Moderate Threat Fizzles

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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/359989/moderate-threat-fizzles-jonathan-strong

The size of a bloc of GOP moderates ready to bring down a vote on the House floor over the government-funding bill shriveled from 25 lawmakers on Saturday to just two when the House voted just now to pass the rule.

New York representative Peter King and Pennsylvania representative Charlie Dent, two key moderates, voted no, while four hardline conservatives, including Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, voted no because the bill didn’t draw a hard enough line against Obamacare.

The episode is a reminder of how congressional centrists aren’t as reliable as ideological warriors when it comes to keeping threats. But it also took a personal appeal from Speaker John Boehner and the particular circumstances of the vote to sway the group.

I cannot describe the level of hatred that I have for John Boehner.

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1. "it also took a personal appeal from Speaker John Boehner"

"Pweeze don't make me look even dumber and unless than I already am!"

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2. If those so-called "republican moderates" stopped eating shit and joined Democrats, they

could kill the bill in the House. But the "republican moderates" love the taste of shit.

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3. I love it. He is a fucking eunuch

They have cut his balls off with a rusty hacksaw blade.