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Friday, February 14, 2014

The repugicans Lose It and Try to Overthrow John Boehner Over the Clean Debt Limit Bill

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Wingnuts are so outraged at John Boehner for bringing a clean debt limit increase bill to the House floor that they are mounting a coup to overthrow the Speaker of the House.
The cabal for non-growth got the ball rolling by proclaiming that something was wrong with the House leadership, “When we heard that House leadership was scheduling a clean debt ceiling increase, we thought it was a joke. But it’s not. Something is very wrong with House leadership, or with the repugican cabal. This is not a bill that advocates of limited government should schedule or support.”
The heritage foundation’s heritage action warned House repugicans that they are scoring tonight’s vote, Rather than suspending the debt limit again, Congress should “put the budget on a path to balance in order to avoid a much worse fiscal crisis in the future—before deciding how much more to borrow.” Heritage Action opposes S. 540 and will include it as a vote on our legislative scorecard.”
The most over the top reaction came from the senate wingnuts fund:
The repugicans are giving up because they know that winning is impossible when their leaders are determined to lose. These leaders have telegraphed weakness to the Democrats and sabotaged wingnut efforts so many times that repugicans now have no leverage. There’s only one solution.
John Boehner must be replaced as Speaker of the House.
Wingnuts helped repugicans win a majority in the House of Representatives, which made it possible for John Boehner to become Speaker. Unfortunately, he has chosen to ignore us and help President Obama enact his liberal agenda.
Instead of using repugican control of the House to stop bad legislation, Speaker Boehner has used it to increase spending, raise the debt limit, increase taxes, pass a bloated farm bill, and fund the implementation of Obamacare. Instead of fighting for conservative principles, Speaker Boehner has completely surrendered to the Democrats.
Unless we install a new leader who will actually go on offense, Democrats will never fear us and we will never have any leverage.
REPLACE THE SPEAKER
There are 232 repugicans in the House today and it requires 218 votes to be elected Speaker. If 15 repugicans refuse to vote for John Boehner at the beginning of the next Congress, he won’t have the votes to be re-elected and repugicans will be forced to pick someone else for the job.
Several wingnut cabals including (not)for America, tea party non-patriots, and (no)freedom works have already called for Speaker Boehner to be replaced. Now it’s time for us to join them.
In December, Boehner blasted the cabals, “These groups are using our members. They are misleading their followers, they’re pushing our members in places they don’t want to be. They’ve lost all credibility. They pushed us into this fight to defund Obamacare and to shut down the government. And most of you know, our members know that wasn’t exactly the strategy I had in mind. One of these cabals stood up and said ‘We never really thought it would work?’”
These wingnut cabals believe that Boehner has committed the unforgivable sin of actually allowing the United States to pay its bills. For this reason, Boehner must be overthrown. They would like to see Speaker Boehner replaced with someone who will have no qualms about causing a global financial crisis. However, Boehner understands something that these wingnut agitators don’t.
The repugicans were never going to win. They were never going to win a debt ceiling showdown. Democrats were not going to budge. Boehner tried to “go on offense” with the government shutdown, and the repugican cabal’s approval rating plummeted. Democrats know that they control the Senate and the White House, so they are never going to fear the House repugicans.
Despite his ineffective and weak leadership, Boehner has been the only person stopping the House repugicans from destroying themselves. The wingnut cabals’ behavior is a symptom of the sickness that is rampant in the repugican cabal. The extremists on the lunatic fringe believe that bringing a bill to the House floor that allows the nation to pay its bills is an unforgivable offense. They are out of step with the country, and frankly, out of their minds.
The wingnut agitators destroyed the repugican cabal years ago, but now they are trying to give John Boehner the boot.

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