Could Boehner really just be a big puppet?

[leftyladyfrommo]

He doesn't even look like a real person.

Maybe he is just a big carboard cutout with someone standing behind him moving his arms and legs.

I'm starting to really dislike the guy - just on general principals. He just looks and acts like there is something seriously wrong with him.

[liberal N proud]

1. He is a puppet alright

Puppet for the teabaggers.

[VanillaRhapsody]

9. Bohner is just a Sociopath trying to save his own ass...

he is just trying to remain Speaker of the House....

It's just a job to him and he is fighting to keep it. He cannot empathize therefore how that fight effects anyone else is irrelevant to him. They do not exist to him. He is not cut out of the cloth of Heroes...

The people he chose to align himself with are also sociopaths...the Teabaggers. They also do not care how their actions effect others...in fact...they are seeking utter chaos because it fits their "Christian" narrative that we are in "The End of Days". The only way for that to be true is that other people should be in agony for not agreeing with them....because it's part of their "story". The non-believers should be punished...They expect all out Madd Max from Thunderdome to signal the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. If these things aren't happening...then we are not in the "End of Days" and Jesus is not near. Michelle Bachmann even admitted it. She thinks she is going to be "favored" by Jesus for causing chaos.

[Faux pas]

12. +1000

You nailed it!

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. I understand your point and it's well taken.

But I live with these religious crazies and it's more complicated than that.

These people have been indoctrinated all of their lives. The real problem at the bottom of all of this shit is that they are all just plain scared to death. They are afraid to question anything. The devil and fire and brimstone are very real to them. And they have been pujnished pretty severely most of their lives for thinking for themselves.

Mostly I just find them to be sad. But I certainly don't want to have to live with their values. Thier values are just plain looney tunes.

[VanillaRhapsody]

18. I am from SC I have lived with them too

I have even gone to their Churches...

[VanillaRhapsody]

17. in fact...here is what Right Wing Watch says about them..

In short, Dominionist theology believes that Christians are called to take "dominion" over every aspect of our culture and use them to create God's kingdom on Earth in order to bring about the return of Jesus Christ. And their method for gaining "dominion" is through something called the "Seven Mountains Mandate," which seeks to place Christians at the top of seven distinct spheres that shape our culture: (1) Business; (2) Government; (3) Media; (4) Arts and Entertainment; (5) Education; (6) Family; and (7) Religion. -
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dominionism-and-religious-right-merger-complete

Here it is straight from their mouths..

Oh yeah....Sarah Palin is definitely a follower of the 7 Mountains Mandate....that is what that prayer you saw them have over her was about. They thought they were going to "take" another Mountain Mandate through her. But there are many many many accolytes of this ideology.

[nikto]

19. Well said.

[gopiscrap]

2. Of course he is a puppet as is every other repuke

they're puppets for the business interests!

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. Do those guys simply have no self respect at all?

I don't get it.

The number one qualification for being a politician is being a sociopath? They are pretty easy to manipulate.

[gopiscrap]

5. Nope they're getting too much money to have any self respect

can you say the word "whore" as in corporate political whore?

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. This is way worse than "whore."

Whores are usually pretty human.

These guys are more like "hit men." Just empty souless shells that will do anything for the right price.

And I don't get the tears thing. That is just plain weird.

[gopiscrap]

10. Yeah, you've got a better description than I do... thank you!

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. could be - I've seen orange puppets on Sesame Street (but they are much smarter)

Boner does cry real tears, so there is that....

[gordianot]

6. Some one must be keeping his key to the liquor cabinet. n/t

[bunnies]

7. Not a chance.

Theres not a person alive brave enough to put a hand up there.

[Phentex]

11. Can someone please pull the stick out?

He gives puppets a bad name.

[Segami]

14. YES, of course! A "Teabagger Puppet."

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. But it's OK to anger everyone else in the whole country?

Does he ever actually go out in public? Or does he just shuttle back and forth in his limo from his place of residence to the safety of the Congress?

Really. What kind of life is that?

[mindwalker_i]

15. Well, having a hand up one's ass

is not quite the same as having a Koch up one's ass, but it's close.