“[I]f there’s any blame to be placed, it’s squarely on his shoulders”
“Let’s do something that’s real unusual in this town. Let’s talk about accountability. I don’t care whoever you are. The position the speaker’s in right now—if there’s any blame to be placed, it’s squarely on his shoulders,” said Rep. Jeff Landry (R-La.).
“Everything that they’ve negotiated over the last two years that he’s been in Congress has been at his beck and call, what he wanted. The Budget Reconciliation Act was the deal he wanted. The budget was what he wanted. The fight that we had over spending was what he wanted,” Landry said…
“There’s no deal on the table from either side that is a good deal for the American people. Not one deal,” said Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) said Wednesday at a press conference with several House conservatives.
“Because the debt is going to increase whether it’s Speaker Boehner’s proposal or the resident’s proposal, debt is going to increase by 8 or 9 trillion over the next 10 years, and taxes are going to go up,” Amash added.











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What do you expect when you nominate a progressive to be the leader of your party? Boehner is just doing what he sees as what is good for himself. He does not care about America, the people, the party or anything else. Just keeping his cushy government job and special privilege.
astonerii on December 13, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Poor John “Crying” Boehner. Everybody’s picking on him.
platypus on December 13, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Kinda sucks when you claim to be conservative but try to make deals with liberal devils and get called out by real conservatives.
Bitter Clinger on December 13, 2012 at 12:47 PM
Well,…there ya go. In a nutshell. All the fake brinkmanship can’t hide it.
a capella on December 13, 2012 at 12:49 PM
No dummies, it’s Obama. Can’t you at least get together on that?
Cindy Munford on December 13, 2012 at 12:50 PM
Hmmm…it’s almost as if we should have an election on this…wait, you say we just did..and these guys got their clocks cleaned?
By all means, let’s keep listening to those losers who can’t tell their ass from a hole in the wall.
blue13326 on December 13, 2012 at 12:52 PM
Yep. We just have to think back to when the Weeping Boner was so proud of this stupid Sequester (that conservatives hated) that he “negotiated” in exchange for raising the debt limit and letting the Indonesian Dog-Eater and his retard junta continue on with their insane, budgetless spending on un-Constitutional programs.
Well, if the Weeper thought the Sequester he got in return for raising the debt limit was so great (and we know that Barky and the Dems LOVED it) then let it just happen.
Boner is the biggest loser idiot on the planet. He gets rolled by an Indonesian Dog-Eater with an 84 IQ and a Dem Senate that is comprised of the dumbest criminals on the planet. And that was AFTER the Weeper was swept into office in 2011 with one of the biggest Congressional swings in a century … after which he stabbed in the back the Tea Party and had to say how he “understands” the nihilistic, America-hating retards in the Occupoop bowel movement.
I also blame the House GOP for not throwing the Crybaby’s azz out on the street in March of 2011, when it was already clear that he was an inept fool who couldn’t be trusted to negotiate anything.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 13, 2012 at 12:53 PM
Amen. How stupid are we to get suckered into circular firing squads all the time?
rhombus on December 13, 2012 at 12:54 PM
Bravo for the ‘real’ conservatives who’ve cost us control of the Senate the past two elections..please more o’donnell’s, akins, and angles…that’s sure to win it for us.
Why are we listening to these guys?
blue13326 on December 13, 2012 at 12:55 PM
“debt is going to increase by 8 or 9 trillion over the next 10 years,”
Over the next 5 years more likely.
tommyboy on December 13, 2012 at 12:55 PM
I agree! bho needs to be get the blame, but bho NEVER takes the blame for anything! It is ALWAYS someone elses fault, always!
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letget on December 13, 2012 at 12:55 PM
It’s OBAMA! Geez.
thebrokenrattle on December 13, 2012 at 12:56 PM
Why are we allowing negotiations to be run by a guy who gets his ass handed to him every time – EVERY TIME – he goes toe-to-toe with the opposition? He blinks every time.
CurtZHP on December 13, 2012 at 12:57 PM
I’m pretty sure this is the beginning of a run to replace Boehner and highlight his frequent capitulations to Obama, at the peril of the country’s finnances.
beatcanvas on December 13, 2012 at 12:58 PM
Note that the Congressman making this statement, Jeff Landry, is about to lose his reelection bid (in a runoff against another Louisiana Republican, Charles Boustany). Which is why he’s going out with a salvo to create erections among True Conservatives. This is about burnishing his ‘brand’ for $$$$ and publicity now that he’s out of Congress.
So friggin’ predictable.
Esoteric on December 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM
I dunno. We were spending way above our ability to pay long before Obama. This didn’t just start with him.
a capella on December 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM
And, always in secret,..always behind closed doors. Why not have the debate in public view on the floor of the House?
a capella on December 13, 2012 at 1:07 PM
We can’t deal with the Democrats if we don’t clean up our own side. In a shooting war, if a general is incompetent, you replace him with someone who can win. Boehner is at best an incompetent general, and at worst actively working against our interests. The trash needs to be taken out, starting with him.
Criticism of the Speaker is spot on and we could frankly use more of it, not less.
Doomberg on December 13, 2012 at 1:16 PM
Count me with you two.
However bad Boehner may be (FTR, I don’t believe he is nearly as bad as so many from the Right declare – I’ll add that Allen West agrees with me about him), I’ll reiterate what you said before and point out that he can’t control how any of the House GOP members would vote for whatever deal he might make with 0dumba. If John makes a sucky deal, no one is obligated to support it.
Since no deal has been made yet, it doesn’t do any good to attack him now, based upon nothing more than fear, which is why it is understandable to me that sniping, contentious people like Amash, who don’t seem to get this concept, were kicked off of their committees.
