Tea Party leader calls for Boehner to step down

[ProSense]

Source: The Hill

The leader of the conservative group Tea Party Nation, Judson Phillips, called on House Speaker John Boehner "to go" and be replaced by a "Tea Party Speaker of the House."

"Now Boehner is in the process of surrendering again. He is surrendering not to Obama, but to the status quo in Washington," Phillips wrote in a blogpost on Wednesday. "The House passed Cut, Cap and Balance, which would cut $111 billion from the budget. It would cap spending and set a good course for the future."

"Boehner has no real interest in solving the problems this country faces. He might have been a decent Speaker of the House in another era where he just needed to manage legislation for a Republican President" Phillips continues. "Unfortunately for us, Boehner is a big government Republican. He worships at the altar of massive spending. "

"We need a Speaker who is a leader. We need someone with courage and vision. Boehner has none of those qualities. He is not a leader."

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/173795-tea-party-leader-calls-for-boehner-to-step-down

[Kingofalldems]

1. Teabaggers are funny

[russspeakeasy]

32. Freak shows are entertaining too....but they can give you nightmares.

[Golden Raisin]

60. No, they are not.

Laugh at your own peril.

[fascisthunter]

2. Not Nazi-Extremist enough for them I suppose

[Jansen]

3. Why would the speaker of the house be a "Tea Party Speaker of the House"?

Last I checked the Republican party held the majority in the house, not the Tea party.

[PatSeg]

79. Evidently math is not their strength

They just don't seem to understand what "majority" means. It is their government and their country, and everyone else be damned.

[robinlynne]

96. and that is because Diebold (ES&S) counts the votes.

[wilt the stilt]

4. This guy(Judson Phillips) ia a DUI attorney

The lowest of the low.

[MineralMan]

5. Excellent. A showdown among the Republicans.

What's Boehner going to do? Which way will he turn? He's sweating bullets right now. In the meantime, Republican House members are hearing from their districts. And what they're hearing isn't pretty. Let's split the GOOPers!

[Hubert Flottz]

17. "Which way will he turn?"

Which brings us to the cruxxx of the pwoblem...the ENTIRE GOP is eat up with the final stage of Spuffit's Disease!

Spuffit's Disease = When One's Face looks so much like their Ass, they don't know, "Which way will to turn"

Edit... I rest my case, of Bud Light!(in zee cooler)(lock box if boner's around)

[TxVietVet]

41. I love it. Let the conservanazis crater. The teabaggin' kkkluckers are terrorists.

Let them try to take over the party. It will be a fun deal. I'll bet the Freepers are running in circles peeing all over themselves.

[pauljulian]

51. Bullets?

Nah... more likely he's sweating single-malt scotch

[OHdem10]

6. Somebody(ies) must at some point and help this TEA PARTY

get out of DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR. Teach them
some Math. Roughly 80 TP our of 435 Congress People.
Just because the Republicans won the House, this
did not put the TP in charge of the Country.
This does not mean that because they helped
the Republicans win back the House that the
Democratic Party Members must aquiesce to their
every whim. Look this Group has a super inflated
view of their importance. This can be dangerous.
They are suffering Delusions of Grandeur.

[valerief]

9. Their backers can buy an awful lot of private armies. That's how it's done

in those banana republics. And now we're one of 'em.

[julian09]

12. Gop thinks 40% is a majority Tea Party thinks 20% is majority

Gop should tell them get your own caucus.

[pauljulian]

52. Gauging from TPers online

Obviously they can't spell or speak with proper grammar, so why should we think they understand 7th-grade math?

[robinlynne]

97. Are they actually 20% of us? I thought they were more like 5-10%...

[LuckyLib]

37. +1000. The Tea Party may think it owns every Republican-leaning American,

but they are way off base. Some folks are starting to see the light -- their party has been hijacked and they don't like which way the boat is sailing.

[maxrandb]

55. Not Delusions of Grandeur

they suffer from Delusions of Adequacy

[PatSeg]

81. That one is a keeper

I may have to borrow it! :fistbump:

[maxrandb]

92. It's from actual Fitness Reports on British Naval Officers

Some of the best...

