“We’re in the middle, I think, of a political rebellion going on in America,” House Majority Leader John Boehner said on CNN’s State of the Union, ”And this rebellion is by people who really have not been actively involved in the political process and they don’t really care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican. They want to see people who are going to stand up and protect the future for our kids and grandkids.”
Boehner also told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King that Republicans will have “a difficult road to walk to work with relatively new entrants into the political system to show them, that by and large, we are the party that represents their interests.”
But Boehner also tried to downplay the significance of Saturday’s surprise announcement by moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava who decided to bow out of a hotly contested three-way race in New York’s 23rd Congressional District.
“This is a pretty unusual situation,” Boehner said of the decision by conservative Republican Doug Hoffman to run against Scozzafava on the Conservative Party ticket in Tuesday’s special election. “Clearly,” Boehner observed, [Scozzafava] would be on the left side of our party.”
Notwithstanding that GOP civil war that brewed in New York’s 23rd district until Scozzafava’s announcement Saturday, the leading House Republican said his party still casts a big, welcome tent to all those who would call themselves Republican.
“We accept moderates in our party. We want moderates in our party. We cover a wide range of Americans,” the Ohio Republican told King.
“What we need is . . . a broad group of people in our party,” Boehner said, rejecting King’s suggestion that the conservative attacks on Scozzafava and support for Hoffman might be a shot over the bow to more moderate would-be Republican candidates especially in New England.
And Boehner appeared to concede Sunday that the growing political power of the conservative grassroots is placing stress on his party.
The House Minority Leader said he was “a big believer” of former President Ronald Reagan’s edict that Republicans should “never talk ill about another Republican.”
“That was not followed in this race,” King said of the Scozzafava-Hoffman battle.
“I know,” Boehner bluntly replied.
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> “We’re in the middle, I think, of a political rebellion going on in America,” House Majority Leader John Boehner said on CNN’s State of the Union ...
We sure are, if John Boehner is suddenly the House Majority Leader.
Republicans hate Cops policing Wall Street.It means they cant get away with all the lying scams and products.
Boner is an idiot. The Repukes are finally realize they could never win anything again with only the right wing whack nut jobs they currently have in their sad party.
The Dems better soon realize that they can't win anything with only Wall Street Executives, Bank Executives and Billionaires votes.
I say throw ALL THE BUMS THAT ARE UP FOR RE-ELECTION OUT IN 2010, REGARDLESS OF PARTY!
Republican? Democrat? Moderates? Forget them all! DOWN WITH POLITICAL PARTIES! MAKE EVERYONE CAMPAIGN AND SERVE AS AN INDEPENDENT. Political parties have proven themsleves over and over to be counter-productive to life, liberty, freedom, and the pursuit of happines in America. DOWN WITH POLITICAL PARTIES!
The party of NOthing continues to ignore the American people.
We do not want and will not accept those who belong to radical religious right make decisions on behalf of us or our country.
Many hide behind religion while inciting hate, anger, fear mongering and divisions of our country, spewing lies, distortions and sewer tactics. This is a far cry from the Chrisitanity I grew up with.
The GOP never has and never will put the welfare of the American
people over their undying support for big business.
He's house minority leader. C'mon now.
No they DONT want moderates, they want hate mongering, FEAR baiting, racist, anti choice, anti gay, anti NON Christian, anti Jew, anti poor, anti AMERICANS running this country and it will NEVER happen! The republican party has jumped the shark, MY FRIENDS. Its over. You have let the wingnuts get too loud THINKING it would help, and look what happened you now have the lunatics running the asylum. THIS is the exact climate that grows people like palin and beck, they HATE Americans and they are NOW your party leaders. Sorry boys, your out, and you will NOT be back anytime soon, except in states like alabamba, mississippi, and virginia. I think its funny a right wing LOON thinks he has a shot in New York. I have a feeling De De stepped down to prove that you people have lost your minds! She and the rest of country KNOW a loon like him has NO shot there....Too many people with brains in NY.
Haha, Randall. I was wondering if I was the only one who caught that.
The Grand Ol Party, may it rest in peace
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Sadly, Boehner doesn't get it. The rebelion – if there even is one – is not being directed by the American people. Instead, it is being carefully orchestrated by the radical fundamentalist Christian and neo-con elite of the Republican Party. Rush, Fox News, Murdoch, Cato Institute, etc. are not organic, grass roots movements....they are a carefully orchestrated misinformation and ideology cabal.
"Notwithstanding that GOP civil war that brewed in New York’s 23rd district until Scozzafava’s announcement Saturday, the leading House Republican (John Boehner) said his party still casts a big, welcome tent to all those who would call themselves Republican."
I'm not sure this will get through, but as they used to say, "so long as you're 'free white and 21' (or older)."
As long as those who call them republicans are small minded, hate filled, bigotted, racist anti-american anti-middle class southern white males and bat-crap crazy fundies. Otherwise, big tent.
Why on Earth would anyone think that the birthers would let any moderate in the party of "No hope?'
What we want to see are 'programs' that encourage business to hire those who are without work. We also want to see political leaders 'lead' in getting people off of welfare programs and that would include their plans of 'giving' healthcare to those who are on welfare. It's time to end all of the money we've spent improving the lives of those who are descendants of slavery. They've been paid with their freedom and enough financial aid to have removed their names from the welfare list. Some have done so, but many think that's a pretty good way of life. It's up to our politicians to end this way of thinking. Get to work Congress and work TOGETHER to remove this anchor of dead weight from the necks of the working people who have made this country.
Boehner is no idiot. He's just mis-informed. The so called "rebellion" is being spurred on by his party in thehopes that they can ride it to a wipe-out of the Dems in the next mid-term election. They have roused these people by spreading lies and half-truths in order to get some sort of support, which they realized after the last election they didn't have. But, be careful what you wish for. These same people will bite your backside if you don't give them what they want. And they want things their way. They should fit right into the Republican agenda until the Republicans get in power again and then start paying more attention to the corporate interests than the voters.
There was a political rebellion in this country. The uprising happened in November of 2008, and it delivered a powerful message to Boner's party.
Forcing the "moderate" republican out to be replaced by another neo-con Fable Following "christian" in this republican domain for over a hundred years, will only empower the followers of Saint Sarah of the Silly to believe they have a chance of winning in a national general election.
So, keep striving for "purity" by shrinking the base(your already down from 21% to 20%) so that eventually, it will be the size of a revival tent.
God, hear my prayer.
Rebellion within the Republican Party is the only thing Boehner is right about, we Democrats are strong and will stick together. I see the Republicans haven't learned anything from the election of our President when the American people spoke, all they are good for is to sprew hate and divide. No politician should speak about rebellion in this U.S., the Civil War is over.
I think the real political "rebellion"–defined by the participation of those who typically have not participated–took place November.
sisne when is booher the House Majority leader, am I in a nightmare or something.This not funny!!!
I love the comment, in particular, that "We accept moderates in our party. We want moderates in our party. We cover a wide range of Americans".
No you don't, John. That statement, like Orrin Hatch's saying that Demorcats "MIssed a chance to have a real bi-partisan debate" on health care, is an outright lie.
