12/6/12, NY Times front page, Boehner headline in prominent top left corner. (Did you know Boehner is "the titular head of the Republican Party?" (per NY Times)).
12/6/12, "BOEHNER GAINS STRONG BACKING OF HOUSE GOP....EMPOWERED FOR TALKS.....Election Result and Polls Point to Unity for Fractious Group," NY Times, Steinhauer
Boehner and Obama on patio outside Oval Office, July 3, 2011, White House photo
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Miraculously, the NY Times once again (11/10)
knows details of a "private" meeting or conference call between Boehner and his humiliated underlings (12/6)
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There are two issues here, one what the GOP is doing, second the manner in which these events are being portrayed in the NY Times. Our duly elected representatives--people who won elections-- are portrayed as groveling, beaten, and defeated. The Times describes the murder/suicide of the US two party system following right behind California.
Millions of American human beings happen to be attached to the GOP congressmen the Times hangs crepe on. We put them in office, we pay their salaries, their gold plated private health care plans, but we're not mentioned in the article. We the people have been erased. The GOP has merged with the executive branch and only exists to grant every wish of a multi-millionaire lame duck president.
In the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," the killers say don't worry, after you give in there will be no more pain.
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Second NY Times story since election of "private" Boehner meeting or conversation:
12/6/12, "Boehner gains strong backing from House Republicans," NY Times, Steinhauer
"Many House Republicans appear to view Mr. Boehner with the same sort of respect that adult children award their parents for the sage counsel they ignored in their younger days....
On Wednesday, in a private meeting between Mr. Boehner and House
Republicans, member after member spoke in support of him, in some cases
saying a deal they would have rejected six months ago would most likely
be taken today.
“I want to be a strong advocate and say that I am with the speaker,”
said Representative Scott Rigell of Virginia, a House freshman. “I am
with the leadership.”
Further helping Mr. Boehner, at least for now, is the sense that he is
no longer forced to look constantly over his shoulder, fearing a
counterproductive move by Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the
majority leader who has spent much of the past two years quietly
maneuvering around Mr. Boehner.
Mr. Cantor signed on this week to Mr. Boehner’s package including $800
billion in new revenue, putting him squarely on the same page with the
speaker. Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, the chairman of the
Budget Committee and recent vice-presidential candidate whom many of the
most conservative members look to for cues, also signed on.
That proposal, along with the speaker’s approval of a decision to strip
plum committee assignments from four members who consistently voted
against the leadership, has brought great consternation from
conservative groups and influential conservatives outside the House. But
Mr. Boehner and the majority of his members seem willing to ignore the
outcry.
Then there is the not-small matter of fund-raising: Mr. Boehner, who on
Wednesday spoke briefly by phone with Mr. Obama about the budget
standoff, raised nearly $100 million for Republican House candidates
this election cycle, including incumbents, further securing good will.
The dynamic may shift if some members, especially those from very
conservative regions, begin to chafe against any deal they feel gives
too much ground to Democrats. But for now, Mr. Boehner’s stronger hand
is a significant shift from previous periods of negotiations, from the
first battle over a short-term spending agreement to a fight over the payroll tax to the battles last year over the debt ceiling that led to the current crisis."...
[Ed. note: There's no "crisis" except the one invented and played out in the media to divert attention from real problems. Polls are invented "proving" the GOP is blamed for the "crisis" though it's Obama who's never passed a budget. The 2011 "debt ceiling agreement" merely postponed things until after the 2012 election. The GOP wanted to help Obama as much as possible.]
(continuing): “Our members understand the serious issues this country faces,” Mr.
Boehner said Wednesday, when asked about the shift in his conference.
“They understand that we’ve got to solve this problem, and we will.”
Several Republicans said Wednesday that the combination of the onerous
nature of the potential tax increases and spending cuts and the
realities of the recent election combined to bolster Mr. Boehner’s
support.
“I think the presidential election has something to do with it,” said
Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. “We understand that we’re
going to have to deal with Obama for four more years. Also, there is an
understanding that this is a very serious situation.""...
to his campaign in 2012 against a Tea Party supported candidate and he won. The NY Times mentions above Boehner's $100 million fund to support certain campaigns in 2012.]
(continuing): "Over the last two years, many conservative members, buoyed by a group of
freshmen who constantly moved the bar for Mr. Boehner on budget
negotiations, seemed to drive much of the House agenda, assuming that a
Republican would occupy the White House next year.
But with Mitt Romney’s and Mr. Ryan’s White House dreams dashed, Mr.
Boehner resumes the role of the titular head of his party here, and many
members realize they have little choice left but to support him.
