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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'

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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

From Bloomberg.......
Ryan, Cantor Work to Protect Boehner Plan From Tea Party

By Roxana Tiron - Dec 11, 2012

As Speaker John Boehner negotiates on a tax-and-spending deal, he’s counting on fellow House Republicans Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor to provide the cover he will need to pass a plan with a majority of party members.
Ryan, this year’s vice presidential nominee and the Republicans’ top budget authority, and Majority Leader Cantor, known for his sway over the caucus’s anti-tax members, are part of Boehner’s strategy team as he seeks agreement with President Barack Obama.

Representative Paul Ryan, left, the Republican’s foremost authority on the budget, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who’s known for his sway over the party’s anti-tax lawmakers, will give the speaker the political cover he’ll need to pass any plan with a majority of House Republicans. Photographer: Brendan Hoffman/Bloomberg


Without support for a deal from Ryan and Cantor, Boehner -- in his second year as speaker -- risks repeating the anti-tax Tea Party uprising that doomed his 2011 effort to reach a budget deal with Obama.

“The last time around, there was some question about, ‘Is he hunting out ahead of the pack?’” Illinois Republican Peter Roskam said at a Bloomberg Government breakfast last week. “Now, the diagnosis is pretty clear: While he is leading House Republicans, he is not off at some place where House Republicans can’t go or aren’t willing to go.”
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Congress and Obama are trying to avert a so-called fiscal cliff of more than $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts starting in January. Obama insists on higher tax rates for top earners, while Boehner and other Republicans seek significant spending cuts and an overhaul of entitlement programs.

One Negotiator

“You can only have one person negotiate an agreement,” House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican and co-chairman of the congressional “supercommittee” that failed to reach agreement on deficit reduction last year, said today on CNBC. “I would hope 99 percent to 100 percent of the members of our conference would back the speaker.”

Ryan and Cantor may gain political benefits from staying close to Boehner during the budget talks: Ryan, of Wisconsin, gets a role in facilitating a potentially major budget deal as he weighs a 2016 presidential run. Cantor, of Virginia, can build an image as a team player as he maps out his next steps as a possible successor to Boehner.

Also on Boehner’s negotiating team are the Republicans’ chief vote-counter, Kevin McCarthy ofCalifornia, and Michigan Representatives Dave Camp, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, and Fred Upton, chairman of the Energy and Commerce panel.

Boehner Proposal

All five signed onto Boehner’s deficit-reduction proposal to Obama last week that would raise $800 billion in new tax revenue by eliminating unspecified deductions and credits. Previously, Republicans had insisted that new revenue must come from economic growth spurred by a tax overhaul.

The Obama administration promptly rejected the proposal, which would also raise the Medicare eligibility age and slow Social Security cost-of-living increases. Boehner and Obama met privately Dec. 9 to discuss the dispute over the budget, without disclosing details of their conversation.

“If we’re going to solve this problem, every congressional leader, and more importantly the White House all have important roles to play,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said in a statement. He said that when Boehner, an Ohio Republican, talks to the Democratic president, he relies on the “advice and counsel” of his negotiating team.

Ryan’s role as a Boehner adviser in the budget talks will help the speaker sell House Republicans on any deal he negotiates with Obama, said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas.

‘Most Respected’

“He is one of the most respected and trusted Republican conference members amongst Republicans on these issues,” Lucas, an Oklahoma Republican, said in an interview. “The more trusted input from the conference the better.”

“It helps having him sign off on whatever deal comes out,” said Representative Mike Coffman, a Colorado Republican and a member of the Tea Party caucus.

Ryan, 42, is a budget and policy wonk with a penchant for drawing charts to drive home key points. As Budget Committee chairman, Ryan has led Republicans’ charge for spending cuts and a Medicare overhaul that would offer federal aid to senior citizens to buy health insurance on the private market.

Ryan, in his second year as budget chairman, is the only panel leader to get a waiver from Boehner to continue leading the committee next year beyond a House-imposed term limit. He was the ranking Republican on the committee for four years while Republicans were in the minority.

‘Thought Leader’

A significant budget deal would give Ryan an opportunity to put his fiscal principles into practice.

“He is a leader beyond simple power within the House; he’s a thought leader,” RepresentativePatrick McHenry, a North Carolina Republican, said in an interview. “That shows you the level of support Paul has, not just within Republican leadership but from the members.”

Ryan won his eighth term in Congress Nov. 6 as he lost his vice presidential race as Mitt Romney’s running mate.
Ryan can give the speaker insight into the budget with a “level of sophistication that not many other members of Congress have,” Roskam said. “He is able to speak with real authority and to very, very quickly understand and give good counsel to the speaker.”

Cantor has supported Boehner’s opposition to raising marginal tax rates and his demand for deep spending cuts.

Tenuous Alliance

Still, the two have a tenuous alliance. While Boehner sought during his first year as speaker a consensus approach to solving debt and budget crises, Cantor became a spokesman for anti-tax House Republicans in favor of limited government.

Any budget deal with Obama would need Cantor’s support to insulate Boehner from rebellion in Republican ranks as he experienced during debt-limit talks in 2011 and the votes to avoid a government shutdown.

“The perception is that they are working closely together; they nominated one another for their leadership positions during the conference, which was a very good signal,” Roskam said of Boehner and Cantor. “I think they both have recognized the high value and the premium that our conference pays on leaders that are working together.”

Cantor, 49, also has experience from taking part of deficit-reduction discussions with Vice President Joe Biden last year, lawmakers say.

“He would have a good feeling of what the reaction might be to various proposals,” Representative Harold Rogers, a Kentucky Republican who leads the Appropriations panel, said in an interview.

No Guarantee

There is no guarantee that Cantor and Ryan would stick with Boehner if a negotiated deal included higher income tax rates for top earners and a smaller reduction in government spending than they seek. Obama and other Democrats insist that tax cuts for top earners must be allowed to expire at the end of this year. House Republicans oppose tax rate increases for any income level, although some have said they would compromise as part of a comprehensive deal.

The responsibility to cajole enough Republicans to vote for a possible deal will fall on McCarthy, the majority whip. Camp, the Ways and Means chairman, and Upton, the Energy and Commerce chairman, will serve as reality checks on how far Republicans can go in overhauling the tax system and entitlement programs. The two business-friendly Republicans can tell leaders what they can accept in a negotiated deal.

“Certainly, there’s elements of our conference that will be more comfortable with the fact that they are in the room,” Representative Tom Rooney, a Florida Republican, said of Boehner’s adviser team. “If they agree with what is being negotiated, then it would sit better with them.”

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