IF the Republicans were anywhere NEAR a big tent party, they wouldn't have even thought to send in the armada to the NY 23rd district...they'd have thrown in everything they have to help the Republican they already had win.
The talking out of both sides of the mouth is getting so ridiculous, even some Republicans are getting embarrassed. But not very many, and they probably won't be around long either, until the party is as full of fanatics as Al-Quada. They're headed there fast.
Of course they think we're in a rebellion, they're not in power
Successful political parties seek converts. Reagan was successful in attracting Democrats; Obama was successful in attracting enough independents and Republicans to win a landslide.
Unsuccessful parties burn heretics. That's what the Republicans are doing.
Ever wonder why only 20% of Americans identify themselves as Republicans? Now you know.
Does regrouping mean that since they are on their way to becoming our countries most dangerous domestic terrorists, they will come out
in full force to make it so??
The interference from Sarah,Rush and Beck in this election prompted me to donate to Owen through MoveOn.
Actually Boehner is not being honest in what he is saying. The American people just made their choice about what they want and expect and it is NOT what the Republicans are offering anyone!
They have a strong following of some twenty percent in the whole country. If they think that they can not reach out to anyone else, they will stay in the wilderness forever..
They are obsolete and OUT of touch with current reality.
Big tent? It's more like a pup tent! Stop being the party of "NO" and start offering coherent solutions! You lost the election because the real people in America saw through your rhetoric to realize it was nothing but smoke and mirrors...and no solutions to anything. I think you republicans are still shocked that people stopped buying your nonsense! You lost. Get over it! Start offering solutions instead of just being negative, or you're going to keep losing!
Mr Boehner, you better post a sign for Rush, Sara and Glenn Beck " No Moderates allowed in the Republican party" and conservatives will destroy your party. Any moderates republicans are welcomed to our party of the Democrats and our arms are welcomed. Look at Allan Spector who left the Republican party and became a Democrat. I am voting straight Democratic ticket November period.. I really feel sorry in a way for everyone in the party when your own party falls because of RUSH, SARAH, Cheney, Dick Army and Glenn Beck who are extreme radicals and promoting it.
He is correct for once and should be one of those removed from office as well. However, the so call rebellion should have started 8 years ago and that would have prevented most of the problems that we are dealing with now.
Yes, the Republicans who lost in 2006 and 2008 are so angry they see a rebellion coming. They think they're the only ones that are saintly and that their anger is more important than anyone else's.
In the end what's happening here is that Republicans have been acting like unruly teenagers who don't know what's good for them, but you can't tell them that because they're "rebels with a cause."
The independents are tired of both parties. We need a viable third party and let the lemmings on the fringe left and right follow themselves over a cliff.
Sorry Boer, but the only "rebellion" is in your party where the extremists are calling the shots, they reject you, Gingrich, McCain, Romney and others as NOT really conservative, they want hate selling, lying, shouting, mean spirited, small minded extremists as leaders, they want an American Taliban.
There absolutely is a rebellion going on. It's between the Libertarian/Conservatives of the Republican party and the statists in both parties. Like it or not Bush and Obama are both leftist/statists that have and are destroying our country. Only by supporting limited government candidates in ANY party can this country be set on the right track.
You could always get the Taliban to protect your family values.
Boehner's right; conservatisim is here...and within both parties. Liberalism reared it's ugly and incompetent head...and it will be severed....it will be a good day when the liberals crap, especially from many posters here who still support this administration is squashed....it's the beginning of the end for this crazy liberal agenda.
David in Chicago – You're dead wrong. Scozzafava calls herself Republican, but it's painfully obvious she's is as Liberal as it gets and is totally the wrong person for that seat. When are Libs going to get it through their heads that their policies are bankrupting this country? At least Scozzafava did the honerable thing.
What this "Standby-and-let-other-Americans-die-for-our-profit" leader of the GOP meant to say was:
"His party still casts a big, welcome tent to all those white southerners and evangelicals who love war and hate health care reform who would like to call themselves Republicans".
David in Chicago: I couldn't agree more. The Republicans speak to inclusion, but wouldn't even know how to begin to appeal to the vast majority of Americans. I'm guessing this fight will get a whole lot uglier in 2010. But, it will be interesting to see what they come up with.
I'm sorry, but republicans just don't get it. I just got my open enrollment paperwork for health care and two of the options cost 20 thousand dollars. The other 2 are 15 thousand. I would have to pay 600 a month for the first two options and over 400 a month out of pocket the the other two. We need to have a public option to control cost otherwise insurance will continue to go up. there is no other answer.
the republican party only represents big business, with little concern for the health of the american people. They also use polarizing issues as a mechanisim to drum up support ie. the conservative base.
they have no real ideas for the normal working people and their 2 faces comments on TV do nothing to help them. This is why I like alan grayson, look him up on youtube. At least grayson has the courage to speak up about what republicans really want for our country.
That is just the thing, the GOP does not serve the best interests of most Americans. It serves the best interests of the top 10% and the multinationals. They somehow fooled mostly middle class white Americans to go against their own interests and perpetuate policies that decrease opportunity and equality, in part by appealing to their faith and heritage.
He's right, in a way. The last presidential election was a political rebellion in a way because Republicans left the party in droves after the total mis-management of the economy under George Bush. Also, Bush's swing to the far right unsettled a great many of us moderate Republicans who now feel they have no place to go.
The thing that is working in Boehner and the Republican favor is the fact that Bush left the country in such a poor state that President Obama has had to resort to some unfortunate spending just to keep us out of a catastrophic depression. Such spending has made many Independents nervous and the Republican propaganda machine has taken advantage of it.
The party of intolerance and exclusivity rejects yet another member. I see boss limbaugh'a hands all over this one. Remember those who do not adhere to strict conservative principles outline by the defacto republican leader are not infact republicans. Sorry for your luck dede now come join the democrats. Our party actually does like to have moderates too.
Ron Paul 2012
What a bunch of Kool-aid fueled drivel. Such predictable responses from little twitterheads. The Republicans are in the minority because there are now more people riding in the cart than those pushing it. The majority of the democrats are people that think the government owes them something, or are guilty whites who feel bad about their privileged lives.
I find it very sad that a man in his position even speaks of such things publicly. Like throwing gas on the flames. More garbage talk by another republican. More doom and gloom instead of hope, help and more productive ideas. Doom and gloom sells.. when something good happens its usually not even news. The republican party should start its own reality show.. Oops.. I guess they did. Several of them, Beck, Sean and Rush.. all hosted on the reality network FOX News!
This is an irresponsible, political creature who is clearly more interested in moving his party's interests forward than doing what is right for the country. The man is a male Sarah Palin, with a better tan.
Boehner is a big-mouthed fool who embarrasses himself nearly every day with absurd and irrational statements. No one takes him seriously.
Boerhner missed the "political revolution" – it was when we threw out al the do-nothing Republicans last November and elected an intellligent President with real leadership qualities that dind't want to solve alll issues with tax credits for the rich and wars with anyone who disagreed with us.
Republicans are going to see another "revolution" in 2010, when Americans they have betrayed by voting NO on everything to restore our nation, rise up again and vote these traitors to America and betrayers of the People who elected them out of office.