“He is the de facto negotiator for the party,” said
Representative Trey
Gowdy of South Carolina,
who along with other lawmakers from his state
has given Mr. Boehner headaches in the past."...
[Ed. note: Trey Gowdy fans, get ready to throw up.]
(continuing, NY Times): "“Perhaps I am practicing
the grace that comes
from watching someone try to do
what I myself
cannot do.”
Further, many members saw some of their loudest oppositional colleagues
marginalized or voted out of office, like Representative Joe Walsh of
Illinois."...
[Ed. note: The GOP was helped by the radical left which spent heavily against Joe Walsh. Now get ready to blow lunch again, GOP congressman Tiberi is described as newly "resigned" before the power and glory of Boehner:]
(continuing): "In turn, members who have previously supported Mr. Boehner
without comment are beginning to raise their voices.
“I think many of us who were being quiet two summers ago are going to
call it for what it is,” said Representative Pat Tiberi, Republican of
Ohio. It is Mr. Obama, not Mr. Boehner, he said, who should be the focus
of Republican ire.
Mr. Tiberi was at once resigned and hopeful.
“I don’t think we have much leverage, to be honest,” he said. But, he
added, “This is
a rare opportunity
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NPR cheers for Boehner too. NPR and NY Times cheer something bigger than Boehner. Boehner is slapping right of center America across the face. He uses the NY Times, the biggest weapon at his disposal, to humiliate and scorn millions of Americans. This is mass murder. These are white collar criminals who'll use any means necessary to prevent us from saving this country:
12/8/12, "Once Boxed-In, Boehner May Finally Be Master Of The House," NPR, Frank James
""It's vindictive," complained Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, talking to reporters after a closed-door meeting of the House Republican Conference on Wednesday. House GOP leaders booted the congressman from the House Agriculture Committee, an assignment important to his district and state.
"It's not a message to me. It punishes my constituents and I still represent them," Huelskamp said.
"It's meant as a message to the Republican conference in general, especially the comment today [that Boehner reportedly made at the meeting] that there may be more punishment coming if you don't vote the right way.""...
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Beltway GOP's aggressive tactics to defeat Tea Party supported candidates:
4/10/12, "GUEST COLUMN: Why GOP Young Guns program is deceptive," mywebtimes.com
Illinois primary
"Young Guns is a program of the National Republican Congressional Campaign (NRCC), which bills itself as committed to building the "next generation of conservative leaders." Those words are from the home page of the project's website http://www.gopyoungguns.com.
The website is misleading. While Young Guns solicits donations from Tea Party and conservative donors, the GOP house leaders that run the program actually use it to elect GOP moderates over conservatives.
The corruption doesn't end there. Insiders that work for the NRCC actually use the money generated by the program to promote friends and business associates, "encouraging" candidates to hire certain consultants before they will get support.
The campaign manager of one conservative candidate used the word "extortion" to explain how the sordid system works. Here is a real world example.
In what political reporter John Gizzi of Human Events described as, "the nastiest primary of the year so far," Representative Adam Kinzinger defeated 20-year veteran [and Tea Party supported] Congressman Don Manzullo. The Manzullo vs. Kinzinger race gave us a glimpse of how the program works. Manzullo is a strong conservative with a lifetime American Conservative Union (ACU) rating of 96, compared to the more moderate Kinzinger, who scores a miserable 72 out of 100 from the ACU.
When two members face off against each other, it is unusual for the GOP leadership to choose sides. But in this case, the Young Guns Action Fund unleashed a $50,000 advertising blitz, which deceptively called the more moderate Kinzinger "an important part of the next generation of conservative leaders" and "a conservative rock in the fight against runaway government spending."
Illinois conservatives were furious about what they saw as a betrayal by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the leader of the Young Guns Action Fund."...
[Ed. note: Cantor's Deputy Chief of Staff and former Deputy Chief of Staff are listed as Young Guns Action Fund's leaders, so technically Cantor can say he's not involved: "The (Young Guns) super PAC is run by two Cantor aides, John Murray and Brad Dayspring. Murray, Cantor’s deputy chief of staff, founded and currently runs all three components of the “Young Guns” brand."...]
(continuing): "Jameson Campaigne of Ottawa, a leader of conservatives in the Land of Lincoln, went so far as penning an email to fellow members of the ACU board asking for Eric Cantor's invitation to the ACU's Conservative Political Action Conference to be revoked for next year."...
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7/13/12, "Welcome to California: America without Republicans," Examiner.com, Conn Carroll
""I believe that if we're successful in this election," President Obama told campaign donors in Minnesota last month, "that the fever may break, because there's a tradition in the Republican Party of more common sense than that."
