Boehner dismisses Reid on Obamacare repeal.


Or, "Boehner shows Reid the Hawaiian good-luck symbol."

The memo you are about to read is real.  I did not write this.

Background: recently, Harry Reid (in a moment of bravado), deigned to inform Speaker-designate John Boehner that he should not bother to pass a repeal of Obamacare in the House, because it would not succeed in the Senate. So there, neener neener, and similar big talk from a guy who just presided over the literal decimation of his party’s caucus in 2010 – and will likely preside over its transition to minority status in 2012.  Left unexplained was why Senator Reid thought that he had any business telling the People’s House what they can or cannot do, mostly because such a question implies that Harry Reid actually had any motivation beyond the resentment of a petulant man-child.

This was John Boehner’s response.

Senators Reid, Durbin, Schumer, Murray and Stabenow:

Thank you for reminding us – and the American people – of the backroom deal that you struck behind closed doors with ‘Big Pharma,’ resulting in bigger profits for the drug companies, and higher prescription drug costs for 33 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D, at a cost to the taxpayers of $42.6 billion.

The House is going to pass legislation to repeal that now.  You’re welcome.

Again: I DID NOT WRITE THIS.  I wish that I had: but I would have never have thought that the Republican leadership was ready to be this blunt about things.  Which is great, of course.

Moe Lane


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Woof woof. ::wags tail:: nt

redneck_hippie (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 7:40PM EDT (link)

Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

Boehner is ambitious.

teridavisnewman (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 9:36PM EDT (link)

Maybe now that he’s heard the words “Speaker Boehner” he’s decided that the words “President Boehner” would have a nice ring to them. I could live with it.

Teri Davis Newman
Consultant
2010 Republican Nominee for Congress
12th Congressional District of Illinois
www.terinewman.com

 
 

Be still my heart! We have lift off!! nt

carolina Tuesday, January 4th at 7:42PM EDT (link)

Excellllllllent Moe...I love this!! Kudos to Boehner on this

fpete13527 (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 7:42PM EDT (link)

I have to give Boehner a VERY good pat on the back on this!!!!!
(As long as the follow through keeps this tough, which I believe it will)

This kind of talk from the GOP is like a gift from God for me to hear!!!!!

I hope that this kind of talk and corresponding action become the STANDARD for the GOP.

The scum Dem/Comm HEATBALLS:)) have been an arrogant, destructive, desecration to this country. Time to let them know in word and DEED.

 

Blunt Makes Sense

Ron Robinson (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 7:43PM EDT (link)

Obama: “I won.”

Boehner: “The House is going to pass legislation to repeal that now. You’re welcome.”

What’s not to like about being blunt? Neener, Neener, he started it!

Reid should remember that all spending bills for his vaunted social programs must be introduced in the House – want to bet he’ll keep forgetting that? Again and again?

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On your spending bills--

ohiohistorian (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 10:07PM EDT (link)

Can’t you stop quoting that hard to read, over 100 year old, document? It is SO hard to read; it has words in it like no.

““Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”

Dennis Prager

 

It's OUR turn to say "we won"

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 10:48PM EDT (link)

Good to see Boehner picking up the knives. He’s gonna need them.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

 
 

It's like a beautiful sunrise. nt

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 7:52PM EDT (link)

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


with the Hallalulia Chorus playing in the distance!!!

AceInTX (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 8:21PM EDT (link)

oops…I just wet myself with the excitement!!!

MarkTwain 3

 
 

I'm really hoping that....

chbroussard (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 7:54PM EDT (link)

….Republicans have finally grown a spine and will start standing up to these slugs.

….Republicans got the message on Nov. 2 that we are sick and tired of compromise and expect our leaders to fight for what the people want.

We will be watching!

YnotNOW (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 9:57AM EDT (link)

Congratulations to the 112th Congress, and all the new members being sworn in today. Looks like the House, at least, is trying to start off on the right foot. Many actions are largely symbolic, but symbolism is important. If the actual actions that follow are true to the same spirit.

So a word of caution to the 112th: Be careful. We have high expectations. And we WILL be watching!

YnotNOW
If not me, who? If not now, when?

 

We will be watching!

YnotNOW (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 9:57AM EDT (link)

Congratulations to the 112th Congress, and all the new members being sworn in today. Looks like the House, at least, is trying to start off on the right foot. Many actions are largely symbolic, but symbolism is important. If the actual actions that follow are true to the same spirit.

