Boehner re-elected Spkr...so why take Tea Party threats seriously?

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...-party-for-consequences-of-fiscal-cliff-vote/

Tea Party Express calling for "consequences" for Republican who voted for the fiscal cliff bill....yet John Boehner voted for it, and 220 Republicans just supported him as their next Speaker.

Is the Tea Party now a paper tiger?

 

As a realistic conservative, I hope so.

 

Poor conservatives..... I feel so bad for them. Will they form new party now?

 

Apparently not....it seems while they can play "I'll take my football and go home if I can't win" when it comes to voting on a bill to prevent a fiscal crises....when it comes to ACTUALLY challenging the "evil GOP Establishment"?

They fold like a house of cards. TP will talk big...but when it counts, Boehner (as LBJ used to say) has their peckers in his pocket.

 

(*)(*)(*)(*)ing hilarious.

Perhaps one of the most feckless and ineffectual speakers ever to hold the position, completely unable to build any sort of consensus, who gives it up to the president constantly, gets reelected.

If the goal of the GOP was to become a joke, they have succeeded mightily.

 

I didn't know there were any of you guys left. We better get a cell sample in case we need to clone you if the species goes extinct. Put it in a storage unit with cells from Eisenhower and Bob Dole.

 

If you're a Tea Party member of the House you're in tough on the Speakership vote. Voting against Boehner will significantly reduce what you will be able to do for your constituents as retribution from the bought and paid for scumbag country club Republicans is a certainty. Boehner needed the boot. Nine principled House Republicans voted against him. That took balls. Amash, Heulescamp, Gomert and others flushed their future in leadership in order to do what they knew was correct.

Well done.

 

Not at all. Unlike the democrats who are all sheep and do what their told, the Tea Party guys are willing to stand against their own party for what they believe in.

It takes bravado to do that. Something the democrats sorely lack.

They were put in there to do a job and they are doing it to the best of their ability.

Why you guys on the left want to make the Tea Party out to be evil for simply standing up for their ideology is hilarious.

 

A mere handful of tea partiers voted against him. Some may have nuts, but most don't, and your guys are still stuck with a crappy leader.

 

the tea party doesn't even have the bravado to run as their own party

 

The tea party is officially dead. Good riddance.

 

No I am against the Tea Party because I don't trust them one iota.

 

That is probably going to change around 2014 or 2016. If the TP does not get significant results, ie the elimination of Sen Chambliss, among others in 2014, then it will break away from the GOP and form a new "Reform Party" to go against any GOP challenger.

 

I never took the tea party seriously from the beginning. The tea party is mostly just a bunch of disingenuous hypocrites.

 

Is the Tea Party a paper tiger?

Wait til the next primary season.

 

He was essentially unopposed. I cannot fathom why ANYBODY would want his job for the next 2 years. (I wouldn't.)

 

As a TEA Party member, I cannot wait for the next Primary season. The more weak kneed non-fiscally responsible Republicans we can primary out the better.

We have to get real Fiscally responsible people in power to stop the Liberal/Marxists that are conducting generational theft against our children. The Left are Generational Economic Pedophiles (GEP's)... they are molesting our children's future.

Thank God for the TEA Party.... at least their is still a chance.

 

And like all third parties it will be dead within 2 election cycles, or be pushed to the sidelines by the big 2.

 

This is probably Boehner's last 2 years as speaker.

He failed in his quest to derail Pres Obama's re-election.

All of Boehner's obstructionism was to no evail over the past 2 years.

And his Plan B was a flop.

It's no wonder his alcoholism has been getting out of his control.

Every time he speaks he is plastered.

 

LOL you do that, and when the democrats gain super majorities in both houses America will be back on track. Tax the rich, gut the military, gut corporate welfare. The tea party is dead. And you sir are a (*)(*)(*)(*)ing traitor.

 

Yes and no. They will continue their extremist ways, and will continue to carry out their brilliant strategy of primary challenges to anyone who doesn't come along with them. In the medium to long term, they will get less and less support from the electorate, and ultimately, they'll vanish.

But in the short-term, despite the spanking they got in the election, they seem more hell-bent than ever on pursuing their radical agenda, and apparently intend to keep throwing sand in the gears every chance they get. So for at least the next two years, they'll do a lot of damage. Which honestly seems to be their main goal.

 

Very simple. No viable alternative.

It speaks volumes about the current state of the GOP.

 

What exactly you expect him to do when he's tied down by the fact that over half the country is either addicted to, or in support of, major social programs and any attempt to cut them is inevitably ruined when the media hysterically blows each and every GOP policy solution into the end of the world for children and old people?

Until the liberal deadlock on mainstream media is broken, the GOP will never, ever be a popular party. I know fellow Republicans hate to hear it, but maybe America really has changed into something we're not welcome in any more and maybe, just maybe we're seeing the last of Capitalist America and the birth of Social Democratic America and we'll all die angry.

Sure we can fight to slow down the destruction, but can we stop it? I'm not sure at all anymore.

 

What happens when a large minority of white working/middle class is marginalized, alienated, estranged, and has lost hope of further participation in a political system which will never again be under their control?

What does history tell us? Will they lay down and die? Acquiesce? Disappear? Or do they go ELF/ALF on those they perceive to be responsible?

 

There is a school of thought, started in Europe, that the more conservative party offers the electorate only one real feature; that they will better manage the burgeoning welfare state. Not that they will shrink it, but that they will be more efficient. This is necessarily doom for America by entrenching the maker/taker dichotomy whilst the takers still have the vote.

America COULD survive 8 years of Obama. America cannot survive the populous that would re-elect him. The looters have called the tune and that tune is doom.