Posted on 11/10/2012 7:53:35 PM PST by tobyhill
On a conference call with House Republicans a day after the party’s electoral battering last week, Speaker John A. Boehner dished out some bitter medicine, and for the first time in the 112th Congress, most members took their dose.
Their party lost, badly, Mr. Boehner said, and while Republicans would still control the House and would continue to staunchly oppose tax rate increases as Congress grapples with the impending fiscal battle, they had to avoid the nasty showdowns that marked so much of the last two years.
Members on the call, subdued and dark, murmured words of support — even a few who had been a thorn in the speaker’s side for much of this Congress.
It was a striking contrast to a similar call last year, when Mr. Boehner tried to persuade members to compromise with Democrats on a deal to extend a temporary cut in payroll taxes, only to have them loudly revolt.
With President Obama re-elected and Democrats cementing control of the Senate, Mr. Boehner will need to capitalize on the chastened faction of the House G.O.P. that wants to cut a deal to avert sudden tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts in January that could send the economy back into recession. After spending two years marooned between the will of his loud and fractious members and the Democratic Senate majority, the speaker is trying to assert control, and many members seem to be offering support.
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Boehner does not seem to remember the 1964 Civil rights acts. Republicans voted for it more than Democrats but guess who got the credit and the black vote for the next 50+ years?
There is no evidence that going along with democrats will do anything but screw us over the long run just like the 1964 “civil rights act” did.
never follow a coward!
Pity to few incoming conservative representatives, having to take “orders” from the likes of the Cincinnati Kid. I imagine many of them will wish they had been defeated after a few more months.
” What is the excuse the Left has for more votes than there are registered voters?”
With the Republican Party, you don’t need an excuse. We never do anything to stop the left.
Sickoflibs says I swiped his line...
However...I prefer to think of it as “redistributing SOL’s wisdom”...
Better???
” What a spineless weasel POS.”
He has to go, or WE all go.
I’m with you. It’s like the Viet Nam war. The soldiers, sailors, Airmen and Marines didn’t lost that war. The politicians prevented them from winning it. And we couldn’t fight the policicians. Just like the GOP is preventing conservatives from winning. And apparently we’re unable to fight them, too.
The speaker doesn’t have to be a memeber of the House or even a member of Congress.
You must not listen to Rush. Operation Chaos was NOT to STOP Hillary. It was to extend the Dem primary out as long as possible (like Hillary would have quit without it?) so as to use up resources they’d need for the general.
If anything, it would have HELPED Hillary beat Obama.
I voted in the Dem primary for Hillary in TN. By the time our primary came up McCain had it locked so it didn’t matter.
I’m starting to think FR is being overrun by trolls and children. They believe so much of what isn’t true.
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