So a word of caution to the 112th: Be careful. We have high expectations. And we WILL be watching!

YnotNOW
If not me, who? If not now, when?

 
 

Every once in a while...

karenmartin (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 7:56PM EDT (link)

… you almost believe they really mean it.

http://twitter.com/karmartin
www.spartanburgteaparty.org

 

This is awesome

aesthete (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 8:00PM EDT (link)

Looks like the Reps are finally understanding that ObamaCare is massively unpopular and has no natural constituency. More of this please, Reps.

“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
-P.J. O’Rourke

 

That statement from Boehner

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 8:00PM EDT (link)

warms every cell in my body. You’re welcome.

 

Wow

Darin_H (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 8:06PM EDT (link)

That’s awesome, the only thing that would have been better if he had added “Bless your heart.”

A visionary coward says that anger can be power, as long as there’s a victim on TV – Flat Top, Goo Goo Dolls

 

I sure hope Boehner sticks to his guns

Michael Dugas (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 8:14PM EDT (link)

because there sure is a mixed message coming from him considering his recent talk of sharing power in the House with the minority.
Like Cornyn, Boehner is one of those politicos who always leaves me
wondering as to what he really thinks and plans to do.

That memo is a great start…lets hope he follows through and has the cajones to stick with it to the end.

Intro to Federalist Papers; section 5;
paragraph 4.
“…dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the zeal for a firm and efficient government.”

Remember: A Citizen on the dole is a Liberal Vote at the Polls.
END ENTITLEMENTS!

Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum !

Yeah, I'm getting whiplash. [nt]

cwilson (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 2:01AM EDT (link)

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! –Samuel Adams

 
 

This is High Noon

proudmarinemom (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 8:17PM EDT (link)

and Gary Cooper is in town.

Shock. Awe. Joy.

 

This is great!

Christine (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 8:18PM EDT (link)

Keep it up, Mr Boehner and bring (or drag as need may have it) those other Republicans with you!

Boehner for Pre….I mean, Speaker of the House! ;)

The primary process is FLAWED. Two states should not decide our candidate.

“I would be a poor Commander in Chief”
– Barack Obama, July 3 2008

 

Praise the LORD....finally something I can cheer about...

AceInTX (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 8:18PM EDT (link)

(Ya’ll can picture a 6’2″ 370 lb man doing a war dance around my living room about now)

GOD bless you John Boehner…Maybe you could send a little of whatever it is you’ve been eating and/or drinking over to McConnell so he can grow a pair!

MarkTwain 3

Thanks for the Visual,

proudmarinemom (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 8:21PM EDT (link)

Ace.

Bless your beautiful hide.

(grins, grins some more…)

heh nt

AceInTX (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 8:28PM EDT (link)
 

Have you seen McConnell lately?

jmadisonfan Tuesday, January 4th at 10:50PM EDT (link)

I’m not sure that “growing a pair is high on his agenda these days . . . The only other closing that might have been better would have been be a little Dirty Harry: “you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”

 
 

Focus Is Wrong: Jobkiller Jobkiller Jobkiller!

tedpomeroy (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 8:20PM EDT (link)

Speaker should point out that Obamacare is JOBKILLER!

Small businesses will not hire. Several large employers like AT&T, Caterpiller, Verizon and John Deere charged billions to their financial statements instead of investing in growing their companies and employment. Remember Henry Waxman calling a hearing and then canceling it?

Let us not get wrapped up in the details like the “doughnut hole” and 26 years olds. In fact the 26 year old provision makes it more likely that Mom or Dad will be laid off due to the extra expense for their employers.

ObamaCare is barrier for new employment!

oh for crying out loud...do you have to pee in my coffee now?

AceInTX (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 8:31PM EDT (link)

this is big news…there is nothing to complain about in this…sing hosannas and dance till the sun rise for the small victories…there will be things to complain about tomorrow…but this is a shot across the bow of Prince Harry and Lord Obama….and we need to celebrate it!!!

MarkTwain 3

555555555 -NT-

discerningconservative (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 8:35PM EDT (link)
 

Ted, Boehner is just giving them their own medicine

jmimac351 Tuesday, January 4th at 8:55PM EDT (link)

He is punking the Dems and reminding the cook Dem base of the stuff they don’t like about the bill.

The tone here is what’s important.

It is time to take the gloves off and fight. Obama is very willing to use regulatory schemes and executive orders to perpetuate his soft TYRANNY.

