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    The Speaker Reaps What the Speaker Sows

    The Speaker Reaps What the Speaker Sows

    By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | January 31st, 2014 at 04:30 AM |

    Less than twelve hours into the Republican retreat and the leaks and attacks came fast and furious. John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, and Paul Ryan intend to push immigration through the United States House of Representatives.

    The bulk of the House Republicans thus far seem opposed, but Boehner and his lieutenants intend to find a path forward. They will start bid and grandiose and whittle their way down into something, anything, to show they intend to move the ball forward.

    Conservatives inside and outside the retreat began preemptively crying foul. The bill is going to suck. We all know it will suck. But we only have a few digestible nuggets.

    John Boehner is reaping what he sowed. During the last great fight — the Ryan-Murray plan — Boehner attacked conservatives who, relying on press leaks from his office to reporters, opposed the deal. “They had not yet seen the deal,” Boehner claimed and, consequently, were opposing something they had not seen with no basis for opposition.

    Once he made the case and had people rally to his cause, he rushed through the Ryan-Murray bill in less than seventy-two hours. Boehner expected that many of those who joined him in ridiculing conservatives for their opposition to Ryan-Murray (again: based on leaks from Boehner’s own crew, but before the entirety of the package was released) would stand with him.

    Instead, it looks like they know the game that is about to be played. John Boehner and his friends will craft a package behind closed doors. They will leak it to the press. They will attack conservatives for daring to oppose that which they have not seen. Then he will rush through a package as quickly as possible, relying on Democrat votes to get it done.

    The Chamber of Commerce will be happy, the base will not be, and Boehner can retire to a cushy K-Street job with Chambliss, Latham, and his other BFF’s who are retiring this year.

    Unfortunately for the Speaker, the alliance he built for Ryan-Murray was an alliance for that legislation only. Many of those with him then are not only opposed now, but see how he played that game. So they’re rallying as early as they can.

    http://www.redstate.com/2014/01/31/t...-speaker-sows/

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    I sure hope that Erickson is right. Watching these quislings close up is disgusting - and scary.
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    Quote Originally Posted by vistalad View Post
    I sure hope that Erickson is right. Watching these quislings close up is disgusting - and scary.
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    Exactly, fair trade. I heard yesterday that the GOP has seen the light on jobs, odd it only took them 30 years, when a country ships large portions of its manufacturing to the third world for slave labor while at the same time importing more cheap labor into this country and then ask where are the jobs, why are people angry, yes the GOP and Democrats are blind or simply so greedy they wring there hands not knowing what to do. The answer to me is easy protect America, lower or eliminate regulations at the same time reduce taxes on companies that return to the USA, if they do not raise those taxes.

    To our leaders, this is not rocket science if change does not happen soon the American middle class will be lost and so will the power that America holds throughout the world. It's time for our leaders to fight for this country and not others.
    I'm old with many opinions few solutions.

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