John Boehner's Biggest Threat May Be 'Young Guns' In His Own Party

The Washington Post:

The House has a freshman class of 87 GOP members, whose most impassioned supporters -- outspoken conservatives and tea party loyalists who have long voiced suspicions about Boehner's passion for their causes -- are poised to rebel against any deep compromises that Boehner might make on hot-button fiscal issues. The new members know they ignore those feverish supporters at their peril.

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Comments

[lindabear]

08:34 AM on 05/23/2011

John Boenner's going to be crying soon. First the tea baggers are ruining the Republiklan brand, big business who bought and paid for the new congress aren't happy and he has eddie cantor ready to stab him in the back. Poor Boenner, there's nowhere to turn.

[R U Mad]

08:12 AM on 05/23/2011

Beohner is finding out and soon the democrats will find out, we sent these candidates to Washington to stop the runaway spending of this Admin. We sat in the back of the bus for two years while the Liberals railroaded this country. Now it is time to retake the reins, repeal the garbage passed during those two years and recover our economy!

You had your chance and failed miserably!

[Clevelandinwi]

08:00 AM on 05/23/2011

Hey jon, the devil from Virginia, erichcan'tor is coming after you. The only thing is - he's worse than you.

[shrinktalkingheads]

10:15 PM on 05/22/2011

Note to Speaker Boehner:

Anybody under 30 who is a Republican has no heart. Sorry.

[vegas kid]

10:07 PM on 05/22/2011

John Boehner problem is not with the "'young guns" in his party its their complete lack of ideas and trying to balance the budget (75% of it gop created) on the old, middle class and the poor.The people repubs and dems a like are starting to tire of this way of thinking.And I think it will show big time in the next election.

[gsmp]

09:34 PM on 05/22/2011

My neighbor has a potato cannon that could take them all on! Maybe john could borrow it. cantor reminds me of 'greg stillson'. 2012 will clean them out including the bagger from my district who won by 500 votes out of 200,000 cast! Most of the other races were decided by similarly small margins. I hope they enjoyed their little 2 year side show.

[R U Mad]

07:58 AM on 05/23/2011

I bet you were chomping at the bit when your district went to a Tea Party candidate! Get used to it, there will be more in the coming election! Your liberal cousins who were in office will be job hunting soon thereafter!

[gsmp]

10:52 PM on 05/23/2011

Honey, the only 'chomping at the bit' I know about are the horses I've helped gentle over the last forty years. Your bagger buddies are out in two. President Obama will continue to advance this country in spite of the 30 years of in$ane economic and international ineptitude of the regressionists. Have a good day.

[msblynne]

08:34 PM on 05/22/2011

The callow punks do not realize that "It's My Way Or The Highway" isn't terribly effective in a democracy, especially when they are one faction of a minority party. If any of them had the benefit of a well rounded education, they would know that our government was built, and only functions effectively, when legislation is built on compromise. Callow punks.

[prestonsturges]

10:48 PM on 05/22/2011

excellent

[R U Mad]

08:04 AM on 05/23/2011

Compromise? Are you kidding me?
Where have you been the last two years? I saw no compromising on Obamacare! Remember we were in the back of the bus! I sincerely hope you do not like these new mavericks of our congress..... because we are sending more in the coming election! Soon they will not be just a faction of the minority(Senate only), but the leading faction of the majority!

[msblynne]

08:18 AM on 05/23/2011

Another intellectual giant, RU Mad, shows his/her stuff.

[ReealOne]

05:05 PM on 05/22/2011

Now we know why Boehner has been weeping in public a lot. He knew that the "young guns" were coming after him.

It just doesn't make sense that every time you turned around, Boehner would e weeping.

Well, he's getting EXACTLY what he deserves. He courted the Tea-cups to gain the majority in the House - with a bunch of lies, but thought that he could shut them up once they were there.

LMAO, the joke's on Boehner. He is truly Dr. Frankenstein who has found out that he cannot control the monster he built - which is terrorizing the countryside. LMAO!

[vegas kid]

10:24 PM on 05/22/2011

He looked a lot better earlier in the year, eyes looked a lot clearer now he looks like he's back hitting the sauce pretty hard.

[ReealOne]

02:33 AM on 05/23/2011

You're right Vegas. I'm guessing that these days Boehner is hitting the "happy sauce" a lot earlier than 10am.

This should be a lesson to all of the repubs who think they are so much smarter than everyone else. The "old GOP guards" tried to use the "young guns" to gain the majority and then make them sit down and shut up. But the "old GOP guards"' has done nothing but back themselves into a corner they can't escape from.

And the "Young Guns" don't have the smarts to govern by compromising and team-work. They are the most unreasonable bunch this country has ever seen.

[StillAmused]

04:04 PM on 05/22/2011

Gee... pandering to and aligning with the 'Baggers' seemed like such a great idea at the time.

Careful what you wish for...

[VietVet67]

03:41 PM on 05/22/2011

Your "young guns" are shooting blanks, John.

[Igotgasbaby]

03:40 PM on 05/22/2011

Where are the jobs???

[Ponder this]

03:39 PM on 05/22/2011

What a really great look at what goes on within the "hallowed" halls. -Hollow sixth grade jockeying and positioning in the "look at me, I'm more important than you" crowd. Enlightening!

[TC Mits]

03:30 PM on 05/22/2011

The Speaker knows very well that he must court Democats to pass anything. Passing nothing or the continued social engineering will only turn the voters more against the Republicans Those same voters that remember the promise of jobs that has been left by the wayside by this House.

[antipodal2u]

02:24 PM on 05/22/2011

His biggest threat is a generic box o kleenex. Puffs ( W/ the aloe vera)or nothing!

[William Dawson]

12:59 PM on 05/22/2011

Maybe Boehner doesn't have a pair after all. We know obamasama doesn't. Some one needs to grow a pair and get this deficit taken care of.

[Twilight Kingdom]

01:26 PM on 05/22/2011

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[Ponder this]

03:44 PM on 05/22/2011

Really.?.... who had them to concentrate on taking down OBL (quietly and with resolve) who had them, (finally, instead of pussyfooting around like all others before him) ... to tell Israel the truth (in spite of the criticism he knew would come) ... and on and on... (and not a tear shed). My money is on the President.