This was not just for Reid, it was meant for Obama too. The whole damn lot of them.

 

well the repeal bill is officially titled ‘‘Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act’’

thurman Wednesday, January 5th at 12:20AM EDT (link)

for short, or:

“H. R. __

To repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions
in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/01/cantors-obamacare-repeal-bill-goes-online

Thank You, Eric Cantor

tedpomeroy (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 8:00AM EDT (link)

I feel better.

David Drier said the same on Greta last night.

No punking and no dwelling on the details.

The American public knew it was wrong to pass the monster while so many people were unemployed!

JOBKILLER! JOBKILLER! JOBKILLER!

Wrong?

edintexas Wednesday, January 5th at 9:20AM EDT (link)

tedpomeroy wrote: “The American public knew it was wrong to pass the monster while so many people were unemployed!”

I hope you are wrong about that. The American public should believe it was wrong – period. No caveat that it was wrong because “…so many people were unemployed!”

Let’s hope that the people will not be in favor of government control of the world’s best health care when times are better.

Agree

YnotNOW (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 10:18AM EDT (link)

We need to focus our education on the Moral issue of Govenment taking over healthcare, similar to overstepping their proper boundaries in all areas that inevitably impinge on freedom. (think also cap-and-trade, Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, etc.)

The economic disaster is only the inevitable consequence of doing economic things they are not supposed to be doing.

YnotNOW
If not me, who? If not now, when?

 
 
 
 

well the repeal bill is officially titled ‘‘Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act’’

thurman Wednesday, January 5th at 12:20AM EDT (link)

for short, or:

“H. R. __

To repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions
in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/01/cantors-obamacare-repeal-bill-goes-online

 
 

Are you listening John McCain?

d_lamar Tuesday, January 4th at 8:46PM EDT (link)

John Boehner is demonstrating the proper way to deal with your friends across the aisle. Yea, the same “friends” that are attempting to destroy America as we know it.

5

fpete13527 (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 9:06PM EDT (link)
 

He should've sent some copies of the constitution

walter_hanson Tuesday, January 4th at 8:48PM EDT (link)

While that was a great response I would’ve sent back five copies of the constitution and the following statement:

Dear Falks:

Thank you for reminding us of your backdoor deal that ignores the spirit of the constitution. Not only will we vote to repeal it we’re sending as a gift for the five of you since you have never bothered to read it the US Constitution the thing each one of you took an oath to defend not destroy.

Speaker John Boehner!

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN

 

This is exactly what the Democrat Radicals

jmimac351 Tuesday, January 4th at 8:51PM EDT (link)

need to see. They need to know that there is a new Sheriff in town ready to kick some azz.

The Democrat leadership in Washington cannot be reasoned with or bargained with. The sooner Republicans accept that fact the sooner we can begin restoring our country.

There are bad people in this world, quite a few of them are in Washington and they need to be stopped.

GO JOHN!!!

 

No quibbeling with this!

luciusacius (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 9:15PM EDT (link)

Pick no nits, no carping about details, and no suggestions for minor tweeking to make it better. This is such a huge departure from business as usual for Republicans in Washingtonthat it seems churlish to natter at the margins. Let’s just sit back and enjoy the first full throated act of defiance by Republicans since the late 1850s.

Lucius Accius
“oderint dum metuant”

 

This brightens my day....

discerningconservative (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 9:19PM EDT (link)

and makes me proud that he is my representative (at least until Ohio draws new districts).

 

I love the New Boehner

CarolT (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 9:29PM EDT (link)

I would love it if the house would pass Executive Branch pay cuts of 15-20%. He can turn it around to a quote from Obama “at some point people have made enough money.” Let it start with the man who said it.

 

A move in the right direction!!

smitch61 Tuesday, January 4th at 9:39PM EDT (link)

I had goosebumps reading that…. seriously.

I dislike Debbie Stabenow a lot.. which has nothing to do with anything, except when I read her name within the memo it reminded of that, and gave me an excuse to say it out loud again. I dislike her yes I do, and hopefully the new governor here will put her in her place.

 

Wow

icesweeper Tuesday, January 4th at 9:50PM EDT (link)

Think I’ll head on over to youtube now and try to find Reagan’s “Morning in America” commercial. Kind of like waking up from a bad dream, only worse.

