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jmowreader

(53,395 posts)
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 06:04 PM Oct 2013

Dear Speaker Boehner: Tea Party politicians can be primaried too

America's Favorite Parrot, John Boehner, is kowtowing to tea party demands by allowing them to shut down the government and threaten America with economic collapse if Obamacare isn't repealed. The demand is simple: do what we want, or we'll primary you.

There are a lot of pre-tea party Republicans in Congress who remember the last time the GOP threw a hissy fit like this, and they also remember the aftermath: loss of Congress for many terms.

It is time for the pre-tea party Republicans to call the tea party Republicans into a room and explain the facts of life: no one's here forever and if you don't want to see the House go Democratic and the Senate majority become filibuster-proof in 2014, quit trying to destroy the economy.

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Dear Speaker Boehner: Tea Party politicians can be primaried too (Original Post) jmowreader Oct 2013 OP
"America's Favorite Parrot, john boehner"!!!!! calimary Oct 2013 #1
Dear John: House Speakers can be primaried too Coyotl Oct 2013 #2
That's the problem jmowreader Oct 2013 #3

jmowreader

(53,395 posts)
3. That's the problem
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 10:59 PM
Oct 2013

He knows the teabaggers are just itchin' to primary him and replace him with another teabagger. In response, he's giving them everything they want.

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