Apparently Obama believes that if he wins this November, Republicans on Capitol Hill will all begin to act like Chief Justice John Roberts by betraying their conservative beliefs and signing on to Obama's unprecedented expansion of the federal welfare state.
But what would America look like if the Republican "fever" did break?
We already know. It would look a lot like the state of California, where no non-cyborg Republican has been elected governor since 1994. Democrats have also enjoyed complete control of the state legislature since 1997. And they have governed exactly the way you'd expect Democrats to govern.
Spending has more than doubled, from $45.4 billion in 1996 to more than $92.5 billion today. Income, sales and car taxes have all been hiked. As a result, California has the most progressive income tax system in the nation, with seven income tax brackets, and the second-highest top marginal rate.
Even with all those tax hikes, California's 2012 budget is still $15.7 billion in the red. So what does Gov. Jerry Brown want to do? Raise taxes again, of course. He has proposed a ballot initiative that would: 1) raise sales taxes on everyone and 2) raise incomes taxes on those making more than $250,000 a year (like Obama has proposed to do nationally). But even this $8.5 billion tax hike would still leave the state $7.5 billion short. Where will California get that money? Who knows?
And that is not the only spending binge California Democrats haven't paid for. Just this month, the state legislature approved a $2.6 billion bond sale in order to fund construction on a scaled-back $68.4 billion high-speed rail project that will supposedly connect San Francisco and Los Angeles.
If California begins construction on the train before this December 31 (a big if), Obama has agreed to give the state $3.5 billion in federal money to help. But that still leaves a $62.3 billion hole. Where does California plan to get that money? Who knows?
With all of this unfunded government spending, Keynesian-Democratic thinking would predict that California's economy should be booming.
It isn't.
At 10.8 percent, California has the third-highest unemployment rate in the country. There are fewer private-sector jobs in the state today, 11.9 million, then there were in 2000, 12.2 million.
And thanks to liberal welfare requirements, a third of all the nation's welfare recipients live in California despite the state only containing one-eighth of the national population.
Contrast those numbers with Republican-controlled Texas, where private-sector jobs have grown from 7.8 million in 2000 to 9 million today.
Long before it became the nation's 31st state in 1850, California had been a target destination for Americans looking for a better life. Not anymore.
According to the last census, for the first time ever, the number of Californians born in other states actually decreased, falling from 7.6 million in 2000 to 6.6 million in 2010. And where did all those Californians flee? Many of them ended up in Texas, where the number of residents born in other states grew by almost 1 million.
The California dream is dead. Democrats killed it. Middle-class families can't escape the state fast enough. Conservatives must fight Obama and his agenda at every turn so that Californians still have other states to flee to."
(Written in July. Even if conservatives still exist, they won't fight. They accept a transformed United States in which the non-productive sector starves the productive sector. ed.)
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10/9/12, ""House Majority PAC Launches $2.4 Million Ad Buy Against Joe Walsh, Illinois Republicans," Huffington Post
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10/18/12, "'Flat Earth Five' Billboard Campaign Targets Reps. Joe Walsh, Dan Lungren And Others," Huffington Post
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11/10/12, “Boehner Tells House G.O.P. to Fall in Line,” NY Times, by Jonathan Weisman and Jennifer Steinhauer
“On a conference call with House Republicans a day after the party’s electoral battering last week, Speaker John A. Boehner dished out some bitter medicine, and for the first time in the 112th Congress,
- most members took their dose.
Members on the call, subdued and dark, murmured words of support — even a few who had been a thorn in the speaker’s side for much of this Congress.
It was a striking contrast to a similar call last year..."...
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Obama predicted during the campaign that if he won, the GOP would come around to his way of thinking. He was right.
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In 2011 GOP was fine with postponing unpleasant debt issues until after 2012 election, another sign they wanted Obama re-elected. The GOP's main goal is to silence and disspirit the Silent Majority by any means necessary. They accomplish this by making sure we have Obama for 4 more years:
11/24/12, "Predicting the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Negotiations by Obama-Congress Now Underway," Kyklos Productions
"In the August 2011 ‘debt ceiling debacle’ deal, for which the House radicals got $2.2 trillion in all spending cuts and Obama and Democrats gave up all their primary proposals in exchange for merely an agreement of no more debt ceiling brinksmanship
until after the 2012 elections....All that was a year ago, November 2011. But like the ‘get me re-elected first’ politicians they are, the Supercommittee House and Senate politicians of both parties agreed to ‘kick the can down the road’ one more year."...
via Atlas Shrugs
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