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John Boehner- - - - -RINO?
Teach
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It looks like John Boehner just learned a valuable, but painful lesson about getting the Tea Party conservatives whizzed off. His attempt to rein them in by removing people from key committee positions a few days ago just backfired on him. He's always impressed me as being the ultimate insider, more interested in retaining his position of influence than having any real convictions, and a whiny wuss to boot. I think he needs to bow out gracefully and let someone with some manhood run the House of Representatives. He's obviously not up to the challenge.
Jerry
Jerry
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Boehner knows the Dems have leverage based on last election. There is more political pressure on Republicans to cave than Dems. All Dems have to do is wait it out. Boehner is just a guy trying to negotiate from a weak position. Tough thing to do. This negotiation was lost in the election.
Boehner has apparently bought into the idea that a president who won by a very slim margin actually has a 'mandate' and can get anything he demands. That is total hogwash. The House of Representatives is the body of the government that is most dependent on the people they have been elected to represent, thanks to their two year terms, and their job is to pass good legislation and block bad legislation...regardless of how corrupt the Senate and the president are.
Sure, the press will vilify the conservatives in the House and help the president try to hammer them into submission, but if they didn't know that was going to happen, going in, then they are fools. The people that elected them had no intention of choosing a politician to bless with a life-long career and a great retirement - they chose them because they believed them most likely to carry out the business they wanted done. They work on a series of two year contracts, or just one, if they are perceived as failing, and that means they have to produce...or in the case of some, bring home the bacon.
Jerry
My congressman is Louis Gohmert, a former district court judge in my county. He has been 100% stalwart in supporting the conservative values I believe in, and of late, in opposing John Boehner's weak-kneed behavior in a very vocal way. I don't have to write him because he seems to be reading my mind. He has been up there long enough to have become as corrupt as anyone else, but he seems to be holding the line. I attribute this to the fact that he spends a lot of time in his district, and is hearing his constituency. I respected him as a judge, and I haven't changed my opinion about him, in twenty years of following his work.