No sooner do the Republicans win an election that they go back to their old ways. Riding the Tea Party fueled anger over the Progressive movement and their iron grip on power, the GOP promised that this time they would stick to their guns. Already they are appointing the same Progressive Republicans to committees. In short like the Bourbons of France, they have forgotten nothing and learned nothing.
Speaker elect John Boehner (R-Oh) is complaining that Obama is mean to him. Rather than man up and treat Obama like how he’s treated, he complains. This is reminiscent of back in 1995 when during the trip to the funeral of Israeli PM Rabin, Newt Gingrich complained that Clinton ignored him and made him sit in the back of the plane. This is history repeating itself and a bad omen for the next 2 years for the Republican House.
John Boehner thinks President Barack Obama is engaging, smart and brilliant but also remains smarted by the president accusing him of taking taxpayers hostage to secure a tax break for the rich.
In an interview with Leslie Stahl of “60 Minutes” for broadcast Sunday night on CBS, Boehner said Obama showed him “disrespect” by calling him a hostage-taker.
“Excuse me, Mr. President I thought the election was over,” Boehner said, according to a transcript obtained by POLITICO. “You know, you get a lot of that heated rhetoric during an election. But now it’s time to govern.”
I was never a fan of John Boehner. He is your typical good old boy go along to get along Republican. I was hoping Eric Cantor, who demolished Barack Hussein Obama, would challenge him for the Republican House leadership. However on election night Boehner cried and thus inoculated himself to a challenge. Now he’s complaining about Obama not respecting him. My advice to John and his clownish partner, Senate minority leader Sen. McConnell (R-Ky), man up. Stop complaining about how Progressive treat you. They view you as an enemy to be defeated, not someone to have a disagreement with. Politics is war and the Republican elite need to see it that way.
John Boehner and Mitch McConnell need to go.
Tags: John Boehner, Mitch McConnell
The Republicans never miss an oppertunity to disappoint, do they. They are called the STUPID Party for a well-deserved reason…
Politics is War. War to the Knife, Knife to the Hilt. No Mercy.
That is the only way to play with Progressives. They eat, sleep, and breathe that. That is why Obama calls on Hispanics to attack their “race enemies”, and attacks people as “class enemies”, etc. Those are the ground rules of how the fighting is conducted in this Cold Civil War that we are in. I am tired of Republicans surrendering the High Ground in the name of being collegial.
I will confess I was hopeful about the Republicans after how well they did in November. I’ve been growing less so, though, as I watch them go back to the bad old standard play book. ::sigh::
@ Iron Fist:
to the hilt then twist!!
Yes the term “Stupid Party” fits them very well.
So which Republicans are on the 2012 Primary firing list?
We need a leadership that is committed to complete victory. Get rid of the defeatists and appeasers.
Prebanned wrote:
None I can vote against, unfortunately, since I’m stuck in a blue state.
@ Empire1:
Fire a Dem, then. Silver lining.
Prebanned wrote:
I plan to do my best to fire two of ‘em, yes. The third we’re stuck with for six years.
Took me over 1 1/2 hour to get to work today. Usually takes 20-30 minutes. The GW Upper Level was closed because of an accident. And now my assistant is stuck in traffic. I hate MOndays
@ Empire1:
Blanche Lincoln got fired, Mark Prior is up for reelection in 2014, I’m going to write him a lot until then and then vote against Him.
Blanche thought I was a Dem, too.
Arrrgh, McConnell is my pet peeve. I voted for this somebitch (and have for some time). He’s a fucking weasel and is the epitome of everything that’s wrong with Senators.
Back in November, ’08, he publically gave Bush a swift kick in the ass on his way out which, for me, was the last straw. You just don’t fucking do this to your party’s president!
Do read the link. He threw his own president under the bus in order to suck up to the incoming Obama administration. He’s an outrage.
Iron Fist…yu still around?
back in the lat 60′s I found a knife
buried in the woods behind me [350 acres]
the blade is like 8 inches long and shaped
like this . I was told it is very illegal
it has a round metal handle and looks very old
need to take a pic and send it to ya as I have no
clue what kind it is
Nevergiveup wrote:
cancel all app’s and drink
If the Republican Leadership had peopel reading conservative blogs, they’d understand that they are hanging by a thread. They have no real credibility to lose, only our faint hope that they will have learned from the past few years. That already looks like it was a foolish hope.
@ mawskrat:
Take a pic and send it through Blogmocracy. M will see that it gets to me. I may be able to identify it., may not. Knives come in every shape imaginable. As for its being illegal, they would mean illegal to carry, most likely unless it is a switchblade. Most knives are legal to possess in most jurisdictions. However, knife laws are even more fucked up than gun laws, with every little jurisdiction conceivably having its own regulations.
