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dissentient

(861 posts)
1. I've noticed the right wingers really seem to hate Boehner, and Gohmer would have been a hell of a
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 03:31 PM
Jan 2015

lot worse.

So, there is that.

monmouth4

(9,705 posts)
5. Definitely, but I had to chuckle at Col. Powell's name was in there....They are craaaaazy. FR has a
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 03:38 PM
Jan 2015

sad right now, it was all fixed and determined ahead of time (it probably was, that's how it works I guess.)

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beerandjesus

(1,301 posts)
7. I have mixed feelings about Pelosi...
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 03:39 PM
Jan 2015

...but she was a first-rate Speaker, from a technical standpoint. Boehner probably wishes he were half as good.

gwheezie

(3,580 posts)
8. Nancy is clever
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 03:46 PM
Jan 2015

I don't doubt for a minute Nancy didn't realize her kind words towards boner wouldn't enrage the tea bags

AlinPA

(15,071 posts)
10. If it were the other way around, you can bet there would be no kind words for her from Boehner or
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 03:57 PM
Jan 2015

any other republican.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
12. Boehner knows he's on a fool's errand
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 04:30 PM
Jan 2015

If they had elected a teabagger, at least they would move legislation to the floor.

Boehner doesn't move crap unless it can pass, and he doesn't move crap - because the House Republicans are unable to pass a bill in the first place.

He can't negotiate and deliver a majority, but then again that means a teabagger wouldn't get a majority either. The difference is that a teabagger speaker would probably move stuff to the floor for a vote, and we'd at least be able to know the real crazies from the marginally less insane.

The White House has ordered up a few barrels of veto ink.
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