Republicans are whiners and complainers with no solutions, no effort to create any solutions, and completely clueless how much Americans despise them and their obstructionist games.
Go get back in your tanning bed Boehner!
The Republican Party is going to have to let the radical right go off on their own or it will self destruct. I don't think Boehner has that part figured out yet.
He and his beltway friends think they can ride the wingnuts into power, then put them in a box and play kissup as usual to their real owners – the Fortune 500. It worked with the Dobson crowd.
If he tries that again with the Beckerheads, I think he's in for a rude awakening. These people are certifiable and dangerous – a true American Taliban.
nice catch nathan....House Majority Leader??
CNN flexing those serious news muscles. CNN has simply become a f*&xNews wannabe, and not even very good at it.
Hooray!!!!!!
The far right conspiracy nuts will seize the helm of what is left of the Republican party and show itself for the fringe that caters only to the those who follow the extremist bullies.... Great success for the 30% extreme minority. and remember. Of course that is the method Hitler used to seize control of Germany....ignorant, hateful, bullying ...oops
...so much for hooray.
The last Conservative who ever had an original thought was Barry Goldwater. Boehner is just expressing Barry's old "hidden voter" theory, that Republicans were not winning because the Conservative voters were never presented with a decent Conservative candidate to vote for. He tried out his theory in 1964 and lost in a landslide to "Landslide" Lyndon Johnson.
These rowdy and vocal Conservatives are being roused up and stoked up by BIG CONSERVATIVE MONEY. There are think tanks, "not for profit" civic groups, and (I speculate) hundreds of highly paid political operatives out in the boondocks rousing up the hayseeds and filling their heads full of lies about "death panels" or "Medicare is being destroyed" or "they are going to take your insurance away from you" etc. These emotional, vocal, and naive citizens gullibly believe all of this nonsense.
The goal is to defeat anything and everything. Obama must fail, from the point of view of the global corporations that prefer corporate governance of our political institutions to democratic governance. Our nation is being hijacked – and not by Conservatism. It is being stolen from us by the Conservative leaders who work for our corporate leadership.
Boehner is just trying to fan the flames of his base. So laughable that he's throwing around a word like "rebellion". He's so transparent. It's like when Bush used the word "crusade" to describe the military's efforts in Iraq. Poor choice of words that were chosen on purpose to create a certain feeling and perception about what's going on. Hopefully, the smarter and more moderate GOPers will keep the extremist "rebels" in their party from taking total control.
White superiority- Birth: 6000 years ago. Death: November 4, 2008. The death of white superiority became official on January 20, 2009. May it rest in pieces.
If republicans follow Pailn ,Rush, Sean and Glen they may win the Taliban and Al –Qaida votes
Hi John King did you check paper bundle in front of you for me its look like criminal report against Cheney
Wow Cnn. You named "House Majority Leader John Boehner said on CNN’s State of the Union" as the majority leader in the House. I bet Nancy is not happy. You must be trying to plant in the minds of Americans that what is tearing our country apart is because of the Republicans. Tuesday. We take back America for our childern and our childrens' children.
Moderate Republicans need to overthrow the right wing nut jobs that have hijacked the party if the Republicans ever want to rebuild their party with a solid, truthful voice.
Golly, it's Mr "children and grandchildren" (C & GC) again. He loves parentage and fiscal conservatism...when it suits him politically. Where was he (and the others, of course) when C & GCs" futures were being mortgaged off in wars and fiscal irresponsibility starting 8 years ago? This is not a Bush-blame, it's blame for the hypocrites who HAVE BEEN politically adept over those years and who didn't show much concern for C & GC. I must admit, using childrens' futures in this way does create some weird ethos among the ignorant and forgetful. Well done. I can see it is working based on some responses. The greater the furor, the better chance of success in the polls where good leadership has been non-existent.
So... acording to this article, Boehner is the House MAJORITY leader. So either he's actually a Democrat or the Republicans have a secret majority in the House. CNN: America's "most trusted" news source... sans fact checking and proof readers. If they're the most trusted, God help us all.
Obama better start house-hunting – one and DONE for that American-hater. Maybe he could earn a living on an endless apology tour – I'm sure LOTS of old-Europers would line up for it. And it would be a hit in the Moslem countries. Yale or Harvard would sponsor it, for sure!
But 99.9% of Americans have already had a bellyful of this guy and his Socialist, anti-American, anti-prosperity, condescending elitism.
Boehner is a big-mouthed fool and only a republican talking head. The Republicans never have anything constructive to offer, we talk about jobs. What are republicans doing to help the economy with jobs except saying we don’t need government help. What are the republican doing about health care except saying it’s not the government responsibility. Well Mr. Boehner I say to you I DO PAY TAXES and the government is a part of that process, we need elected officials who want to help if not you NEED to RESIGN. Step out of the way and allow someone to do their part.
Its pretty clear most of the people posting here don't understand the people they are bashing.
I'm not a right wing nut. I'm not racist, I'm not a bible thumper.
I love this country and think that most of our elected officials and currupt and working for thier own betterment.
Persoanly I think Abortion is wrong especially if the baby could live on its own (6 months or so), I think that govenment ruins about eveything it controls....wait until your doctor works for the post office. I think that this nation feels it is entitlied to free everything and that we are in for a RUDE awakening if we dont get out financial house in order. I think that our guide in times of trouble should be our founding fathers. I think that the redistrubution of wealth and "social" justice is unamerican.
I guess its easier to call me names then debate me
Anyone in the middle class that votes Republican needs Their HEADS EXAMINED!!! It's just like throwing away the AMERICAN DREAM.
Boehner is correct. the 40% majority of Americans in the middle of the two 30% extremes that have always been more vocal are FED COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY UP with diehard democrats and diehard republicans. Not one of those in the 30% speak for us, and we are the best part of America. Come 2010 and 2012, we will finally have our way, I pray and I hope, because the two extremes have broken this once great nation and brought us to our hands and our knees. I don't care for Obama or Bush. I want statesmen and stateswomen who care more about America than their blessed parties, and we have very few of those waiting in the wings, but those few are multiplying daily, and we're going to take back our nation. You can bank on that, without a stiumulus plan.
Is John Boehner kidding? The republicans spent like drunken sailors for 8 years and he's lecturing us on "fiscal responsibility". And I love how he tells us that we are putting this debt on our grandchildren. Well, I'm 62 years old, and Bush and the Boehner crowd put the deficit on our grandchildren years ago.
The Republicans have "rebelled" themselves into a corner with their orchestrated "astro-turf" Tea Parties. Keep it up McConnell, Boehner, Beck, Rush and so on. You're going to rebell yourselves into political obscurity as a footnote in the American History books just like the Whigs.
Go ahead. Make my day !
Yes, lets continue down the path of Goverment taking care of all our needs...lets just worry about what we are going to do on Saturday nights..regardless of party,you will witness the political landscape change come next year...everyone I have spoken to Dem or Rep..are sick of Washington.. and that should be the issue, not Dems against everyone else.
If the repbulicans want to throw their votes to the right wing conservative than they are throwing their votes down the drain, because the majority of this country is not right wing conservatives ..... and we will not let them take over this country.......
