“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.
” - - - - conservatives, over and over again, refused to budge - - - “
And so the first successful shot across the RINO’s bow begins! Hip-Hip Howrah! Hip-Hip Hooray!! Hip-Hip Hoorah!!!
Benghazi-Coward B. Hussein Obama had been counting on the Liberal Agenda Media’s drumbeat of the artificial term “fiscal cliff” to distract from the reality that the Democrats have NO intention of ever cutting year-to-year Federal Spending.
Boehner assumed that RINO Power is invincible, and thus he could quickly cave-in to Obama, and the RINO herd would then follow Boehner despite a few Conservative Bumps in the Road to the holy grail of Bipartisan Cave-In.
There will be many more battles with the RINO Herd in the House before the Democrats are forced to cut Y2Y Federal Spending.
Hopefully, the Conservative’s shots across the the RINOs’ bow will soon be at the midship waterline of the SS RINO Line Ship ‘Bipartisan Cave-In.’
"“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.”"
Really, Boehner the strategic genius and opponents are just dummkopfs. Really? Boehner must be the greatest actor in the world, because he's sure played a absolutely convincing dummkopf for 2 years in the few times he's crawled out of his bunker.
Dear RINO's, the goal is to do what is good for the country. You guys seem to think the goal is to do what is in the immediate interest of John Boehner's and your careers. A deal is needed for your careers, and apparently it hasn't mattered, what's in the deal and the damage it'll do to the country (and to the GOP and ultimately to your careers). Who are the dummkopfs here?
boehner has not used the authority given the House of Representatives for 2 years. He could've cut spending. He could've stop funding for ObamaCare. He could've stop funding for Obama's illegal executive orders. Boehner did nothing.
Now, it's finally blown up in his face and you RINOs want to blame the opponents. This was inevitable due to having a Zero for your elected leader and spokesman.
Do you people realize how serious the situation is? Do you realize how angry and worried your voters are? You don't. Where's the urgency? Where are the tough decisions? We've seen nothing after giving you the House for 2 years. You wonder why people didn't turn out to vote? They've given up on the GOP. Do the right thing. Stop Obama. You have the power to do this and you haven't.
Monica Crowley said it correctly when she stated that the burden should have ALWAYS been on Obama and the democrats instead of Boehner and Republicans. Bad leadership, chess or Yahoo! Obama and Reid demonstrated that they were not willing to deal no matter.
What is insane here is that politicians’ spending is the issue that caused this problem and the same politicians are trying to fix this problem and are continuing to spend money. Look at all the money Obama is promising to governments worldwide and his precious groups. Nothing will change if a deal is reached. They are trying to put a band-aid on a machete wound.
Methinks Jack Lew slept very soundly last night.
Boehner’s plan was bassackwards to start with. You formulate a plan, make sure you have the requisite backing and THEN announce it, including the backing stats in the announcement.
Fortunately there are enough principled conservatives in the House that won’t renege on their promise to vote against any tax increase.
Boehner is a bungler to the max and needs to be replaced, period. He hasn’t a clue about negotiating and has done much damage to the party.
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.
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!
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.
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.
