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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
The best known Republicans on Capitol Hill today, Boehner writes in a new book, are not conservatives. Instead, the front rank of the party is filled by loudmouths willing to voice the wildest conspiracy theories.
These pretend conservatives rake in money by being stars in what Boehner calls “Looneyville,” the echo chamber of right-wing radio hosts and even further right websites.
In “On the House: A Washington Memoir,” Boehner said the conservative heritage of the Republican Party has been sunk by the power of “fawning right-wing media and outrage-driven fundraising.”
As for actually working to pass legislation in the tradition of Reagan, today’s Republicans dismiss such efforts. They get more attention by slamming anyone on their side of the aisle trying to make deals with Democrats as a “traitor,” Boehner said.
“Reagan used to say something to the effect that if I get 80 or 90 percent of what I want, that’s a win. These guys [the ‘Tea Party’ vintage Republicans who came to Congress after the 2010 midterm elections] ... didn’t really want legislative victories. They wanted wedge issues and conspiracies and crusades,” Boehner writes.
The former Speaker’s description of the Tea Party class of 2010 is even more true of Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), the best-known of what might be called the Trump/QAnon class of 2020.
Boehner’s conclusion is that Republicans in Congress are now in the grips of “the crazy caucus,” a group he defines as encompassing “garden-variety whack jobs to insurrectionists.”
The Biden White House has concluded — correctly, I believe — that there is no longer anything to be gained from trying to reason and negotiate with what remains of conservative Republicans.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaig...he-gop-is-now-the-party-of-grifters-and-kooks
These pretend conservatives rake in money by being stars in what Boehner calls “Looneyville,” the echo chamber of right-wing radio hosts and even further right websites.
In “On the House: A Washington Memoir,” Boehner said the conservative heritage of the Republican Party has been sunk by the power of “fawning right-wing media and outrage-driven fundraising.”
As for actually working to pass legislation in the tradition of Reagan, today’s Republicans dismiss such efforts. They get more attention by slamming anyone on their side of the aisle trying to make deals with Democrats as a “traitor,” Boehner said.
“Reagan used to say something to the effect that if I get 80 or 90 percent of what I want, that’s a win. These guys [the ‘Tea Party’ vintage Republicans who came to Congress after the 2010 midterm elections] ... didn’t really want legislative victories. They wanted wedge issues and conspiracies and crusades,” Boehner writes.
The former Speaker’s description of the Tea Party class of 2010 is even more true of Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), the best-known of what might be called the Trump/QAnon class of 2020.
Boehner’s conclusion is that Republicans in Congress are now in the grips of “the crazy caucus,” a group he defines as encompassing “garden-variety whack jobs to insurrectionists.”
The Biden White House has concluded — correctly, I believe — that there is no longer anything to be gained from trying to reason and negotiate with what remains of conservative Republicans.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaig...he-gop-is-now-the-party-of-grifters-and-kooks