"This young officer suffers from delusions of adequacy"

"This officer would be out of his depth in a car park puddle"

"This pilot should not be allowed to fly below 100 feet"

"This young officer has hit rock bottom, and has started to dig"

"His troops would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity"

"He is like a gyro-compass, always spinning around but not really getting anywhere"

"This officer is not so much a "has-been", but more a "never was".

"This Medical Officer used by ship to carry his genitals from port-to-port, and my wardroom officers to carry him from bar to bar.

"This officer took over an unsat division and maintained it"

[PatSeg]

98. Those are great

Thanks!

Love this one: "His troops would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity". Reminds me of some republican politicians.

[AlbertCat]

73. They are suffering Delusions of Grandeur.

Thank the MSM for that.

If you want to see how "the American People" like and agree with the Teabaggers, look at WI.

IOW... they are a minority whose ideas most people can't stand.

[KansDem]

7. "Unfortunately for us, Boehner is a big government Republican. He worships ... massive spending."

That's right: TeaBaggers want "Big Corporation Republicans" who worship at the altar of massive welfare for the rich.

[tridim]

8. The entire GOP machine needs to step down.

Every faction is a big problem for America.

[harun]

10. Who elects these clowns?

[paparush]

40. People who've been lied to over and over and over and over. nt

[pauljulian]

54. People that believe the hype about anyone with a (D)

These are people that seem to think the "(R)'s are bastards, but they're our bastards."

Sling the name of Jesus around and rail against "Socialism and Soros" and you're in the club.

[wordpix]

71. people who watch Faux News and listen to DrugRush & buddies

These are their "news" sources. :crazy:

[Auntie Bush]

89. The same kind of people that elected Walker and those idiots from Ohio and Arizona.

The fact that too many disenfranchised Dems didn't bother to vote wasn't much help and I'm scared to death that will happen again in 2012...plus another 1 or 2 Conservative SCJ added to the Robert's court. :scared: and :puke:

[hedgehog]

11. If the Republicans split their vote between Boehner and a Tea

Party candidate, can a Democrat become Speaker? Is the Speaker elected by a majority or a plurality?

[tridim]

13. Good question. How does a party become a party?

I really have no idea how that works. They already call themselves the tea party, so step one is complete.

It would be extremely good for the country if the teafuckers broke off from the GOP.

[Bandit]

20. I believe the Speaker is elected from among the Majority Party and not the entire Congress.

:shrug: I could be wrong though.

[Thav]

62. According to wikipedia

"The House of Representatives elects the Speaker of the House on the first day of every new Congress. Each party nominates a candidate. There is usually some degree of consensus within each party's leadership as to who the favored candidate will be. Whoever receives a simple majority of the votes is elected. The new Speaker is then sworn in by the Dean of the House, the chamber's longest-serving member."

So, if Boehner stepped down, the tea party split entirely, the non-tea partiers stood fast, and all the D's voted:

180 R votes
60 T votes
193 D votes

We could, in theory, have a democratic speaker.

[Volaris]

86. Without a Democratic Majority in the House..lol ohhhhh how wonderfully funny...

The Tea People would have a collective aneurysm, (and blame the President, no doubt hahaha) and the GOP would blame them, and then the GOP internal war would REALLY be fun to watch...

The message that would ring far and wide would be "ONLY the GOP/Tea Party is DUMB enough to lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives without losing a national election first....."

[Mosaic]

14. If these scum

Don't like Boehner, I like him much more now.

[Akoto]

15. I hope Boehner sees this ...

It should clearly demonstrate that he is nothing to them, and that all the political capital he's spent for this niche cult's ideals has been a waste. They're ready to drop him at moment's notice because no amount of cuts to any non-wealthy person will ever be deep or extreme enough.

[Doctor Hurt]

16. This story in LEGO form

[Dulcinea]

18. If you think Boehner sucks, wait till they try to give Cantor his job.

Then this country will go even further down the toilet.

[JNelson6563]

19. You can never please a zealot.

And the tea party is full of them. As is DU. No one is ever pure enough for a zealot. Fucking ever.

Julie

[Roland99]

28. Extremism in any form isn't a good thing.

scary thing is the right-wing extremists seem to have a monopoly on the media and can do no wrong.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

21. I guess that the T-gaggers believe in political eugenics.

Of course, they look for the worst traits in people and try to replicate them in their flavor of the month (Orange Lush) politician. WOW!! Who would have thought that Boehner could be made to look like the rational repuke player in this farcical disaster?

