Boehner: “You might notice I have a few knuckleheads in my conference.”

[kpete]

September 16, 2014, 06:01 pm
Boehner: 'I have a few knuckleheads in my conference'
By Peter Sullivan


“On any given day, 16 of my members decide they’re going to go this way, and all the sudden I have nothing,” he said. “You might notice I have a few knuckleheads in my conference.”

Boehner made the remarks to the International Franchise Association, warning of a politicized National Labor Relations Board, and said House Republicans were trying to counter overreaching agencies with oversight. But he added that he needs a bigger majority.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/217934-boehner-i-have-a-few-knuckleheads-in-my-conference

[Cleita]

1. "Knuckleheads." How cute!

That's not what I would call them.

[merrily]

2. LOL! Maybe you were thinking of a body part other than the knuckle &

the head?

[Cleita]

7. I'm busted.

[merrily]

3. A few knuckleheads in my conference. Aka, all of them.

No wonder he cries.

[Arkana]

4. And how do the knuckleheads feel about being called such?

[merrily]

8. Each and every one thinks he means someone else, not him or her.

Because each one of them thinks he or she walks on water and is a GOP star.

[gratuitous]

5. So he needs a bigger majority?

Boehner thinks any added Republicans will not be knuckleheads, apparently. And he know this . . . how?

By the way, John, could you favor the rest of us with who, in your estimation, are those knuckleheads in "your" conference?

[Mass]

6. And the policy is to do what those knuckleheads want.

Just put a few people without backbone in the leadership (boehner, McCarthy), add an ally of the knuckleheads (Scalise), and you put the caucus into the hands of Bachman and Gohmert.

[merrily]

9. Bachman promised not to run this year, so that's something.

[Mass]

10. Plenty of these idiots are leaving

either because they have been enticed to run for the Senate and lost their primary or because they have decided it was no fun to be in Congress.

This said, Boehner and McCarthy are just idiots without backbone who will let the RW branch of their party do whatever they want. In the past, it was already the case, but it was at least not stated.

Case in point: this bill passed the House today, because, with a CR which needs to pass before congress leaves town and quite a few important items, what was more important than to quiet the crowds ???

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll504.xml
BILL TITLE: To require a full audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks by the Comptroller General of the United States, and for other purposes
a stated policy.

[merrily]

11. "no fun to be in Congress" = I got a offer to be lobbyist I can't refuse.

[merrily]

14. Sorry, I am not getting your drift about the bill.

Are you upset they passed it at all or upset they didn't pass it sooner? And I don't understand the comment about quieting the crowds.

[Mass]

15. The bill will never be signed into law, so this is really

a loss of time for purely political reason, but it will certainly please the Tea Party, which was probably its goal.

[merrily]

16. Ah, thank you for the explanation

For some reason, I just couldn't grasp it the first time.

[KamaAina]

12. Was he talking about the B1G?

[pansypoo53219]

13. he can add himself seeing he will only include HIS members and NEVER looks to the left to get a

majority thru compromise. that is the height of stupid.