Nothing new here, Tiassa. Moral outrage vs cynicism, guess who wins. If/When moral outrage wins the day we as a people will make our legislators enact laws against raising funds on the back of slaughtered innocents. To the bigger picture "Don't Sympathize Organize."
Looking Forward: The Next Chapter is Now
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House Faction Rallies Behind Battered Speaker: Kick Out the Moderates
Badly Scripted
There is a gang custom that was kind of, sort of popular once upon a time; it probably persists in some form, but it was called "beating in", or "dropping in", or some similar variation. With everything else done, the last ritual of initiation was to be severely beaten by your gang brothers, and if you survived, you were in. Everybody cheered, gave you drinks, told you the scars would look good.
With the speakership dazed and bruised, cut and backstabbed and bleeding, the party brutes are now celebrating John Boehner's triumph:
Meanwhile, in the slightly less unrealistic land known as the U.S. Senate, Orrin Hatch, Republican senior senator from Utah, publicly deplored the way his House colleagues have treated the Speaker: "I just bitterly resent some of the things that have been done".
Stay tuned for another chapter of The Elephant Has No Clothes. This could get interesting.
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Notes:
Berman, Russell. "Conservatives say Boehner's job is safe". The Hill. October 16, 2013. TheHill.com. October 16, 2013. http://thehill.com/homenews/house/328861-conservative-say-boehner-in-no-danger-of-ouster
Badly Scripted
There is a gang custom that was kind of, sort of popular once upon a time; it probably persists in some form, but it was called "beating in", or "dropping in", or some similar variation. With everything else done, the last ritual of initiation was to be severely beaten by your gang brothers, and if you survived, you were in. Everybody cheered, gave you drinks, told you the scars would look good.
With the speakership dazed and bruised, cut and backstabbed and bleeding, the party brutes are now celebrating John Boehner's triumph:
House conservatives said Wednesday that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is in no danger of losing his post, despite presiding over a Republican defeat in the fight over government funding and the debt ceiling.
"I don't think Speaker Boehner has anything to worry about right now," said Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho), a conservative who refused to vote for Boehner in January.
Speaking at an event with fellow conservatives, Labrador said he was "really proud" of Boehner's handling of the fiscal crisis and that, over the last 2 1/2 weeks, "he has been the kind of Speaker I've been looking for for the last 2 1/2 years" ....
.... The representative leading the ObamaCare defunding fight in the House said Wednesday that nobody "questions (Boehner's) leadership."
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) told The Hill, "Conservatives feel like he's fought the good fight. ... You can quote me on that" ....
.... Other conservatives confirmed that they expected no attempt to oust Boehner.
"There is absolutely no talk of anything along those lines. No talk," said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a former chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee who frequently opposes leadership proposals.
Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) said Boehner had enhanced his standing in the last month and predicted that conservative clout would not diminish in the fallout from the shutdown fight.
"I have been so pleased and proud of John Boehner during the course of the last month that I have renewed confidence that conservatives will have an opportunity to influence what happens in our conference," Lummis said.
Labrador placed the blame elsewhere in the GOP.
"I don't think he should be ashamed of anything he has done," he said. "I'm more upset at my Republican conference colleagues. There are Republicans here who apparently always want to fight but they always want to fight the next fight, which has given Speaker Boehner the inability to be successful in this fight. So if anybody should be kicked out, it's all those Republicans and not Speaker Boehner."
(Berman)
"I don't think Speaker Boehner has anything to worry about right now," said Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho), a conservative who refused to vote for Boehner in January.
Speaking at an event with fellow conservatives, Labrador said he was "really proud" of Boehner's handling of the fiscal crisis and that, over the last 2 1/2 weeks, "he has been the kind of Speaker I've been looking for for the last 2 1/2 years" ....
.... The representative leading the ObamaCare defunding fight in the House said Wednesday that nobody "questions (Boehner's) leadership."
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) told The Hill, "Conservatives feel like he's fought the good fight. ... You can quote me on that" ....
.... Other conservatives confirmed that they expected no attempt to oust Boehner.
"There is absolutely no talk of anything along those lines. No talk," said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a former chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee who frequently opposes leadership proposals.
Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) said Boehner had enhanced his standing in the last month and predicted that conservative clout would not diminish in the fallout from the shutdown fight.
"I have been so pleased and proud of John Boehner during the course of the last month that I have renewed confidence that conservatives will have an opportunity to influence what happens in our conference," Lummis said.
Labrador placed the blame elsewhere in the GOP.
"I don't think he should be ashamed of anything he has done," he said. "I'm more upset at my Republican conference colleagues. There are Republicans here who apparently always want to fight but they always want to fight the next fight, which has given Speaker Boehner the inability to be successful in this fight. So if anybody should be kicked out, it's all those Republicans and not Speaker Boehner."
(Berman)
Meanwhile, in the slightly less unrealistic land known as the U.S. Senate, Orrin Hatch, Republican senior senator from Utah, publicly deplored the way his House colleagues have treated the Speaker: "I just bitterly resent some of the things that have been done".
Stay tuned for another chapter of The Elephant Has No Clothes. This could get interesting.
____________________
Notes:
Berman, Russell. "Conservatives say Boehner's job is safe". The Hill. October 16, 2013. TheHill.com. October 16, 2013. http://thehill.com/homenews/house/328861-conservative-say-boehner-in-no-danger-of-ouster