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Speaker Boehner Finally Makes A Dignified Move & Dismisses House Without A Vote

By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  December 31st, 2012 at 07:47 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Finally, Speaker Boehner shows some courage and, basically, tells President Obama and Senator Reid to go play with themselves until they decide to get serious about the nation’s quandary. In a surprising but appropriate move, Boehner sent the House home before the Senate finished putting together yet another raise taxes/spend more/cut nothing rip off bill — signaling the House’s willingness to go over the cliff rather then bend over again for the irresponsible, greedy, arrogant Democrats.

This is going to be an interesting Congressional session as we watch Obama continue to arrogantly overreach and sabotage a working relationship with Republicans. His hubris continues to blind him to just how offensive his little tantrums are — and going before the cameras to threaten and intimidate his perceived enemies every time he doesn’t get what he wants is going to get old quick.

Boehner did the right thing at just the right time by seeing the writing on the wall and the futility of going in circles and expecting anything to change. He allowed the House to retain their dignity while giving Obama a subtle but very clear middle finger. I’m sure this bold move just saved Boehner from any more efforts to boot him out of the Speaker’s chair for the 113th Congress and will help to repair some of the fracturing between House Republicans.

Thanks, Speaker Boehner. You did the right thing.

Update: January 1, 2013 But now that the Senate burnt the midnight oil last night and came up with an abysmal piece of garbage bill, Speaker Boehner needs to continue to show some cajones and allow the House to mark it up in such a way as to be unacceptable to the Dems. Then they can throw a fit, reject it and get the blame for it. Don’t cave now Boehner.

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  • Rich

    Nothing more than the final act in the political theater – they’ll be back tomorrow to pass whatever Bill the Senate decides to give them and they can crow about giving ‘tax cuts for most tax-payers’ – even Norquist has come out of his hole to provide cover for the prospective GOP aye-voters

    • westcoastpatriette

      You may be right, but let me enjoy the fantasy for a while. I still have a hard time seeing the House capitulate and accept more of the same. On the other hand, politicians have a way of swiftly losing heart and betraying everyone at the last minute. Nothing would surprise me any more.

      • checkmate2012

        wcp- what happened to your Hobby Lobby diary? I had more good news for you (sorry to threadjack).

        • westcoastpatriette

          It’s still up under the Popular column. Don’t know why it’s not under “All” column. I’ve had whole diaries disappear before.

          • checkmate2012

            Cool. Can you believe the arrogance of this dictator?? His campaign speech today to squash the Republicans for agreeing to raise tax rates is beyond unbelievable. Personally, I’d take him to the woodshed if I could!

          • westcoastpatriette

            America simply is not ready to handle this level of evil in a President. He even keeps shocking me — the level of brazen war-like open insults he flings at us. I pray God supernaturally takes him down.

    • commonsenseobserver

      Isn’t there a way the House GOP can pre-empt them by actually putting a serious plan for deficit reduction forward, with some tax hikes that the Democrats want, but also lots more spending cuts, at the risk of angering Mitch and Joe?

  • confab

    Boehner may be reassessing after being giggled at by the President and panned by the Conservative commentariat.

    Amazing that a deal isn’t even in hand and the President is openly mocking him.

    What a train wreck. :facepalm:

  • Ausonius

    Boehner did the right thing…for a few hours. And of course as I write CBS news is reporting that there is a “compromise,” and Boehner and Co. will cave in tomorrow at noon.

    MAObama for his millionaire tax now defines a millionaire as anyone daring to make $400,000 + a year. Orwell would love it: Like Big Brother who can force people to believe that 2 + 2 = 5, BIG BRObama demands that we believe that $400,000 = $1,000,000.

    • commonsenseobserver

      At least there was a symbolic “F-U”. :P

      Well, at least the tax cloud hanging over our heads will be gone after a drizzle. It’s spending I’m more worried about.

    • checkmate2012

      Yes Ausonius, the Dems used to call Bush’s numbers fuzzy math and those same rats want to protect the Bush tax cuts! We have entered Orwell’s 1984!
      Reality is, nothing has passed and may not. Seems the Dems have more heartburn over the McConnell/Biden deal than even Reps. And I don’t see it passing the House. So before we throw all of Congress over the cliff (what they deserve IMO) I don’t see a signed deal sight. Obama’s bully speech today should have convinced Reps. that he has no interest in cutting spending without more and more taxes. There is no parachute now.

