John Boehner: Just Nancy Pelosi with less Botox.
There is a scene in the movie “The Perfect Storm,” where the fishing vessel Andrea Gail has been fighting through a hurricane. Suddenly the clouds break and there is light. The light stays for a couple of moments, and then fades back into the storm and the boat is hit by the hurricane again.
That is a great metaphor for John Boehner. Just when we thought there might actually be some hope, Boehner turns around and shows that he is nothing more than Nancy Pelosi, sans Botox.
Reuters reported that on April 25, John Boehner had a private meeting with Tea Party Activists from his home district in Ohio. They asked him he would vote to raise the debt ceiling. He said he would and the debt ceiling would have to be raised again.
John Boehner had been talking tough, giving Tea Party activists hope that he finally not only got it but had grown a backbone. He talked of trillions of dollars in budget cuts. Now, we know the truth. Boehner has no interest in cutting the budget. He demonstrated that as he backed off the GOP’s initial pledge to cut $100 billion and under his brilliant leadership, he managed to secure a deal that cut spending by a whopping $352 million.
As a leader and as a negotiator, Boehner is a total disaster. My blind twelve-year-old Labrador Retriever could do a better job of leading the GOP in Congress than John Boehner.
Almost three months ago, Tea Party Nation called on conservatives in Ohio to primary John Boehner. We cannot wait for the next election. We must act now.
When the House of Representatives comes into session at the beginning of a new Congress, the members elect the Speaker. The Speaker typically serves for the entire Congress. However, the Constitution and the Rules of the House of Representatives are silent on whether a majority of members of Congress can replace a sitting Speaker during the middle of Congress.
We must call our Congressmen and tell them to replace John Boehner as Speaker immediately.
John Boehner is not a conservative. Nor does he have any courage. It is also safe to say, he isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. He has the biggest political mandate since Ronald Reagan and he is blowing it.
In 2006, the American people grew tired of the GOP being no different from the Democrats and threw them out. In 2008, the GOP was handed its head by the Democrats. In 2010, the Republicans came flying back, kicking the Democrats out of power in the House of Representatives and coming amazingly close to taking the Senate back.
The difference? The Tea Party.
Prior to the 2010 election, the public did not swoon over John Boehner. There were no John Boehner for Speaker rallies. There were no major Republican rallies. There were Tea Party Rallies. The Tea Party movement brought political salvation to a Republican Party intent on self-destruction and keeping itself confined to minority status, as it was for 38 years before 1994.
Tea Party Nation is read by a lot of people. Most of them are Tea Party activists. Many journalists and news organizations read our materials and so do some very influential Republicans.
Here is a memo to the GOP: You are reaching the end of the line. The consensus opinion of the Tea Party has always been that we do not want to become a third party. Many of us still feel that way.
The leadership of the GOP should remember their history. The GOP was born when the Whig Party would not address the slavery issue. Within ten years, the Whig Party went from controlling the White House to obscurity and irrelevance.
The Tea Party movement resuscitated the GOP. The Tea Party members are the people who go out and work phone banks, put out yard signs and do the other heavy lifting for political campaigns. If the GOP does not pay attention and start being serious about the issues the Tea Party is concerned about, ten years from now, we may well be talking about the GOP as the modern version of the Whigs.
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