A congratulatory note to Boener

[fadedrose]

He got the courage to fight the tea party.....let's hope the Senate fixes the bill with extending unemployment benefits....there's time...

I wasn't surprised to see some of the hard liners come through, but Eric Cantor really shocked me. He's not the devil incarnate after all I guess.

[FarPoint]

1. It's just a magic trick.

Do not confuse them with humans who have souls.

[fadedrose]

2. The man drinks and smokes....

can't be all bad...

[Mass]

3. Always surprises me why people see a difference between Cantor and Boehner.

Both are typical establishment Republicans. They both want to be conservatives who govern. In fact, Cantor has started trying to distance himself from the Tea Party and messaging for a more friendly party who cares about people a while ago. Not a lot of success (it is hard when you are a conservative and most of your caucus is even worse than you (kind of funny to see freepers call him a RINO).

Both of them are people who encouraged the Tea Party to win the majority and become speaker and leader. Both of them found themselves trapped by their own actions (they do not have control on their guys). And both of them in October accepted to take part in a shutdown they knew was bad (both advocated against it before that but them fell in line with their caucus).

They are still very conservative people (they do not believe government should help poor people, for example), and wrong on most issues, but the pass given here to Ryan (who voted for defaulting and against Sandy) and Boehner puzzles me.

It may be because Boehner seems so useless while Cantor is pretty good at messaging falsehoods???

BTW, no congratulatory notes to any of them. They should have done this in October. This would have avoided some people a lot of suffering. And they should have brought an immigration bill to the floor (all of them are for a bill, not the Democratic bill, but a bill).