@ Iron Fist:
We need a plan to get rid of as many of them as possible in the 2012 primarys.
The R’s in the House need someone to ride heard on them from the conservative side of things. Although I loathed him from a political standpoint, we need a conservative Tip O’Neill. Not the namby-pamby’s we have in there now.
Herd….not “heard”!
@ Iron Fist:
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it has a double v shaped blad
Boehner and his R compatriots are still terrified of being called raaaaacist if they criticize the half black man. Enough of this non issue bs,you serve the people not the agitator in chief.
@ Crashnburn01:
Iron Fist for Congress!
@ mawskrat:
Sounds interesting. Double edged? Double “v” kind of like this? That is a new production knife. From the time you are indicating, if it looks remotely like that I’d suspect it was made in India. Send a pic.
Prebanned wrote:
I dunno – doesn’t Iron have a face for radio?
(I keed, I keed!)
He is exactly the type of voice we need. We need not tread lightly anymore – it is time to make the Dems eat what we are serving.
@ Prebanned:
That would be funny! If you think Michelle Bachman is hated, wait ’til they get a load of me…
@ Iron Fist:
yeh like that but really old looking
will try to send a pic to m I found it
under about a foot of dirt
@ Iron Fist:
The problem with Washington is they expect the fresh fish to turn on thier supporters and become one with the elite.
@ mawskrat:
Sounds like someone was trying to hide that knife in the woods….
@ Prebanned:
Yeah, that wouldn’t happen with me. They wouldn’t want me at their fancy parties…
Prebanned wrote:
I’d vote for him in a heartbeat!
@ Iron Fist:
I just wish We could get a reasonable amount of work out of the bums. I think banning earmarks would help them get focused, plus whenever a private company has a problem, the leadership is expected to work overtime to fix it.
Prebanned wrote:
We’d be better offif they took half the year as a vacation on the tax-payer’s dime. The less they are in Washington DC, the less they can fuck up. Neither Party is really competant at governance. Neither Party has the kind of small-government principles we need to get back to a reasonable level of government at the Federal Level. If the people in California want the State to wipe their asses, fine, just don’t expect the Rest of the States to bail you out when you go bankrupt. The Federal Government is for War and Interstates, and not much else. We need a cohesive plan for border security, but under the Obama Administration that plan is to let illegals in as much as they want and whine we need more gun control when the inevitible drug violence flares up. That’s useful…
mawskrat wrote:
I wish I could. I need the money to pay my bills and buy more booze
vagabond trader wrote:
I agree. They want to appear nice and civil while zero and the commie cabal are ruthlessly crushing America. They need to quit crying and get up to speed on how to combat these dangerous traitors.
The habitual crying is so fcking strange. Hells bells, he could be on Broadway in an Irish play the way he cries on cue. It is not normal for the tears to be rolling down his face so often. It does not inspire confidence.
Man up, bitch.
i’m going to put ron paul in oversight of the fed in the run column for the tea party for now.
so the score is 2-1 in the first, with the rino’s in the lead
@ coldwarrior:
I think it is meant to be in the Tea PArty column. Now we will see if Ron Paul talks a good fight, or if he can deliver.
Iron Fist wrote:
gov palin as rnc chief would be worth 3 runs
coldwarrior wrote:
If she doesn’t, she’s missing a helluva opportunity. Even if she’s thinking about the presidency in ’12, it would be a great platform.
@ Iron Fist:
Yeah, lovely how the Republicans “stick to thier guns” on the tax rates whilst Democrats load it up with spending like a 10,000 calorie taco “salad”.
Then both sides retire to mutter about how bad they got hosed.
MacDuff wrote:
the rnc chief is supposed to help set planks, energize the base, be a bulldog on the issues, aggressive in media interviews…she would crush that job!
Prebanned wrote:
neat how that works, innit?
this isnt the class of 2012 yet, so i will wait and see
@ Iron Fist:
@ coldwarrior:
I can just imagine the verbiage which will fly between Ron Paul and Барни Франк. That said, I hope he goes after the Fed Big Time!
Macker wrote:
meaning what, exactly?
an audit might be a good start, or that audit crashes the markets…
Nevergiveup wrote:
Memeories of my NY days!
@ coldwarrior:
It’s like gun bans and taxes are the political class way of saying “look at the monkey”.
Prebanned wrote:
those are two powerful issues, and distractions if used creatively by the ‘elite’.
