"... Reagan talked in general terms of his belief that the GOP’s problem was the “fraternal order” Republicans of the GOP Establishment who refused to stake out the “bold color” differences with opponents in favor of the “pale pastels” who believed in going along to get along, adopting the Left’s view of government only less so, seeking to blur differences rather than sharply illustrate them."Dear Mr. Speaker | The American Spectator
Who is really a "false prophet"?
Three years ago, in November of 2012, it was suggested here in this space that Speaker John Boehner be replaced. (Note: The article was re-run as a Flasback yesterday.) The suggestion was to replace him with an “outsider” as the Speaker of the House does not have to be a sitting member of the House. The outsider suggested was WisconsinGovernor Scott Walker. The main point, however, was well beyond Speaker Boehner. The point, to quote again, was that too many Republicans are
Fords (as in Gerald, a Boehner predecessor as House GOP Leader) and not Reagans.
Over the weekend, the Speaker took to the airwaves of CBS and decried what he called “false prophets” in the GOP, including, presumably, his own caucus. He alluded to his recent speech in which he called Senator Ted Cruz a “jackass.” CNN reported his Face the Nation interview this way (bold print for emphasis supplied):
Washington (CNN) John Boehner lashed out at-go to links to read more about this embarrassment of a Republican-
"false prophets" in the right's ranks, blaming them for political
strategies that "never had a chance" even while taking the government
into fiscal crises.
"Absolutely, they're not realistic," the retiring House speaker said of hard-line conservatives and outside groups in a Sunday interview on CBS' "Face the Nation."
He pointed to the October 2013 shutdown after
conservative House Republicans demanded the repeal of President Barack
Obama's signature health care law as one maneuver — led by Texas Sen.
Ted Cruz — that was never going to succeed.
"The Bible says beware of false prophets. And there are
people out there, you know, spreading noise about how much can get done.
I mean this whole notion that we're going to shut down the government
to get rid of Obamacare in 2013 -- this plan never had a chance," Boehner said.
"But over the course of the August recess in 2013 and in September, a
lot of my Republican colleagues who knew this was a fool's errand --
really, they were getting all this pressure from home to do this," he
said. ...
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