The only rebellion is against Boehner and the other boneheads in the GOP. What a bunch of nut jobs, they continue to embarass themselves and our nation with their diarrehea of the mouth.
This is a political species that is on the road to extinction. They are beginning to eat their own kind.
Boehner is a shameless obstructionist and an embarrassment to us in Ohio.
That idiot, John Boehner, is not, and will not ever be the House "Majority Leader". Just wanted to correct your article. Hey "Part of No"!!! Where is your plan? You don't have one! So sit down, and shut the hell up!
If I wonted the no sayers slant on the news I would turn on fox not cnn. you need to replace King.
I see this as an insult to Regan's Tent. History shows us that Regan understood the Tent; he reached out to moderates and disaffected Democrats. These type of bloody races will divide the republicans and eventually further anger at the goverment. The republicans are so irate over 08 they appear to want to eat their own. If you want to rebuild your party do so with respect to our country. What if all congressional elections turned into this national terror. My state is Red; you would and did take this state. Stay out with the Republican ego.
sure it will be a political rebellion when the time comes. With all this hate going on. Keep it up.
Article is not really very clear– badly written and confusing–also a few editorial blunders, e.g., House Majority Leader?
Please, it's Minority not Majority. The creep doesn't need a promotion to go with his big empty head.
I really don't know who is more of an AIR HEAD, this guy or Sarah Palin.
O'Boner quadrupled our deficiet and engorged Govt.
He will fail...
Mike
Hoffman is a dork !
The rebellion has already begun as more moderates leave my former Republican Party by its foolish choice to push further to the far right.
The deplorable treatment of Dede in NY-23 by GOP elites shows the party no longer accepts her with moderate views but rather chooses the absurd social politics of Hoffman's fundamentalism.
Unfortunately, McDonnell's thesis still flourishes in the GOP. As long as that is their direction, many Americans want nothing to do with my former Republican Party.
We need a 3rd political party. We HAVE to find a group of people who do not care about party affiliations and are ACTUALLY refusing to take money from corporations and lobbyists. Every politician is the same, they just make different sensationalist claims. We need people who are going to do the job we hired them for. That's right...we HIRED them, by electing them. If there's a political revolution, it's not gonna come from Republicans, it's gonna come from those who actually want to help.
If he is asked about a health care plan, he refers you to a website. No plan, just a mess of words. He is totally out of touch. It is time to elect someone in the know. His blue eyes have turned muddy.
I just looked at the "Conservative Party of New York" website and read their "Priorities" section.
I have concluded that there already many members of the GOP that would easily fit in with them - John Boenher is one of them.
Republicans would blindly elect an uninformed, intellectually lazy carpetbagger based strictly on his ideological "purity" – hmm....that smacks a bit like old gdub.
I wonder if boehner realizes that there's not enough old white people left in this country to lead to wins in a national election. I would guess not – this weeding of the ideologically impure is going to be the final nail in the gop's coffin.
What is going on is not the kind of "change" t his great country
needs.
Indeed it is frustrating and disappointing.
Three more years to go seems like a long time.
Hope and pray that this government move into the RIGHT direction.
Establishment Republicraticans are the problem. There are growing 'strange bedfellows'...paying attention anyone? Obama is Bush-Light.
Independents are the answer...the fundamental misunderstanding of independents is the notion that they are the 'middle'. In some ways they are but not in the ways that is generally represented by the main stream media wackos (CNN, FOX, MSNBC...etc etc...)
Fiscally conservative, socially liberal (meaning socially "tolerant" – NOT Gov't "nanny seekers"), limited government, sound money and individual liberty.
Which party wants to TRULY represent these ideals??? Us "new entrants into the political system" are becoming more active every day...and we're not going away. Stay tuned...
Good Luck.
Republican just had a civil war and it looks like the Tea Party now run the GOP and can nominate whatever radical right wing extremists they want.
The GOP just lost ALL moderates and Independents, Dede dropping out in NY-23 is just exhibit A.
Rep. Boehner is a direct party to and has responsibility for the contentious and divisive state of affairs in this country. He is not without guilt and is unable to see the truth of many things that are occurring right now.
After 35 years as a Republican I left when the far right radical conservatives took over the party. It's down right scarey. They want a government that believes only in their views. It reminded me of the radical Islam Shira Law. There is no room in the GOP for centristist. Reagan would not even recognize the Republican Party today.
“a difficult road to walk to work with relatively new entrants into the political system to show them, that by and large, we are the party that represents their interests.”
What a load of donkey droppings. I don't know about many of the others who don't feel their voices have been heard, but lies, greed and collusion DO NOT represent my interests!!!
These GOP are really starting to get crazy(ier)
I am enjoying every little bit of it
Thank you, Rep. Boehner, for insuring a Democratic majority government for ... oh, say ... the next HUNDRED YEARS or so.
The GOP loves to borrow on historical antecedents to help cover their tracks, but there is no "rebellion" going on. What's happening on the great plains of far northern New York isn't being driven by a grass roots outcry, it's being manipulated by the rich and powerful GOP interests who think they can personally and professionally benefit from it. Period.
The LOCAL people had already made there choice before Beck, O'Reilly, Santorum, Gingrich, Steele and a cadre of unseen operatives decided to politically lynch Scozzafava.
And yet Boehner has the gall to claim it's some sort of uprising?
What a lying snake!
Mr. Boner said, “We’re in the middle, I think, of a political rebellion going on in America”. As usual, the 20% GOP LIES!. It's America who is in the middle of a political rebellion, it's only the GOP itself, rebelling against itself. It's the extreme right vs. the right of center right. As for right now, it looks like the extreme right is winning, so you can expect that 20% number to drop to 15% pretty quickly.
The only 'rebellion' is the one happening in the Republican Party. Fiscal Conservatives are bolting from the party due to the ideological purity of religious and social conservatives. This was to be expected after the 2006/2008 elections as Republicans have yet to learn the lessons of the Bush era. The last fiscally-conservative president was Clinton and he was mercilessly attacked by social conservatives. The Republican Party also supported HUGE tax cuts, in the midst of two major wars, which is a recipe for fiscal disaster. Add to that the recklessness and greed, on Wall Street, leading to the economic meltdown, and you have a 'perfect storm' for runaway deficits. Republicans, like Boehner, suffer from selective amnesia which is why they are so quick to blame all this on the current administration. The Republican Party seems to be heading for the abyss unless they are willing to accept responsibility for their own delusional thinking...
This guy is just another Right-Wingnut gasbag....
Boehner is part of the problem. All incumbent Republicans around during the Bush administration helped contribute to our huge deficit. Also, all of you griping about the deficit......If you voted for any rep or Senator who voted for the Bush Tax cuts, the Iran war and the Medicare prescription plan, you need to STFU. 85% of our budget is entitlement, defense, and homeland security. Tell me a Repub who wants to cut any of those. If they don't raise taxes and aren't willing to make deep cuts in those areas, they will give you deficit spending too. Wake up people, the deficit is an AMERICAN problem and all of us are going to have to sacrifice.
"the leading House Republican said his party still casts a big, welcome tent to all those who would call themselves Republican"
When Bush was in office, I expressed my concern about the direction the administration was taking on certain issues, to the state Republican office and told them I had considered going independent. Their response to me was "Best of luck to you". To me that didn't sound welcoming but rather they were saying good riddance. To clarify, the welcome tent only applies if you blinding follow them.