Maybe more people will realize that these people are beyond redemption even if it is a bit too late. We can only hope...

[iwishiwas]

22. I thought it was Kim Simac riding in on her horse from

Northern WI.



Kim Simac For State Senate
kimsimacforstatesenate.com/ - Cached
Republican candidate for Wisconsin State Senate District 12.

http://www.gnaco.com/id17.html

[klook]

23. "Boehner has no real interest in solving the problems this country faces."

Well, there's some common ground. :shrug:

[marions ghost]

24. Justice for Bedfellows

:eyes:

[Scurrilous]

25. Heh.

:thumbsup:

[AsahinaKimi]

26. They seem to enjoy

eating their own.

[Wait Wut]

27. And, yet...

...silence from Phillips and TPN on the hundreds of thousands that they skipped out on in Vegas.

Yes, Jud ol' boy...we need to listen to YOU about a budget. :rofl:

[mikeytherat]

34. That's just awesome, ain't it? Skipped out on a $640,000 tab, yet lectures others about finances!

http://www.fox17.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wztv_vid_8607.shtml

They tout fiscal responsibility but tonight a national Tea Party group headquartered in Franklin is accused of skipping out on a half million dollar hotel bill. The Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is suing Tea Party Nation over a convention the group canceled last year. Last year thousands of people from around the country paid up to $549 to see Sarah Palin at a Tea Party rally here in Nashville, but convention organizers were criticized for being more concerned about profits than politics. Now, Tea Party Nation and its founder Judson Phillips are being sued by the Venetian Casino Resort in Las Vegas for Breach of Contract. The suit asks for over $640,000 in fees and interest for canceling a convention scheduled for July of 2010. Phillips runs Tea Party Nation out of his home. When contacted by phone, Phillips told FOX17 he couldn't comment on the suit because he hadn't seen it.

mikey_the_rat

[Yavin4]

44. More Irony. Guess Who Owns The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas

Steve Wynn, the douchebag who ranted about Obama in a conference call:

http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Steve-Wynn-Obama-Killing/2011/07/19/id/404088

[mikeytherat]

63. No honor among thieves.

mikey_the_rat

[wordpix]

72. hahaha, good one, I love it---this made my day

Rats getting what they deserve---karma

[yellowcanine]

29. How many votes did Judson Phillips get? Was he even elected "Leader" of the "Tea Party Nation"?

Or he just a self-proclaimed "Leader" of a Self-Proclaimed "Nation"?

[bongbong]

30. New name

I have a new name for the Teabagger's corporate bosses to assign them to use. Their corporate bosses are getting nervous about the unruly, unwashed, ignorant hate-filled mob they've unleashed, so they gotta give a new name for a new spin. Just like they used "tea party" as a way to get the Grand Old Pedophile party resurrected.

The Toilet Party. Because they want to flush America down the drain.

[Liberalynn]

31. I vote all the Republicans

resign and go home. :)

[Turbineguy]

33. Boehner has committed an unpardonable sin.

He started to sound reasonable.

Batshit crazy is the required norm.

[wordpix]

74. and don't forget---he's TALKING to the president---that means dealing w/ the enemy in T-party think

The little thinking they do is so screwed up!

[russspeakeasy]

35. You have to admit tho, it's fun to watch them out crazy each other..

:nopity:

[MorningGlow]

36. Shocked. I'm shocked, I tell you.

Oh wait. No I'm not.

Oh, the egotism. It's stunning. So this was their plan all along, to take over the Republican party by shaming the more "middle of the road" GOPers? (LOLOLOLOL "middle of the road GOPers"--I crack myself up sometimes.)

So anyway. Good luck with that, crazies.

[Fresh_Start]

38. Gotta laugh

the GOP was eager to embrace the tea party. I hope the Tea Party rips the GOP to shreds and leaves the bleeding carcass all over Washington

[HopeHoops]

39. Great - that would probably leave us with "fling my own poo" Cantor to take his place.

Cantor would be the first speaker ever to use a baby rattle instead of a gavel.

