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Subscribe to RSS“House Republicans will be dealing with spending issues as they scramble to put together a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government beyond March 4. An original CR had to be shelved last week, after freshman Republicans argued the cuts did not go deep enough. Republicans are hoping to vote on a new package, containing $100 billion in cuts, towards the end of the week,” The Hill writes.
This is a nice Roll Call headline for the GOP House leadership to wake up to: “Ethics Is No Joke for GOP.” Boehner “didn’t admit to having a hand in [Christopher] Lee’s departure, but GOP sources say the new Speaker has shown little patience for ethical lapses and scandals. In an incident last May, Boehner wasted no time dealing with then-Rep. Mark Souder after he learned of the Indiana Republican’s affair with a part-time aide. Boehner spoke on the phone with Souder. A day after Boehner, then the Minority Leader, reported his conversation with the House Ethics Committee, Souder resigned.”
But there’s the lingering issue of Rep. David Rivera (R-FL): As Roll Call writes, “Several Republican strategists, however, noted that it’s not always an easy call when it comes to handling the ethics of Members. Boehner has already given some leeway to embattled freshman Rep. David Rivera. The Florida Republican is under investigation by local law enforcement for allegations that he failed to report $130,000 in loans from a company owned by his mother. Rivera has said that he has since repaid the loans. Boehner said at a press conference in late January that the allegations against Rivera did not involve his Congressional service and that ‘we need to see how this plays out.’” As ethics professor James Thurber told First Read last month: "If they’re interested in shining a light on how much more ethical they are, unlike the Democrats, then it sends the wrong message."
What has been a remarkably cohesive and collegial Senate Republican leadership team threatens to be torn asunder over the next 18 months by a potentially divisive race for Whip and additional jockeying for other top Conference posts,” Roll Call reports. “Aides to Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) and John Cornyn (Texas) insist that the close personal friendship shared by the two Republican leaders will prevent their competition to succeed Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.) as Whip from becoming bitter.” And if John Thune doesn’t run for president, which is looking less likely, he could run for Whip as well.
On Meet the Press, John Boehner again would not definitively correct those that believe President Obama is not a Christian with his “I accept him at his word” line: "It's not my job to tell the American people what to think. Our job in Washington is to listen," Boehner said. "The president says he's a Christian. I accept him at his word."
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No Bohener is a wimp.
"Can the GOP control the "teabaggers"? Wrong question, the "teabaggers" are controlling the GOP. A better question might be will cooler heads prevail in the GOP and will they take the party back from extremists?
The question was Tea Party.
You just can't stop with the TeaBagger BS.
Do you love teabagging so much that it is on your mind constantly?
Do you consider the Daily Kos, Huff Post crowd extremists?
They named themselves that. Tough noogies, eh wot?
All you need to know on this subject is right here;
The Republican Party has made an alliance with people espousing ideas thought to be too crazy by classic Conservatives including Barry Goldwater and William F Buckley. Those people and ideas bought them a majority in the 2010 election. They're tied at the hip now, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Thanks to this alliance Conservatives are now stuck with a movement which counts as rising stars people like Michele Bachmann, who's been fact checked more times than ANYONE by Politifact without having said anything remotely true. http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/sep/21/bachmann-and-truth-o-meter-collected-works/
It's not his job to tell the American Public what to think?
Well, good. Maybe he will stop all this 'job-killing health care' nonsense, then.
No, he is a fence walker, bought and paid for by big money, just like most of Congress. He doesn't mind casting stones, but where are his ideals on improving the country, Job creation, instead of how much can he do in the middle class to bring down to the likes of Mexico or China's workers. He wanted to give the large extention on tax cuts for the rich, but want to change SSi. He is wealth and is voting his pocket book not the people. As he so easily point his finger at President Obama there are three fingers pointing at himself.
The tea party and the republicans have different thoughts about the military. The tea party says huge cuts and close all bases outside the USA ... No outside aid to anyone until the American people are taking care of .The republicans think the military is sacred...its not ..98% of the American people want the spending stopped
Thats what they dont get and will be voted out in 2012 ...
The American people are aware the senate/congress own stock in the service company's ..and its to their advantage to keep all wars going !
It has been entertaining and illuminating so far to me and I bet to the Republican leadership in the House.
I think they will get it figured out and present a more united oppostion to the Democrats, but who can say for sure.
I think the tea party influenced senators and representatives will need to come a little towards the center and the mainstream Republicans are going to have to embrace slightly more conservative than usual approaches to some issues in order to get this done.
Both factions of the right proclaim that they want smaller government, less spending and more private sector involvement in the "reclamation of the economy", but have slightly different visions of the path to that goal.
It is somewhat like, but not identical to the differences between moderate and progressive democrats.
Time will tell how it all works out.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2011
National Enquirer Claims John Boehner Had Affairs
POSTED BY VINCE GRZEGOREK ON WED, FEB 9, 2011 AT 11:16 AM
Everyone's favorite crying orange could be in a spot of trouble early in his tenure as Speaker of the House. The National Enquirer claims that Boehner had some sexytime affairs with two women, additionally reporting that the New York Times has an ongoing probe on the alleged sex scandal as well.
Yes, it's the Enquirer, but it's also the paper that broke the John Edwards mistress and baby story, so who knows.
Here's a snippet from their online report (the full article is only available in their print edition):
"Can the GOP coral the Tea Party?"
"HELL NO, THEY CAN'T!!!!"- WOH John Boehner
I would pray for an angel of mercy if they did implode on each other between now and 2012.