Speaker of the House John "Weepy" Boehner suffered a major defeat tonight causing him to withdraw his "Plan B" from a vote. It could not happen to a more deserving ass.
After screwing around for weeks by attempting to make nice with President Downgrade, it has all come down to this. What a perfectly wretched Christmas present Mr. Boehner has given himself, the Republican party, the TEA Party, conservatives and the tax paying American citizens. He will have to go home with the rest of congress and dwell on what could have been.
And just what could have happened? Well, lot's of things could have happened. Boehner could have modeled his speakership on any number of his more powerful and successful predecessors but he did not. I don't think he modeled his speakership on anyone. I think that this is all Boehner. This is him...
A man that would play poker with his cards turned face up. A guy who doesn't seem to understand the first thing about entering into a negotiation. A clod who would have come up the loser in bargaining with the indians over Manhattan Island. An idiot who would have sat down with the defeated Japanese on the deck of the USS Missouri and managed to give them the better terms. Boehner doesn't merely blink...choking is even too mild a description. He crawls, he begs, he scrapes before his political adversaries and then acts so surprised when they kick him to the curb.
On the other hand, he treats his natural allies as if they were a dog turd he inadvertently stepped on and, nose wrinkling, dismissively scrapes them off of the bottom of his shoe. Why on earth can't Boehner muster up this sort of disgust and disdain, this very public lack of respect for Obama and Reid? He sucks up to those enemies of liberty while simultaneously tossing conservatives off of any and all meaningful committee posts.
And then he is so shocked, so surprised when none of them will support his cave legislation. What a dope.
Boehner represents everything that has been painfully and obviously wrong with Republican congressional leadership for decades. Give up one position of strength after another and inexplicably expect to be shown something approaching respect and accommodation from his adversary. Idiocy. Our president is a pansy. He demonstrates it every time he is in public but compared to Boehner he looks positively macho. Boehner is worse than wimpy. I don't know what to call it. I don't know how to describe it. His leadership style is somewhere south of "fag" and "pussy." It lacks both reason and strength. He doesn't bring a knife to a gunfight. He shows up at the gunfight and acts surprised that there's a fight at all. It's like he still thinks that Washington is some kind of club where everyone behaves by certain rules. Except he is the only one who observes the rules while Reid and Obama and the MFM stomp on his ass and laugh at him...to his face.
Boehner seems to think that because he is Speaker he is somehow automatically owed X amount of respect from these pathetic creatures and when it doesn't happen, when the exact opposite happens, he is stunned. Perplexed. Flummoxed. And he just doesn't seem to be able to make the mental connection that these opponents hate him, hate his party, hate the people that he supposedly represents. And because he can't make that connection, or maybe even if he could, he can't seem to scrounge up enough testosterone to form any kind of defense or offense or anything other than a pout.
We need a real man to take this job. Boehner needs to be fired as Speaker. He does not deserve to hold a position of power when he flat out refuses to wield that power.
I sure hope he loses the leadership when the House re-convenes in January.
