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melody

(12,365 posts)
4. Nope, the reports I saw specifically mentioned Reid, McConnell, Boehner and Pelosi, along with P&VP
Mon Oct 14, 2013, 02:19 PM
Oct 2013

melody

(12,365 posts)
7. Boehner is still the Speaker of the House -- he's House Leader
Mon Oct 14, 2013, 02:28 PM
Oct 2013

He can replace Cantor.

I should say I base that opinion on a cursory reading of the roles of order someone posted on another site.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
2. That's easy
Mon Oct 14, 2013, 02:17 PM
Oct 2013

The big money donors could have given him a call telling him they were cutting off his supply of money for next years election. Boehner may be scared of the tea party, but when it comes to cold hard cash, well that will always win out over simple fear!

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)
6. He wll shut his orange whiny ass up and do what his boss Cantor tells him to do.
Mon Oct 14, 2013, 02:27 PM
Oct 2013

And Cantor will do what the corporations want.

You just have to know whose boss.

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
8. but I thought Orangey was being ordered around by the Kochs...
Mon Oct 14, 2013, 02:34 PM
Oct 2013

...and other party elites.

I get so confused about the corrupt entities that control this Republican mess. Their party is like an octopus, with
several different tentacles of corporate daddies and extremist factions to which the central mechanism must kow
tow.

I don't understand the dynamics here.

So...are we to believe that Bohner was acting at the behest of Koch and other corporate corrupters coddled by
the Republican party--but that Cantor never signed off on it. And now, Cantor is putting an end to that failed
plan?

So which corporations is Cantor serving? And these Cantor-interests are in direct disagreement with the Kochs?

I can't keep the evil straight.

melody

(12,365 posts)
11. That's right, the congressional leaders would meet with the President and VP without conferring
Mon Oct 14, 2013, 02:44 PM
Oct 2013

with Cantor or anyone else. They'd just grab the thing, take it to the floor and hope for the best. It's all a crapshoot.

Honestly, guys. lol

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
12. Because then he will own the default as his historical legacy--100% HIS fault.
Mon Oct 14, 2013, 02:46 PM
Oct 2013

And the blame will be his and the House Republicans' alone.

Which would lead to a well-deserved bloodbath in 2014, and their permanent extinction as a national party.

Does he want to have his legacy be the man who destroyed the Full Faith and Credit of the US and the Republican party as well?

Nope.

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