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Peacetrain

(22,877 posts)
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 01:36 PM Oct 2013

Boehner to Tea Party: Shut Yourself Down

A good read..
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“Thank you, Mr. President. Signed, John Boehner.”

Deep beneath the year-round tan, the Camel Ultra Lights and the merlot, there beats a grateful heart. Somebody had to take on the Tea Party that has turned Boehner’s tenure as House speaker into a living hell.

Too bad for Republicans, that someone was a Democrat rather than one of their own, which would have signaled that the party is fit to govern. By calling the bluff of a tiny band of burn-the-place-down Tea Party activists leading their colleagues over domestic (the government shutdown) and global (the debt ceiling) cliffs, Barack Obama exposed the fact that they didn’t come to Washington to fix anything, only to tear everything but air-traffic control down.


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-15/boehner-to-tea-party-shut-yourself-down.html?cmpid=yhoo

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Boehner to Tea Party: Shut Yourself Down (Original Post) Peacetrain Oct 2013 OP
a bit of wishful thinking, but that's ok, I'll take it. 2banon Oct 2013 #1
Thank you, Peacetrain! Cha Oct 2013 #2
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