Hey how about the JETS coach who tripped that Dolphin? At least some one on the Jets team was hitting someone? Were is Woody Hayes when ya really need him
Nevergiveup wrote:
that’s exactly who i thought of coach woody hayes!
@ coldwarrior:
I wonder if waiting this long to settle the tax rate issue is a distraction from the further spending and DREAM action.
Buy ammo.
coldwarrior wrote:
I think he and Gen Patton would have gotten along
@ Prebanned:
would the dream act make it out of the senate?
coldwarrior wrote:
I doubt it
Nevergiveup wrote:
no doubt there. hayes is the first football coach that i really remember vividly (i was a college football junkie at age 6)
coldwarrior wrote:
Behead those who insult Bear Bryant! Al-Abama Akbar!
@ coldwarrior:
I don’t know, it scares the hell out of Me. Illegal Aliens are taking over construction, poultry packing and other vocations.
Imagine how many restaurants lose business to that “authentic Mexican restaurant” in every town.
Bad enough our Fearless Leaders can’t figure out how to structure taxes and regulations to keep jobs here.
They have to let Illegal Aliens come in and scoop up whats left.
@ The Osprey:
woody hayes, bo shimbeckler, joe pa, and bear bryant.
Prebanned wrote:
my solution to that is hard jail time to the VP of HR for each and every offence
@ coldwarrior:
That’s what I say.
@ The Osprey:
I’m a Bama fan but will be cheering for Auburn in the
big game
//may god have mercy on those ducks
The Thunderbirds will dazzle crowds in 2011, with more than 70 shows across the U.S. and abroad.
The team will kick off the season with a Feb. 20 flyover for the Daytona 500. Want to catch one of their thrilling performances? Here’s where they’ll be:
If your in the area, catch the show
@ Rodan:
I say We have Rodan swoop in and carry them off to his lair.
You can tell people that but just drop them off in Fwance
If Congressman Boehner thinks he is being direspected (I hate that verb) by Obama wait until he gets a load of the sh*tstorm that will be coming at him from the hardcore conservatives.
mawskrat wrote:
me too.
i pick the college teams i root for sometimes if i know anyone that went there. in this case i do know a war eagle.
@ Prebanned:
These guys are hiding in the Cayman Islands.
@ unclassifiable:
he needs to go.
Hey if you live in Detroit, they are giving out FREE tickets to tonight’s Giant_ Vikings game
Nevergiveup wrote:
looks like dayton for me
Nevergiveup wrote:
Do those tickets come with a Toro snow blower so you can get out of your driveway?
@ Rodan:
Drop them in Hati or Somalia.
Nevergiveup wrote:
i guess the league wants to show the peeps in detroit what real football looks like.
@ doriangrey:
Morning Dorian.
Did You get a blister on Your thumb yet?
That ain’t workin’.
Prebanned wrote:
Or Liberia, where the ten year old Liberian boys will eat their livers….
My Alma Mater Illinois had the priveledge of handing Bear Bryant his last victory in the Liberty Bowl.
I also got to be there when Bo Shembeckler lost it and threw knee pads onto the field during the Illnios defeat of Michigan. That season was the last time Illinois went to the Rose Bowl in 1984.
Good morning. It looks like a lot of the establishment Republicans
have a case of cognitive dissinance. They think that this is just business as usual with the cycle giving them some power back.
Time to deal with lobbyists & suck up to Obama & the Dems, while ignoring the Tea Party who got them the power back.
They are wrong, we may be seeing a repeat of the Bolshevik Revolution,
complete with SEIU , ACORN & Moveon thugs roughing up people at
town Halls.
They need to stand strong.
Prebanned wrote:
No and I aint a millionaire yet either….
Nevergiveup wrote:
Bring the wives and kids.
unclassifiable wrote:
that whiner of the house boehner hasn’t earned my respect yet
doriangrey wrote:
DR Congo…the have a fresh polio outbreak.
Boehner is coming across a bit flaccid.
@ doriangrey:
I guess the jet airplane also is out
@ doriangrey:
Drop them on the border between Liberia and Sierria Leone.
Ahh, the 90′s, there was a faction that would fight buck naked, believing the magic rendered them invisible.
Didn’t Bush finally force Charles Taylor out of power?
doriangrey wrote:
no snowblower…but the toro beheaderwill be on display
@ Bureaucat:
Good morning. Slight correction, Illinois played USC in the Rose
Bowl in 2007. It didn’t go well.
That same year they Beat Wisconsin at Memorial Stadium. I was
there, great game.
They also knocked off Ohio State that year.
Nevergiveup wrote:
The game is only being shown in the NY and Minnesota markets. Unless you have the NFL ticket, or go online.
