Speaker-in-waiting Boehner balances GOP factions

[NJmaverick]

For those who know Boehner (pronounced BAY'-nur), the question is which version of the House Republican leader will emerge as speaker if the GOP takes at least 40 seats from Democrats in November.
Will it be the policy-minded lawmaker who sometimes shows bipartisan tendencies, such as when he worked with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., on major education bills?
Or will it be the fiery partisan of recent months who shouted "hell no" to Obama's health care bill and who threw the Democrats' massive economic stimulus bill to the House floor in a theatrical rebuke?
Boehner left little doubt that the president and other Democrats will face fierce resistance in the House if he is speaker, starting with a push to dismantle Obama's hard-fought health care law.

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[Strelnikov_]

1. "replace the corporate income tax with a consumption tax"

He praised, without fully endorsing, Ryan's much-debated proposals to replace the corporate income tax with a consumption tax and to transform Medicare over time into a voucher program that wouldn't keep pace with rising health care costs.

Oh, yea, these guys are really gonna be popular.

Only thing the GOP has working for it is racism and resentment.

[jaxx]

2. I can't imagine anything worse than Boner or one of his cohorts

running the House. The forward momentum would come to a dead stop.

[NJmaverick]

4. It's a frightening prospect

[flamingdem]

3. First thing he'll do is repeal the tanning bed tax

He's a bad joke. He's a joke on us if he's in charge.

Get out the vote!

[Peacetrain]

5. K&R... just the thought of the destruction Boehner and crew are capable

of .. should start solidifying our base.

That and redistricting next year...imagine.. letting the republicans in to redistrict.. that is a 10 year nightmare.. that will keep things like Bachmann in office till the American Taliban is fully entrenched.

[ananda]

6. The choices.

People are faced only with less bad and more bad.

Dissatisfied with less bad, now they get to choose more bad.

[NJmaverick]

7. WRONG! the choices are between pretty good and horrible

[n2doc]

8. my commented version:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9078464

[NJmaverick]

9. Disgusting isn't it?

[Born_A_Truman]

10. No Mav ...

I'm sure BAY'-nur will just get right in there and solve everything immediately! He'll fix health care, make sure everyone has a job, fight for more Wall Street reform, end the war in Afghanistan, declare DOMA and DADT over, quadruple education funding and close all charter schools, fix immigration, and the economy will come blasting back with tax cuts for everyone!

[NJmaverick]

11. Point taken

:hi:

[grantcart]

12. Well we all know from the many experts at DU that there is no real difference between

Boehner and Pelosi.

[JNelson6563]

13. Let it not happen!

[Political Tiger]

14. K & R! n/t

[Scurrilous]

15. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Rochester]

16. I think we will keep the House

and the Senate, though probably by very narrow margins. Too narrow for comfort, that's for sure. I want to do whatever possible to keep the D's in power.
Worst that can happen for the next two years is Obama vetoes a lot of bills, and we can try to regroup and push back in 2012 and re-elect Obama.