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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 11:52 PM Sep 2013

The House GOP Wants to Throw a Temper Tantrum, and Boehner Can't Stop Them

Here’s the question to ask yourself while watching the government shutdown/debt-limit insanity play out these next few days: Is the congressional GOP a global menace, bent on destruction of an epic scale, or merely a goofy, intermittently-competent-at-best, primarily self-destructive force?


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Alas, nothing doing for Boehner here. Despite offering conservatives just about every possible inducement to vote for his debt limit bill, the House GOP leadership still didn’t get enough takers, forcing it to abandon the strategy. The problem, apparently, is that conservatives are deeply skeptical of Boehner personally. “Boehner suffers from a ‘trust gap’ among a certain group of his members,” reports Politico. “If Boehner is for it, this faction has to be against it.”


http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114888/government-shutdown-2013-boehner-cant-stop-gop-temper-tantrum

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The House GOP Wants to Throw a Temper Tantrum, and Boehner Can't Stop Them (Original Post) UCmeNdc Sep 2013 OP
I think JB might be finished as speaker gopiscrap Sep 2013 #1
no loss there.... chillfactor Sep 2013 #3
yeah that's the downside. gopiscrap Sep 2013 #4
Permanent smoke break time Blue Owl Sep 2013 #2
Now Boner knows how the President feels! madashelltoo Sep 2013 #5
Very nice shubham Sep 2013 #6

madashelltoo

(1,698 posts)
5. Now Boner knows how the President feels!
Sat Sep 28, 2013, 12:42 AM
Sep 2013

They want what they want . . . The black guy out of the White House! If he stays, the big government crash will happen on his watch and it will be what he is remembered for. The black guy who destroyed the United States.

The repugs brought in those nuts to give themselves control oh the House. Well, now a handful of nuts have them, the country and the world's economy by the balls. Great job, Michael Steele. They won under your leadership, right? And, they got rid of you the next day. Now you're Stoner Boner's media guy. Pathetic, the whole gang.

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