Posted on 12/21/2012 5:18:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Exactly
And replace him with...........? Here’s an interesting quesiton. Let Freepers fill in the blank.
No, YOU don't get it. You are sitting there worrying about a 4-point increase in the top tax rate while the entire country has had a 40% tax increase imposed upon them by the higher prices caused by quantitative easing. Forget the damn tax issue and focus instead on the deficit ceiling. Put forth a balanced budget, and refuse to raise the debt limit any further.
This represents the problem with the GOPe - they want to continue to compromise with the enemy instead of fighting on principle. The commies on the left don’t want to compromise. They never do.
Who the he!! came up with this sequestering plan anyway? They should have set it to gut welfare, section 8, HUD, and all the other freeloader programs instead of the military.
If only Boehner had the cojones to walk away.
Sure, the House is adjourned, but they’re staying in DC to take the best final deal—which won’t be good—that Barry deems to give them.
This article may describe some melodrama, but it is not an accurate depiction of the larger picture.
RE: If only Boehner had the cojones to walk away.
The Weeper of the house nearly cried (again) according to this news:
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=DF1EF715-953D-49B7-837A-DE199E5136B2
EXCERPT:
Things were so bad for Speaker John Boehner Thursday night, support for his Plan B tax bill so diminished, the limits of his power with his own party laid bare, that he stood in front of the House Republican Conference and recited the Serenity Prayer.
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Boehner nearly cried.
How did Boehner cripple himself starting with the “purge”?
The house is a closed society...you can’t alienate one faction without alienating all, i.e, “Who’s next?” As strange as it may seem, apparently a few still have a working set of values.
“As far as the “purge” is concerned, I’m not too sure he wasn’t justified in doing that, knowing Ron Paul supporters the way I do.”
I think your feelings reflect those of many here on Free Republic.
However, I find I have a lot more in common with “Ron Paul supporters” than I do with RINO’s or Democrats.
And before the flames, No I am not a pot head living in my Mon’s basement.
“With no meaningful spending reductions, all the Tax talk, 2%, middle-class crap means nothing.”
I totally agree. I think that continuously.
I tried unsuccessfully to learn specifically what will happen if the fiscal cliff legislation takes effect. That’s very important, as I hear that it’s not really a cliff but a slope but haven’t seen the specifics.
We’ve been led to believe that the fiscal cliff legislation (the Simpson Bowles recipe made into law?) is the disaster option. I’m not so sure. I would like to know the specific cutting and taxing and how they’re phased in.
I’m for letting the cliff happen and for Republicans having the courage to ignore today’s polls.
Nonsense. Boehner's not a democrat, or a liberal or a socialist or any of the rest. He's just a weak, toothless leader who fecklesly turned on his own to appease the left. He was just stupid enough to think that obama really wanted a deal. All nonsense and now I hope the GOP caucus sends him home.
bingo.....just as the GOP crippled themselves by giving the Tea Party the F-U after we put them in power in Congress and gave them a fighting chance for the Senate and WH....
Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid, with Boehner's quiet approval, in order to circumvent the TEA Party freshmen, who refused to go along with the "business-as-usual" debt ceiling compromise in July 2011.
Ron Paul and his "supporters" (as you put it), had nothing to do with Boehner's meltdown. Get over it.
I want to know who this person is and how he has the audacity to say that those opposed to expanding a $16 trillion deficit 'don't get it'.
Typical GOP-E attitude.
The entire article fails to distinguish between national politics and regional. House members are there because of their districts. Many of those districts have no desire for kissing Obama’s butt - which is what Boner’s deal meant.
Boner was worried about national politics. His actions would make sense - IF Mitt Romney was facing election in January. Playing to the middle makes sense in the months before a national election, when the votes of confused and worthless people without principle matter.
No matter what is done, the national media will blame republicans for anything bad that happens for the next 4 years. Boner’s compromise would not have bought him ANY support from the media. Boner still thinks the media has a slight desire to be fair. They don’t.
We need to grow some conservatives between now and 2016 who can explain, in 60 seconds or less, how conservative ideas make everyone’s life better. We won’t do that with a GOP-E guy who changes his opinions more often than his underwear. And we don’t have any national leaders in the GOP right now. We will have to see if any step up to the need. Until then, the GOP house republicans might as well go on representing their districts - as they are supposed to do!
'Super Congress' Idea Floated to Solve Debt Crisis
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly are working on an idea to create a new bipartisan committee to break the debt-ceiling deadlock.
Such a committee, which some label a “Super Congress” and staffers on Capitol Hill are calling a “super committee,” reportedly would have special powers not present in the Constitution now, according to the Daily Mail in London.
Things that they set in motion in the summer of 2011, are now biting them squarely on the butt.
That will be retiring Congressman LaTourette, who went on the morning shows this morning and called his Conservative colleagues "chuckleheads."
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.