Conservatives of late have been openly bemoaning Boehner’s performance in office. However, I remember watching the live election coverage with a friend back in 2010 when Boehner and the republicans won control of the U.S. House. It was called a “Tea Party victory” and conservatives were all aflutter believing “we’ve won, we’ve taken our country back.” Tiny Tears Boehner was crying live tears for the camera as conservatives joined in with tearful joy that “we’re saved!”
I had already been fooled by George ‘”new world order” Bush in 1988 and Newt Gingrich’s Republican Revolution in 1994, then watched as the conservative right bought into GW “record deficit” Bush as being a true conservative in 2000. By the time Boehner came along, I just felt like I’d seen this movie too many times to not be able to predict the outcome. There’s a saying about, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
Nevertheless, the conservative right seems to be once again getting aroused with hope, this time the hope that something good will come of replacing Boehner. Meanwhile, the current Presidential circus, and infatuation with Donald Trump, would seem to indicate that we like being fooled and are ready to buy a ticket for another elephant ride.
I don’t mean this as discouraging negativism in the vein of “nothing will ever get any better; there’s no hope; let’s all sing another chorus of ‘Gloom, despair and agony on me.” What I do mean is that nothing is going to get any better until we start paying attention, determine to not get fooled again and realize that to change our government we have to change our vote.
Read the Washington Times article about Boehner’s resignation here.
Unfortunately they are not an endangered species.
Big-government Republicans call the smaller-government Republicans RINOs and the smaller-government Republicans call the big-government Republicans RINOs.
The Real Reason Rand Paul is Losing to Trump and Carson: Republican Voters Want Bigger Government
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-mullen/the-real-reason-rand-paul_b_8141032.html
Excerpt:
What is a RINO? Ron Paul believed in the Constitution and was a RINO. Republicans really don’t know who they are.
LOL
The fact Kevin McCarthy will be the next speaker shows how truly impotent they are.
Kevin McCarthy? I don’t know anything about his politics, but I thought “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” was a great movie.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002994/
“Meanwhile, the current Presidential circus, and infatuation with Donald Trump, would seem to indicate that we like being fooled and are ready to buy a ticket for another elephant ride.”
At least Mr. Peck sees Trump for what he really is.
Actually only 216 Republicans voted for Boehner. Various tea party challengers received the rest of the votes. And only 164 dems voted for Pelosi. Imo the argument that would be more effective is that the “good old boy” network in congress ensures that the establishment of both parties inevitably triumphs over their opponents and stifles meaningful debate and dissent. Hence the need for outsiders beholden to neither party.
Speaker exits ^
As for more seriously I think this sums it up well:
The fact Kevin McCarthy will be the next speaker shows how truly impotent they are. They can plot, they can stop, but they can’t run. Ultimately that gets old after a while.
An R with cojones sounds scarey.
“Clearly a RINO.”
The term implies that other Republicans are somehow different.
Exit one clown. What will the next clown be like? I cannot imagine the GOP will actually elect a Speaker with any cojones.
Perhaps I’m just a softee. But yes, despite my pity for the man I am glad to see him leave congress.
Dave: You said, “Not all that fond of the man’s views, but I do feel bad people picked on him just because he cried. Yes, he did it a lot, but there’s like a thousand better things to attack him on.”
I wonder. Enough so I used Google Trends to look up ‘Boehner cry’. There were (only) three peaks: One in January 2011, one in October 2013, and the third, now. That doesn’t sound like a lot of bullying, to me. Everywhere else, the result was “zero”.
I was disgusted by Boehner LONG (years) before I’d seen a single reference to his “crying”.
Clearly a RINO.
Not all that fond of the man’s views, but I do feel bad people picked on him just because he cried. Yes, he did it a lot, but there’s like a thousand better things to attack him on.
The GOP has lost its Boehner.
Boehner was a doofus in 2010. However, he survived because he was riding the wave of the revolution he not merely didn’t personally win, but one in which he strenuously objected. He should have been ejected in 2012. He should never have been appointed to the Speaker position.