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spanone

(135,844 posts)
Tue May 20, 2014, 08:16 PM May 2014

Boehner: Tea party and GOP aren't that different

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/

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Boehner: Tea party and GOP aren't that different (Original Post) spanone May 2014 OP
There's nothing Grand ... GeorgeGist May 2014 #1
So the Tea Party is the GOP and the GOP is the Tea Party? Proud Liberal Dem May 2014 #2
Damn straight, idiot.. and you're proud of that? Cha May 2014 #3
You'd better hope so, or you won't be the minority leader next year. n/t winter is coming May 2014 #4
More oranges-to-oranges than apples-to-oranges Blue Owl May 2014 #5
Ya see one flakey conservative nutjob, you've seen em all. lpbk2713 May 2014 #6

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,414 posts)
2. So the Tea Party is the GOP and the GOP is the Tea Party?
Tue May 20, 2014, 08:50 PM
May 2014

Gotcha John! So, now you will have to answer to and serve them and people will remember you said it!

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)
6. Ya see one flakey conservative nutjob, you've seen em all.
Wed May 21, 2014, 12:01 AM
May 2014



One of the few things lately I've heard Boner say that I can agree with.

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