Shorter Boehner: "Sure, we're a big tent party, as long as you believe what the looniest, most hard-core radical base believes, and nothing else." Does America really want to gamble by letting these clowns back at the controls?
Time for a new and strong third political party! Isn't that how democracy works? Presenting options to the old ways?
I agree with "great thinker," even if I disapprove of his ego.
A big welcome tent you say! I am no longer a Republican I can't be party to the hard line "MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY" type of politics that seem to drive these Washington types. I guess I will have to wait out a few elections.Whatever happened to putting the people first then your ideas?
You mean protect the future like Bush II did by borrowing $1 billion from China?
Boehner is the establishment GOP and has been for decades, and he certainly is revolting.
so in the last presidential race, the base of the republican party chose a moderate republican for their nominee.. and somehow now a year later we are supposed to believe that they are having a rebellion where right wing zealots are taking over the party. hmmm.. and here i thought the anti-right wingers are the reason that barak obama won the election. republicans are seriously fooling themselves and becoming a smaller and smaller less accepting party.
There's a rebellion all right; and it's the conservative republicans under Sarah Palin driving it. Libs and "mod" gopers better get it.
Boehner is quite right about a political rebellion. Only problem is that it already happened when the Republican establishment was kicked out of Washington. They still cannot believe it! The teabagger take over of the Republican party is really good news because it spells their permanent exile to Siberia! The next fissure that will soon break loose is the moderate wing of the Republican party. Expect the likes of Powell and other social conservatives willing to have a bi-partisan accomodation with Obama to break adrift soon! "Just say no" and the death panelling of critical issues critical issues health care, the economy and immigration reform through a dumber constituency will eventually send the current republican over the cliff.
I too am upset and would like to rebel. However, Boehner is so deluded and full of himself. I will freeze in H___ before I vote for a Republican again. I am so angry at them right now. I have voted Republican many times, but am through with that.
Pfffft. Yeah right. Some screeching right-wing lunatic fringers are not a rebellion. They're just having a temper tantrum because they lost and are totally irrelevant in modern America, and they have no real, legitimate reasons for their hatred and anger. It's just about a black guy in the White House. That's it.
We had our political rebellion in November. It was Obama's landslide victory. We won.
The majority of Americans are conservative when it comes to American values and culture and they are getting sick and tired of republicans acting and governing like a bunch of democrats, who are only concerned about getting elected and re-elected. (John McCain and Lindsey Graham are perfect examples of this.) If the republican party does not wake up and get back to the basics that made it a great party (fiscal responsibility, border integrity, upholding the law, ect.), it will continue to become weaker and more irrelevant each and every election.
LOL, after 8 years of Bush & Cheney, Republicans think the problem is that they are not far enough to the Right.
I don't think most people get what happend in NY yet. This was not a case of a minority of right wing Republicans pushing out a liberal Republican. Hoffman is running under a third party. And he was getting more voter support in the polls than Scozzafava, she had fallen to third place in the polls. Her values represented those of fewer voters than either Hoffman or Owens. If all the voters who were supporting Scozzafava and Hoffman are all Republicans, than the polls cleary showed that Hoffman was the candidate that represented the majority of Republicans in the district. If Indpendents were also supporting both canditates in the polls, the polls still show Hoffman represented more voters than Scozzafava. Hoffman's values are simply more popular than Scozzafava's with the districts voters. If that was not true Hoffman would have been in third place not Scozzafava. A Hoffman win would end any argument he represents some right wing extreme miniority. He represents a conservative majority, Scozzafava does not.
Whenever there is anything anti-democate you can bet that the paid bloggers are busy putting as much 'hate' on the blog as possible. Some of the names are the same every time, but mostly it is the same comments that gives them away. sad sad sad, that the democratic party is sooo desperate that any opposing opinions scares the h*ll out of them. They are also the ones that start yelling 'racism' every time anything is said against the O man.
Well, for once Boehner has a point!!! However, let's not try to undercut the rift in the Republican party's own ranks since the election. This is very apparent in the NY congressional election where the GOP is split between a more liberal candidate and a more conservative 3rd party candidate. I think the Republicans really need to work together and find some middle ground with their message before the midterms.
The GOP's problem is that it continuously links religion with politics. It is a mindset and strategy of exclusion. If they focused on economics and straightforward societal issues and less on wedge issues (e.g. gun control, abortion) and, most importantly, left their morality plays in church where it belongs they might attract a few of the more conservative liberals. I don't disagree with some of their fiscal views, but the constant harping and focus on issues like intelligent design, "pro-life", and illegal immigration drive me away.
Democrats are mindless lemmings. Republicans are mindless lemmings with guns.
The paroxysms of fear and hatred against simple conservatives is strange.
Can't you all just stop fighting each other and work together for the people of the United States of America. We are one people. The rebellion going on in America is being created by the folks we elected no matter what the party. Your ego's are way to big and your neckties are way to tight. Get over yourselves and stop being so self serving and start doing what you get paid for.
Boehner really means populism. An enraged America tired of the
old politics. Tired of politicians who offer sound bites rather than
solutions. Tired of voting for the lesser of two evils. It's optimistic
to believe a new party can emerge from all this. A party built from
the grass roots, unlike what Ross Perot tried to create.
I agree with Scott. We need a third, fourth, or even fifth political party. The idea that two parties can represent the whole of this country is idealistic even for me. Bringing more parties in the mix would force our leaders to work together, compromise, and watch each the other party for corruption, instead of the current status quo of whichever party is in power is corrupt.
Funny to see Boner with out his citrus tan since the Pres outed him? Saddly it hasn't helped with his lack of understanding of the general population. But as far as the radical right whackos (20% of the population) who belief the Fox talking points, Boner undertsands them very well. He understands that they are in the process of continually shedding members of a very small tent. The more the radicals eject moderates the smaller they are, brain and body. So sure it's a bit of a rebellion that hurts the Repubs. But they helped create Fox media, birthers and tea-baggers, and suck up to hate radio nuts. So what goes around comes around...again. What fun!
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.” ~ Ronald Reagan, 1975
"I don't know about you, but I'm impatient with those Republicans who, after the last election, rushed into print saying we must broaden the base of our party, when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents." ~ Ronald Reagan, 1975
"Don't give up your ideals, don't compromise, don't turn to expediency – and don't, for heaven's sake, having seen the inner workings of the watch – don't get cynical." ~ Ronald Reagan, 1976
This message board is really filled with knee-jerk reactions. When Bush beat Gore everyone spoke of the death of the Democratic Party, we are now at the other end of the pendulum. For those of you who love Democrats enjoy it now, it will not last. Both parties will prevent the creation of the Third Party, that would represent how the majority live. We are forever condemned to watch the self-serving fringes destroy America, while funding their pet projects and feathering their nests.
