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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn Boehner should show some dignity and do the honorable thing.
I get the feeling that in his heart he is disgusted with having to pander to the tea party crazies in his eagerness to hold on to his speakership. And that he understands how horribly dangerous it is to play with the idea of the US defaulting on its debt. Instead of throwing away all of his self-respect he should acknowledge that he is incapable of bridging the gap with the Michele Bachmann type lunatics, and bow out gracefully. If he did that I would actually have a modicum of respect for the guy.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)Sort of jaundiced liver color...as in coward and drunk. No, he won't shoot himself in the head. He doesn't have either honor or dignity.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Of course it is difficult to tell.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)...he finds he hasn't a single friend in congress to take his head?
Old Navy
(84 posts)He needs to order that Rule null and void and go across the aisle and work with Pelosi and the Democrats to get the job done.
But unfortuantely I don't think Boehner knows how to get rid of that rule.
He needs to resign right now from the Speaker position (as he is quitting that role after '14) and let the 'Baggers try to take it head on.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)So he might as well resign it as opposed to being fired from it.
Mass
(27,315 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,085 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,085 posts)I imagine he was one of the many drunk Congressman reported last night.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)He will only act in his own personal political self interest.
madamesilverspurs
(15,783 posts)But if he resigned he'd be replaced by Eric Cantor, who is notoriously dangerously ambitious and willing to stomp on anyone anywhere to satisfy that ambition. Boehner can be trusted to be incompetent; nobody should ever trust Cantor for anything. Those who see him as Brutus do so with good reason.
durablend
(7,416 posts)Get rid of Boner and things get monumentally worse.
Most incompetent in my memory.