ccrunner609;1348370 wrote:here is who needs to go......Harry Reid is the largest political hack this country has ever seen

stlouiedipalma;1348383 wrote:... This is a direct result of the R's going to bed with the tea party nuts. They care more about blowing up the system than they do about governing and he can't deal with it.

QuakerOats;1348391 wrote:Stunning. You know the nation is in deep trouble when the defenders of liberty and advocates of fiscal sanity are labeled "nuts", and worse, continuously vilified and denigrated. Incredible. The idiot in the WH and the idiot at the top of the Senate have done more economic damage than any other tandem in the history of the nation. It is time you and yours OWN IT.

But for those individuals skeptical of &#8220lan B,” pulling the bill was a show of weakness on the part of the GOP leadership – hence the shock in the room when Boehner announced the decision to go home, Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-Ohio) told The Hill.

"A mixture of being stunned and, well, disbelief was the overriding emotion. And anger, you're going to get people who are angry," he said.

LaTourette, a longtime Boehner ally, was visibly frustrated by the development.
"It weakens the entire Republican Party…It's the continuing dumbing down of the Republican Party, and we are going to be seen more and more as a bunch of extremists that can't even get a majority of our people to support our own policies that we're putting forward," he said. "If you're not a governing majority, you're not going to be a majority very long."


As for Boehner’s standing within his own conference, LaTourette said he didn’t think the Speakership was in jeopardy.
“It’s like saying the superintendent of an insane asylum should be discharged because he couldn’t control the crazy people. That’s nuts,” the outgoing lawmaker told reporters.

tk421;1348411 wrote:when's the last time Reid has allowed a budget vote? He has no room to talk

gut;1348419 wrote: Where he stepped on it here was probably not attaching spending cuts to it which could, understandably, cost him a few dozen votes or more.

The underlying message is: no more blank checks. I fully support that.

QuakerOats;1348391 wrote:Stunning. You know the nation is in deep trouble when the defenders of liberty and advocates of fiscal sanity are labeled "nuts", and worse, continuously vilified and denigrated. Incredible. The idiot in the WH and the idiot at the top of the Senate have done more economic damage than any other tandem in the history of the nation. It is time you and yours OWN IT.

James Gatz;1348425 wrote:I wonder if he cried again

IggyPride00;1348320 wrote:After tonight's fiasco it is time Boehner resign his post as speaker of the house.

He clearly has no control of his caucus, so having him try and negotiate anything is pointless because he can't get anything passed.

It is making the party look bad.

Not to mention this continued dysfunction sends a bad message to the world that we can't even govern ourselves anymore. The ratings agencies are discussing another downgrade of our credit should we go over the cliff because it is a sign of instability in the U.S that we can't even make a deal to avoid a sure fire recession that the world doesn't need right now.

It's the fiscal cliff now, the debt ceiling in a few months. Why would any foreign country want to invest here when the only assurance anymore is constant drama and turning everything into a blood fight. We used to be considered the safest country in the world to invest in because of our political system, now we fight every year about whether we are going to pay our credit card bills or not for **** we already bought. We are acting like a 3rd world nation and it is embarrassing.

This whole kabuki dance thing has worn outs its welcome.

jhay78;1348634 wrote:Boehner needs to go because he's afraid of his own shadow, not because he failed at bullying and threatening every conservative in the House, and insulting the conservative wave that gave him the Speaker's spot in the first place in 2010.

BoatShoes;1348475 wrote:Meanwhile, yields on 10-year U.S. government bonds have gone even lower to 1.76. Despite a government that is barely functioning, investors are willing to lend us money for next to nothing even while Ben Bernanke is wearing out the printing press.

ccrunner609;1348724 wrote:Reid's actions are a direct reflection of what Obama is telling him to do.

ccrunner609;1348744 wrote:only in the US government is no move better then trying something. The fiscal cliff might be what we need to wake people up.

IggyPride00;1348498 wrote:He literally said the Serenity prayer in front of the conference when it became clear there was no reasoning with some of them.