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from article "This tells us something important: The House Republican majority now governs largely through gestures and is driven almost entirely by internal party fractiousness and narrow political imperatives. "
1 posted on 02/13/2014 6:50:16 AM PST by bestintxas
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should have been noted to be wash post, not times


2 posted on 02/13/2014 6:53:21 AM PST by bestintxas (Every time a RINO bites the dust a founding father gets his wings.)
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A strong leader -- one committed to conservative principles -- would be able to form a strong opposition party from this "fractiousness".

It is clear -- more now than ever -- that such leadership qualities and the virtues of commitment and honor -- do not exist in the current leaders.

3 posted on 02/13/2014 6:56:49 AM PST by glennaro
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Source is mis-identified. Should be Washington Post. Dionne in the Times would be shocking.


5 posted on 02/13/2014 7:00:49 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor)
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We were so caught up in our own nasty politics that we forgot that we’re supposed to be a model for how democracy should work.

Actually, we should be a model for how a republic works.

Most of the worlds' population is all too familiar with how democracy works.

That's why they turn their homes into rafts and risk their lives crawling through vast deserts and stowing away in wheel wells of airliners to get here.

6 posted on 02/13/2014 7:01:11 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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We are facing an existential threat to our freedom and our way of life from a totalitarian-minded president, yet the Republican leadership in Congress is the weakest and most supine that I have ever seen. Bonehead and McCommie are even worse than Gerald Ford and Hugh (”the conservatives get the rhetoric, the liberals get the action”) Scott, the GOP leaders of the House and Senate, respectively, during the Nixon years.


7 posted on 02/13/2014 7:03:34 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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E.J. Dionne Jr. — every time I hear him on TV he sounds like a crying teenager, full of liberal hogwash. He gets personal real fast when someone tries to make him stick to the topic.

Notice he didn’t write one thing about how this vote helps the country economically.

Like a spend-a-holic liberal, when he overspends, he wants a higher credit limit.

Obviously a Washington Post article, NOT WASHINGTON TIMES as the link suggests.


9 posted on 02/13/2014 7:10:02 AM PST by detch
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Wonder what the NSA dug up on Boner, he had the same look on his face as Chief Justice Roberts, after he had just rewritten the PPACA so it could be shoved down everyone’s throat.


11 posted on 02/13/2014 7:15:52 AM PST by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To a hacks mind it’s only numbers on paper pick a party it’s the same.


16 posted on 02/13/2014 9:10:03 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: bestintxas; AllAmericanGirl44; VerySadAmerican; demshateGod; small business owner; ...

The 5 year long, lopsided power struggle still continues on the now shredded Congressional Field of Battle in the District of Corruption, along the muddy banks of De Nile River.

The single simple goal of the much-praised Left Team, also called “Democrats,” as stated by their team captain B. Hussein Soetoro-Obama is to “Fundamentally change the United States of America.”

Even today, after five very long years of Obamanation, their hatred of the former United States of America can still be detected in the arrogant, and always deceitful, teleprompter speeches of their Top Leaders: President Jarrett; Gestapo General Holder and BoyToy Dictator Soetoro-Obama.

The multiple, and very complex goals of the Right Team, as yet unstated but consistently acted out by Special Wrongway RINO Defense Squad Co- Captains John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy and Pete Roskam is to DO NOTHING that will irritate the Left Team.

The Right Team is also known by the name “Republicans,” a nostalgic name from a long-past time when there was “Liberty and Justice for all.”

The Left Team has a single Offense Squad with All Democrat Stars from many Schools of Higher Government Learning, to name just a few:
* Department of Gestapo Justice, (DOGJ);
* National Spy On U., (NSOU);
* Interrogate Ream Sue U., (IRSU)
* Reid Barrycade Senate Universal, (RBSU).

The Left Team always runs down the Congressional Field of Battle together, and has been admiringly nicknamed “ District of Corruption, United.”

The Right Team has NEVER allowed the younger, highly-skilled Constitutional Offense Squads onto the Congressional Field of Battle, due to well-timed and strongly worded objections from many RINO luminaries such as Loser Emeritus, “Wacko Birds” McCain.

After a recent weekend, group-hug, bonding session, many caucus meetings, and private deal-making, Lead Co-Captain John “Doormat” Boehner picked up the ball on February 11 th, and ran up the Congressional Field of Battle to score a goal for the Left Team.

Thanks to the quick RINO Defensive actions of “Wrongway” Boehner and his ‘gang of 27,’ an additional 1 to 4, (nobody is really sure), TRILLION taxpayer dollars will be added to the National Poverty Debt Game Clock.

Co-Captain “Wrongway” Boehner was assisted by 27 Members of the Special Wrongway RINO Defense Squad.

All of their team effort comments to the Left Stream Media were hopeful, but guarded.

The journalists with the Left Stream Media surprisingly did not ask if “Wrongway” Boehner would receive an engraved invitation for a gratitude lunch with Toy-Boy Dictator Soetoro-Obama.

Needless to say, “Wrongway” Boehner and his ‘gang of 27’ made no contact with any of the Left Team Members.

Most of the Left Team so-called “opponents,” (wink, wink), generally approved of the marginally satisfactory speed at which “their best friend across the aisle” ran to score the goal that “Most SENSIBLE Americans agree with.”

Time will tell if donations of time and money given to the Special Wrongway RINO Defense Squad, (SWRDS), will increase or decrease before the Championship Game in November, 2014.

Reporting live from the now snow covered, shredded Congressional Field of Battle, along the muddy banks of De Nile River is y’alls Free Republic reporter Graewoulf, signing off on this Global Cooling, Valentine’s Day Eve Day.


18 posted on 02/13/2014 10:14:03 AM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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