House GOP Leaders Leaking On Each Other?
You know there’s serious disarray afoot among a party’s Congressional leaders when the principals and their staffs start leaking damaging info about each other, and that now seems to be happening among House GOP leaders.
Check out this nugget from Ben Pershing’s piece on increasing tensions among House Republicans. It appears that someone is trying to pin the blame for the House GOP’s politically-disastrous, numbers-free budget on John Boehner:
Privately, Cantor and the lawmaker tasked with writing the GOP budget, Rep. Paul D. Ryan, had urged the party to hold off going public until it could produce a finished product. Both men wanted a more detailed proposal with dollar figures that would make it a more defensible document. Boehner and House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence disagreed, hoping to counter as quickly as possible Democrats’ charge that Republicans are “the Party of No.” The result was a botched rollout and bad press.
And someone wants to shift the blame for the botched budget rollout away from Eric Cantor.
Why the leak now? Dems, of course, are elevating Cantor as the face of the obstructionist opposition in a way they aren’t doing with Boehner — recall the full-scale Dem on Cantor’s worry about pols “overreacting” to the crisis.
Cantor’s staff seems generally more attuned than some other House GOP staffers to the potential effectiveness of the Dem attacks on the GOP as the “party of No.” Indeed, Cantor seems wary of being wholly lumped in with the rest of the leadership, and seems to want to preserve a bit of independence, given his obvious ambitions and designs on a political promotion down the road.
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Mornin’ fellow Plummers
Or would that be Plumheads? I just have this to say about the Republican’s budget. Even if they waited to release it with actual “numbers”, if the numbers they released were to be same as the numbers last week, it’s still a laughable budget.
Last week Eric Cantor, after being in the half of the House GOP that voted FOR the tax on AIG bonuses, voted present on the Grayson bill that seeks to get those bonus monies back. I mentioned it last week but I found the link and the exact quote from Boehner last year talking about then Senator Obama voting present while in the Illinois state senate. I think Sevugan should use it to his Cantor and drive more division.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081031/pl_politico/25167;_ylt=Ati4T9zjPdQNAkxgO6P2VnuyFz4D
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Of course some young enterprising journalist who consistently gets scoops on their blog could simply ask Boehner’s office if Cantor’s vote meant he was also a chicken sh*t in Boehner’s opinion ….
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Morning DJShay
O greg – I love this headline. Golden showers for the GOP.
Hi guys – I’m in remodel hell – half the time I have no electricity, no water. We lost the cat for 6 hours Friday night and it’s a miracle I found him. The plumber shut him under the house.
*sigh*
Miss y’all.
And, totally OT: but on the iPod and guitar – I cannot think of better American gifts. America invented popular music and we still have a monopoly on popular music that doesn’t suck. We invented: jazz, blues, bluegrass, Dixieland, rock and roll, rap.
What is a more appropriate gift than music? There isn’t one.
Tena: We’ve been wondering where you’ve been. We miss you too!
@sgwhite – That would make a perfect comeback for Cantor’s present vote
hey Tena — glad you’re back. remodel hell is indeed hell. Good luck with it.
LOL! This headline is too funny…
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Sorry to sound so immature guys… it’s a rainy Monday here in Northern, VA… needed a good laugh
Tena welcome back. We were looking for you last week.
Thanks everyone but y’all would not have wanted to talk to me last week. I promise – I was in one big bad mood and it was one crisis after another.
I’m waiting to get the water back in the rest of the house today and god it better end up that way. Mr. Tena took a cold shower Friday morning and shaved in cold water. Now that bath has hot water and my bathroom doesn’t and hasn’t all weekend.
All this just from moving our tankless water heater to another location.
Morning All~
Looks like the GOP is beginning to eat their own…the GOP is just in a huge quandry and they can’t figure out what to do. They have basically nothing to hang their hat on…looking at one of the important issues being discussed – Getting off of foreign oil/Renewable Energy: The only place they seem to be going with this issue is “drill baby drill”…now, that might be a nice simplified catch phrase for the base…but is a very limited, very short term view and the majority of Americans see right through this, and I am not sure why they are not embracing this issue more…how can getting off of foreign oil be something that they are not all for? And getting off of foreign oil for the long term requires so much more than “drill baby drill”, yet that is all they seem to endorse and it amazes me, what in the world offends the GOP base about “going green” with our energy…I mean I obviously see the reason big oil is against, but why just the average GOP base person? Why are they against America having a renewable energy plan that we actually do something about? And even if the majority of Americans believe we should become energy independent, the GOP can’t seem to broaden their solutions to this issue…if they go towards renewable energy solutions like higher cafe standards or a gas tax or wind/solar…it offends the “base” – Why? I can see the gas tax part, because they do not want to raise taxes, but why aren’t they behind wind/solar and higher cafe standards…this is the direction that the majority of Americans want to go toward, yet the GOP is so limited on their scope for this issue…in addition, we can say this about a number of issues, and now the GOP has even lost their edge on foreign policy/foreign affairs – we use to feel like they were strong on national defense and war issues, but they have even screwed that up over the last eight years- the fact that Iraq is a total mess, that no progress has been made in Afghanistan and that we have not captured Osama Bin Laden -the GOP has even lost credibility in this area, which use to be a strong point for them…it will be interesting to watch it all play out…
It is generally better to be pissed off, than pissed on. But we are talking about the Republican congressional leadership, aren’t we?
Tena: Please, try not to homer so suckily. The Beatles, stones, Clapton, Kinks, Fleetwood Mac (part), David Bowie, King Crimson, and so forth and so on, did not come from the US. They came from England (large island in Europe). A LARGE proportion of the REALLY IMPORTANT R&R music came from England, and during certain periods NO AMERICANS did anything important in pop music, it was all England.
I guess “leaking” is better than “defecating”….
I look forward to reading about this in MS sources.
Right.
Jenn D. I will explain why the right’s base gets so offended by renewable energy and going green. The base consists of religious fundamentalists who want the country to fail. I am quite serious when I say this. They want the country to fail as it is, so they can say, “We were right, this country’s lack of Christian values has led us down a path of destruction. The only way to fix everything is to embrace God.”
Republican politicians don’t see the irony of/or a problem with supporting these people.
sgwhiteinfl,
there is no present vote in Congress. only nay or aye. but i agree w/ ur point about Cantor being hypocritical.
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The Republicans need to go back to embracing the power of small that once brought them victory. They need to run their party with an organized and iron fist and make sure every single member and spokesperson is on the same page. these little details matter.
No point in getting all worked up over this so just sit back and relax, and watch the repuglican bloodbath. It’ll be interesting to see who survives because they’ll set the agenda for the rest to follow.
Hey Tena. I am so glad you found the cat.
The Republicans are pushing their absurdity beyond what is, even, enjoyably laughable. There maneuverings have become much more overtly sinister. Increasingly, the Republicans (Boehner, Cantor, de facto leader Limbaugh, etc.) are desperate with frightening motivations. This will not only further endanger their Party, but poses more risks to the entire country. It’s like the drowning person who can’t be saved, but will take the lifeguard down with him. The Republicans need to develop some intelligent informal leaders, to offset what they are offering currently.
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