CNN: Boehner Pals with Obama
You know how airports have TV monitors for travelers to watch while waiting? I’d just arrived home from a business trip, when the monitor showed CNN covering President Obama’s jobs talk last night. The screen displayed “Lawmakers gather to hear Obama’s speech” (they misspelled “lawbreakers” but that’s another topic) as the self-congratulation society filed in.
Then the camera showed Reid and Boehner at the podium. I can’t remember who the CNN talking head was, but it’s irrelevant because they all chatter the same talking points. This one was: “Boehner has a warm relationship with Obama, but Boehner’s being held hostage by the freshmen Tea Party congressmen.”
Herein lies today’s lesson.
By a “warm relationship,” what the CNN monkeys mean is that Boehner, like Obama and Reid, is a career politician. They’re like a Ménage a Troika, or a real clusterf…riends. As members of the Kabuki Party, they all pretend to represent Democrats or Republicans while fooling voters into thinking they’re doing something for us, rather than their corporate sponsors and other “players.” So they act their highly structured roles to convince us they disagree, when their common goal is to play on voter passivity to return us to feudalism, all while claiming they’re going to save us from “the other guys” as a distraction.
“Boehner’s being held hostage by the freshmen Tea Party congressmen” refers to all of us unenlightened Americans who swept out so many Kabuki Party members in 2010’s historic election. Doing so, we temporarily stymied their feudalist plans. Boehner, being a career politician, is cagy enough to go off-script for now and act like a conservative, at least until American voters succumb enough to the new opiate of the masses: TV. They expect we’ll eventually go back to sleep, and wake up serfs.
The moral to the story: If you believe a politician, you’re toast.
This is why they all need to go. From dog catcher to Potus, one term and out.
If you believe a CNN talking heat you are burnt toast slathered with rancid butter.
One of the first rules of being a professional is that when you have to work with someone whose views you dislike, you are still polite. Now maybe a person who gets paid to be a dorsal orifice on camera might consider such professionalism to be the sign of a warm relationship but I am skeptical. Also the agenda these past few months has been to sow dissension between members of the political right.
I guess you made the mistake of believing Boehner is ‘right’. I’ll stand by my analysis. We need to stop believing these clowns and start voting in representatives. If they don’t represent, vote them out.
…I’m with you. Bonner needs to go ..and most all the others with him.
Yeah, we can’t possibly be friends with people we disagree with politically… unless you’re Ronald Reagan.
We have no Reagans today, alas. Even I admit I fall far short of that mark.
Someone please remind why term limits are off limits ?
Why is anyone entitled to lifetime tenure at taxpayer expense ?
How about a maximum limit of 10 -15 years at any combination of federally funded civilian occupations — including elected and unelected positions ?
Yes, we are telling our Senators and Congressmen to do something to get rid of the Lia-In-Chief. He aids our enemies and is guilty of treason for one thing. However, most all the elected/appointed officials have betrayed our trust as tax payers who deserved dedicated civil servants. They want to be a Federal (dysfunctional) Family and not Civil Servants. They want to live in the style of the Royal families to which they’ve become accustomed. These old people sold us out…they knew the deadly Sharia was infiltrating our America and did nothing…they know drugs makes them rich so they continue to do nothing…
All lobbyist should be removed from our halls of congress for starters. Vote out all the old politicians and any not doing their job satisfactory.
Order mental exams, drug tests and new vetting for all politicians and any who wish to tie up the election process by running unqualified.
Make salary caps and term limits. Deport illegals and their illegal offspring.
Stop the unsustainable United Nations from trying to bring about Agenda 21 as they are the most corrupt agency in the world. They “lost” millions of dollars over 60 years and nobody has been held accountable.
Governing a massively complex country such as ours is hard, even if we were to shrink government significantly (as libertarians such as myself hope). As distasteful as it might be, we need some politicians who know how to get things done and know the rules – unless you prefer to have all the institutional knowledge and power reside in their unelected assistants.
So while term limits are a great idea, if you make them too short you have a recipe for disaster. People like Boehner have their function, and it is up to us to elect representatives to keep him honest. He can’t do much without their votes.
A hardcore purity test is a recipe for a permanent minority, and better to have someone with whom you agree 50 or 60 percent of the time, than a Democrat you agree with 10 or 20 percent of the time, at most.
“better to have someone with whom you agree 50 or 60 percent of the time…”
That’s like saying being partially raped is okay. How much more Liberty do you want to compromise away? That way lies feudalism.
You call yourself a libertarian? That used to mean one who promotes Liberty. More Newspeak.
Howard, you are presenting a false analogy. Sure, in a perfect world I would choose to have nothing but people who agree with me 100% of the time, and a few opponents to keep them honest.
But I am sorry to burst your bubble, we live in this thing called the real world. And in our great and diverse nation which includes lots of blue states, we will never get the purity you are speaking of. Maybe in a distant future if people wake up and pigs fly, but not anytime soon.
In fact, it was the great Ronald Reagan who is said to have offered this wisdom, “The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor.”
TMK, you and Reagan are correct. (Thanks for sharing the quote.)
All complex human endeavors require the ability to sometimes work with those we distrust, dislike, dispise, along with those with whom we disagree. That’s Business 101, Politics 101, Diplomacy 101.
What I see in so many photos and TV shots is Boehner working hard to school his expression and present a neutral exterior, out of respect for the position of president regardless of the person currently holding that position. Although it may just be camera angles, Boehner seems to always have a determined “keep my eyes on this guy” look. Buddies? I think not.
The only bubble I’m interested in bursting is readers whose will has dissolved into apathy and passivity. There are no saviors, and the fantasy of electing one is a bubble worth bursting. People need to be free of government interference to succeed or fail on their merits. More government only stacks the deck against the little guy by centralizing power, making it easier for those already holding the money and power to tilt the playing field towards themselves, which is what we see in America now. Boehner has shown little resolve in cutting the budget and shrinking the federal government. Thus, to use Reagan’s analogy, he is a traitor.
Oh, and by the way, when there’s Liberty, some people fail, and some even die. We need to get over this fantasy-there’s another bubble worth bursting-that if we toss around enough money and hire enough nannies, everybody will be happy and safe. There are worse things than dying, such as being a serf. I think most people have lost this perspective, which will only usher in feudalism all the faster.
Howard, I agree with the goals you just stated. I am a libertarian who counts The Road to Serfdom as the single most influential book in my life. I think government should provide for the common defense, public safety, basic infrastructure and not much else, and people should be allowed to succeed or fail based on their own merits and hard work. I agree with Palin’s recent speech where she said that crony capitalism is just as bad as socialism.
Electing tea party members in 2010 was a great start. But until we dismantle this leviathan in DC, we do need people who are able to navigate it. How much can Boehnor really do with only the House? If we try to do too much too fast, we will lose the 2012 elections and things will only get worse, faster.
Let’s kick out Zero in 2012 and get a Republican Senate. Let’s fight back harder in the propoganda war and mitigate the lamestream media. Then we can start the Herculean task of dismantling the welfare state.
Good thoughts. Thanks.