In this ONE CASE he did win. He called the President’s bluff on “the sky is falling” because of the sequester and the country saw that it wasn’t.
Not a very big win, but a win - and hopefully a first step.
At BEST, they got lucky. I am not seeing any clear ‘Path to Victory’ from any of these idiots!
He had a tactical plan?
either they are so deluded, or they’ve all been to colorado for wacky weed.
I don’t know if it was tactical but it did work. Even the liberal polls show as much. However do I really believe Boehner intended from the beginning to go ahead with the sequester? Not at all. I believe they did intend to cave. They deserve credit for not caving on this but excuse me if from day to day I can’t keep up with the number of times they do cave. :-)
However, this was mainly due to the Tea Party in 2011.
We'll see how the debt ceiling plays out, which is coming on May 19, 2013.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
I wouldn’t be bragging or doing any chest-thumping....
Then why the Foxtrot did he get re-elected?
If Boehner's plan worked, then pigs fly, Hell froze over, and the cows came home.
Boehner Declares Victory ala Montey Python
even if all of that was true - why would one advertise that inside baseball stuff to the media (we know why)? There is nothing to declare victory over. nothing. Boehner should be increasing the pressure on the dems to reduce spending and reminding everyone there have been no spending decreases yet, just some minor decreases in the rate of increase. what a dork
If revenue bills must originate in th House, why can’t Boehner declare, “Read my lips: No new taxes.” Then grow a pair and stand by his statement???
The power of the purse trumps a lot.
What’s Boehner’s overlying master srategy?
To let Obama spend enough money and issue enough regulations to destroy the country then say:
“See? I told you he would do this!”
Why did the House let the continuing resolution get out of there without, at the very least, no funding for Obamacare!
If I am wrong or mistaken, I wish someone here would set me straight and tell me exactly why the House could have not cut programs out of continuing resolution, send it on and dare Zer0 to veto, which would "shut down the government"....
I almost choked on my chicken pot pie on that one.
Why do I have ZERO confidence in boehner???
Boner got a good result,
given the cards he had to play.
nominate ‘legitimate rape’ candidates,
you lose.
Yes, Boehner did score a field goal. Bravo to actually making Dems pass a budget and to holding firm to the one actual spending cut implementation since getting elected. And a bonus was exposed Obama for a total hysterical over-reacting liar. Nice.
But what about defuding Obamacare? Boehner and the leaders in the Senate could have gone to the mat and stripped Obamacare funding from the CR. They whiffed on that.