Posted on 08/19/2015 4:39:52 PM PDT by cotton1706
This year began with an election on whether Rep. John Boehner should continue as the Speaker of the House of Representatives. A number of brave House conservatives, led by Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), Tom Massie, and Rep. Steve King (R-IA), waged a historic effort to deny Boehner the Speakership. What resulted was an earth-shattering groundswell of grassroots opposition to Boehner that shocked every Republican congressman. It was unsuccessful only because a handful of otherwise reliable House conservatives chose to support Boehner and give him another chance. And look at what their vote for Boehner has wrought in just two short months.
It resulted in a historic cave from a personal and iron-clad commitment to fight “tooth and nail” to block the President’s executive amnesty on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill. Late last year, everyone knew the plan to split off the rest of the funding for the federal government into the “cromnibus,” leaving DHS alone to be funded, had no chance of success. Yet Rep. John Boehner promised he would fight. He ended up fighting only in words. He failed to commit the financial resources of his party to move Senate Democrats off a still-untenable position of filibustering a bill to fund the DHS. The implications of this cave go far beyond the policy of amnesty. The Speaker is not just the partisan leader of House Republicans. He is the guardian of the House as an institution and its prerogatives, namely the power of the purse, and in bowing to this President, Boehner showed himself to be unfit for the office.
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I agree. As for Boehner, who takes note of what he promises. They know he won’t follow through.
Erickson is a fat blowhard who is jealous of Trump, that’s quite clear.
Trump runs way to the right of Erick. Funny how Erick starts out trying to knock him down and gets bitch-slapped himself and now points out some of Trump's positive points....
FreeRepublic is sounding more like DU lately, making me wonder if most Freepers even bother to read posted articles anymore before posting snarky replies. Erick Erickson makes excellent points in this column, and they are consistent with what he says every day on the radio about both Boehner and Trump. Conservatism and freedom are founded upon transcendent ideas and not upon fleeting personalities.
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