What on Earth are Boehner and GOP leadership doing to the Republican Party? When Nancy Pelosi was Speaker, did she ever pass a major piece of legislation on the backs of Republicans and against her base? Yet Boehner has done this time and time again-RedState commenter

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12/4/14, "Boehner scrambling to find Democrat votes for Cromnibus," Streiff, RedState

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"Frank_Katz • 3 hours ago "What on Earth is Boehner and the rest of the RINO leadership doing to the Republican Party? When she was Speaker, did Nancy Pelosi ever pass a major piece of legislation on the backs of Republicans and in opposition to her base? Seriously? Yet Boehner has done this time and time again. Here we are, three weeks after a landslide election in which virtually every Republican campaigned in opposition to amnesty and Obama's illegal action, and Boehner is advancing the Democrats' agenda.

As Rush said, it's as if the Democrats won. They will, in effect, be dictating the budget for almost half the duration of the next Congress. In fact, why should anything meaningful be legislated in a lame duck session of Congress.

It's all well and good for us to complain to each other, but nothing is going to change until the Republican leadership understands the price to be paid for choosing oligarchs over its base. A third party may be a fool's errand, but if it forces the Republican Party rightward, it may be well worth it.

Choosing the lesser of two evils only goes so far."

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"wiggy111  • 2 hours ago  Boehner's been doing this for almost 2 years. He's probably broken the Hastert rule 6 times and we aren't talking about votes on naming post offices. Daniel Horowitz documented it here at Red State. It's the RINOs in red states that are nervous about voting to fund an unlawful illegal alien amnesty.

They don't want to be the next rep to get Cantor'd. Boehner will protect them by whipping up the necessary dem votes. In return these RINOs will vote yes on the procedure so it comes to the floor for a full vote."

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"redballsoffire • 3 hours ago I despise Pelosi but she is definitely twice the man that Boehner is. At least."

 

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Above comments were to following RedState article:

12/4/14, "Boehner scrambling to find Democrat votes for Cromnibus," Streiff, RedState

"The Continuing Resolution/Omnibus appropriation bill, aka cromnibus, wending its way through the House is in trouble. Dissatisfaction with the bill and the underlying strategy to deal with Obama’s executive overreach is wide and deep in the GOP caucus and it seems like Boehner will have to violate the Hastert Rule in order to force the bill through the House. Via The Hill:

"Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) said Thursday he expects some House Democrats will join Republicans in passing a trillion-dollar spending package next week to avert a government shutdown.

But the Ohio Republican stopped short of saying majority Republicans needed Democratic support to get the measure through the lower chamber and over to the Senate.
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Boehner’s troubles in moving the bill grew on Thursday, when Heritage Action, an influential conservative policy group, urged Republicans to oppose the GOP package.

“The fight is now, not next year,” said Mike Needham, Heritage Action’s chief executive officer. “Americans expect real action, not a show vote.”

Hoyer said he’s spoken to Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)41% (R-Calif.), the majority whip, about the cromnibus bill. But he declined to say whether the Republicans are asking the Democrats for votes.

"“McCarthy and I have talked,” Hoyer said. “I don’t want to say he’s reached out to me for votes, but we’ve talked about it.”

Asked if he thinks Republicans would need Democratic votes to pass the bill, Hoyer said simply, “I don’t know.”

Pelosi, for her part, said she’s spoken to Boehner in search of a bipartisan agreement. But she declined to lend details about what package would satisfy the Democrats.

“I have reached out to the Speaker and said…we want to work together to pass a bill to keep government open,” Pelosi said.

“As we had to supply the votes last year to open up government, let us supply the votes to keep government open,” she added. “But we can’t do it unless we have a bill that is worthy of our support.”"

To a great extent one of the best outcomes, other than Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)N/A using his newly acquired Obamacare coverage to have some of Erick’s gifts surgically attached, would be for the Democrats to pull the rug out from under Boehner, leaving him holding a bill that has the support of neither the GOP nor the Democrats."

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