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no shit sherlock...you're all on the crazy train....
(CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday the tea party and conservative Republicans are basically one in the same.
As establishment Republican candidates try to fend off a series of tea party challengers in Tuesday's midterm primaries, Boehner sought to quell the apparent divide between the two factions in his caucus.
"I think the tea party has brought great energy to our political process," the Ohio congressman said when asked about Tuesday's contests.
"You get in these primary elections they are hard-fought battles and sometimes listen, there is not that much, not that big a difference between what you call the tea party and your average conservative Republican," he said, pointing to the GOP's near-unanimous opposition to Obamacare, tax increases and an overbearing federal government.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/05/20/boehner-tea-party-and-gop-arent-that-different/
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)about the Old Party.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,414 posts)Gotcha John! So, now you will have to answer to and serve them and people will remember you said it!
Cha
(297,314 posts)thanks spanone. SMH
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Blue Owl
(50,424 posts)n/t
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)One of the few things lately I've heard Boner say that I can agree with.