Tea Party in Full Meltdown over "Boehner's Cave"

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Tea Party in Full Meltdown over "Boehner's Cave"

by joelgp

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness. There is a crisis in the Tea Party! I took a late night scroll around Foxnation, Redstate and Hotair and people, these conservatives are going nuts over what is now affectionately called "Boehner's Cave."

These people were seriously expecting 100 billion in cuts, the defunding of Planned Parenthood, Obamacare and the EPA or a complete shutdown. Now in full disclosure, I contributed just a little to their meltdown with several "well timely" posts like these:

1. "breaking news: the gop caved on planned parenthood, caved on destroying the EPA, and fully funded obamacare. okay? what's next?"

2. "i cannot believe the tea party is rolling over and fully funding obamacare and planned parenthood. dang, we should have thrown in the dream act and cap-n-trade if we knew they would wimp out so easily. oh well...governing is hard."

Okay, okay, I'm sorry--people, it was fun.

Needless to say, the screaming was loud, sustained and furious. Check out the whaling and gnashing of teeth over on Hotair:

1. "The Republicans LOST a warmup game – and lost it big. There is NO reason to believe they’ll show any better in the upcoming fights on the debt ceiling and the 2012 budget. Sorry – if they couldn’t cut $100B as they promised – which is only two weeks worth of deficit out of this budget – they don’t have the nuts to win any bigger fight."

2. "If anyone thinks that the Ryan plan has any chance of seeing the light of day, I want some of what you’re smoking. If you can’t win in this small battle how are you going to win in the bigger war. Major, epic, fail."

3. "$39 B in cuts? If that buys more than 4 days of “business as usual,” it is an incredibly bad deal: so bad, that Boehner MUST GO!!!"

4. "Well, first I heard defunding NPR was a minor battle, the BIG battle was the cuts in the CR! Then I heard the CR was a minor battle, the BIG battle was the budget for the year! Now it’s the Ryan budget? Give me a break…when you practice over and over how to cave, the only thing you are good at is caving." http://hotair.com/archives/2011/04/08/report-budget-agreement-for-39-billion-in-cuts-may-be-imminent

And then there's the "special people" at Foxnation:

1. "As Speaker of the House, John Boehner is acting like a junior member of congress. Speaker Boehner, haven't you heard the latest news? Obama and George Soros want to push the new Tea Party members out of congress and replace them with radical leftwing members. The tax dollars you just surrendered to Obama's campaign chest last night will help he do just that. Why are you helping Obama elect liberals to replace conservatives???"

2. "Bohner quite the negotiator for the dems He was asked to cut 100 billion and agreed to that, then it became 61 billion. final product 38.5 billion the dems # with funding for planned parenthood still in place, We need change folks." http://nation.foxnews.com/government-shutdown/2011/04/08/sources-deal-reached-avoid-government-shutdown

And then there's the "friends of CNN" at Redstate:

1. "So they hold a vote about PP funding and Obamacare on the Senate floor and it goes down to defeat, and the GOP claims that it has kept its agreement with the voters. I guess they really do think we’re idiots."

2. "Now they can’t hide from their votes and will have to defend their votes for supporting a baby-killing machine and the fiscal nightmare known as Obamacare." http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2011/04/08/republican-austerity

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[jaxx]

1. I read where they want to primary him.

;-)

K&R

[JoePhilly]

13. I felt like I was reading part of DU, but in a parallel universe.

[jaxx]

14. Yes, it was pretty obvious.

[RichGirl]

19. Exactly....

Why don't we try and be different...the party that doesn't constantly complain. Anybody...anybody...anybody??????

Didn't think so.

[DCBob]

33. Extreme to the point of being irrational would describe both groups accurately.

The difference is the Teabaggers are actually having some impact on the GOP while our lefty-baggers.. not so much.. thank goodness.

[Name removed]

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[HankyDubs]

32. except of course

that we know what we are talking about.

Carry that water!

[BklnDem75]

37. Of course, they think so too

Imagine that!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. The flavor of their tears is as the sweetest nectar.

Suck on it, freeperbaggers.

