Tea Party Leader: ‘Charlie Sheen Is Now Making More Sense Than John Boehner’

[Purveyor]

By Sahil Kapur
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 -- 9:49 am

WASHINGTON – The leader of Tea Party Nation declared Wednesday that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) looks "like a fool" and should be defeated in a primary, tearing into him for not pushing larger budget cuts more aggressively.

"There is no other way to put this," Judson Phillips wrote on the Tea Party Nation's website. "The Tea Party movement should find a candidate to run against John Boehner in 2012 and should set as a goal, to defeat in a primary, the sitting Speaker of the House of Representatives."

The remarks reflect a rift between the GOP establishment and its base after tea party activists help propel Republicans to a dramatic takeover of the House and an expanded presence in the Senate last November.

Now, they're demanding the steep spending cuts they were promised.

"Early on, the GOP promised to cut $100 billion from the budget. The Republicans in the House quickly went squishy on that and had to be cajoled into cutting only $61 billion," Phillips wrote. "Now, John Boehner is saying when the Senate comes back and they start negotiating with 'Dingy' Harry Reid, who does not want to make any cuts, the $61 billion figure is not safe."

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[ejpoeta]

1. when are these idiots going to learn.... republicans TALK about cutting spending

but when have they ever cut spending?? they DON'T!! they either put it on the credit card or if they do make cuts cut social programs. period. the difference is republicans give to their rich donors the corporations when they spend while dems give to the rest of us in the form of safety net programs.

[SpiralHawk]

8. Republicon 'borrow-and-spend' policies are exactly what...

..put the US gov. and America's gov in the economic crapper.

Ya gotta laff when they claim to be 'conservatives.' It is just another one of their bullshit lies.

[NeedleCast]

2. He'd fit right in on DU if he were a liberal

[meegbear]

3. Oh SNAP!

[Bucky]

4. Republican party leaders are such a bunch of Frankensteins, always hunted by their own monsters

You built it, crybaby, now try and deal with it.

[Zoeisright]

5. Cuts? Yeah. Right.

Those teabaggers are going to be squealing louder than the stuck pigs they are if cuts actually happen. Because it will directly affect them, those stupid fucks.

[Democrats_win]

6. Wight ring tea party, your man Boner is a fascist pig, not mentally ill.

[Recursion]

7. Activists from both sides take substantial progress their side has made for granted

(I'm sure this post will get "What progress!? Corporatists! Banksters! Spine! Blah blah blah!") The actual governable policy "wedge" in the country is fairly small, and rapid systemic change is both difficult and often counterproductive.

It's actually kind of amusing to see the similarities between netroots' shrieks and the teahadists'.

[JoeyT]

12. They're not quite as numerous as the ones between the

people that demand no one speak ill of their beloved no matter what happens.

Authoritarians that worship personalities are pretty much all the same.

[1776Forever]

9. And so Mr. Boehner is going to find out how it feels to be ate & spit out by the T's! They are not

people with reality on their side and Boehner is going to find out just how vicious they are! It is us or the highway with them and Boehner is in for a BIG shock!

The extra large gavel isn't going to help you now Boehner! Welcome to the dark side!

[tularetom]

10. Boner may be afraid of the TP but he's not going to give them the spending cuts they want

Because he's more afraid of the corporate wing of the republican party which is basically paying him to keep funneling the dough to them.

Mr Phillips may be starting to wake up to the fact that he and his angry mob have been nothing more than useful idiots to the fat cats for decades now and that their agenda (whatever the fuck THAT means) is never going to be adopted with the current power structure in place.

If I were in their place I'd start a third party. Rat now!

[Kennah]

11. What do you get when you cross Charlie Sheen with John Boehner?

A well tanned addict/prostitute

[Dappleganger]

13. The Tea Party is a farce.

Our local tea party is so messed up with so much infighting it's become a daily circus.