Too little too late, or the BOEHNER-BIRX Syndrome

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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/mehdi-hasan-says-boehner-roasting-gop-crazies-is-too-little-too-late-he-helped-usher-them-into-power/

Mehdi Hasan Says Boehner Roasting GOP ‘Crazies’ Is ‘Too Little Too Late’: He ‘Helped Usher Them Into Power’

.... Hasan, however, dryly told viewers, “John Boehner wants us to pine for a simpler time where Republican politicians were not conspiracy theorists or actively working to subvert democracy, but rather simple, hardworking corporate stooges.”

He said Boehner “literally helped usher” in the “crazies,” recalling the tea party movement and referring to Michele Bachmann as “the Marjorie Taylor Greene of her time.”

“Boehner thought he could ride that tea party wave, just like Paul Ryan thought he could ride the Trump wave in 2016,” Hasan added. “The reason we are where we are today is because these ‘old school Republicans’ didn’t stand up to the crazies. They embraced them. However uneasily. And now the crazies are ascendant, and John Boehner wants to be celebrated for calling them crazy. For now, finally calling it like it is. Well, too little too late.”

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[Blue_true]

1. Bingo to Mehdi Hasan. Freaking right on the money. nt

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2. In my Dem lifetime I've given a pass to DASCHLE types on the grounds that straddling or

having to walk a line under duress is killer-difficult, but the shirking has worn thin over the years.

[Warpy]

3. It's why making deals with devils is a very bad idea

Eventually the devils take over.

That's what's going on in the GOpee. With the bigots, the religiously insane, and the fast buck guys, there is no room for the old style Republican--thoughtful and decent, just wrong.