@ Prebanned:
exiled to nigeria
@ RIX:
Whoops. That’s right- and I even watched the game on TV. I must have blanked that out.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Geez, the last time I was in Detroit I found it to be a pretty scary, depressing place, crawling with Muslims and run-of-the-mill lowlifes. What a shame.
@ coldwarrior:
Place them in the kaaba. It would be like that movie 28 days.
@ coldwarrior:
That 60 Minutes interview was embarassing. Leslie Stahl set
him up to look emotionally unstable & he helped her
Bureaucat wrote:
Understandable, the Illini got creamed.
I’m heading out for my weekly mah-jongg game. See ya’ll again about 1600!
@ chickadee:
The problem as I see it is that we have a political class who shows up every two years or so and puts on a “good show” for the folks back home and then flies back to DC or the state capitol or drives to city hall and does whatever they want.
We, the sleepy electorate are beginning to re-engage again — especially now that some of us actually are seeing the consequences of our choices.
But I cannot delude myself. When you are engrained with the idea that everybody has a job to do and to butt out and let the “experts handle it” you get complacent.
This is a process. As far as I can tell this complacency has been going on since the end of the Civil War and really accelerated after WWI & WWII (what the late Dr. Weber calls the 2nd Thirty Years War).
So if it has been going on for that long it will take a while to get it turned around.
But I kinda feel like this little place on the internet is a fine start:)
@ MacDuff:
There is a rule of thumb, when you pull out of the Rennisance Center
in downtown Detroit, run all red lights to get to the Lodge Freeway.
If you get a flat tire, ride the rim to Southfield.
RIX wrote:
Anyone who agrees to go on to that has-been 3rd rate show is a fool, especially if they are Republicans.
@ unclassifiable:
but but but…this place is not fair
and the net needs to be fair
//dumbcrats
@ Speranza:
I agree with that & said as much to my wife while we watched.
A Republican is going to get ambushed on 60 Minutes.
@ RIX:
Heh, no doubt. I think Detroit may well have a second life as a ready-made set for apocoplypse movies.
Bureaucat wrote:
I never liked him. He’s an elitist chump.
coldwarrior wrote:
Hey! DEM LIONS beat Green Bay yesterday…first division game win since October 2007! And Matt Millen ain’t there either. Cut ‘em some slack!
MacDuff wrote:
They used Detroit as an example for some of the “Life After Humans” episodes.
@ RIX:
The GOP leadership sucks.
@ Speranza:
Boehner is 3rd rate.
MacDuff wrote:
Yeah, really a shame.
A large part of Detroit has moved into Third World status.
Bureaucat wrote:
Yeah, I seem to remember that now. What a sad legacy. That was a pretty interesting series….
Rodan wrote:
I think chuckkk likes
licksa first rate BoehnerRodan wrote:
They better realise that they can be taken out in primaries.
Literally, they are in a probationary period.
Man those English, they had real power, they made the Spanish kill Apaches in the Southwest just by blame in History books 500 years later. The greed, the blood lust, the lust for gold and silver had nothing to do with it. The islamic conquest ideas well learned had nothting to do with it. No way the Spanish and the Church were to blame for the head chopping, rape, food bruning, etal that went on for 400 years. Must have been the Apache caused it all to fall on their heads due to not inventing gun powder like the ones in China did for the Spanish or not knowing of the Church’s teaching via telapathey 1/2 way around the world.
Just a dumb bunch of pot smoking, heavy drinking dullards, influenced by the Aztecs down in Mexico, ya they needed the teaching of the Spanish from the old world. Way better.
Rodan wrote:
McConell is even worse. He’s a self-serving asshole that only cares about his own personal status.
Rodan wrote:
He’s a first-rate second rate guy!
mawskrat wrote:
We made it fair. People talk to each other (and sometimes yell at each other) instead of gathering armies and razing their houses, towns, and cities.
@ taxfreekiller:
Makes ya wonder why the Apache lived in the wooliest places and raided the Spanish?
@ taxfreekiller:
We did the same to the Aztecs, Incas, French, Dutch, Turks, North Africans and Germans. You Apaches weren’t any sepcial.
Go ahead and speak your lies about rapes, we have historical facts on our sides.
You lost, we won, deal with it!
Lost me now that us sure.
chickadee wrote:
That bothers me A LOT.
Somebody who wants to be in a leadership position should exhibit self-control.
Prebanned wrote:
Dunno about whether Bush was involved.
That was the Buck Naked Brigade. If the invisibility part didn’t work, then maybe they figured that their opponents would be laughing too hard to shoot back.