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Peter King: Boehner exit means 'the crazies have taken over the party'

Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 7 months ago to Politics
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“I think whoever runs for speaker should make it clear that he’s not going to give in to these people. We’re not going to appease them," he concluded. "The time for appeasement is over.” - Peter King.


So, King thinks that the GOP-e has been appeasing the base? That's a neat trick while they're also cowering in the corner licking Obama's boots.

Good luck with that, "the time for appeasement is over," strategy, Pete.

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  • Posted by ewv 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's not an ad hominem. Ayn Rand was not a conservative. The conservatives are in fact corrupting the entire tea party revolt with religion and giving it a bad reputation as they drive rational people away. That is what gives plausibility to the attacks on the tea party movement. 'Downvoting' a rejection of religion in politics is improper on this forum.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    These are the important points that need to be made, RJS. Thank you for the summary.

    Jan
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 7 months ago
    Sometimes I wonder if guys like Peter King inhabit the same country - world - universe as I do. What is so obvious to us seems to either go zooming over his head, or he becomes deaf to anything that doesn't conform to his preconceptions. It seems as if he wants a party that can only be described as Left Light.
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  • Posted by sfdi1947 9 years, 7 months ago
    Peter King, (RINO, NY) was one of the major impediments to progress, and his record shows it.
    Sequestration is one of the major faulty buzz words, meaning, "We'll confuse the Hicks in the bushes by slowing growth by 2 percent." In reality there is 20 percent waste in every Executive Level Department, Agency, Commission, and Board. and it has been missed because Congress has been voting on total departmental budgets instead of examining every line Item in every budget.
    Procurement has been a mess since FDR threw out the Zero Based Budget format that was the standard since the beginning. The old way DOD or its authorized elements, i.e. the Navy, would publish a specification, manufacturers wishing to compete for the contract would make testable examples or plans for larger items like ships. A winner would be selected and a contract written. Under FDR the DOD Element awarded the Contract to a politically favored son, and a the Government paid for all the R & D.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Your definition of "conservatism" is different from mine, and so is the GOP definition. The religious right are RINOs.
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    Posted by ewv 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Conservatism is worse than alive. It's killing the tea party revolt with a dominating religious agenda. No wonder calling it "crazies" has such plausibility.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 7 months ago
    I like it when RINOs openly ID themselves.
    I'm sure our Founding Fathers were called crazies.
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    Posted by RJSchimenz 9 years, 7 months ago
    Pete King is my representative. A Republican who runs with Conservative Party support, he has become too comfortable in the mainstream. He habitually opposes the protection of individual rights, votes to increase spending tax dollars, and pays lip-service to limited government. Like many elected officials, he has forgotten that the Constitution was written to keep him and his peers in line.
    As a registered Conservative, I am embarrassed that he is supported by a party that is supposed to support limited government and individual rights.
    It's time for him to go.
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  • Posted by Esceptico 9 years, 7 months ago
    It brings me great relief to learn it was only Obama's boots the GOP establishment people like King were licking.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago
    He's a RINO crying like a rat eating onions. Now he's another political target.
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 7 months ago
    Maybe I have missed something. Tell mister King that the party in total is populated by crazies., so regardless who the new speaker is nothing will change.
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  • Posted by Slytherin 9 years, 7 months ago
    As I watch politics, it shows itself as a game of force. In addition there is so much hatred, contempt, and ad hominem attacks. Is this how society fights for power? I don't think Ayn Rand would be pleased.
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  • Posted by SaltyDog 9 years, 7 months ago
    I suppose that somehow Mr. King feels that the days of resounding Republican successes are over. I don't really know how he gets there, but what other reason can there be?
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    Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 7 months ago
    Has a Democrat ever called members of their party "crazies"? I feel terrible that Peter King may have to decide how to vote. The House cryer is not available to tell him how to vote. The status quo has been disrupted for now.
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    Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 7 months ago
    Peter is either providing a cover for the fact that there will be no change whatsoever, or he is quaking in fear that conservativism is still alive.
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