Tag: Boehner

Boehner Needs to worry about Betraying Fellow Republicans

http://news.yahoo.com/boehner-obama-relationship-tested-debt-fight-075022132.html

The way this debt deal is going down, John Boehner needs to worry about holding on to his Speaker position.  Frankly, he shouldn’t worry at all about Obama.  I am sure Obama doesn’t worry about him.

But there is a betrayal in the making and it involves old line Careerist Republicans like Boehner who seems intend on enforcing old school ways of doing business in the Congress. This old school way of thinking includes the continued use of patronage politics, strong-arm tactics, coercion, and political blackmail.  ( Hey that is what they all do behind the closed doors of the Whip with the full approval of the Speaker.) Such tactics have been rumored to have been used against Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, namely, that the Party might try to carve up his district in such a way as to cause him to “automatically” lose the next election.

The newly elected Representatives, many who won with strong Tea Party Movement backing, have promised to change this old school way into a more transparent, open, straight forward system of intellectual integrity, political conviction, and solidity ethical conduct between colleague and not between Speaker loyalists and others.

The game plan for the Reid Boehner bill is to have this bill written in such a way so that it will be acceptable to the whole block of House Democrats who will ally with Boehner loyalists and pass a bill that does not need any support from newly elected conservative Representatives.  In effect such an action is a cynical betrayal of the good faith and courage of the newly elected Representatives who finally agreed reluctantly to vote “yes” to a bill they did not want.

By showing the newly elected House members that they are not needed and are not effective against a coalition of old line House and Senate Careerists like Boehner and Reid, the action alienates the freshmen and forces them to choose obedience to Boehner, or continued political ostracism.  No matter, because the betrayal will have occurred and the Representatives will get their first injection of old line, old school cynicism and duplicity.  An injection that could prove fatal to their idealism and lethal to the future of the Republic.

A solution?  The freshmen need to work hard to keep their base and to stay on in Congress.  This writer believes that many of the brightest and the best are not careerists and will choose not to run again if they feel that their efforts are doomed to inevitable failure.  Their loss may insure continued longevity to Reid and Boehner but it will also guarantee to intellectually bankrupt the Republican party.

Secondly, if they can see their way to continue the fight for Conservative principles, they will need to develop a strategy for replacing the Speaker and his palace guards.  Boehner as a person, a citizen, and a patriot is not the issue. Rather, it is old line careerism and old school political practices that must be replaced by ways that more effectively reflect the mind, will and heart of the electorate.

The Tea Party Movement (TPM) may be hated.  But who hates what is not important?  It may be vilified by the President and Senator Reid and their supporters in the politically motivated press.  But who bothers to try to destroy something that is not meaningful and effective?  There may be setbacks, and maybe some may not regard the Boehner-Reid bill as a betrayal.  Nonetheless, the battle line between the old war horse careerist politicians and the newly elected Representatives is being drawn as we watch.  Actually, the first battles have already been fought and it looks like a draw.  But do not think that the so called “veteran” members of Congress are not scheming to disarm what they see as a threat to their longevity and power.

 

Why Bother Trying When Obama and Reid are Going to kill it.

“The Republican legislation, sharply criticized by President Barack Obama, faces certain death in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where all Democrats have vowed to vote against it later on Friday.”  This is a quote from a longer article by Associated Press on the Internet

Again and again this writer is amazed that the American people blame the Republicans for our debt problems.  They are the only ones working very hard to solve the problems.  And if my readers will be even a little fair minded, I am sure that you would agree that it seems meaningless to work hard to propose a solution in the face of withering criticism from President Obama with a promise of a veto and confronted by the constant refrain of “dead on arrival” by Senator Reid.

It is especially galling when both Obama and Reid keep getting on TV and saying compromise, compromise, compromise.  But then go on to tell the press that they will do everything they can to destroy whatever it is that the Republicans propose.  Actually, although I don’t like to say it, it seems to me that President Obama and Harry Reid are plain liars.  They do not care about a solution, they care about their own particular solution.  They don’t care what the House of Representatives want they only care about what the Democrats want.

How many Democrats in the house even tried to help pass the Boehner bill?  And Harry Reid has already said that every single Democrat Senator will vote to kill the Boehner bill as soon as it is presented in the Senate.  And then we read that it is all the fault of the Republicans!! Come on, Harriet!! At least the freshmen Republicans and Conservatives stood up for their principles and did not abandon their election promises.  It seems that every single one of the Democrat Senators campaigned on one issue and it is the big issue for them, namely, defeat and destroy the Republicans- to hell with the nation.  Shame on them.

Congress not Dysfunctional

http://news.yahoo.com/debt-compromise-eyed-under-deadline-squeeze-000255892.html

The key line of this article is toward the end when the author states about the US government, ” The dysfunctional gridlock in Washington has also raised concern over the long-term decline of U.S. economic power and the status of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.”  This is not dysfunction, this is functionality at it’s very best and highest.  The legislators are actually doing their jobs.  It may seem strange for complacent USA citizens, but this kind of real debate, real legislative work, real differences in political views…all of this indicates a very good and healthy and highly functional government.  Note that nobody is rioting.  We do not have massive labor strikes that spill over into the streets and no one is calling out the military in order to control an unruly population.  It’s just that we have become soft and we do not like conflict and we want all of this to simply be solved and go away so that we can get back to whatever it is that gives us pleasure.  Politics may be a game, but it the real game of governing and the stakes are real and there will be winners and losers- really!!

If Paul Ryan says Yes…Well..

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Ryan-Boehner-Debt-Plan/2011/07/27/id/404968?s=al&promo_code=CB34-1

This writer completely trusts Representative Paul Ryan.  In fact I think it is he who should be elected our President.  So, although I completely favor the already passed Cut Cap and Balance bill, if all we can get is the Boehner plan, then let’s go for it.  However, the onus is onn Speaker Boehner to absolutely guarantee that this special committee has Rep. Jordan, And Ryan and Senator De Mint on it.