Boehner: Democrats Want to ‘Annihilate Us’

[brooklynite]

Source: National Review

Speaker John Boehner rallied his troops this morning at a closed-door conference meeting at the Capitol. Democrats are trying to “annihilate us,” he told his members. “We can get through this if we stick together.”

The Ohio Republican added that a “grand bargain” is off the table. What he wants is something that “builds on the gains we’ve made over the past three years, puts points on the board, and doesn’t raise taxes.”

Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/360669/boehner-democrats-want-annihilate-us-jonathan-strong

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So, hold your vote on a clean CR. If you win, you'll show you're in charge of the House. If you lose, the economy will recover. What could go wrong?

[appleannie1]

1. Boehner, You are doing a fine job of annihilating your party without any help from Democrats

[Uncle Joe]

30. + Infinity with a cherry on top, you nailed it.

[HooptieWagon]

36. Democrats just trying to avoid the cross-fire....

in the GOP civil war. Why should Dems do anything if GOP is bent on destroying itself?

[Heather MC]

44. Reminds me of Fight Club

When Ed Norton realized he was fighting himself in the Ally

[Southside]

58. Fantastic imagery of norton all beat up

Boehner is trying to protect the wrong union. The United States is more important than party.

[ZRT2209]

75. +1

[caraher]

82. But that's his point

Boehner wants Obama to rescue them from themselves. The fact that he refuses shows he wants to annihilate them. QED

[mac56]

2. "Desperado... Why don't you come to your senses?"

[SaveAmerica]

52. He's been drunk riding fences

[denbot]

60. Oh your a drunk one, I know you lack all reason,

[Judi Lynn]

90. Sniff, sniff.....

[center][/center]

[Randomthought]

3. Oh damn!

He caught on.

[L0oniX]

4. Make the call...

[Gothmog]

5. Boehner wants to be paid for taking a hostage

Boehner is putting this in terms that the Tea Party/the GOP needs to "win" this fight and be paid off with a ransom. This is sad.

[LiberalArkie]

6. Of course we do. Must have had a coherent thought before he hit the bottle again

[Diclotican]

7. brooklynite

brooklynite

From what I know and have read - I think the republicans - and Boehner do a stellar job in annihilate them self with the shutdown of the government - and a possible default on the debt the US have...

Diclotican

[raging moderate]

8. They project like crazy, don't they?

In the jargon of the therapist training of my youth, to "project" is to suspect others around you of the same aggressive feelings you have for them or the same aggressive actions you are thinking of doing to them. These people seem to me to constantly accuse others of plotting the vicious actions which they themselves are trying to achieve. Actually, if we can stay alert, this fault of theirs may prove to be a useful defense against their depredations.

[Tikki]

40. PROJECTION: One of the most diagnostic signs of someone(s) with Borderline Personality Disorder.

Tikki

[Southside]

61. This diagnosis makes me nervous

Are we dealing with someone in need of counseling? He is supposed to negotiate the country out of this mess with President Obama.

[Cosmocat]

66. I swear

It just hurt my head to hear them scream victim to what their MO is, and what is really bizarre is that they actually believe this kind of crap ...

[CBHagman]

84. Bullies and manipulators in general need to portray themselves as victims.

You see a lot of it with the GOP and the right wing in general in the United States. It's creepy, of course -- aggression and feigned hurt at the same time -- but it's common.

[awoke_in_2003]

89. They project better than IMAX. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. True, but they're doing it from within.

It's much more enjoyable that way.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. A Clean CR doesn't raise taxes, nor does it destroy his "gains". But it sure doesn't put points on.

[Spirochete]

11. If we wanted to annihilate you, Boner

we'd rename the atmosphere "Obama Air" and you'd all stop breathing in protest, and we'd be rid of your sorry psychotic asses.

[freshwest]

27. LOL! Let the naming begin!

[99 Percent Sure]

56. Thank you!

[Southside]

63. Haha

Incredible

[BeyondGeography]

12. It would be best for everyone, John

[CherokeeDem]

28. Perfect!!

Love this picture!!!

[mia]

83. Perfect.

Wish I could recommend this. Please repost it as an OP.

[TBF]

13. Boehner, anyone who holds the country hostage

deserves to be annihilated. YOU did this. Own it.

[coldmountain]

14. The voters don't like you--without gerrymandering you would just be regional extremists

[TBF]

16. Also true. Extremists paid off by a certain constituency (ie Koch Bros). nt

[apnu]

46. This is true. And we have only ourselves to blame for it.

We, the Democratic party and liberals have quite a lot of responsibility for staying home in 2010. That includes the youth who showed up for Obama in 2008 but didn't in 2010. 2010 was a census year, and the R's knew it. They pulled out all the stops to win that year alone so they could take advantage of redrawing the map and give themselves a permeant place in national politics for a decade. Nobody in the Democratic party leadership even considered this. A few, here and one or two other places, clamored about how lame the Democrats were in the 2010 cycle. We lost, they won, and they got the spoils.