Anybody wanting to cheer big John on……http://johnboehner.house.gov/Contact/

How's this

AceInTX (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 9:57PM EDT (link)

I like his farewell better

AceInTX (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 9:58PM EDT (link)

Aaahhhhhhhh (long sigh)

icesweeper Wednesday, January 5th at 9:05AM EDT (link)

Brings a tear to me ol’ eye………

 

Wow!

jotink78 Wednesday, January 5th at 1:22PM EDT (link)

Great video, thanks for sharing! I’m amazed at the difference in Reagan’s car analogy and Obama’s, and I know whose I like better.

Someone should get this video out to Obama and the members of the House and Senate as a reminder at the start of the new congress…

 

Wow!

jotink78 Wednesday, January 5th at 1:22PM EDT (link)

Great video, thanks for sharing! I’m amazed at the difference in Reagan’s car analogy and Obama’s, and I know whose I like better.

Someone should get this video out to Obama and the members of the House and Senate as a reminder at the start of the new congress…

 

Bittersweet indeed

dmccracken Wednesday, January 5th at 3:47PM EDT (link)

Alas, the people he left the government to proved unworthy of his legacy.

Thank you for posting this. It is important to remember.

 
 
 
 

Fun to hear

bjwilson83 (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 10:08PM EDT (link)

Of course we know he’s just grandstanding, but it’s still music to my ears. Boehner knows that he’s on a short leash right now – if the GOP congress screws this up they’ll be toast forever, and a third party will form. What we should be concerned about is what happens when they have consolidated power in 2 years should we win the presidency. No doubt they’ll go right back to playing to the middle.

 

Haven't you heard the radio ads?

ohiohistorian (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 10:09PM EDT (link)

Where some poor, demented senior is talking to another one about the benefits they are getting out of ObamaCare? They somehow forget to mention the deal with Big Pharma on name-brand drugs, don’t they?

““Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”

Dennis Prager

Yes I have heard those commercials for months now

lepelerin Tuesday, January 4th at 11:28PM EDT (link)

and they are pure propaganda, paid with our tax dollars. I’m hearing them in Columbus OH. I don’t know if they’re widespread, probablly are.

Yes,

jlsankot Wednesday, January 5th at 6:44AM EDT (link)

they are here in Iowa, as well, and I would like to mash in the TV when I hear them. I hate liars!!–my list has gotten quite long in the last 2-plus years.

 
 
 

Harry won't be able to sit down for a while...

Jack_Savage (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 10:10PM EDT (link)

…having just had a size 10 broken off up his backside. A few more memos like this, followed by some swift, strong action will make me whip out my checkbook in a hurry.

 

Obama's reaction, live on CNN...

speciallist (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 10:39PM EDT (link)

true grit?

marica (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 10:42PM EDT (link)

I’d like to think Boehner has it. Time will tell.

 

2 year supply of popcorn at the ready.....

jeepingeoff Tuesday, January 4th at 10:43PM EDT (link)

….and the brawl begins tomorrow. Ain’t gonna be pretty but Mr. Speaker sure put a smile on my face today!

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“So what’s Copenhagen Syndrome? It is a belief in your own miracles. It is thinking that those who crowned you king actually knew what they were doing. It is buying into your own tulip bulb mania. It is the floating evanescent bubble of self. God help you when it bursts.” – Bret Stephens, WSJ

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. – Ronald Reagan

 

Boo frickin' yah...

conservativemusician Tuesday, January 4th at 10:54PM EDT (link)

And about time someone on our side showed some ‘nads. Way to go Boehner. Also looking forward to when Pelosi hand the gavel over to Boehner tomorrow. Will love seeing her reaction.

Oh yes, the gavel-passing. Neener. Neener. nt

joayn (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 11:11PM EDT (link)

America is an idea; a noble idea that essentially boils down to the shocking belief that the masses are in fact not asses. John Nolte

 

She'll probably super-glue it to her hand

sharonmcp (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 12:27AM EDT (link)

Boehner will have to pry it out of her gnarly, clenched fist.

“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” ~ Ronald Reagan

I would like to see him take that gavel,

gekster (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 12:33AM EDT (link)

and knock the botox right out of that …witch.
I know it would ruin a perfectly good gavel, but hey, he probably would want a new one, not one infected with…..liberal socialist disease.

They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.