[RichGirl]

20. I think I'll have a delicious cup of tea.

[OHdem10]

3. They are even less smart than I thought. They forced the Democrats

to give away the store. Just wait until we get see
what all they got.

Must be crocodile tears. Or they are gearing up for
the next fight.

[RBInMaine]

42. "Gave away the store?" Bullshit.

[Blaukraut]

4. Rec'ed for sweetening bitter medicine just a little with teabag tears

But we can all agree that overall, these cuts will hurt the economic recovery, which was the intent of the republicans. Finally, until we know where the specific cuts were made, we should hold off gloating and/or celebrating. I fear we will not like what we find.

[southernyankeebelle]

5. Teaparty is so popular now, right? Wrong the nail is in the coffin of teabaggers.

[JoePhilly]

6. Can you imagine a debate between these Tea Party folks and the Angry Liberal folks

from here on DU??

I can see it now, they're sitting across the table trying to convince each other that "your side" got everything it wanted, and "our side" got screwed!!!

Then, the DU folks describing their plan to primary Obama and get a "real liberal instead of a corporatist" ... then the Tea Party folks describing how they want to get rid of Boehner and replace him with a "real conservative" ...

:rofl:

[young but wise]

8. .......

:rofl:

[_ed_]

10. Isn't it stupid when people exert force on politicians

to accomplish policy goals? I'd just rather pick a team and support that team no matter what they do, and laugh at the "liberals" with their policy goals and values and stuff. What fools!

[JoePhilly]

12. Posting on DU, or on a right wing web site is not "exerting force" ...

on politicians, or anyone else.

And what I actually find very funny ... is that the TONE of the quotes in the OP from the right wing, and the TONE of the anti-Obama posts here on DU, are EXACTLY the same. As I read the quotes above, I found the similarities uncanny.

It was like a parallel universe experience.

[_ed_]

15. Fascinating insights

.

[JoePhilly]

17. I thought so.

[treestar]

26. I've had that too

In fact one thing I recommend for the depressed is to do what I did once - I went and read (pre web) the National Review, Reason, and some other conservative publications. The National Review was set up just like the Nation, even having a poem, editorials, articles, book reviews and a puzzle at the back. The content was conservative.

After reading a lot of it, I felt much better. The conservatives felt that they were ignored and their concerns a laughingstock, that the liberals had taken over Washington. The liberals had Hollywood, too. Hollywood laughed at their conservative values. The liberals controlled the media too, of course.

I realized just how powerful we were!

[lfairban]

46. You reminded me of an old story,

Berlin, 1930's, a Jewish man is sitting on a bench, reading the Nazi newspaper. A friend sits down beside him and asks, "Why in the world are you reading the Nazi paper?" He replies, "When I get home my wife tells me we do not have enough food to eat and our clothes are in tatters, and I have to tell her that I don't have any money to buy more. When I read this paper, it tells me Jews have all the money, own all the banks, and all the jewelry stores, and control all the finances of Europe."

[RichGirl]

21. I am so on board with that!

[Sheepshank]

39. errrr..reality right there on the GD bb. It's freaky wierd. n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. EPA? What's their problem with the EPA?

[Jackpine Radical]

9. It gets in the way of corporations trying to make an honest profit

based on destroying the environment.

[sarge43]

11. It enforces restriction on bidniss, govmint interference don'tcha know

Mindless Randoids that they are.

[donf]

16. What's their problem with the EPA?

It was started during the administration of that crazy, pinko, liberal: Richard Nixon! He wouldn't even be allowed to run as a Republican these days.

[RichGirl]

22. They don't believe in pollution.

The bible says absolutely nothing about pollution....so it doesn't exist.

[and-justice-for-all]

24. Hahaha!!! nt

[Gidney N Cloyd]

36. I'm rusty on the Bible stuff but isn't there something in there about being stewards of the earth?

[Enthusiast]

49. There's lots of Bible stuff.

Correct.

[Enthusiast]

48. Actually that isn't far from the truth.

James Watts said, "After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back."

[treestar]

29. It is restrictive. It interferes with the free market.

The government is incompetent to do anything and just wants power. Global warming or climate change is not a problem, that always happens to the earth, but the left wingers try to use it to gain power. The GW hoax is especially insidious, as it can lead to the all evil One World Government (the UN is part of the conspiracy on this too).

