Republican House: Boehner basically admits that the "inmates have taken over the asylum"

[ProSense]

Boehner On Obamacare, Debt Limit Strategies: Take It Up With My Members!

Brian Beutler

If you feel like the inmates have taken over the asylum in the House of Representatives, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) wants you to know that your suspicions are totally correct.

At his weekly Capitol briefing Thursday, Boehner faced questions about two aging and increasingly questionable elements of the GOP’s legislative strategy: repeated votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act and continued efforts to extract partisan concessions from Democrats in exchange for increasing the debt ceiling.

In both cases, Boehner acknowledged that the conservative wing of the House is driving the agenda.

“We’ve got 17 new members that have not had the opportunity to vote on the President’s health care law,” Boehner said, referring to next week’s ACA repeal vote. “Frankly they’ve been asking for an opportunity to vote on it, and we’re going to give it to them.”

And the debt ceiling? Same basic story...It’s yet more evidence that the party’s national and legislative strategies are driven by rank and file conservatives, not party leadership.

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/05/boehner-on-obamacare-debt-limit-strategies-take-it-up-with-my-members.php

Congressional GOP beginning to notice their own incompetence
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022787597

[Blue Owl]

1. Take it up with a member, not a Boehner

Like there's a real difference there...

[Tx4obama]

2. That's ridiculous. So, basically every time there are new House members they will have a vote. LOL

Gotta vote all those GOPers out and take back the House!

[KamaAina]

3. I guess Sanford gets one, too.

Do they have universal health care in Argentina?

[Ikonoklast]

18. They want their chance at a vote to repeal the 14th Amendment, too.

Strictly blatantly bullshit political move by Boner so the Baggers can then go back to their district and tell the droolers, "SEE! Ah voted agin' Obummacahr!" even though they weren't even members when it was passed.

[tanyev]

4. With Ted Cruz doing his best Jack Nicholson imitation.

[ProSense]

10. Dude is nuts! n/t

[Cha]

5. Show the Nation More of why you need to be replaced with actual People

instead of slimey kochheads.

[sheshe2]

6. So the newbies, all seventeen of them, are controlling the House?

Give me a break, Boehner. Grow a pair!

[JoePhilly]

7. Just another example of Obama not showing leadership

[RandiFan1290]

8. Yeah, they may be batshit crazy

but they sure do put up one hell of a fight for the people that vote for them.

[ProSense]

9. Yeah,

"Yeah, they may be batshit crazy but they sure do put up one hell of a fight for the people that vote for them."

...those would be the people who have jobs, don't need Medicare, health care or any social programs, don't uses cancer clinics or roads. We do know the "the people that vote for them" value flying.

You could have stopped at "batshit crazy."

One party is threatening the recovery far more than the other is
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022819598

[Scurrilous]

11. K & R

[MichiganVote]

12. Hell, in Michigan they've taken over the entire government.

[ProSense]

13. How did they win? n/t

[MichiganVote]

14. They won b/c in Michigan we've been in a recession for 20 years.

Voters trade out one recessionary legislature/governor for another. Its now a pattern.

[ProSense]

20. That's horrible.

"Voters trade out one recessionary legislature/governor for another. Its now a pattern."

What about the upcoming gubernatorial election?

[MichiganVote]

21. Snyder will likely run and win. The Dem's in this state have a lot of rebuilding to do.

And our taxes will continue to go up for corporations who rape our treasury, our education system is an absolute shambles, and somehow they'll appropriate more money for roads that will go the way of the billions in Iraq. Our local and county governments are starving for money. The unions have been completely dismantled. All that remains is a shell. So labor is without power.

In short, there is nothing in the state to act as a balancing arm on the overreach of the state government that is the complete and total control of the republicans.

[ProSense]

22. Who are the best potential Democratic candidates? n/t

[MichiganVote]

24. Well, not sure that "best" is an apt descriptor.

The Democratic Governors Association has been pushing former Michigan Rep. Mark Schauer but a one-term congressman is probably not going to fly with Michigan voters.

The "best" Dem candidate would probably be the guy who owns Stryker but he's probably not remotely interested. Plus he's gay and in a state that rejected the gay marriage thing, prolly not going to happen.

The governors race is the least of it. The state supreme court is republican, the legislature is republic controlled. We picked up some Dem's in the last race but not enuf' to make a difference. So we are now RTW, we have emergency managers for just about everything, our school systems are chartered and the rest, well its just too depressing to talk about.

[L0oniX]

15. Retroactive voting ...what will those silly asscarrots come up with next. n/t

[Jamaal510]

16. Goddammit, Obama

why did you have to make the GOP go insane?

[mick063]

17. Due to the sequester

We will rapidly reach a point where the debt ceiling will no longer be a factor. We simply won't reach the ceiling.

The fruit loops in the House will no longer be able to use it as a bargaining chip. Doesn't matter. They will dream up another radical, hair-brained idea to make government more dysfunctional.

On another note, the threat of not paying bills for goods and services already received was inconceivable prior to the emergence of the Tea Party. So was non stop filibusters for things as trivial as approving the appointment a deputy Secretary.

They have opened up one bad can of worms after another. It will take decades to restore citizen faith in properly functioning government. Exactly what the 1% was aiming for. A Libertarian utopia is what those ass hats have created. Everyone hates government in it's present form.

[Historic NY]

19. How many more do over votes do they get?

[randome]

23. How long have I been saying this? There is no one driving the GOP clown car.

McCain/Palin showed it. Romney/Ryan confirmed it.

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