[geardaddy]

53. But isn't BS Bachmann the chair of the Tea Farty Caucus?

[HopeHoops]

78. Yeah, but he whines louder and flings more of his own poo!

[geardaddy]

85. lol

[Bryn]

42. Tea Party is Legitimate? What a Joke!

Tea Party should be considered 3rd Party. Green Party doesn't boss Democratic Party around and is considered 3rd Party. Too bad for GOP for accepting Tea Potty people wearing silly hats with teabags hanging into their own party. ROFL

[oldhippydude]

61. yep

they cant sponsor any kind of event... just don't get the interest, now that their astroturf sponsors are looking elsewhere.. there is absolutely no base to back up those crazies

[Weird Liberal Head]

43. HaHA!

Poetic justice. :)

[oldbanjo]

45. I think all the phone calls are starting to

make the Republicans nervous.

[creon]

46. I am not surprised.

That is typical fire eater rhetoric from a zealot.

If they are not careful, they may get what they want.

[Bryn]

47. Someone tweeted this:

"The Repugnants are the bitches of the Baggers"

[Permanut]

48. Pass the popcorn! n/t

[YvonneCa]

49. Good news. I almost feel sorry for Boehner. No...

...SCRATCH that. Just kidding! :7 Thanks for posting this, Prosense.

[pauljulian]

50. So, let me get this straight...

Phillips wants to replace "Hell, No" with someone who can say it (and at volume cranked up to 11) but can't spell it?

[DreamSmoker]

56. Judson Phillips Is a Danger to American Values

Judson Phillips Is a Danger to American Values..
If he got his way we would still have Slaves and women will stay, home, Bare foot, pregnant, and have no vote at all...

http://teapartynationalism.com/the-blogbri-news-updates-and-morei/item/135-tea-party-leaders-attack-constitution

[tpsbmam]

57. Judson Phillips: 3 federal tax liens & a personal ch 7 bankruptcy in his history

And major dissent in his TPN ranks:

Two early disputes revealed a fault line within the Tea Party over money-handling and the movement’s relationship to Republican Party structures. According to Kevin Smith, a volunteer who served as the group’s founding webmaster, Phillips gave the impression that the newly formed organization was going to be a non-profit effort. Nevertheless, on April 21, 2009, Phillips formally filed records with the Tennessee Secretary of State registering Tea Party Nation, Inc. as a for-profit corporation.

This action led to the first internal clash, and webmaster Smith resigned in protest on April 24, 2009. In an email sent to donors, Smith apologized for participating in a deception and chastised Phillips: “I certainly take strong exception with building a corporation using the altruistic contributions of hundreds of volunteers, donors, corporate sponsors, and vocal, public champions of the tea party movement. I believe that you gave generously of your time and money because you assumed, like I did, that this was a non-profit effort meant to plan and pay for rallies and advance the goals of the tea party. For this very reason, I cannot continue to be involved with Tea Party Nation.”

<snip>

As Tea Party Nation continued planning its convention, problems persisted. In January 2010, one of the largest convention sponsors, the American Liberty Alliance (ALA), announced that it would “pass on being involved with the Nashville event.” The way money was being handled was the problem for ALA. “The controversy surrounding the event involves conversations about the infrastructure of the Tea Party Nation and the way its finances are channeled through private bank accounts and paypal accounts,” ALA director Eric Odom declared.

<snip>

Then, on January 11, Erick Erickson, the editor of the influential right wing blog RedState.com, joined in and said, “I think this national tea party convention smells scammy.”

This and more can be found at the fabulous NAACP tea party report.

Yeah, such a pillar of virtue truly needs to be deciding who leaders should be and telling others they're fiscally irresponsible.


:puke:

[wordpix]

75. sounds like their "non-profit" financing by the likes of the Koch Bros. is running into snags

Some want a for-profit and some a non-profit---sounds like the financiers are trying to figure out how best to contribute politically while getting around campaign donation laws (the last few left) and tax payments.

My take, FWIW :evilgrin:

[Yon_Yonson]

58. Judson Phillips Dunce Cap

:hurts:

[humblebum]

59. The loyalty of many members of Congress has been compromised

by over 200 members signing a pledge to Grover Norquist stating that they promise never to raise taxes - EVER. definiely a conflict of interests and they have betrayed a sacred trust.

[lovemydog]

64. awesome

I laughed out loud!

When I bum out that liberals don't get everything we want, it's fun to see teabaggers never satisfied!

