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Boehner must go

With people like John Boehner running the House and Mitch McConnell running the Republican minority in the Senate, we really don’t have a two-party system at work. The checks and balances have been thrown out the window.

Exclusive: Joseph Farah declares GOP leader 'a total failure as speaker of the House'

wnd.com
9 Dec, 2012
by Joseph Farah Email

It’s not possible for Republicans to dump Barack Obama in the next four years.

They have blown their opportunity to do that.

But the next best thing they can do right now is to dump John Boehner as speaker of the House.

Though Boehner has been portrayed in the media as some kind of hardliner who is intransigent and unwilling to compromise, the truth is that he is the opposite. He is an appeaser. He is an enabler. He is an accommodationist.

Boehner began waving the white flag of surrender to Obama soon after Republicans made him speaker in 2011. Since all spending bills need to originate in the House and because the Republican majority in the House has had absolute power to freeze spending, Boehner was dealt a powerful hand to keep Obama in check. Instead, he folded. Not only did he fold repeatedly, he even signaled before negotiations about spending ever began that he intended to fold.

He has repeatedly dismissed the idea that freezing the debt limit was a political option. That’s like unilaterally disarming before one’s enemies.

But it gets worse.

So determined is Boehner to raise taxes as part of a deal to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff,” he recently purged from chairmanships every conservative Republican who took a harder line than he did over the last two years.

Boehner is not part of the solution. He’s part of the problem – a big part of it.

With people like John Boehner running the House and Mitch McConnell running the Republican minority in the Senate, we really don’t have a two-party system at work. The checks and balances have been thrown out the window. It’s no wonder that a good, honest conservative rebel like Sen. Jim DeMint has decided he’ll be more effective outside the system running the Heritage Foundation.

But it’s Boehner who is in a critical position if Republicans have any hope of stopping Obama’s radical agenda for the next four years. Boehner has conceded “Obamacare” is the law of the land and a fait accompli. Boehner has conceded that Washington must continue on its irresponsible and immoral borrow-and-spend binge. Boehner only has fight in him when it comes to fighting conservatives in his own caucus – not Democrats and not Obama. He’s great at twisting the arms of Republican conservatives. When it comes time to a showdown with Obama, he’s milquetoast.

Is it possible House Republicans have had enough of Boehner?

If they don’t see the handwriting on the wall now, they never will.

That’s why it’s more important than ever to encourage the House Republican membership to take a hard-line stand against business as usual in Washington.

It’s easy to do that through the “No More Red Ink” campaign.

It’s not enough just to say no to the biggest tax increase in history set to hit in January. Republicans need to say no to more borrowing. When even a RINO like Sen. Lindsay Graham comes to this conclusion, as he did last week, it’s time for the House conservatives, who have the power to do it, to use the clout they have been given by voters.

But it won’t happen if House Republicans return Boehner to the speakership.

It’s time for a palace coup.

John Boehner has been a total failure as speaker of the House.

He has betrayed every Republican principle – from opposition to tax increases to opposition to borrowing to opposition to government unlimited in its power and authority.

More and more House Republicans are beginning to see what I have been telling you about for two years. This may be the only opportunity we have to stop Obama, stop Obamacare, stop borrowing and begin returning Washington to something resembling constitutionally limited government over the next four years.

It all starts with dumping Boehner.

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He has betrayed every Republican principle – from opposition to tax increases to opposition to borrowing to opposition to government unlimited in its power and authority.

Well said.

Agreed. John Boehner is an illegal alien amnesty supporter that needs to go!

W

The GOP nor America can afford weak men in charge, time for him to go.

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Brown: John Boehner Leads Republicans Into Political Little Big Horn

By Floyd and MaryBeth Brown
December 10
gopusa.com

In June of 1876, near Montana's Little Big Horn River, five of the Seventh Cavalry's companies were annihilated with 268 dead. Lt. Colonel Custer, their leader, was also killed, all at the hands of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Tribes of America's Great Plains. The Battle of Little Big Horn has been deemed one of the greatest battlefield blunders by an American Commander.

Speaker of the House, John Boehner, the highest elected leader of the Republican Party, is headed for a similar annihilation at the hands of Barack Obama. It is a battle brought about by Boehner's earlier unwillingness to fight a determined and deadly foe. Now John Boehner's failed leadership may mortally wound the modern Republican Party.

How did we get here? John Boehner, at nearly every critical juncture has raised the white flag of capitulation.

The first capitulation was not fighting for a permanent extension of the Bush Tax Cuts in 2010. At that time, the Republicans had their greatest political leverage. They had just recaptured the US House and made huge gains in the US Senate. Obama was saddled with 10 percent unemployment and the prospects of an even greater economic downturn if he refused the Republican's offer. Instead of going for a permanent fix, he accepted an Obama "compromise" of a two year extension.

Speaker Boehner blinked, as he bragged to the Washington Post that the bill was "a good first step." It was a good first step toward Obama's reelection and the defeat of the Republican agenda. This year after Romney losing and loses of Republican numbers in the House of Representatives, Obama has virtually no incentive to again compromise on tax cuts. He never has to run for re-election again.

The second great capitulation to Obama came in the battle over the debt ceiling. If the Congress had refused to give Obama a blank check of continued spending, we wouldn't face the fiscal cliff now. By timing the spending cuts/ automatic sequestration with the Bush Tax cuts renewal, he single-handedly assured the tax cuts likely wouldn't be extended.

House Republicans, riding the Tea Party movement, should have refused to increase the debt ceiling. Instead, we now have trillions more in debt, and America's credit has been downgraded.

Liberals are giddy at the prospects of billions in increased tax revenue and dramatic cuts in discretionary defense spending. Boehner didn't even have the foresight to tie entitlement reform to the fiscal cliff.

So now he faces a Little Big Horn of his own making. Taxes will go up and spending will be cut. And it's likely Boehner and the Republicans will take all of the blame for the new recession that inevitably will result.

Boehner's leadership has been so pathetic he hasn't even attempted to defund Obamacare.

We are sick and tired of Boehner's cowardice and Republican betrayals. It is time for Boehner to go. The so-called "Republican Leadership" is the problem.

It only took John Boehner a few hours after the Obama's reelection to proclaim that he was ready to capitulate once more.

Marching in front of the television cameras the next morning, he said, in no uncertain terms, that he was ready, willing and able to wave the flag of surrender without firing a shot: "Mr. President, this is your moment," he said. "We want you to lead. Let's find the common ground that has eluded us."

Hours later, Barack Obama marched in front of the television cameras as well with a message of his own, a message he has already delivered far too many times: I'm moving hard to the left. I'm going to bring the United States to its knees, and if Republicans cooperate... that's 'compromise.'

That's not leadership, Mr. Boehner and you're no leader. When are you going to learn that you'll never find "common ground" with this man? When are you going to realize that Barack Obama doesn't care that you want him "to lead?" Obama has come to fundamentally change the country.

» Brown: John Boehner Leads Republicans Into Political Little Big Horn » Commentary -- GOPUSA

This is what I don't understand. Why aren't there any demonstrations in front of the district office of Speaker Boehner in regards to this so-called immigration reform treason legislation, Obama's clearly criminally forged birth certificate and use of a social security # of a dead man which he's been obstructing a Congressional investigation into, the continued funding of the communist control program entitled Obamacare, etc. etc. etc.

What type of people live in this guy's district and in the surrounding counties within a short driving distance to his office? NOBODY seems to be putting any pressure on this man locally? There should be a crowd outside the guy's district office just about every weekend this summer considering the critical issues coming to a head in Congress during the next few months?