Anti-Control on December 13, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Is there even a agreed upon “conservative” position beyond this beyond RINOs suck? I haven’t read one yet. Instead, I’ve read many.
rhombus on December 13, 2012 at 1:30 PM
Haven’t we been doing that (or say we’ve been doing that) since Bush was President? This just looks like more angry flailing and scapegoating. Conservatives didn’t get it together in 2008 and they didn’t get it together in 2012. Shooting someone new ain’t gonna get us there either.
rhombus on December 13, 2012 at 1:34 PM
FTFY
agmartin on December 13, 2012 at 1:35 PM
The Weeping Boner capitulated on tax hikes for “the rich” (rates or by eliminating deductions – it makes no difference, really) the day after the friggin election. That is about as dumb and counter-productive as it gets. In trading they would say that Boner eighthed himself, though he did much much worse.
The Weeper is a friggin moron. He’s screwed up every important point of negotiation over the past two years – when the Indonesian Dog-Eater and his America-hating junta HAD TO HAVE CRs and raises in the debt limit in order to carry on with their America-killing program. Boner helped them out each and every time without getting ANYTHING in return, at all. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. This was at a time when he was put in power to repeal ObamaScare, which could have been attached to any of a handful of MUST-PASS bills that Barky and the Dems were dying for. But, instead, the Weeper sold us out.
The only thing that Boner ever got for his total capitulation was this retarded Sequester. That was it. The sum total of CR after CR and debt raise after debt raise … and the only thing Boner had to show for all that capitulation to the force of rising entropy was this pathetic Sequester (that many of us wanted him tossed for back when he was braying about how great a deal it was to continue to allow insane, un-Constitutional spending).
That is what we are criticizing. Is there someone who thinks Boner did anything right during his tenure as Weeper? Well … let’s hear it, because this imbecilic Sequester is the only thing he ever crowed about getting.
And now he wants to allow the Indonesian and the left push the class war further in the tax code. That is insane. If taxes are going to rise, then they need to rise for everyone in concert. Conservatives are for a flatter tax schedule. Moving in the other direction is a no-go, whether it’s out in the open with the rates or hidden beneath fiddling with the deductions.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 13, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Guys, I’m not suggesting that our doesn’t spend to much and enlarge government and I hope we can change that at the ballot box. But can these idiots at least get on the same page for public consumption about this particular issue? Look at these nuts, do they make you want to support and encourage (reads donate) them? For crying out loud.
Cindy Munford on December 13, 2012 at 1:41 PM
extremely encouraging to hear elected congressional republicans going on the record criticising Boehner
commodore on December 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Has a deal been struck yet, where Boehner has capitulated on every Conservative economic principle he claims to hold? No?
In light of that, I congratulate you on your epic rant! What did it accomplish – do you feel better now?
I think that to the people who most need to hear you, someone as sensible as you is working with the enemy – the mob won’t listen.
Anti-Control on December 13, 2012 at 2:12 PM
Bingo
He gets to run the show, because a big chunk of the House wants him there. He will not give up his position, because
1. he trusts not others to do the deals he is willing to do
3. he likes it
3. he gives cover to others who keep their yaps shut but want his deals
He could not purge Tea Party on his own. He is not purging Tea Party from fear, but because he hates what they are. Ole’ Weepy didn’t get there playing softball, although a pretty big crowd hiding behind him is keeping him rolling
By the time Tea Party gains numbers, if it does, Ole’ Weepy will be retired. The way to get rid of him is numbers, and money. Right now he has a lot of the second behind him, and enough numbers to float
Watch the Club Weatherman. When the Crystal comes out of the little house, and says a bit of taxes wouldn’t hurt, you know Ole’ Weepy is getting ready to rain tears
entagor on December 13, 2012 at 2:16 PM
Have you been in a coma for the last two years? The Boner has a record, you know. This Sequester is part of that record. In fact, it’s the only part of Boner’s record that he was so proud of when he did it.
It elucidated the truth of the situation.
I don’t feel good about anything the House GOP has done over the past two years. They were instrumental in America’s fatal loss of the last chance of restoration in 2012. Do you feel good about that?
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 13, 2012 at 2:16 PM
Did Boehner get the sequester passed all by himself? If not, why do you believe he is getting the blame? FTR, I don’t mind the sequester that much, because for me it’s a decent-enough fallback upon which to cut government spending. Do I think it’s ideal? No.
Do I think we will go over the fiscal cliff? No. I think 0dumba is more likely to blink about this than Boehner will, which, if you believe Woodward’s book, was true before, too. We’ll see who’s right about this, soon.
I am not happy about much of what the GOP has done the last 2 years, but I am a sober-minded realist, and not a fatalist. If Boehner blows this, he can be voted out as Speaker, which is one of the reasons I don’t believe he will capitulate. If he blows it, and doesn’t get voted out? I say it’s best to deal with that awful bridge when we get to it, if we ever do.
Anti-Control on December 13, 2012 at 2:38 PM
Landry did not “get his clock cleaned”; it was a close vote. Justin Amash won his race. We really need to stop acting like we lost everything in 2012; We won the House and we deserve to pass what we want there, even if it never becomes law.
alwaysfiredup on December 13, 2012 at 3:06 PM
No one even ran against Huelskamp this year, primary or Democrat.
cptacek on December 13, 2012 at 3:45 PM
No, they can’t. Know why? Because Boehner is trying to get everyone together on the WRONG page.
It was Boehner’s plan, and he’s the guy who threatened other house members into going along with it or face repercussions….just like he’s trying to do now. So yes, as the guy at the top who actually fought for this plan, he absolutely is to blame. And as soon as he gives Obama his tax increases, he will get the blame for that too, and rightfully so.
Boehner has already blinked by offering Obama an extra $800 billion dollars in tax increases…err…I mean revenue.
xblade on December 13, 2012 at 4:12 PM