The GOP needs to get a new House Speaker

[mwruckman]

Originally Posted by rikoshaprl

Boehner clearly showed who he is on his Leno interview. He criticizes his conservative base but not the liberal democrats. He makes no case for conservatism to that audience because he does not believe in it. He is a RINO and might just as well be a democrat. He blamed the shutdown on the GOP because the media did not like it. He clearly blamed Obama and the democrats while the shutdown was happening. He has no leadership abilities or backbone.
He has got to go!
From last fall:
John Boehner: Obama owns this shutdown now

I agree Mr Elephant, there are much better comedians out there. I think Jay Leno is free after February 17th !!

[carterstamp]

Originally Posted by OICU812

You mean the faction that was trying to repeal or delay the disastrous ACA?

If only we would have repealed the ACA before it was allowed to reap all of it's destruction on the nation.

41 times, yes.

[CravingMountains]

Originally Posted by AeroGuyDC

Your underlying premise is that winning a Presidential election is the end-all, be-all to governance. I guess you haven't learned anything from 2010 forward....which is that the American people want divided government for the sole purpose of keeping the Presidency and the Congress in check. The American people had the opportunity to grant Democrats a supermajority in 2010 and in 2012, but chose not to. For whatever reason, it's obviously not clear to you that having Democratic President with a solidly GOP House has done absolutely nothing to advance the President's agenda. And that's the way the people obviously want it.

What part of that don't you seem to understand?

Democrats won seats in congress in 2012.

As for 2010, I wouldn't exactly consider a year that a bunch of old frothing at the mouth tea partiers storming the polls is very representative of what the American people want. Of all the groups in congress right now the Tea Party is held in the least amount of favor. Even Republicans are mad at the tea partiers for sabotaging politics in Washington and rather than focus on an economic recovery they want to do everything they can make life difficult for Obama.

The Tea Party is doomed this year though. Americans saw what their negligence did back 2010 and you can bet we won't let that happen again. I myself was one of the voters who stayed home that year (most young people do). NOT THIS TIME! Rick Scott is going down.

[silverkris]

Originally Posted by TylerJAX

The House GOP should ditch Boehner as Speaker. The "conservative" wing sort of have this love/hate relationship with him where they often disagree with him and cajole him into doing things he doesn't seem to want to do, but at the same time they offer no meaningful and feasible strategies considering the current make-up of gov't and rely on his leadership. I want to see the Tea Party bring the House down!

I think Boehner has the Speaker's position because nobody else wants it - it's a thankless job trying to herd cats, e.g. the House Republicans, particularly the Tea Party faction. Used to think Cantor, the number 2 guy, was looking to knock off JB, but if he did that, he would be stuck with the responsibility. So it's kind of Boehner's by default.