“Boehner was trying to play chess and the caucus was playing checkers,” he said, sighing. “Boehner is willing to lose a pawn for a queen. I’m not sure about the rest.”Boehner's version of losing a pawn.
Posted on 12/21/2012 5:18:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
So even AMASH thinks Boehner's plan wasn't all bad?
You mean Boehner's not the "Stalin" he's been made out to be?
Surprise, surprise.
“Boehner was trying to play chess and the caucus was playing checkers,” he said, sighing. “Boehner is willing to lose a pawn for a queen. I’m not sure about the rest.”Boehner's version of losing a pawn.
The ones that were “purged” are Ron Paul supporters and these folks here in Iowa have caused HUGE trouble. I am suspicious of all of them.
As I understand it obama and Reid already said they’d reject “Plan B”. So Boner wanted to pass it so they could shoot it down in the senate? If the dems really wanted it boner could have gotten enough dems to vote for it.
If the dems can’t have their own speaker, they’ll side with the rinos and keep boner in.
Even if Price does become speaker, he won’t have the votes either. boner and pals will fight him every step of the way.
Democrats? Patriots?
There may be a few left among the Democrat rank & file. But among their political leadership? None. They all salute the ghosts of Moscow.
That's a bunch of nonsense.
It is not nonsense. Check it out.I know what I’m talking about.
If Boehner is willing to lose a pawn to protect his queen, then it seems to me he is acknowledging that 0bama is playing Chess. (And personally, I do believe he is entirely correct about that.) Meanwhile, a whole lot of other folks — in Congress and out — think the game being played here is Checkers.
We're skunked either way: Go over the fiscal cliff, or have the Congress buckle to the president — and then we still get to go over the fiscal cliff.
My view FWIW is that Boehner is trying to do a valiant job in impossible conditions. He probably will not prevail. But I thank him for trying.
Always has. Since Washington.
If you don't approve of efforts to get the president to direct Reid to do his job, perhaps you can elucidate some other more effective method.
The elephant in the living room...as one insider put it, "the A--Hole factor." I don't know these guys, but as time goes by that attribution makes more and more sense.
To put a fine point on my previous comments: nothing would please me more than to see Boehner replaced THIS MONTH by a Conservative, NON-RINO, new Speaker of the House.
Just today Boehner said: “We can’t cut our way back to prosperity.” With that spendaholic philosophy we will continue to compromise with the Devil Communists.
You got that right. You should see what these A—holes have done here in Iowa. They’ve nearly bankrupted RPI. It’s a long nightmare story.
I have a link to the bill.
The line by line cuts start on page 13. You’ll be amazed at just how mny ‘committees’ and redundancies there appear to be. Quite an eye chart.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/20120915-sequester/STAReport_sequester.pdf
“link to the bill”
Thanks for that link.
I see that it is a report, not legislation. It starts by explaining that the sequestrations were never intended to be implemented because iff it were there would be dire consequences, but the consequences aren’t explained.
The report is 394 pages long, mostly an itemization of the agencies to receive cuts. Looks like cuts of 8-10 percent for everything mentioned. Doesn’t sound unreasonable to me.
Does the report say how the cuts will be phased in? I’ll bet the phasing in can be postponed per politicians’ wishes. Someone said that the tax increases can be delayed because the President or someone controls when withholding amounts from our paychecks are changed.
The point men in the conflict have been Bohner and the President. Behind them are the elected representatives, who those point men must convince. Behind the elected representatives are the citizens who elected them.
As far as I’m concerned the citizens are in control of the conflict. My reservation here is that we citizens, including me, don’t know enough.
I’m a conservative that once liked “Plan B” but the inability to pass it has inspired me that conservatives around the country still are a major political force.
As posters have said before, financial legislation needs to be mostly about cutting government spending, not the quibble over the “millionaire tax”. I’m disgusted that Obama, Bohner and the others have not tried harder to explain to we citizens the need for spending containment.
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