Tea Party leader calls for Boehner to step down -- "He is not a leader."

Haha! :popcorn:

Tea Party leader calls for Boehner to step down
By Daniel Strauss - 07/27/11 10:41 AM ET

The leader of the conservative group Tea Party Nation, Judson Phillips, called on House Speaker John Boehner "to go" and be replaced by a "Tea Party Speaker of the House."

"Now Boehner is in the process of surrendering again. He is surrendering not to Obama, but to the status quo in Washington," Phillips wrote in a blogpost on Wednesday. "The House passed Cut, Cap and Balance, which would cut $111 billion from the budget. It would cap spending and set a good course for the future."

"Boehner has no real interest in solving the problems this country faces. He might have been a decent Speaker of the House in another era where he just needed to manage legislation for a Republican President" Phillips continues. "Unfortunately for us, Boehner is a big government Republican. He worships at the altar of massive spending. "

"We need a Speaker who is a leader. We need someone with courage and vision. Boehner has none of those qualities. He is not a leader."

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/173795-tea-party-leader-calls-for-boehner-to-step-down

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1578186

Though I'm not sure if it's all his fault.

His pal Cantor was always behind him, waiting to drive that dagger into Boner's back!

Boner is not a leader, and this only proves that fact...the man is a designator!

They need to apologize before he starts crying.

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Seriously, if I were John Boehner, I'd tell these guys to choke on my balls and like it. They are the reason a deal hasn't been reached yet anyway. I'd tell them I'm a member of the Republican party, not a member of the Tea Party and that they have no clue how to responsibly run a government.

This is more proof that Boehner is gonna need to dig in and find every member of his caucus that isn't on the Tea Party bandwagon and get them to go alone with Pelosi and the Democrats on something.

been sucking up to them since the health care legislation was being worked. He will change anything for them, because they run the GOP now.

all 4 of them or however many.

The Plan always was to install Eric Cantor as Speaker of The House by a bloodless coupe and to have the will of the Minority imposed upon the Majority. Anti-democratic in every way.

we need to send Boehner bottles of Bar-B-Que sauce

Boehner isn't insane enough to be their leader. If you would have asked me 6 months ago about Boehner.. I would have said he was as far to the right as you can get. Clearly, I was wrong... and that terrifies me. There is a large contingent in Congress (70++) of Freshman GOP Congressman who have done the impossible - they've turned Boehner into a Republican Moderate of sorts.

I hope this blows up in the GOP's faces. I realize that the Tea Partiers have the backing of their local voters.. but they only have 20% of the country as a whole behind them.. and they're holding the entire US economy hostage. The GOP Corporate elitists are NOT going to be happy about that.. and you'll see it play out in '12. No one stepped in to fight the crazies in '10.. the corporate establishment just sat back, smiled and kept their cash. Well.. you get what you pay for guys! Enjoy!

Cut, cap, and balance DID pass the House, but it was always DOA in the Senate. Fortunately, Boehner, Cantor or Michelle Bachmann can't really change that. Even if the not voting Republican were there, they would need another 13 votes to pass the Senate -as the Democrats could filibuster it.

as he is not an elected member of Congress.

They just want to double down on the crazy. Should be interesting.

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to the irrational tea party instead of attempting to "compromise" with them.

By compromise I mean agreeing with their policies.
Instead we get a sacrificing of core democratic principles.

Move to the left like the country is screaming for, leave SS alone, bring the base (progressives) back into the fold and move the wishy washy independents and centrists left.

The right as we know it could be in it's death throes if we had a truly progressive (even democratic)
leadership that wanted to work for the people. Instead we have corporate shills.

That isn't saying much, though.

NT

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extra schadenfreude on mine please.

I think it's fitting that they destroy themselves because they don't give a shit about this country.