Progressive liberal need to wake up fast, but I don't think they will. In 2010 and 2012 voters are going to be far more concerned with the lack of jobs, the economy, the massive growing deficits, government and government spending. And saying that Bush and Republicans had deficits too will not cut it with voters when Obama's deficits are 3 times bigger than Bush's. Voters in 2010 and 2012 are going to be far more concerned about jobs and the out of control spending and deficits than they will be about the possibility that the rich might get a tax cut or the conservative social values of Republican canditates. A large majority of voters are already convinced we can't continue down the path were are on which is leading to a bankrupt America. The progressive liberal response to concern about deficits triple the size of those under Bush is that he had them to, is a certain loser in 2010 and 2012. Candidates that promise to stop the spending and shrink the size of government by actually reducing spending to bring down the deficits will look really attractive to voters in 2010 and 2012.
John Boner is so out of touch with the real world that it's laughable that he is even invited on the talk shows!!!!!
Funny, I thought he was the Minority Leader...
The Grinch (Boehner) speaks again, I only wish we would have rebelled against their policies years ago. Maybe then things would be better now.
The only "rebellion" going on is the circular firing squad the GOP is conducting on its own members that don't meet the radical far-right litmus test. By forcing their own nominee, Scozzafava, to drop out, the GOP has guaranteed that the Democratic candidate will win. New York doesn't elect far-right Republicans.
The Republican Party is unfortunatly becoming the party of the lunatic nutjob right-wingers such as Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, "Pastor" John Hagee, Glenn Beck, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Carl Rove, Tim Pawlenty, and others.
Decent people are being driven away.
God Help the USA if these people control the next Presidential election, and one of their number is elected. It will be the end of the United States. Eight years of George W. Bush and the influence of right-wing Christians, militarists, and just plain lunatics has caused all of the economic, social, and political (foreign and domestic) problems we have now.
If we had had a sane and reasonable President from 2001-2009 (Kerry, Gore, or a Kennedy) we would not have the disasterous problems in the USA we do now.
What you're seeing is the continuing divide, encouraged by Obama, of the liberal and conservative sides of the nation. On the liberal side, a group of 60 ultra liberals (who label themselves as progressives to hide their agenda) have forced the rest of the democrats to include public options that the majority do not want. On the convervative side you see moderates losing in primaries to the more conservative candidates who promise to do something about those ultra-liberals. The polarization is continuing to increase as each side KNOWS in their hearts that they are right, and both sides KNOW they must act to save the country from the others. This is not going to end well...
That's right Mr Boner, be more radical, show more hatred and disdain for elected officials. Radicalize the GOP even more than it already is. Why don't you change the GOP name to the American Taliban Party? That is really what you Republicans want, a religious theocracy dictatorship like in Iran. Making a revolution is all right, all against everything that the GOP is turning into. I've never seen such anger and hatred being displayed in politics as in today's environment. Seems to me that you will all radicalize your selves into irrelevancy. A fate well deserved. Fools!
So Jim Bob...how 'bout electing someone else when he comes up for re-election??
I am worried about John McCain. In the next election some one from the conservative block is very likely to seek party ticket leaving John. What GOP will do then? They will throw John under the bus? May be.
NY-23 is an indicator that GOP is no longer a big tent. Entrance in this tent is going to be very limited. If the process continues, GOP is going to be a local party, not even a REGIONAL PARTY. That is very bad for American democracy. Because, ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.
Ahh GOP the court is more left of center than right of center. I think it is a huge mistake for you to go more extremist. But its wonderful for the dems.
@ Bryan
You do not believe in abortion, I do. We, however, really don't have a say since we are not the ones who have to decide whether we wish to have one or not. Of course, that's the problem with conservatives, they think the government should stay out of everything except our personal lives.
As for the government ruining everything it controls, I think you have something backwards here. Big business has ruined the government that it has controlled for the past 25 years.
By all means, though, let's look to the founding fathers who endowed us with a constitution that says the government shall, among other things, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense and provide for the general welfare (meaning well being) of the people. That gives the government the power to take on corporate greed if they need to.
If you are against the redistribution of wealth in this country, then you would have been against the Republican agenda of supporting the very wealthy in this country against the middle class, average American who have seen their real earning powers shrink in the nearly 30 years of Reagan's "trickle down" economic policies that have been in force in this country.
The GOP is "rebelling" like the Communists "rebelled" against Boris Yeltsin - the imbeciles who created the problem and had no clue how to fix it, now screeching about the consequences of their own incompetence and criminal stupidity.
The GOP had best stand up and take note of these recent events. Every time the GOP stands up for its conservative principles, America and the party rack up the wins. Every time these liberal "big tent" sell-outs try to push liberalism under the GOP name, all America and the party loses.
Enough is enough. If I want to vote for big government, high-tax, anti-business and anti-constitution leftists, I'll vote Democrat.
Boehner is spinning madly; this is a huge misreading of the political climate. Far right wing crypto-nazis seizing control of the republican party is not political rebellion so much as political suicide. The defection of deedee scozzafava will guarantee a democrat will be elected in a district held by the gop for a century. The gop is marginalizing itself and the dems need only watch and cheer. Independents, who are the majority in this country, will never follow a far right wing staregy; Goldwater proved that in 1964. The gop has forgotten.
Boehner is right on point. There is a rebellion among average folk and it is coming down hard against Obama empty-speak and in favor of principled conservative nominees. Can't wait to watch the left media spin the results of a 3 for 3 sweep for conservatives in VA, NJ and Dist. 23. Slowly this country is waking up!
House Majority Leader John Boehner
The idea of "Majority Leader Boehner" should give all Americans pause before the next time they cast a ballot for the U.S. House candidate so they can realize what a disaster it would be.
every time I see Boehner and hear him open his mouth it just reminds me of why the GOP is in the sad shape that it is....an old party with no new ideas run by a bunch of middle age to old white guys that don't want to come into the 21st century and try to put down those in their party that do. This is why people like Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck can have run of the party at will...nobody there will stand up to them and say we need a new direction. The party of Regan and Lincoln is but a shell of itself.
Mr. Boehner, when you say, "people who really have not been actively involved in the political process", you got that right, buddy. And while you THINK all these new voices come down on YOUR side, you better beware. it is clear that you Ultra-Conservatives are trying to create anarchy, but you better beware. the future of our kids does NOT belong to the corrupt, racist, uber-capitalistic, war-mongering, environment-destroying people like you. And while your people are carrying AK's and side-arms to places where my President is speaking, you better know there's a WHOLE bunch of us out there watching...waiting for you yahoos to make your move. You think Liberals are afraid to fight? Think again....
"Boehner also told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King that Republicans will have “a difficult road to walk to work with relatively new entrants into the political system to show them, that by and large, we are the party that represents their interests.”
Really? Wow I must've missed the news that a bunch of new billionaire megacapitalists had joined the political system, since that is the kind of person whose interests are represented by the GOP.
Yeah, they talk a lot about the heartland and god and all that, but they only do so because advocating for the richest 1% won't really get that many people to support their cause.
I think that people should run independent its better for the amercian people
also. I wish cnn would do a report on how to choose a presidental contender because its messed up thay congress has to vote on that
- robert nyc
What Boehner doesn't realize is that it started back in 2006 when we started to realize what Reagonomics and Republican ideals in general were just a way to shift wealth upwards. A lot of it, and sadly a little late. This disparity hasn't been seen since the Gilded Age. Of course he wouldn't see it that way, that would mean he's open minded. I don't get that from him.
