It’s time for Boehner to go
House Speaker John Boehner was more effective with tears.
Our nation never should have gotten into the “fiscal cliff” mess. We got there in large measure because Boehner couldn’t control his temper and would not return President Obama’s phone calls after a White House meeting in July of 2011. Boehner said Obama “moved the goal post” after he thought a deal was done. Obama said that there were $1.65 trillion in spending cuts in the deal that Boehner walked from. The “fiscal cliff” deal that passed yesterday raised $650 billion in revenue and reduced spending by $15 billion. Our economy would have been better off if Boehner had been able to control his temper in July of 2011.
Politico reports that Boehner told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “to go fuck himself” on Friday as the two leaders of the House and Senate were entering the White House to negotiate. Congressman Frank LoBiondo(R-NJ-2) told PolitickerNJ that Boehner shouted at him yesterday when he asked the Speaker about the delay in the Sandy Relief Bill voting. Congressman Peter King (R-NY) went on FoxNews this morning to declare his independence from the Republican Party and urge donors to withhold donations to the GOP. Governor Chris Christie called Boehner’s lack of action on the Sandy Bill “petty politics,” “disgusting,” and “duplicitous.”
John Boehner has demonstrated that he does not have the temperament nor skill to be a leader of the House of Representatives or the highest ranking Republican elected official in the nation.
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John Boehner is a whiny Republican who only cares about beating the Democrats and has no interest in helping the average American citizen. He is truly the worst example of what our political system has become and he needs to go.
The man has to go period! The devastation from Sandy has still not been met by federal disaster relief, and its been 2 months already. Katrina’s disaster relief was met in just 10 days.
Peter King is right–withhold all financial support until our state and people get their rightful support.
as are many of them,for both parties: all they care is about their seniority and the pecking order in the House, over many years of wheeling and dealing for themselves and not us. But, as long as the “low information voters” keep re-electing these jokers, we will continue to have out of touch,Beltway boys,who have zero clue or empathy as to how it really is out in the real,regular working world we all face,each day. They all give away our money for votes to keep them there playing the same tired games, and I do not see it changing!
I said this after Katrina so only fair I say it now. There was a time when States took care of their disasters without looking for handouts from the Feds.
John Boehner did the right thing. The bill was full of pork and contained many items not immediately needed to help the people who suffered in Sandy. The people who are irresponsible are the members of the Senate who rolled all these items up into one bill and declared it an emergency bill. They dared the House not to pass it. I’m glad to see there was at least one adult in the House who pushed back and said we need to legislate in a reasonable manner. Remember how Obamacare was passed?
Christie is playing politics here. He’s up for reelection this year and needs to play the part. He diminishes himself by his performance. At the least he could have stated that the emergency funding part of the bill should be considered right away.
I agree with TR. There is too much reliance on the federal government.
It is the “low information” voters who don’t understand this. The same kind of voters that releelected Obama.
Disasters like the recent hurricane are so great and costly that they are way beyond what a state can ever afford. The bill in NJ is roughly the size of ones years spending in the state budget. That is why the federal government is needed.
In past disasters (when billions of NJ residents tax dollars went for aid to those who needed it in other states) politics never played a role. Its an absolute disgrace that when NJ and NY are in need, that this is now a political issue with the Speaker apparently afraid of 50-75 right wing extremists in his own party.