[Vinca]

65. I think this is the idiot Martin Bashir interviewed the other day.

Bashir asked him if he gave any credence to the IMF director's dire warnings about the economy should we default and the moron laughed and say of course he didn't. This is a guy who probably has to use his fingers and toes to count.

[Marthe48]

66. if bonehead grew a pair

and turned his back on teabaggers, we'd all be a lot better off. But he won't, because he's a coward and his convictions come from a bottle.

[wordpix]

76. "his convictions come from a bottle"---either that, or he's just a whore who's easily bought

[BlueDemKev]

67. Fine with me....

...let the right-wingers destroy each other.

[murielm99]

68. ProSense, you deserve a personal K&R for all the

great things you post here.

You keep us up to date on all of these debt ceiling issues.

Thank you.

[and-justice-for-all]

69. Teahadist are fucking stupid...nt

"...It would cap spending and set a good course for the future." FAIL.

If some quits because of something someone said on their blog, then they are nothing short of spineless. Especially when its a small band of clowns like the teahadies.

[wordpix]

70. Teabaggers: "Stop spending tax revenues, unless it's for the corporate rich"

idiots :grr:

The Koch Bros. don't like their boy Boner anymore? What gives?

[AlbertCat]

77. Awwwwwww....

... the Teababies' lives aren't working out the way Baby Jesus said it would. Everything is just all messed up! They don't want Boehner! They want their MOMMIES!




Jesus on toast! Doesn't Boehner cry enough for these babies?

[grahamhgreen]

80. Awesome! How far right can they go?

[Jakes Progress]

82. boehner is stupid. If he were not

he would work behind the scene and begin to take down this group that is really what is keeping the republicans from winning almost everything. I know several lifelong republicans who have renounced their party for now because they don't want to be identified with the slack-jawed ignorance and downright stupid meanness of the tp movement.

But boehner is both stupid and a coward. So we are saved and Obama might just get reelected.

[harun]

83. Boehner loves them, they are making him look like a moderate.

[Jakes Progress]

84. Like I said. He is stupid.

[LetTimmySmoke]

88. Only to the GOP base. Few others are fooled.

[LetTimmySmoke]

87. Watch the congress halls for Cassius, Brutus and Eric Cantor.

Boehner is going to be the GOP's fall guy for their most recent misadventure.

[marew]

90. ---snicker--- n/t

[sofa king]

91. I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

The Republican Party is now like a peanut butter cup melting on the dashboard of a car on a hot day, with a thin and weakening shell of evil trying desperately to contain the hot oozing mass of stupid inside, and failing....

However, I have the same mixed feelings I had when Dick Armey (who was a real guy and not a euphemism for the entire Republican Party) left as House Majority Leader. He was great because he was a lazy, totally incompetent old-boy who was regularly (and, I hear, intentionally) distracted from his theoretical duties by golf, food and drink. When he left, Tom DeLay took his place, paid a smidge more attention to how he could better destroy lives through his position, and did more to auger the United States into the dirt in just two short years than Armey had in the previous eight.

I view Boehner in precisely the same way. He is of high value to us because he's so bad at his job that any replacement is likely to do better than he. His lack of control over the rank and file Members of the House is the worst I've seen, and that's saying a lot because Republican Members of Congress normally happily goose-step behind their chosen fascist leader.

The key word here is "trust," not in the sense that you would not trust any of those people with your child, your car keys, or an ice cream cone, but rather the naive, unshakeable, totally unwarranted trust that right-wingers place in their chosen leaders so that they don't have to think too hard for themselves. The knuckle-draggers don't trust the Speaker, and they're not going to turn out for the torchlight celebrations if someone doesn't go and burn the Reichstag, again, real soon.

[glinda]

93. T-Baggers a "bullies" "loudmouths" "Shills" for Corporations.

[toddwv]

94. Why do I suddenly feel the urge to support the guy?

Part of me wants to see Boehner resign in humiliation.
The other part of me remembers that he would most likely be replaced by this guy:



Tough choice...

[ThoughtCriminal]

95. I forget

were we hoping that Rodan destroys Godzilla? Or was it the other?

[chrisa]

99. E.g. He doesn't want to default and throw us into economic ruin.

It's pretty sad when Boehner is being blasted for not being extreme enough.