Do you want to know why newpeople are not joining the GOP while to older onesare dying out?
No it is not because of all the lies and garbage he GOP leadership spews out, pople really like garbage and lies, they like to be told they are good, beautiful and smart when they are really the ignorant, ugly and dumb. But that is not the point.
People are not joining the GOP because the first thing out of their mouths is "the good ole days". "or we have to get back to."
Life moves forward not backward, so while the Democrats are saying we need to build a better future, the GOP says we need to bring back the good ole days, day sof what? Segregaton? Male-Female inequality? Anti-gay, anti-black, anti-red, andti-yellow purple and gold prejudices? Though it may sound appealing to shut Sarah Palin in a kitchen for a while, that is not the point.
We need to move forward, you're not going to get a kid on your side by trying to sell them a game of Pong when they can get Grand Theft Auto. The Democrats get it, The GOP doesn't, and thank God it will show.
For you knuckleheads screaming the GOP will make a comeback in 2010, that is all wishfull thinking. You just don't have any more man power to do it. And in 20 years, the only way there will even be a remenance of GOP will be if they reinvent themeselves completely. But you know what they say, you cant teach an old Bohener new tricks.
Yes, hopefully this will be a rebellion – against both parties. Any good independents out there that want to run, and possibly win this time???? People are fed up with the arrogance, and incompetence, that is in Washington these days.
Time for the politicians to admit that the voters are tired of politics as usual. Promises will not work any longer. Results counts. Congress is filled with politicians that only want be re-elected and fill their bank account with dollars from special interest groups for their floor vote.
The time has come to demand honesty and accountability.
Translation: The republicans are rebelling everything and taking on the new person suddenly getting involved (racist).
Interesting (and sad) how many posts are trying to tie President Obama with their Dubya? It is probably already in use on Fox media and hate radio talking points. So now we know what's coming, everyone take notice of this.
Bush is pure Republican and all of them supported him all eight long years, and continue his culture of arrogance and ignorance. We of the other side do not have the memory or simple brains of sheep.
The rest of us think and therefore do not vote against our self interest, unlike the Repub base. Which includes the "conservatives", "tea-baggers", "birthers", "asstro-turfers", "neo-cons", or whatever meaningless marketing name they dreamed up.
REbellion by castigating, marginalizng, and excluding those who disagree with you is the basest form of dictatorship.
Wow – so the Republican party is aiming to fill itself with birthers, anti-science types (who believe that politicians somehow know more about global warming than climatologists), and loud-mouthed half-wits who believe anything uttered by stooges, such as Rush Limbaugh or Glen Beck.
I am Republican!!
I am DISGUSTED by the turn the party has taken. Where are the guys like Bush '41, Chris Shays, or Weld of Massachussets? If you guys keep throwing me people like Palin or Toomey, I am DEFINITELY leaving the party.
Why doesn't John King or Wolf Blitzer ask guys like Boehner to discuss the GOP office holder demographics across the boards? few if any people of color or women and all political levels. As an example, there are lacks or Blacks or Hispanics in congress or senate that I am aware of. The highest ranking Republican official is the moron running their party.
I was a member of the GOP for 27 Years here in Upstate NY. The only time the Republicains would talk to us was for a donation, they never asked for ours needs or concerns, basically they knew what was best for me and I'll just take it. Well we not going to take it anymore. I want represenitives who understand that this nation is a Republic, I want representation who considers the constitution first not the majority of the polls.
End the Wars....
And End the Fed!
I was a moderate Republican until this week. It has been made abundantly clear to me in the NY 23 race that moderates are not welcome in the Republican party. That is fine, I don't need the Republican party, but it desperately needs me and all like me. In the future I will vote for the party that still welcomes moderates, the Democrats. It is shameful and disgraceful what has become of the Grand Old Party, I am embarassed to tell anyone I am or was a Republican.
Hope these new entrants into the political process do not take John Boehner's comment; "We (republicans) are the party that repressents their interest", to seriously. Matter of fact the statement is laughable.
Just one more thing to add to the Bush-Cheney "Legacy" – the ultimate demise of the Republican party. First they were the party of NO, now they're the party of no one cares, next up party of no one home
Boner please give it a rest with your tired rhectoric.
John King I here Fox news is desperately trying to recruit you for your sympathetic approaches on behalf of the republican party.
Representative John Boehner has shown over and over again that he is unwilling to work in a bipartisan manner. He is extolling the virtues of a conservative Republican Party where moderates and heaven-forbid liberal Republican are unwelcome. The Party is no longer the Party of Lincoln.
THe polarization of the United States will be to the detriment of the citizens. It is as if neither Rep.Boehner or Senator McConell want us to move forward at all. Right now the country is still mired in partisan politics and nothing will get done.
I would like to remind them both that they were elected in their own states and not the United States of America. This is something that Senator Reid and Speak Pelosi also need to know. It is time to be work together so that we can get out of the economic crisis and we can have health care reform which is so important. Seniors get denied care every day so where is this wonderful plan that the Republicans say we have.
John Boehner? That name sounds familiar. Didn't he use to be somebody?
The rebellion was a year ago wih the amazing election of Barack Obama who was greeted with an overwhelming national debt and two wars-just to mention a few leftover disasterrs of the Bush/Cheney 8-year joke..Republicans are dividing; have no real leaders but for Rush, Beck and the rest of those weirdos. I live in NY District 23. The Republican who stepped back out of the race did not endorse the other Republican......so much for that rebellion.
The Republicans just pushed one of their own–Dede Scazzofava out of the race and maybe out of the party because she is viewed as being too liberal. There are not many liberal or moderate Republicans left. If Scazzofava has any sense, she will leave the Republican party and go join the Democrats. She was betrayed and stabbed in the back by her republican collegues–Sarah Palin and other republicans who backed Hoffman for Congress. John Boehner is talking nonsense and cannot accept the fact the American people have spoken by electing Barack Obama as president. The only rebellion going on is in the Republican Party where the conservatives and fighting with the moderates and so-called liberals.
Boehner's been in the tanning bed way too long. The UVB rays have obviously penetrated and nuked his brains.
Anyone with half a brain can see what the republicans are doing.....they are simply attempting to re-brand themselves as the saviour of the country.....grassroots/less government/tea parties/joe the plumber/sarah palin..... blah blah blah blah..they know they're dead in the water and truly believe the limbaugh's, coulters, o'reilley's, palin's are going to help form the next conservative(republican part(ha ha ha) How dumb do they really think the american people are? America WOKE up last fall and elected Obama !!!!
Republicans...go ahead and run all of the moderates out of the GOP. There aren't that many places like NY's 23rd Congressional District where the GOP has held the seat since the Civil War. That's the only kind of electoral landscape where you can flourish by hijacking the GOP primary nomination from the locally nominated candidate and substituting a more extreme candidate with the encouragement of a bunch of right wing carpetbaggers. This just promotes more divisiveness within the GOP, drives out the moderates and holds down GOP voter totals.
Democrats like this development just fine. Keep up the good work and destroy each other.
Smoke, mirrors, and other lies. This smells just like that stupid "Contract With America" non-sense during the Clinton years.
