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Boehner thinks that he's won, and that he'll me able to ignore the Conservative Caucus moving forward.

SHOW HIM THAT HE IS WRONG ON BOTH COUNTS!!!

1 posted on 01/06/2015 3:57:11 AM PST by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

Remember...this is Politico.


2 posted on 01/06/2015 3:58:26 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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and get onto the business they got elected to do,” said a GOP lawmaker loyal to Boehner.

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.

3 posted on 01/06/2015 4:02:04 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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> “— vote for Boehner and move on.”

Ah yes, MOVE ON. Where have we heard that phrase before?


5 posted on 01/06/2015 4:05:20 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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(from the article):"..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."

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.

7 posted on 01/06/2015 4:05:54 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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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.


8 posted on 01/06/2015 4:08:23 AM PST by stillafreemind
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"...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."

Uh, letting Obama run roughshod over the Constitution and We, the People, is not 'governing'.

Look up 'capitulation'...

9 posted on 01/06/2015 4:10:51 AM PST by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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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.

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.


11 posted on 01/06/2015 4:13:30 AM PST by Ray76 (/s)
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"Yet the GOP leadership thinks...the biggest House Republican majority in decades, gives him the legislative latitude he’s desperately sought since 2010."

A majority that he did absolutely nothing to earn and represents in no way an endorsement of Boehner and his appeasing policies.

15 posted on 01/06/2015 4:18:26 AM PST by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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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.


16 posted on 01/06/2015 4:32:19 AM PST by gingerbread
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...far-right fringe, the hardline conservatives who had an outsized voice in every legislative debate...

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.

18 posted on 01/06/2015 4:44:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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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.


19 posted on 01/06/2015 4:44:37 AM PST by CASchack
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To: Timber Rattler; Impy; AuH2ORepublican
RE :”He will lose the support of between 12 and 20 Republicans during the floor vote for speaker, they concede,..”

Between 12 and 20??

That's a heck of a margin for error.

16 +/-4

21 posted on 01/06/2015 4:50:51 AM PST by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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I have held to 2 principles:

Sitting out an election in protest is a wasted vote.
Change must come from within the party.

I am rethinking both.


22 posted on 01/06/2015 4:52:57 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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26 posted on 01/06/2015 5:04:52 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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and get onto the business of lining our pockets and the pockets of our big money donors...

F the grassroots that put them there.

I'd rather support the "occupy pigs" than these sticking b@stards.

28 posted on 01/06/2015 5:08:21 AM PST by Pietro
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Waiting for the media to rebuke the far left extremists in government and in the streets.

The Communists at the anti-war rallies, the Communists at the Occupy protests, the Communists at the Ferguson riots...


29 posted on 01/06/2015 5:09:51 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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They don’t call them Propagandico for nothing.


30 posted on 01/06/2015 5:13:52 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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1st, Politico is the GOP-e's stenographer, so I have to say that they are accurately reporting the attitudes of the GOP-e.

2nd, Mission: Save John Boehner
Strategy: Demonize right-wing nutcases to put backbone into the linguini GOP-e.
Action: "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."

Question: If the right-wing fringe is so right-wing fringy, how have they had that out-sized influence on the GOP-e to gum up the works so much and prevent much good work from being accomplished?

Answer: The right-wing fringe isn't so fringy as they like to believe, it's at least 60% of the voters who vote for the GOP and vote in such numbers as to crush the Democrats.

Objective: "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."

Boehner has desperately wanted legislative latitude for years, which is another way of saying that Boehner has desperately sought personal power for years. What does legislative latitude mean? Latitude to do what? Boehner has given us no idea of what his agenda is, other than to crush the Tea Party (at least 60% of his voting base, go figure). The GOP-e official strategy in the last election was to say nothing. The only political party on the planet, where not speaking to voters is the preferred strategy. Apparently, the latitude is needed to exact even more of Obama's agenda than he already has.

The problem for the brainless GOP-e, is that if they succeed, they will destroy the GOP. Caddell's say up to a third of GOP voters are attached to the GOP by a thread. The GOP natives are ready to bolt at the next betrayal. Immigration "reform" would do it.

31 posted on 01/06/2015 5:49:15 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (You can have freedom or government schools. Choose one.)
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It works both ways. Those fake conservatives who vote for Bonehead
will also have a possibility of getting purged or Cantored themselves.


32 posted on 01/06/2015 6:10:56 AM PST by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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Being Politico’s boy ought to scare the hell out of every FR viewing this posting cycle.


33 posted on 01/06/2015 6:21:05 AM PST by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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