So now it all becomes painfully obvious why it was
that John Boehner proved to be such an unmitigated disaster as Speaker. It would seem that carrying out the people’s
business in what should have been a responsible manner was seen by Boehner as
being simply too hard and too much work.
So old ‘Boner’ decided to take the easier less stressful route, hence
the reason that our national debt increased by nearly $4 Trillion on his watch. Boehner made the claim in a recent interview
that he came to Washington to fight for a smaller, less costly and more
accountable government. And yet, now
that he's finally leaving the House that still hasn't happened.
It was just yesterday, in an interview with Fox
News’ Bill Hemmer, that Boehner admitted, "I began to realize over the
years there is no winning this fight."
Well shit no John, it’s damn near impossible to win fight when all you do
is to choose to constantly surrender.
His as much as admitted to being an abject failure shortly after a man
who is essentially his clone, Paul Ryan, took up the gavel. The fight has been going on for over 200
years in Washington, he told Hemmer in the interview, which aired earlier today
on the network's "America's Newsroom" program, and "it will be a
constant struggle over how big should Washington be, how much should it
take?"
Boehner said his biggest regret for the time he was
speaker was the failure to reach the so-called "Grand Bargain," in
2012, which would have been an agreement with Barry “Almighty” and
congressional leaders to curb spending while reducing the national debt and
avoiding sequestration. Boehner said,
"I sat in the Oval Office with the president of the United States and Eric
Cantor, shook hands with the president and the deal was done." He said, "$5 trillion in deficit
reductions would have meant tens of trillions of dollars over the next 20 years
in terms of really fixing our entitlement programs and getting us on to a much
more solid foundation."
But instead, he said, Barry "walked away from
the agreement and caused, really, the country to have a real struggle, because
how are we going to raise the debt limit? How will we offset spending? The
country went through a lot more than it needed to." But the fact that Boehner was surprised by
Barry actions demonstrates better than anything else that he simply was not up
to the all-important task at hand. Let’s
face it, anyone who can be outsmarted by Barry, and who is unable to recognize
what it is that Barry is trying do, even after he has made it abundantly clear
on numerous occasions, simply has no business being in a position of party
leadership.
Still, Boehner said that he and Barry have had a
good relationship, despite their disagreements about many issues. He said, "I think it's essential the
leaders be able to work with each other, have a relationship, build some trust
so we do the nation's business." He
went on to say, "The president called me the day I announced my retirement
and we had a nice conversation. At one point he said, 'Man, I'm going to miss
you.' I said, 'Yes, you are, Mr. President, yes, you are.'" What a bunch of idiotic nonsense. Look, working together is one thing, but to purposely
aid and abet a man like Barry in his effort to destroy this country is
inexcusable and unconscionable.
Boehner did leave office on a high point, if you can
call it that. That being, the arranging
for the first communist pope to address a joint session of Congress. Boehner, a devout Catholic was, as he was on
any number of other occasions, moved to tears while Pope Francis spoke. Boehner resigned his office the very next
day. But he said he does not have any
regrets about quitting, as "it was the right decision, the right time. And
you are right, I'm ready to go."
Well no, not really. Actually, if
we’re being honest here, the ‘right time’ would have been 3 years earlier,
after making it quite clear after his first 2 years as Speaker that he just
didn’t have what it took.
And now, here we go again with Paul Ryan. This is a guy who Democrats have said, sounds
remarkably like he’s one of them. I mean
here we have a guy who favors open borders, favors amnesty, and is a guy who
was all in when it came to this recent ‘budget’ fiasco that was essentially
snuck through in the dark of night. What
Ryan is, is Boehner 2.0. or, the new and improved version of what we have had
to put up with for the last five years.
Ryan’s made a lot of noise about wiping the slate clean and making a
fresh start, but it’s all nothing more than bullshit. Because what we’re likely to experience over
the coming months is nothing but more of the same.
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