The Daily Beast - "Boehner and Cantor: The GOP's Rivals for the Top"- Like Gingrich, Armey and DeLay

[TomCADem]

Is it any wonder that the Federal Government is always on the verge of shutdown when you have a Republican House dealing with a Democratic President. At any moment, the House Republicans are trying to throw each other under the bus in order to demonstrate that they are more extreme than the other. At this rate, you will have one of them start reciting Meim Kampf from the House floor with each one trying to impeach President Obama for not tattooing his birth certificate on his chest. Remember Gingrich, Armey and Delay? Now, we have Boehner, Cantor and Ryan trying to out-extreme each other.

So, despite corporate media/liberal sock puppet efforts to create dissent among the Democrats, the true infighting is going on in the Republican party despite mainstream media efforts to downplay this tension.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-08/boehner-and-cantor-the-gops-top-frenemies/follow#

Tag team or palace coup? That’s the burning question about the relationship between House Speaker John Boehner and his top lieutenant, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, after a week in which the two men pursued sharply different approaches to the budget battles that consumed and practically paralyzed Washington.

In one corner is Boehner, the knowing elder statesman and emissary to the White House for his newly empowered Republican caucus. In addition to convincing the GOP’s hungry base that he’s taking the fight to the Democrats, the Ohio veteran must juggle the more demanding job of convincing Americans that he can be trusted to put the needs of the country ahead of the demands of his party.

In the other corner is Cantor, bold, uncompromising and insistent at nearly every opportunity that the most conservative GOP proposal on the table is the only satisfactory outcome in this and every future budget battle. Unlike Boehner, the gentleman from Virginia has just one audience—the GOP caucus that made him the second-in-command and has made no secret of its desire to wring money out of the federal government until the unwieldy beast has been starved and the nation’s books have been balanced.

At no time were the men’s differences more vividly display than Thursday, when Boehner stood before the microphones outside the White House to declare that progress toward a compromise budget was being made and that any disagreements in the talks were happening between people who—wait for it—don’t hate each other.