Can't Get Any More Anti-Establishment than this Endorsement
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Boehner is doing the reverse mojo here.....he doesn't like either Cruz or Trump. Figures by saying Trump is the guy it might siphon off votes can guarantee that. Boehner also never met a liberal he didn't like, a drink he wouldn't put down and a golf game with the rodent-in-chief that he wouldn't partake of. Absolute waste of a speaker for the Majority and probably could be held up (robbed) through the mail. He really is the last guy in the world who should be in public talking about other peoples political chops, good or bad.
That's quite a stretch. He has much more in common politically and philosophically with Trump than Cruz.
He may have NoName....but that doesn't mean he likes him and given Boehner's past, its not an implicit endorsement Trump should want or be happy about hearing. Don't remember the candidate that did it (maybe Jeb) but when he started getting advice from his brothers old managers it even made him more toxic to people who hated the establishment gang, doesn't matter what they did or didn't have in common with the "new" candidate.
Boehner and Trump are old friends, or at the least, friendly colleagues.
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Ted Cruz Verified account @tedcruz
Ted Cruz Retweeted Bo Snerdley
Tell me again who will stand up to Washington? Trump, who's Boehner's "texting and golfing buddy," or Carly & me?
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Ted Cruz Verified account @tedcruz Ted Cruz Retweeted Bo Snerdley
Tell me again who will stand up to Washington? Trump, who's Boehner's "texting and golfing buddy," or Carly & me?
As far as I am concerned, there are two prime leaders of the so-called establishment which are hugely responsible for much of what has (rightly) spawned the outrage of Conservative/Republican voters: Mitch McConnell and, even more so, John Boehner. To be sure, those two aren't the only ones, but Boehner stands head and shoulders above any others IMO.
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Exactly. I sent Boehner an email and got placed on his monthly poop sheet. Reading what he said in that made him look right of Cruz. Unfortunately, his actions as Speaker were 180 degrees opposite. Ryan inherited Boehner's email list and I've received several from him. The tone of each paints Ryan as a frugal conservative. Again, his actions are much different as evidenced by the total capitulation on the Omnibus Budget Bill.
This (IMO) is a very well written piece by Andrew McCarthy which is a great summation of what Trump really believes politically and (I fear) what he will do if elected. I hope Mr. McCarthy and I are wrong about Mr. Trump, if he should manage to win.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434787/donald-trump-insurgent-republican-establishment-media
"Want to know why Obamacare is fully funded? Why the meager spending caps enacted in 2011 were busted? Why the debt limit was suspended so Washington could zoom past its $18 trillion credit line? Why Obama’s lawless executive order granting de facto amnesty to illegal aliens is proceeding apace? Why Obama is emptying Guantanamo Bay and planning to transfer detainees into the United States? Why the EPA continues to implement Obama’s climate-change agenda despite a Supreme Court stay of its anti-coal regulation? Why no official was impeached and no funding was slashed when the IRS was used as a political weapon against conservative groups? Why the Justice Department has a $27 billion budget that pays for its paralyzing investigations of the nation’s police departments while the attorney general threatens new legal action against climate-change “deniers” and “anti-Muslim” speech?
Thank John Boehner. To fight Obama on these and other progressive priorities would have required exploiting Congress’s constitutional authority, particularly the power of the purse. Boehner and other GOP leaders were given this power because voters believed their promises to fight. Empty promises.
While Boehner was surrendering, Donald Trump was backing him to the hilt: a staggering $100,000 contribution to the Congressional Leadership Fund — Boehner’s super PAC, formed largely to fend off conservative primary challenges against GOP establishment loyalists. It should be easy to remember that number, $100,000. It is the same amount Trump gave to the Clinton Foundation. That’s even more than the $60,000 Trump gave to Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, the super PAC of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (along with a $5,200 contribution to McConnell’s reelection campaign). It was McConnell, of course, who handled the Senate end of the budget surrender that Obama praised for reflecting “our values” — meaning two years of his values, paid in full by the GOP-controlled Congress."
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434787/donald-trump-insurgent-republican-establishment-media
"Want to know why Obamacare is fully funded? Why the meager spending caps enacted in 2011 were busted? Why the debt limit was suspended so Washington could zoom past its $18 trillion credit line? Why Obama’s lawless executive order granting de facto amnesty to illegal aliens is proceeding apace? Why Obama is emptying Guantanamo Bay and planning to transfer detainees into the United States? Why the EPA continues to implement Obama’s climate-change agenda despite a Supreme Court stay of its anti-coal regulation? Why no official was impeached and no funding was slashed when the IRS was used as a political weapon against conservative groups? Why the Justice Department has a $27 billion budget that pays for its paralyzing investigations of the nation’s police departments while the attorney general threatens new legal action against climate-change “deniers” and “anti-Muslim” speech?