The EPA is probably involved in protecting endangered species. If they are extinct, it's God's will! Who cares about the (their favorite endangered species here) when people need to build on that land? Why do the libruls value animals over people???

It is a socialist plot to pry into businesses and have the government take them over.

[DCBob]

34. They think self-enforcement is better...

What a joke.

[lfairban]

47. Well, here in Ohio . . .

. . . it goes clear back to the days of Jim Rhodes. I recall a video clip of him vehemently pronouncing it a tragedy that even one child should miss his or her Christmas presents because their father was laid off of work because of environmental regulations.

[Enthusiast]

50. Yet the voters went on

to elect Taft then Kasich. I think we need those environmental regulations because it seems there is 'something' in the water.

[ladjf]

18. Crocodile tears IMO. nt

[and-justice-for-all]

23. Its called Healthcare Reform...not Obamacare.

and we, the ones with commonsense, should not be negotiating with the Teahadist Terrorist Organization. "baby-killing machine" is words used for ignorant fucking drones who is so delusional, that they think every pregnancy is a healthy one and that they need to interfere in the personal decisions of others. They do not want less government, they want more where it should not even go. Kill the EPA, but invade peoples privacy; Teahadist are a fucking joke.

[27inCali]

25. what's a Boner Cave? Sounds like a sexual metaphor.

[treestar]

27. of the type Boner likely experiences often

[BeyondGeography]

28. The pursuit of ideological perfection

Is always doomed to disappoint.

[wysingm]

30. RedState: "This Deal is Not Enough"

Why Michele Bachmann (R-MI) http://bachmann.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=235082">voted nay:

“The deal that was reached tonight is a disappointment for me and for millions of Americans who expected $100 billion in cuts, who wanted to make sure their tax dollars stopped flowing to the nation’s largest abortion provider, and who wanted us to defund ObamaCare. Instead, we’ve been asked to settle for $39 billion in cuts, even as we continue to fund Planned Parenthood and the implementation of ObamaCare. Sadly, we’re missing the mandate given us by voters last November, and for that reason I voted against the Continuing Resolution.”

http://www.redstate.com/rep_michele_bachmann/2011/04/09/this-deal-is-not-enough/">RedState: "This Deal is Not Enough"

[lafayettelonewolf]

31. Oh give me a break, Tea Party Express!!!

All of them should have known what they got when they got behind Speaker Boehner!!! ALL OF THEM! It just goes to show the complacency, the bad judgment, and the less than stellar intelligence of those people. I'm sorry, but if their platform is just to shut down the government and let the uber-rich run things...all I have to say is this: thank you but NO THANK YOU! To quote Chef Gordon Ramsey: "Take off your jacket and leave Hell's Kitchen."

[totodeinhere]

35. I guess we're even then because a lot of liberals hate it to. For the opposite reason

of course.

[HankyDubs]

38. You must have had a little Rovian giggle

misrepresenting yourself on those sites.

[RBInMaine]

41. The 2012 GOP primary is going to be a fucking powder keg. Full civil war. I LOVE IT. GOP has gone

"TeaPUKE NATION."

[Major Hogwash]

43. Did you hear about the e-mails the Tea Party chairman sent out yesterday?

He told members of the Tea Party that lived in the DC area, Virginia, or Maryland to go to Boehner's house and dump a bag of garbage on his front lawn today to send him a message.

Last night's crawler on either MSNBC or CNN showed the news about the e-mail at the bottom of the screen 2 or 3 times before they stopped running it.

[RBInMaine]

51. GOP IN CIVIL WAR MODE BIGTIME

[Rosa Luxemburg]

53. I guess the Tea party will form another right wing party eventually

[ClassWarrior]

44. So?

And people call critical Obama supporters petty. Sheesh.

NGU.

[lfairban]

45. Luv it, just luv it!!

:thumbsup:

:kick:&R

[Keith Bee]

52. Boehner's Cave

So that's where Batshit Bachmann lives!

[mkultra]

54. nice trolling of their boards

Its clear that when you do it you must attack from the far right. Thats what the DU trolls do but in reverse. they attack from the "left"