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Maybe I can help put things in perspective. I dont like you John. Amercia doesnt like you either. But we are a good nation and know that its our job to help make your job more effective and beneficial to all of us. So if this sounds selfish, it is. Youre not doing your job effectively for us but were going pitch in and help you. Thats what Americans do.
You suffer from an Achilles heel. The people of Ohios 8th district have trusted you to do right by them. The members of your party were convinced you were the person to lead them. So you should be confident. As Speaker of the House, you have added responsibilities. Not just to your immediate constituents but to your party and America as a whole. Why not take the pressure off yourself and let America tell you what they want? Thats your flaw. You dont listen.
How can you tell what our wishes are if you dont pay any attention to us? Maybe if you looked at some recent polls.You claim to be a conservative. Well, then consider that these results from Americans for a Conservative Direction.
Most of the voters surveyed in this poll 70 percent said they are open to a bill that bolsters border security resources, requires employers to check on potential hires legal status and allows undocumented immigrants eventually to gain citizenship. If border security is coupled with legalization, 65 percent of Republican voters said they would support a path to citizenship, according to the poll.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/10/republican-voters-immigration_n_3572590.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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Here, you thought this was a tough decision.Youre never going to get 100% of voters to agree on anything. So why not shoot for the largest numbers and represent them.Youre stuck in a little bit of a trap as you gerrymandered voting districts and now you have to pay the price for cheating. Some of your ultra conservative right-wingers wont be happy. But theyre a minority. And they wont change your elect-ability. But failing the rest of us on not allowing a vote will. You already know that theres two women who are considering a run for the presidency from the Democratic party Hillary and Elizabeth Warren and both will wipe any Republican candidate off the map. The only chance the GOP has for a national win is to bring back women who youre driving away with radical anti-womens rights laws and minorities who view immigration as a vote up or down on their rights. If you lose Latinos, Blacks, Women and the believers in science, you dont have any voters left who can bring you to the top. So kiss your party, the presidency and your ass good-bye.
Read more~
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2013/07/11/the-boehner-boner/
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)going to leave them behind in the dust. WTH do the TP thinks their job is, they are not in the majority and it is time to explain it to them.
global1
(25,253 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)But, will boner listen? Will he even consider being a "hero" or will he only settle for serving his Koch master like he always does?
Mahalo, she~
sheshe2
(83,793 posts)He is tone deaf. As is the rest of the party.
May they all rot in everlasting hell for what they have done to our Country.
Cha
(297,323 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)And Boner is afraid of them. This bill is, unfortunately, going nowhere as is, fortunately, the republican party.