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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoehner should do something smart.
He can save what's left of the real Republican party. He needs to dump the teabagger caucus.
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Boehner should do something smart. (Original Post)
Turbineguy
Sep 2013
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There is nothing he can do, they are too intrenched in the party, and he will be out if he crosses
lostincalifornia
Sep 2013
#5
"Boehner" and "smart" are two words that should never appear together in the same sentence. n/t
ChisolmTrailDem
Sep 2013
#6
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)1. What happens in the next election when the Tea Partiers stay home?
Or that's what I'm sure is running through his mind.
Bryant
Stargazer09
(2,131 posts)2. I think the Tea Partiers...
...are too rabid to ever skip an election.
We need sane people to help keep a little balance in the elections.
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)3. I think when your brain is pickled
It's hard to think logically. He's too afraid and threatened by the baggers self proclaimed power.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)4. The smartest thing he could do is resign.
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)5. There is nothing he can do, they are too intrenched in the party, and he will be out if he crosses
them.
The republicans made their bed, and will be facing the consequences. 2012 was only a sample of what will happen to their party
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)8. There are 233 Republicans.
80 are Teabaggers.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)6. "Boehner" and "smart" are two words that should never appear together in the same sentence. n/t
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)9. Aren't the Baggers paying his bar tab?
2naSalit
(86,063 posts)10. Boehner do something smart?
he can't, he doesn't know how... or his brain is too pickled for him to have a conscience (and he doesn't know how which is probably why he stays perpetually soused).
TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)11. Doing something smart...
...would be entirely out of character.