasurably more difficult, but I look at it like an employer who is giving a job review. I need hard data, and this is it.
Rush reported on the same story citing Politico and said he believes it, and he was critical of the idea.
So I see not long after Boehner comes out and denies the story,
He can get awaqy with trying to repeal unpopular parts of it claiming he is dismantling it, but if it is thrown out and he tries to re-pass the popular parts he would claim that is the Republican alternative, not likely now,
Thanks for the update. It’s good Boehner denied it.
Obamacare needs to be completely repealed. All parts of it.
If the pubbies don’t do it I will never vote for any of them again.
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