Since Boehner took over as Speaker I kinda feel like I've been getting 'boned' by Speaker Boehner. And I feel even more so after hearing him speaking with reporters at a restaurant in Tampa, Fla., on Monday. It was then that Boehner said he feels he can find "common ground" with Barry "Almighty". He even went so far as to recall how it was that he and the late Ted "The Pervert" Kennedy "did an awful lot of good things together." The remarks came during a press lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, a reporter asked the Ohio Republican, “I’m wondering what your thoughts are if worse comes to worse and President Obama does win another term - what sort of mandate you see he would have and how you see his relations with Congress and what he could actually accomplish.” Boehner added, “I have no doubts that if required, I can find common ground with the president.”
“We found an awful lot of common ground last year in attempting to solve our debt crisis. Unfortunately, the president lost his courage, but for those that know me and those who listened to me over the course of the last 30 days, I never give up, and I’d never given up on the president regardless of whose occupying that office,” he said. Barry is going to have “some big decisions” in his second term, Boehner said. Well let's just hope he doesn't get that second term, there, Mr. Speaker. “There’s nobody more open to solving the problems facing our country than me. There’s nobody more transparent about what needs to be done, but it’s gonna be the president,” he said. Adding, “I’m gonna do everything I can to solve the major challenges facing our country, and I’ll sit down with anyone on any side of the aisle,” Boehner said. Now that's the kind of drivel that I want to be hearing from those on my side.
Boehner said he had a “long track record of working across the aisle with people like Ted Kennedy for God's sakes.” Adding, “We did an awful lot of good things together. Why? Because while he had strong opinions, and I may have had strong opinions, we understood our job was to find some common ground, and it was common ground that we found.” What I guess the Speaker fails to grasp is that it's simply no longer possible to 'work with' those who call themselves Democrats. There is no interest on the part of those people to compromise. To them compromise means a Republican surrender, which since acquiring his current position as speaker, Boehner has been only too eager to do. We quite simply can no longer afford to keep someone of Boehner's rather lackluster desire to take the fight to the Democrats on the keys issues that must be resolved, if we are to get past this Barry created economic disaster.
Also in speaking with reporters Boehner made it a point to say, “Ninety-nine percent of my colleagues are decent, honest people trying to do the right thing for the country.” A reporter asked him, “Please share with us, Mr. Speaker, in a broad sense your ideas on how to make the American people have a more favorable view of Congress.” Boehner replied that while “on any given day some of them are out there doing things they probably shouldn’t be doing,” 99 percent of his colleagues "are decent, honest people trying to do the right thing for the country.” Adding, “Congress has been America’s favorite whipping boy for 200 years, and I don’t think that’s going to change anytime soon.” Boehner droned on saying, “And secondly, 435 members, and on any given day some of them are out there doing things they probably shouldn’t be doing. It’s just a fact, but I am going to say this.
And Boehner announced, and quite proudly so that, “I know my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and while there may be differences between some Democrats and Republicans, I can tell you that 99 percent of my colleagues are decent, honest people trying to do the right thing for the country, but we work in a setting that makes it very difficult for people to see that.” Boehner said that he blamed the media for only covering issues that Congress has “big disagreement” on. “You know, people think all we do is fight with each other. They don’t realize that 80 percent of the time, we’re working in a bi-partisan manner, getting the people’s work done, because the only thing they tend to see are those issues where we have a big disagreement, because that’s what gets covered,” he said. “When we’re all holding hands and passing bills in a bipartisan way, it’s just not news,” Boehner added.
“But I’m proud of all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for the service they do for their constituents and the service they do for our country,” he said. Come on, Mr. Speaker, what a load of crap! Gee, let's all have a big group hug! I don't think that RINO's like Boehner fully grasp the severity of the situation that our country is in. He also seems to be oblivious to the ideological shift that has taken place in the Democratic Party. The era of being able to reach across the aisle and working for what's best for America is pretty much dead and buried. The primary concern of today's Democrat Party is to fight to win and then to retain political power, no matter what or who they have to destroy in the process. The Democrat Party has now moved so far to the left that they can't be bipartisan because of their ideology. They need to be stood up to not cowered in front of.
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