Posted on 01/06/2015 3:57:11 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Speaker John Boehner hopes Tuesday is the beginning of a new reality on Capitol Hill.
For years, Boehner has had to stroke the egos of his House Republican Conference’s far-right fringe, the hardline conservatives who had an outsized voice in every legislative debate and often dragged the entire party with them, even when he implored them to ease up.
Now, though, the Ohio Republican and his allies are confident he will win his third term as speaker on Tuesday without the dozen or so “Hell no!” conservatives who have seemingly stymied him at every turn. He will lose the support of between 12 and 20 Republicans during the floor vote for speaker, they concede, and the defections will blemish Boehner’s brand as the leader of a party that’s under pressure to show it can govern now that it controls both sides of the Capitol.
Yet the GOP leadership thinks that Boehner’s almost-certain victory, plus the biggest House Republican majority in decades, gives him the legislative latitude he’s desperately sought since 2010.
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Top Republicans blare that they’re plainly sick of the chaos of the last few years, when Boehner was under pressure to deliver to hardliners in order to keep his job.
“I think a lot of members just want to get through this and get onto the business they got elected to do,” said a GOP lawmaker loyal to Boehner. “This is a new Congress, it’s time for a fresh start for Boehner. And this is the right thing to do — vote for Boehner and move on.”
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SHOW HIM THAT HE IS WRONG ON BOTH COUNTS!!!
Remember...this is Politico.
Boehner is not doing the job he was elected to do. Our system is not designed
to be Bi-Partisan because Bi-Partisanship is fertilizer for corruption.
And Politico is the GOP-E’s weapon of choice against Conservatives. All the party’s poo-bahs have the rag’s reporters on speed-dial to both preempt and hit back at us.
> “— vote for Boehner and move on.”
Ah yes, MOVE ON. Where have we heard that phrase before?
Let nothing interfere with the legal plundering of the republic.
The election showed that the Independants and Conservatives want change
The fact that ODUMBO and Boehner can't see that this demand for change came in spite of Boehner demonstrates how obtuse Boehner really is in his thinking !
Obviously, stupidity reigns supreme within the beltway,
and the American public are to be ignored.
Guess I would say to the Big B .. you work for us..you only care about yourself. Save your tears..you’re may need them down the road.
Uh, letting Obama run roughshod over the Constitution and We, the People, is not 'governing'.
Look up 'capitulation'...
They aren’t stupid, they know exactly what they’re doing.
> Top Republicans blare that they’re plainly sick of the chaos of the last few years, when Boehner was under pressure to deliver to hardliners in order to keep his job.
Boehner deliver to hardliners? What planet are they on? Boehner delivers to Obama. Repeatedly.
It should be easier than ever to put the Democrats away, perhaps for good. Instead the Republicans are destroying themselves.
Good riddance. Time to move on.
Unquestionable bipartisanship sure. But rational... Well let’s just say that most of today’s liberal ideas would likely have been rejected as delusional or sick by a bipartisan coalition at the turn of the century.
Fixed it.
“Good riddance. Time to move on.”
Agreed.
It’ll be a joyous day when people with influence and megaphones join us.
A majority that he did absolutely nothing to earn and represents in no way an endorsement of Boehner and his appeasing policies.
Should Boehner get re-elected as speaker, there will be a hell of a lot of “BLOOD LETTING” in the 2016 election. This is very similar to the show “GAME OF THRONES” that is now playing on TV. Who ever survives, will be weakened by all this “BLOOD LETTING”. All Boenher need to do is make “FRIENDS” with the remaining democrats in the house, to get his bill passed.
I wish this was true. Fact is, constitutional conservatives have nothing to do with the current state of chaos in Washington DC. If we had a "voice" Obamacare, Amnesty, and Executive Tyranny would be stopped.
Meanwhile, Boehner has been appeasing a President who could be rightly described as a fringe, far-left hardliner. However, the Politico would never use such a description.
Don’t forget that the GOP has increased the national debt by $5 trillion since they gained control of the purse strings in 2010.
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