Hey Boehner, come up with some viable, modern, realistic alternatives otherwise go back to your 1950s hole.
Rebellion already occurred last year. Conservative polices were defeated. When are republicans going to take responsibility for their horrible governing from 2001-07? Their policies led us down to government bailouts? I for once want to see the party own up and now they are johnny come lately to the health care debate after their screaming failed in the summer to stop the progress of reform. Any merging of the tea partier are just a the same section of the GOP coalition, white, older americans who now are blaming others for the spot we are in. When are baby boomers say we screwed up governing this nation royally and stop using the fear card! Demographics are not on the GOP's side. They are becoming smaller and will not able to win back the 7 states that Obama took away easily in 2012. By then, the economy will be better and we will better positioned to compete in the global economy with strides in clean tech and yes raising taxes to balance the budget. I hate taxes too but it's about responsibility! Baby boomers need to own up!
All conservatives are rotten horrible people and if republicans are going to swing even further to the right than they already are I think the rebellion is sure to be short lived.
If Republicans spent just a little bit of time trying to work FOR our country rather than against it perhaps our recovery would be a little faster. I don't know how they can truly justify what they are doing especially since it was their policies that got us into this mess. I sure hope their supporters take a good look at what they are doing.
Republicans, wake up and see that your leaders think you all are really stupid. These are the same people who got us into this mess, have done absolutely NOTHING to help get us out of this mess, have NO intentions of working with the duly elected President of the United States. Have no qualms of scaring you people to death, just for power. Rather than doing things the American way their intentions are to ruin the President of Barack Obama just so they can say we told you so. The Republicans in Congress could care less if you have a job or health care or a house to live in. That you don't have these things makes it easier to manipulate you gullible people. They think you supporters are stupid. But, perhaps you are if you fall for the BS Republicans are dishing out. Do they have any answers? What are they? All we have heard is no, no, no.
If only his 'children and grandchildren' had to go off to war, Boner would have a much different point of view. Crickey! He makes me physically ill.
I'm a little older white lady and I STILL think men have little to say as far as abortion (this comment is directed at Bryan). I think all the hard-on pills and male enhancement crap is stupid and 'immoral', but why should I be able to forbid it?
Abortion is still legal in this country, so let's keep that out of the discussion. Our Nation is NOT and will NEVER BE ruled by one religion's 'morals'. It's in the Constitution the Right loves to wrap around themselves. Read it!
It's a revolution is what it is. It's time to take our country back and make it FOR THE PEOPLE ..... RATHER THAN FOR THE CORPORATION/LOBBYISTS/SPECIAL INTERESTS RAPING THE PLANET!
The Republican party is enroute to being regionalized as well!
Bottom line- GOP is more concerned about attaining power then offering a comprehesive set of solutions to run on and wow actually govern! Governing is solving problems not pushing them to others.Every respected anaylst on the budget process knows, taxes will have to be raised, programs cut in order to stop the dollar from crumbling when foreigners refuse to back the currency because we have become insolvent. Insolvency was coming before the crash, the bailouts, Obama's plans and now the GOP's answer to their mistakes in the recent past is ....the same old small government....Wall Street took that and laughed while the middle classes wages declined, jobs actually declined, the income inequality gap widened to it's largest since in the 1930s, and btw, the GOP set up an brand new entitlement in 2002, Medicare Part D and now they are opposed to Obama's ideas? Want to fix problems or scare everyone and attain power again and solve nothing
Seems like you have to pass a litmus test to make it into the Republican tent. NY23 will come back to haunt Republicans big time. Doug Hoffman doesn't live in the district he's running to represent and has taken earmarks. How mavericky is that!!
Rebellion, fight, stand up, attack, take back......Republicans are a bunch of selfish thugs. Boehner, you are more responsible for the huge deficit than the President. You voted for the Bush tax cuts, you voted for Medicare cost sky rocketing, you voted to go into Iraq.....You have lost your fiscal privileges...If you really want to help America, resign like the rest of your cronies who ran around like a teen age girl with Daddy's credit card.
Boehner has nothing of value to say. He spouts whatever he thinks sounds good, and he's usually wrong. These "rebellion" leaders he's talking about are even worse–nutballs who get uninformed voters to support them and thus feel powerful for a few minutes. The GOP and the even nuttier nuts opposing them from even further to the right are all just one big dead end.
And CNN, YOU should be embarrassed. As a well-respected news source, you should know better than to slip the 'Majority' Leader label on Boehner in a news article. I recommend CNN, that you make a statement correcting that. You may be trying to pander to the Right, but don't underestimate 'the rest' of us.
I'd also like the poster who claims that '99.9%' of Americans are against OUR President to cite his/her sources. And the cutesy name play you do on President Barack Hussein Obama's name is soooo old. I hope you are amusing yourself, because it's very old and tired on the rest of us. Or, I guess I could say the '90%' of us that approve of President Obama (I know that is not a correct percentage, but I can play that 'game', too.)
Boehner is embarrassing. I wish that I could vote him out. I do not want him representing my state!
I'm done with the republican party. They continue to push us moderates out of the Party. I'm done, call me a Democrat now.
So I could be completely opposed to Conservative ideals and support such ideas as massive debt-spending, corporate welfare, foreign interventionist wars, government control over personal life decisions, encouragement of illegal immigration, and others, but call myself a Republican and I'm welcome in?!?...so that's how the Neocons did it!
So this is how the republican party will be defined in the coming elections. They are proving to the voters they do not have principals or concrete ideas on how to make this country a better place for ALL and will follow whoever or whatever is popular for the day. I predict a great loss for the republican party in the elections to come. This country will not retreat to the dark ages. It has come to far.
Scozzafava just endorsed her Democratic opponent, not her fellow Republican. Yup, there's definitely a rebellion going on....
"New entrants" my foot! These are the same Bush-voting loons who have been electing Republican presidents since Nixon introduced his "Southern Strategy."
As long as people like Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, and you Boehner trying to destroy this great nation, the people is going to get more involved in politics who you would not think would get invovled. We need to vote these people out of office who gives into special interests that is not out for the middle working class Americans. Most of the Republicans and some Democrats is blinded by profit and greed, just look at energy and gas prices starting to rise, but you don't see the legislative or the executive branches of government doing nothing about it.
He is clueless.....,
It's pretty clear the Republican party is destroying itself. I suspect they will lose miserably in midterms and again to Obama in 2012. Which is fine by me. Curiously enough it has demagogues like Limbaugh, Beck and Hannity to thank for it.
On the other hand, this will end up pulling the whole country right. When one of two parties is running extreme candidates, the other has to move in their direction to pick up the outcast moderates. Democrats will need to become more conservative to woo the disaffected middle of the road conservatives. This is unfortunate. The US is already one of the most conservative countries in the world, and you can see where that's gotten us.
I like how Boehner described the situation as he did, all the while he endorsed the moderate who bailed out.
Oh, and 70,000 teabaggers in DC isn't a rebellion. Hundreds of thousands took over DC many times protesting the war.
I like what's going on though. The country is more diverse than ever before, and the GOP is moving in the opposite direction.
Boehner? Please. Wasn't Joe the Plumber available. He's about as informed as MR. Boehner.