Now we get to live with these nuts till 2020. Or until they burn themselves down.

The truth is, that was a do-or-die election for them. They needed gerrymandering to stay relevant. They're on the wrong side of every social issue in America. They've screwed the pooch with every minority group, women, and the young. They're 50-50 with the middle class and white males in general. The party is increasingly male, old, white, and moneyed. To sum up, they have no growth. Plus, thanks to hitching their wagon to the bible thumpers down South, they've doomed themselves to be a regional party loosely collected around the secessionist states and a few highly rural, low population (and mostly white) states.

They had to win in 2010 and redraw the map. The party of Lincoln is long dead, the Confederates have their last laugh on our greatest President, they took over his party. Speaking of, if you look a Republican rhetoric and compare that to that great racist John C. Calhoun, and his pals, you'll find many of the same ideas and words. The Republican party is rapidly becoming a neo-Confederate party.

[Southside]

65. Confederate anything is not good for people of color

That assures people like me will remain on the progressive side. I see a confederate flag I run to the left

[maxsolomon]

15. He's 100% right. I want the GOP gone.

i want it to splinter into a 100 irrelevant pieces.

when people say we need a responsible 2nd party, i say no. no we don't. at least not a conservative party. not this conservative party.

[apnu]

17. No we don't. We want you to come to your fucking senses!

I don't want to annihilate anybody, and I don't think anybody on this board really wants that either.

What I want is sane people working on The Hill coming up with sane solutions to real problems.

Is that so much to ask?

[Renew Deal]

19. We don't?

[apnu]

33. I don't want to annhiliate anybody

Democracy thrives on difference of opinion and conversation. If everybody is parroting the same thing, then democracy is dead. How would America function with one party? It wouldn't.

Also 'annihilation' is overly bellicose and violent. I will not advocate any kind of violence on those I disagree with.

I'll fight them in the polls, I'll fight them with words, I'll try to win everybody over I can to my liberal view. But I will never advocate annihilation, destruction, or any other type of silence or censorship of those I disagree with. Even if they're loony wackos like Michelle Bachman.

The Weeping Cheeto's use of words say everything about the man. He thinks he is facing annihilation, and he probably is -- for his personal political career. But who's fault is that? Nobody but him. He painted himself into this corner, he can sit there until the paint dries.

[freshwest]

34. I can't make that claim, myself. They've been calling for my death for years.

Yeah, it's become a bit personal.

[Raven]

18. No, but you're doing a pretty good job of it yourself, John. n/t

[lostincalifornia]

20. paranoid, persecution complex, hmmmmmm

[NCcoast]

21. Annihalation... has a nice ring to it

Maybe if you weren't the biggest flaming assholes in the world we'd be a little more tolerant, as we have been for years, but enough is enough. So how do we do this 'Annihilation'? I think we should give it some consideration.

[AAO]

22. The only true thing I've EVER heard the lush say.

When you are trying to annihilate the country, I think you lose every time, Boner!

[Roland99]

23. Naah...they're doing that to themselves!

[Vietnameravet]

24. Ya you got us..

We really do want to annihilate you righties..what took you so long to figure that out?

[munster69]

25. Annihilate the T-baggers,

I refuse to call them after the great men who stood up against corporate greed, the real T-party.

[Hydra]

29. Only because you're making it necessary, "Speaker"

I've been saying for years that your party is too dangerous to live. Thank you for spelling it out in BOLD letters for everyone who thought I was crying wolf.

[Thekaspervote]

31. Last I read your doing a fine job yourselves.. But feel free to call us for help!!

[GliderGuider]

32. "Please proceed, Mr. Speaker..." nt

[beachbum bob]

35. I hope gop sticks to their guns

And normal republican donors jump ship...

[olddad56]

37. Orwellian doublespeak.

[johnfunk]

38. Boner says it as if it's a bad thing!

Understandably, Speaker Orange-Glo has to give his troops some basis for a pep talk, even if it is a complete fabrication. Ironic it is that it comes from the leader of the party that has divided this nation since the days of Tricky Dick's Southern strategy.

Anyone with half a brain knows that Democrats don't have to do the annihilating -- that's being covered by the Tea Party Confederate Cauc-ass.

[grantcart]

39. We just didn't expect him to be our star player.

[displacedtexan]

41. Oh, shit! Somebody must've leaked our plans!

We had that joint meeting with the One World government people, remember? We all voted to take away the repuke guns and jobs, and convert all churches to atheist centers, along with annihilating Boehner and his cronies. The vote was unanimous. We must have a mole in our vast leftwing global conspiracy movement! Oh, no!

[treestar]

42. LOL

Project Terminator needs revamping!

[olddad56]

43. this bullshit would be over immediately if it started hurting the upper 1%.

[Mellow Drama]

45. Republicans need to go to jail for life!

Most kidnappers and extortionists are sentenced like that. And these Republican bastards are magnitudes worse.