      • Ausonius

        With the “American Taxpayer Relief Act” we see that DoubleThink is alive and well in America: a tax hike on small-business people at $400,000 and KEEPING RATES THE SAME are now being called – and apparently with no irony – “Taxpayer Relief” !!! A further irony is that this bill really will take us over the “Fiscal Cliff” by rocketing us toward national bankruptcy. So…Will Boehner and Company point this out to America and refuse to go along with this idiocy of raising taxes on a dying economy while spending even more to bring bankruptcy ever closer? Well, I hope so, but I am enough of a realist to suspect that they will swallow MAObama’s… insults and vote to increase the speed of the Ship of State toward the iceberg of bankruptcy. Democracy in action as portrayed by democratic inaction: to quote W.C. Fields “It baffles science!”

  • westcoastpatriette

    Don’t misread what I’m sayin’, commonsense’. Ever heard of King Nebuchadnezzar in the Bible? He became so prideful that God reduced him to a lunatic grazing on the ground like cattle for his food for seven years. After that, the king humbled himself, repented and God restored him to sanity. God has ways to deal with prideful, stubborn people such as Obama.

    • checkmate2012

      Amen. God help us….please!

    • avgjo

      And then there was Herod Agrippa:

      ’21 On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people. 22 They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man.” 23 Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.’

      Acts 12:21-23

      I remember in one political theory class, we read some of Aquinas’s political writings. In one passage, he was writing about how God will sometimes punish a country with a bad leader.

      He told a story I often think of*:

      A land was afflicted by an evil, evil king. He was widely hated, even by his closet servants. So imagine his surprise when he heard that one of his subjects, an elderly lady, prayed for his good health daily. He had the woman brought before him, and he questioned her, asking why she prayed for his good fortune, when pretty much everyone else in the kingdom hated him. She told him that when she was a girl, the king, his grandfather, was very bad. She prayed to God to kill him, and the man was shortly struck down by an illness. She then told him that the next king, the current evil king’s father, was even worse than the king before him. So she prayed that he, too, would die. And so he did. The old woman finished, ‘Highness, you’re far worse than your grandfather and father combined. Heaven forbid you should die, for then who knows how bad your successor will be!’

      *My paraphrase

      • westcoastpatriette

        Great stories, avgjo. I heard a pastor recently who was trying to figure out how we wound up with Obama –twice — say that God uses immature leadership to punish a nation who rebels against God (I believe he referenced scriptures from Jeremiah when Israel was involved in such idolatry and their leaders were corrupt.) Woe to those who think God does not govern through the affairs of men. :) )

        • avgjo

          Amen, sister.

          I believe your pastor is exactly right. As even the pagans figured out (viz. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle), your political leadership reflects the character of the average person in your society. That’s why I’m always harping on about taking back institutions. They drive culture, and politics follows culture. While we certainly can’t force people to be Christians, or act right, we can construct an institutional environment that is friendly to those things, instead of hostile to them, as our current academia, media and pop culture is. I believe that, given a fair and complete presentation, Christianity and morality speak for themselves, and convince a fair number of people. It is up to us as the Caesars of this country (‘Gov’t of the people, by the people and for the people’) to make sure that our Belief and Morality are not oppressed by tyrants and the freaks of the left. We’re not, as a group, doing such a great job, so far. I hope the New Year hearkens a change.

          God Bless in the New Year.

          • westcoastpatriette

            God Bless you and yours in the New Year, too, brother.

            One more point about all of this is that no matter how evil nations or its leaders or peoples become, God is faithful to protect those who remain faithful to Him and He will provide for us — supernaturally if necessary — through it all. As Americans, we are not used to suffering and being persecuted for our faith in God, but if we will not cave (like our traitorous Republican leadership) God will bless and provide for every single one of us. He has done it over and over throughout history and He is poised to do it again.

            The question is, “Who will remain faithful and who will not?” As for me and my house…

  • westcoastpatriette

    Did you see the update I added to the diary? Boehner could still redeem himself if he continues the fight to the end.

  • checkmate2012

    Seems Boehner would allow amendments if they had 218 for an amendment but I guess they don’t since it’s going to be an up or down vote. We’re screwed. From now on, let the president lead with making his puppet Reid put his agenda in legislative language, a real bill, and then the House can respond in kind.

  • westcoastpatriette

    So now according to Breitbart the move to remove Boehner is still on: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/01/Sources-Enough-Republicans-willing-to-band-together-to-unseat-Speaker-John-Boehner-on-Thursday