We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway

I’ve gone from
“Hope and Change” to
“Hopeless and Changeless”

And as a side note, she's living the good life.

gekster (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 12:51AM EDT (link)

via Drudge:
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/pelosi-obama-hawaiian-vacations-come-to-an-end-but-taxpayers-left-with-the-bill

Pelosi, Obama Hawaiian Vacations Come to an End, But Taxpayers Left with the Bill

Her room at $10,000 a night.

They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.

We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway

I’ve gone from
“Hope and Change” to
“Hopeless and Changeless”

 
 
 
 

Ah, this was from Boehner?

Raven (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 10:54PM EDT (link)

Really?
The same guy who said yesterday that he wanted to work With these people, not against them?

Incredible.

“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36

 

Heh.

joayn (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 11:07PM EDT (link)

Speaker Boehner, THANK YOU.

Wednesday, 9:00am pacific time, C-SPAN, both channels. Epic. Can’t. Wait.

America is an idea; a noble idea that essentially boils down to the shocking belief that the masses are in fact not asses. John Nolte

 

make its full and total repeal

sta46 Tuesday, January 4th at 11:12PM EDT (link)

an ammendment to the bill to raise the debt ceiling and watch Chavez’s biggest fan get his tighty-whities in a twist.
Then send through an ammendment to disolve the EPA on some big-a$$ farm bill.
Then send through an ammendment to repeal the financial bill on the next budget.
get rid of the czars
get us out of the UN
lather, rinse, repeat.
the republicans have, in my 65 years, been the party of “polite”. they had best learn to be dirty little street fighters in a hurry.

 

I hope you're serious Boehner, Sally will never forgive you..

speciallist (Diary) Tuesday, January 4th at 11:25PM EDT (link)

I will say it again-- I'm very quietly optimistic about Boehner

thurman Wednesday, January 5th at 12:08AM EDT (link)

I thihnk he’s going to deliver for us big time over the next 2 years, I think he’s the exact man for the job at this crucial juncture

I think he will impress when it’s all said and done, and I like the “all business” way he’s gone about things so far, instead of gloating like a moron like the Dems did in 2006

*pops popcorn*

 

I will say it again-- I'm very quietly optimistic about Boehner

thurman Wednesday, January 5th at 12:08AM EDT (link)

I thihnk he’s going to deliver for us big time over the next 2 years, I think he’s the exact man for the job at this crucial juncture

I think he will impress when it’s all said and done, and I like the “all business” way he’s gone about things so far, instead of gloating like a moron like the Dems did in 2006

*pops popcorn*

 

This is now at Speaker of the House John Boehner

INC (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 1:24AM EDT (link)

Blog:

http://www.speaker.gov/Blog/?postid=218818

I went to look at Moe’s original link, but it took me to Eric Cantor, Majority Leader.

So I went to speaker.gov and Happy Day!

No Nancy Pelosi!

 

Harry Reid warning John Boehner not to try it... that ought to play well in 2012, lol.

reaganiterepublicanresistance Wednesday, January 5th at 5:11AM EDT (link)

BUT, you’d think if Dingy had he votes he’d have no reason to be making threats. Instead we get trash talk- a sign of weakness?

 

Yeah, I will miss Boehner's victory parade

Marcus_Traianus (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 7:50AM EDT (link)

and march through the Arch of Constantine. I have to cut the grass.

Yesterday Boehner told us how he is going to give Democrats more decision making power. Simultaneously he is also trying to collect enough votes to raise the debt limit. Will the real John Boehner please stand up.

This is a very nice tactical public relations move. But I will be waiting about three months to see what tangible strategic results we have.

“Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object—the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers; the other, by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other, the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.”.Thomas Jefferson

 

It's enough to bring a tear to my eye.

Brian Hibbert (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 8:25AM EDT (link)

A Republican in a leadership position with a backbone! I get all emotional just thinking about the possibilities.

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I think I felt a tingle going up my leg!

melatr7 Wednesday, January 5th at 9:25AM EDT (link)

Will definitely repost on FB.
Hoorah Boehner!

 

We wish we had written that as well...

southernpatriots (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 9:47AM EDT (link)

If Boehner continues to demonstrate he has the conservative core and tanacity as well as the strength of character to be blunt and cutting in his remarks….if he remembers where he came from and where so many of us are today…if he acts on conservative and libertarian core values and works hard to overturn Obamacare and numerous other boondoggles of Obama and his cronies…the newly elected tea party supported conservative Rs flex their muscles and take some authority and leadership over the establishment elitists in their party…if we keep the pressure on our elected officials, there is hope for America. If not, we are going the same way as Greece, Iceland, etc. but there is no Germany to bail us out, and the whole world will suffer greatly as will we, our children, and our grandchildren!