Every time I drive by the only republican office in Alameda County remaining I have an urge to go to their door and SCREAM.

[Jack Rabbit]

47. The Devil works in mysterious ways

In this case, the Devil is the Koch brothers.

To us, the Koch Brothers may seem like Satan in his monstrous aspect: diabolical, anti-democratic, corporate fascists. However, for the Republicans, they are the agents of the Devil in his amusing, folksy aspect of the trickster god. This Devil gives the Republicans unlimited amounts of cash, but there's a catch: the Republicans have to let the lunatics run asylum. The Tea Party, with the Koch brothers as the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, write a platform that gets attention for all the wrong reasons, alienates any voter who isn't as ideologically pure and just plain stupid as they are, now even to the point where rank and file moderate Republicans are repelled. Boehner puts up with the Tea Party only because he doesn't know what else to do. If he continues to pander to them, the Republicans will face extinction at the polls in 2014; if he tells them to go have carnal relations with themselves, they'll replace him in a heartbeat with Eric Cantor, and then the Republicans will face electoral extinction in 2014. Either way, John Boehner is finished and the Republicans are going to spend a long time in the political wilderness.

[lumberjack_jeff]

48. In this, John speaks for me. n/t

[geek tragedy]

49. "not a damn game" vs "points on the board" nt

[tomm2thumbs]

68. • • B I N G O • • •

I hope Jon Stewart catches that one -- definitely a little insight into the Boehner world... especially when the gym stays open too

[Spitfire of ATJ]

50. Let's build on your 15% approval rating.

[nolabear]

51. We'd just like to be the straw that broke the elephant's back.

The rest is your own damn fault. Hell, THIS is your own damn fault.

[Lil Missy]

53. And your point is??

[tofuandbeer]

54. This was probably said somewhere above....

it sure looks to me like the GOP wants to annihilate themselves. :/

[randr]

55. He is wrong

As a Democrat I want to more than annihilate them. I want them tarred and feathered and made to clean Interstate Highways for the rest of their lives wearing shirts that identify them as traitors to America.

[noiretextatique]

57. you are correct, you worthless pos fascist

You and rest of idiot america need to go sit in the corner.

[Gothmog]

59. Boehner has to scare the members of his caucus

Basically Boehner is trying to intimidate and scare members of his caucus so that they will not sign discharge petition

[Kablooie]

62. What could go wrong is ...

All the house members will go on record as being for or against the destruction of the country and those votes could sway the next election if the USA collapses into a 1930's like depression.

[City Lights]

64. Quit your whining and get back to work, Boner!

You are such a wanker!

[freshwest]

69. He's not listening. He's working out at the Congressional gym. Still funded by his signed order.

The rest of the government and the people can go and eat cake

[Southside]

67. GOP, your leader doesn't know the ship is sinking

Throw the tea overboard

[Blue Owl]

70. Someone faxed him Bachmann's script

n/t

[cristianmarie533]

71. Boehner is obviously drunk again.

Calm down buddy, and please try not to make a fool of yourself.

[JDPriestly]

72. Republicans are annihilating themselves.

And if Boehner gets his cuts to Social Security, it will be the end not only of the Republican Party but of the DLC. Good riddance to both. We have to start working together as a nation, not working each ONLY for his or her own profit. The Republican philosophy is unworkable and doing their party in. The Republican philosophy is destroying the Republican Party.

We Democrats are just watching them fall. We didn't gerrymander their districts for them. They did that. We did not adopt their unpopular stances on all kinds of issues. They did that.

[bluesbassman]

73. You say that as if it's a bad thing John.

For the record, I don't really want to see your party annihilated, it's a good thing to have an opposition party with legitimate and well thought out positions. Unfortunately your current party has neither, so evolve or go the way of the rotary telephone; useful in it's day but hopelessly obsolete now.

[Orsino]

74. I don't want you annihilated, Mr. Speaker. I want you working for us...

...rather than fellating the Kochs.

[dinger130]

76. I'm telling you,

his brain is pickled!

[Paula Sims]

77. Project much? (n/t)

[DJ13]

78. Annihilate?

No, we just want you to get your ass back to that chocolate factory where you belong.

[Marthe48]

79. I will contribute to whoever is running against this idiot for his seat

I want him out, penniless, drinking rubbing alcohol. POS

[Festivito]

80. Don't get whigged out you simple Boehner. eom

[cosmicone]

81. Mommy, they are bothering me and picking on me. n/t

[Mz Pip]

85. Projection much??

Remember the GOPs plan for a permanent GOP majority? They had no use for an opposition party.

Well gee, looks like we are starting to feel the same way.

[blkmusclmachine]

86. That'd be a start, Herr Boner.

[donheld]

87. We don't have to work very hard doing that

The Repubs are working hard around the clock to do that to themselves. They're doing it faster that we could ever do it.

[area51]

88. I believe psychologists call that "projection".