Posted on 09/28/2015 4:46:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The date was Oct. 14, 2013, two weeks into a government shutdown engineered by Republicans in the House of Representatives who were trying once again to kill Obamacare. Scheduled for the next day was a vote backed by House Speaker John Boehner and his lieutenants that would have reopened the government and avoided the likely disaster of the U.S. government defaulting on its debt.
The setting was a low-budget eatery on Capitol Hill called the “Tortilla Coast,” not known for its ambiance, as The Post’s Amy Argetsinger described it, but for its “utter lack of ambiance, its “windows bedecked with decals promising ‘MARGARITAS’ and ‘BBQ RIBS.'” It’s the kind of place you go, its manager said, “if you don’t want to look like you’re showing off.”
In a windowless basement garret called the Rio Room, 14 to 20 of the House’s most conservative Republicans gathered around a table presided over by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, still basking in the acclaim from the right for his all-night marathon of a speech weeks earlier designed to thwart any compromise. While Cruz’s exact words that day at Tortilla Coast remain unknown, there was no doubt his mission was to stiffen the spine of no-compromise bloc in the House just as he had galvanized the so-called “hell no” caucus through summer, traveling the country with an anti-Obamacare “town hall,” and in his faux-filibuster, so-called because it did not delay any vote.
And he did, with a lot of help from the conservative Heritage Foundation. The next day, realizing he didn’t have the votes, Boehner and the rest of the House Republican leadership withdrew their proposal.
It was a deep humiliation for Boehner and his leadership team and a final demonstration that he had become a leader without followers. It crippled an already wounded speaker.
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exactly!
My wife does not get it-!- “why were they so mad at boner?”- I start with influx of illegals-
Wife: “really?” I HAve not seen/heard that on the news-
Why would this man be -BLUBBERING like a fool-
wife- “the news says he was over come with the popes
words and proposals!”
Influx of Syrian refugees- NO CHRISTIANS NEED APPLY!
wife:- “I heard TRUMP mention this”
me- anything from Boner?- nope
Me can you name a NEWS RELEASE from the speaker that
THE MSM has carried? “only his LETTER complaining
about changing the name on Mt. McKinley-”
Boner ,mCconnel ,mclame- ALL play rope a dope with conservatives-
Take a look at the house Speaker BLOG- sounds conservative- (trying to stop planned parent hood)
illegals crossing the border- Etc.
But that is it- NO LEGISLATION to STOP ANYTHING!
just crock-A-Dial tears- can things fall apart
for conservatives?- you bet, but why have leadership
HELP the others agenda-
my 2 cents
The date was Oct. 14, 2013... It was a deep humiliation for Boehner and his leadership team and a final demonstration that he had become a leader without followers. It crippled an already wounded speaker.So he waited two more years?!? That's some BS, right there. His speakership was crippled from the first time he 'negotiated' with Obama:
Just worried how much damage he will on the way out!!!
That Catholic devotion is something I don’t understand. Is it okay for Boehner, not to mention the Kennedys and Pelosi, to support PP and do whatever? Do they just confess and continue to do what they want or put a bigger check in the collection plate? Then there is Biden who publicly celebrates Ash Wednesday. I don’t even know what to make of him. Is it the case as it appears that most of the RINOs and Dems are Catholic? Biden and Boehner were fawning behind the Pope during his address to Congress, when they weren’t blubbering.
Oklahoma voters need to send Rep. Cole a message, too.
Boehner doesn’t understand false prophets. In this use he is putting himself in the place of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ if he thinks Cruz and other critics are false prophets. I resent that. There can be no room for vigorous debate and disagreement only compromise. ‘Thou shalt do nothing to threaten the Speaker’s power.” The only commandment of the Book of RINO.
By his sympathizers we shall know him.
Ditto, here!
CruzControl
When resigning under duress, isn’t it SOP for Security to accompany one to empty out desk, get keys and show to the door?
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