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Old 02-18-2011, 11:47 AM   #35
uphokyhuP

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Whether or not Boehner is an inept leader is neither here nor there since he's not being asked to lead. He's a non-threatening face for the party. I realize that Democrats would love to have a strong, abrasive leader to make it easier to demonize the face of the party. But having Boehner kills two birds with one stone: it gives them that unthreatening face they want, while preserving an open process which benefits Democrats as well as Republicans.

Now the oil and gas subsidies, that would actually win a vote, but the problem is, they aren't spending. They are part of tax policy. They will be addressed as part of tax reform. Now farm subsidies, those are spending, and they are going to go away with any luck, if not in FY2011 then in the next.
No, it matters what kind of leadership we've got and Boehner is totally inept. Last week he put out a vote on 3 bills that did not even have the votes required for passage. He just figured they did. There was a fourth bill in that 24 hour period that he decided to not put up for a vote after he figured out it was lacking the votes, too.

On this issue he should have been the first one to come forward in the House and say, "the Pentagon wants me to cut this from my district, and even though I wish I didn't have to do it, I must cut it from my district". He should have gotten out in front of that. It would have earned the respect of the entire House.

But instead he's such a chicken shit. Not confronting the birthers is going to bite him and all the other more intelligent Republicans right in the ass next year when they have to pass the smell test that they too think that Obama may just be a foreigner.

So far liberals and teabaggers have reached common ground on the kinds of things to cut out first, so hopefully the Weeper of the House will catch up soon.

He's such an embarrassment. This whole process could be going so much smoother if he only started leading.
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