 

Boehner and the house should just deem the repeal passed in the senate

southcoast Wednesday, January 5th at 10:24AM EDT (link)

Wasn’t this the procedural “deem and pass” maneuver Nancy and Harry pulled to get around Scott Brown voting on this disaster?
John Boehner and the house republicans should just do the same and send the bill to the oval office to be signed and keep sending until it is signed to the exclusion of all other discretionary legislation.

Glad you are on our side.

earlgrey (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 10:35AM EDT (link)

I am sure Pelosi would have given that a shot to pass the public option.

 
 

Blunt? Not so much....

bus2dc Wednesday, January 5th at 10:53AM EDT (link)

This is the LEAST blunt I ever want them to be! And it’s long, LONG overdue. GET ON IT, GOP! The message is already being stolen from our mouths.

 

Letterman should have read this first

rebekah Wednesday, January 5th at 10:56AM EDT (link)

Letterman should have read this before casting aspersions on Speaker Boehner’s manhood.
Sniffle all you want good sir so long as you have the cojones to stand up to the corruption of big government for the American people!
I am praying the walk is there as well as the talk…I guess time will tell.

what would Letterman know about manhood?

earlgrey (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 12:36PM EDT (link)

He is a very rich, very successful little boy.

 
 

The Hill is reporting Death Panels pulled from bill - Again!

sharonmcp (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 11:16AM EDT (link)

‘Death panel’ provision out of Obama Medicare policy

The Obama administration will remove a brand-new Medicare policy that had reignited the “death panel” debate from last year’s healthcare fight.

The provision to be eliminated would have covered end-of-life consultations as part of annual wellness examinations created by the new healthcare reform law, according to a report.

The reversal comes a week after some conservatives accused the Obama administration of trying to sneak through a regulation after failing to gain congressional support. A provision for end-of-life planning was not included in the final healthcare overhaul after conservative firebrands labeled it as supporting government-run “death panels.”

We’ve got ‘em on the run Mr. Speaker, keep hitting them until this monstrosity of a law is dead and gone.

“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” ~ Ronald Reagan

 

Thanks for sharing this, it has made

runner12 (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 12:05PM EDT (link)

my morning! It looks like the GOP leadership is beginning to grow a spine and it makes me happy. Keep it up, Boehner!

 

Wonderful and a great precedent

renny (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 12:21PM EDT (link)

but never forget you will soon be reading and hearing of Rep. arrogance, intransigence, the famous “over reach,” dare I say stupidity?, from the truly natural constituency of O’care: the public unions that want their insupportable pension/medical ins. promises to retirees and even current members taken off their hands, The Nation, WaPo, NYT, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, NPR, MSNBC, CNN, the LA T, yadda, and the other waiver grantees who are experts on what is good for thee if not for me..

 

PRAISE HEAVEN!

jerseydevil Wednesday, January 5th at 1:40PM EDT (link)

Guess Reid forgot the immortal words of St. john of the Minority:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gPxZZBAwNY

HELL NO YOU CAN’T!

Chris
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either – but right through the human heart.”
Alexandr Solzhenitzyn

 

PRAISE HEAVEN!

jerseydevil Wednesday, January 5th at 1:40PM EDT (link)

Guess Reid forgot the immortal words of St. john of the Minority:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gPxZZBAwNY

HELL NO YOU CAN’T!

Chris
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either – but right through the human heart.”
Alexandr Solzhenitzyn

 

Perfectly said, Speaker Boehner.

uselogic Wednesday, January 5th at 2:11PM EDT (link)

Channel that inner John Wayne!

 

It sounds like a nice start, hope he keeps it up.

anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 3:36PM EDT (link)

But the war against socialism is marathon after marathon. What we need to see for long term victory is both doing what has to be done and not backsliding and “working with” the scum known as “honorable colleagues across the aisle”.

As long as he and the rest of the R’s can be the players instead of the played, we’re heading in the right direction.

Razz Etc!
“Best Poker book written ever!!!” – Author’s unbiased opinion…

 

Embarass those weasely bas#$^%^#

Jason Gillman (Diary) Wednesday, January 5th at 4:13PM EDT (link)

Let the people know how bad they have been screwed by the socialist neophytes in the last congress.

The House has investigative authority.

Madame Guillotine shall have her day.