Tea party group lashes out at ‘tax and spend liberal’ John Boehner

[DonViejo]

By David Ferguson
Saturday, December 14, 2013 13:12 EST

The Tea Party Patriots group, one of the largest of the hundreds of right wing factions claiming the tea party mantle, lashed out at Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) this week.

According to The Hill blog, the groups are furious with the House Speaker for daring to speak out against the conservatives that are paralyzing Congress and portions of the entire U.S. government.

Earlier this week, Boehner brushed off a question from a reporter about conservative groups’ resistance to the tentative bipartisan budget bill that would prevent any further government shutdowns for at least two years.


“They are using our members and they are using the American people for their own goals,” Boehner said of tea party and other right wing pressure groups. “This is ridiculous. Listen, if you’re for more deficit reduction, you’re for this agreement.”

He also criticized the groups for appearing to be more interested in raising money than achieving any actual policy goals.

Never shy about expressing their outrage, tea partiers around the country have been sounding the alarm that Boehner is stabbing them in the back. The Hill reported on a particularly angry fund-raising letter from the Tea Party Patriots.

Boehner, they wrote, has “declared war on the tea party” with his “smug and pretentious rant.”

“The last time we checked, we are the American people,” they fumed.

The Speaker is a “ruling class politician,” the letter said, who is really just another “tax-and-spend liberal.”

They called the tentative political compromise a “back-room budget deal which increases discretionary spending, does nothing to reform entitlements, and fully funds Obamacare.”

The deal and Boehner’s actions, they said, amount to “an out and out betrayal of the American people.”

It isn’t just in Congress that the tea party is seeing its influence wane. Public opinion about the angry edge of the Republican Party has been on a steady decline since the group’s successes in the 2010 mid-term elections. Gallup said Friday that public opinion about the tea party has plunged to it’s lowest recorded level, results that are borne out even by right-leaning Rasmussen polling.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/14/tea-party-group-lashes-out-at-tax-and-spend-liberal-john-boehner/

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I'll donate some gasoline to help put out this fire.

[Mass]

2. Only problem: they have to primary more than 160 Republicans, including some of their darlings like

Ryan, Yoho, and Ribble.

[Cha]

3. ..

Stabbing "the stupid burns" in the back.

thanks DonViejo!

[mgcgulfcoast]

4. boner is a dumbass.

leading a bunch of dumbasses

[TreasonousBastard]

5. I suspect everyone over there is beginning to realize...

that the teabaggers need Boehner and mainstream old-school Republicans more than mainstream old-school Republicans need the teabaggers.

So, let them scream their way into oblivion like every other excessively radical group.

[blkmusclmachine]

6. Insane Teabaggers say something insane.

[American Werewolf]

7. Tea Party Doesn't Know When to Shut Up

I don't care for John Boehner personally. I think he is one of the worst Speaker's of The House we have had in living memory. However, these Tea Party folks have really made a name for themselves, and not in a good way…mostly because of their vehement opposition to all things Obama. But when it comes time to work together as a National Government, on even the most fundamental issues that effect us all, they simply do not know when to quit making trouble and learn to cooperate. It's as if they do not fully understand they are simply Marionettes, and the Koch Bros are their puppet masters. They are constantly arguing against their own best interests.

I hope the voters remember their constant troublemaking next Nov. and beyond. We as a Nation simply can't allow these radical right wingers to be in charge and make decisions that effect the rest of us. They would burn down the house entirely, and stand back and laugh at the flames.

[dionysus]

8. welcome to DU!