Thank John Boehner. To fight Obama on these and other progressive priorities would have required exploiting Congress’s constitutional authority, particularly the power of the purse. Boehner and other GOP leaders were given this power because voters believed their promises to fight. Empty promises.
While Boehner was surrendering, Donald Trump was backing him to the hilt: a staggering $100,000 contribution to the Congressional Leadership Fund — Boehner’s super PAC, formed largely to fend off conservative primary challenges against GOP establishment loyalists. It should be easy to remember that number, $100,000. It is the same amount Trump gave to the Clinton Foundation. That’s even more than the $60,000 Trump gave to Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, the super PAC of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (along with a $5,200 contribution to McConnell’s reelection campaign). It was McConnell, of course, who handled the Senate end of the budget surrender that Obama praised for reflecting “our values” — meaning two years of his values, paid in full by the GOP-controlled Congress."
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I like much of what McCarthy writes. My question him is, "if things are so bad in Congress why don't you put yourself out as a candidate to do something to change it?" I suspect he would take a large pay cut to do so.
It would be nice if Trump didn't lavish money on all these politicians and their PACs. It would be nice if there wasn't so much money in politics. However, I don't find that much fault in Trump playing the game. As he has said often, it's the way the game is played. At his level one has to grease the skids of many on both sides of the political spectrum. In New York, much of that greasing goes to democrats. There is a vindictiveness in politics against those who try to operate their businesses without shelling out money to PACs, lobbyists and campaigns. Microsoft learned that in the 90's when they tried to play ball without greasing the skids in Washington. They have now become a player.
I, too, play the game albeit on a much much smaller scale. I live and work in a portion of Dallas County without any conservative or republican representation. I don't contribute much because I am not in the same strata as Trump, Microsoft or Google. But, I do write letters, call offices, go to Chamber meetings and events where I can interact with the democrats who represent me. I also have and continue to do the same on a national scale with members of both parties. Sometimes they are interested in helping with my issues and sometimes not. At least, they know who I am and are willing to listen to what's on my mind. They may forget the conversation when the phone goes back in the cradle or they hit the delete button on their email but I can't control that.
Hell, I took Boehner, McConnell and others at their word too. Trump may be taking us all for fools but at least he's one of the few who speaks to many of my concerns and has vowed to do something about it. He may turn out to be just like Boehner, McConnell and the other liars. As I said, I didn't vote for him in the primary but I will to keep Hildebitch from being the next president. If he does revert to the form of a typical politician it's something I'm used to but I feel that on several issues he will do what he has said he would do. Time will tell.
It would be nice if Trump didn't lavish money on all these politicians and their PACs. It would be nice if there wasn't so much money in politics. However, I don't find that much fault in Trump playing the game. As he has said often, it's the way the game is played. At his level one has to grease the skids of many on both sides of the political spectrum. In New York, much of that greasing goes to democrats. There is a vindictiveness in politics against those who try to operate their businesses without shelling out money to PACs, lobbyists and campaigns. Microsoft learned that in the 90's when they tried to play ball without greasing the skids in Washington. They have now become a player.
I, too, play the game albeit on a much much smaller scale. I live and work in a portion of Dallas County without any conservative or republican representation. I don't contribute much because I am not in the same strata as Trump, Microsoft or Google. But, I do write letters, call offices, go to Chamber meetings and events where I can interact with the democrats who represent me. I also have and continue to do the same on a national scale with members of both parties. Sometimes they are interested in helping with my issues and sometimes not. At least, they know who I am and are willing to listen to what's on my mind. They may forget the conversation when the phone goes back in the cradle or they hit the delete button on their email but I can't control that.
Hell, I took Boehner, McConnell and others at their word too. Trump may be taking us all for fools but at least he's one of the few who speaks to many of my concerns and has vowed to do something about it. He may turn out to be just like Boehner, McConnell and the other liars. As I said, I didn't vote for him in the primary but I will to keep Hildebitch from being the next president. If he does revert to the form of a typical politician it's something I'm used to but I feel that on several issues he will do what he has said he would do. Time will tell.
The point is: who he, almost exclusively, played the game with, combined with many, recent, sometimes quite recent, comments by Trump himself 180 degrees in contradiction of the positions he is espousing in order to get elected.
Another point: Trump is allegedly so wealthy he doesn't need to be beholden to these guys, or so we are told, right?
Like I said, if he wins, I'd love to be wrong about him.
Another point: Trump is allegedly so wealthy he doesn't need to be beholden to these guys, or so we are told, right?
Like I said, if he wins, I'd love to be wrong about him.
Your speaking of Dallas County gave me a flashback, where's John Wiley Price when you need him the most?
He's running the rackets out of his Oak Cliff bunker. Too bad someone didn't run him down when he was baby-stepping across rush hour traffic.
