I assume that is because of the loss of several teaparty members and the fact that all the idiotic obstruction stuff didnt work these past 4 years... Obama still won.

we all are living with very slow pace of recovery. PrezO did win, after HUGE efforts and despite all the repug games and in spite of the economy, but so much more failed or took so much time and effort.

Need more than loss of 'several' teaparty members, like eric cancer who is still with them.

They wanted Obama to fail.

They "needed" him to fail so they decided the only way to achieve that was by trying to destroy the country but they failed at destroying it as we are still here as a nation and they failed at getting control of the whitehouse thankfully.

Make no mistake. The Republicans will vote out impeachment articles against Obama. And we'll hear all their pals in the main$tream media defend them.

the President at the WH they will start a campaign to kick him out.

besides I dont think they have enough votes to block an alliance of moderate Rs and moderate Ds. In the House they only need a simple majority.

school bus.

let alone a school bus

Discounted by the mainstream, unliked by normal Republicans (who may scapegoat it a bit). The Tea Party Revolution is over...

send the President a bill with the tax results that he wants. If they don't, I hope the president holds steady and we go off the cliff. It will be the only way that we get both the tax revenues and the reduction in military spending that is needed.

Can you imagine Pelosi negotiating by saying that she is such a weak speaker and her caucas is so crazy that she can't offer or propose squat?

tho we, + the economy, can't wait, could mean PrezO going to the people and then actually causing them to fear losing their seats in '14.

blah, blah, blah.

He's got YEARS of obstructionism on his record...and it will take years to show the majority of America, that he and the Pukes are finally willing to do the correct thing.

I'm not even holding my breath.

falling into line. They control everything he does. They would be better off with a more crazed teabagger and not a waanabe one.

they were contrite.

I don't know if they've got enough 'move' in em, but they've noticed.

This might be a plum time for a 3rd party to make a move. These Republicans might just go the way of the Whigs and Federalists.

...they were contrite....

Cartoon video.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101778431

support. Pelosi could get the votes but I guess too many votes like that would be the end of Boner.

Nancy Pelosi could do better than he has even if she never showed up for work!

The only thing he's been successful at is slowing down the pace of the recovery, but that was because HE was towing the line, and was being controlled by the wack jobs on the far right.

If Democrats had retained control of the House, and Pelosi remained Speaker the last two years, we'd be in MUCH better shape economically than we are now.

Look at the quotes in the article. Several House Republicans are already distancing themselves from Boehner statements that he plans to negotiate with the President saying that they need to be consulted BEFORE any proposals are made. Really?

when negotiations commence.

Nuke 'em 'til they glow.

After a month or so Boner will be slapped back into tea bot shape.

He needs to strip away the extremists and convince the moderate GOP to vote with the Democrats .... At least once, to overcome this debacle ....

from a statistical standpoint .... The actual 'Tea Party' caucus was about 80-90 members - It has recently decreased ....

If he knows what's best for the country and realizes he needs to craft DEMOCRATIC like legislation that most Democrats would support, then surely he can strip a few less strident members from the GOP side ....

Not saying he will, but he certainly could, and it would end the national nightmare ....

are already blasting him for it

his signals from the mothership apparently haven't arrived to tell him to go home?

seems to me a party that wasn't elected to anything at all seems to be a third participant in this process. What I mean by that are the pundits and the media. I just get the feeling just like in the election, they are cheering for the Republican agenda. So we have to fight both. I always thought their job was just to report the news and not take one side over the other. If president Obama decides to not do anything on this tax issue with the Republicans, I think the media should just report it as news. I don't think they should embellish the danger of going off this cliff either to scare the American Public. It is just a power move by the President with what he has to use, in order to gain an end. I do not think it will be Dooms day if it happens. The congress still has to present a budget to the president and he will have a lot more revenue to spend. They have to spend it on something. Presenting a tax cut for 98 percent of the people is a good idea too. If the Republicans want to reject it, then it is on them. They can also negotiate cuts for the Defense as well as entitlements from ground zero.

or both? I guess this depends on how one defines "fail".

I would think that 98 percent would at least entail making the Bush tax cuts permanent and repealing Obamacare. I recall that some House Republicans were insisting that the House threaten default on this. Also, remember the Balance Budget Amendment along with a 2/3 vote requirement for raising taxes?

...They were also predicting that Romney would win by a wide margin.

I would imagine that statement is simply political posturing, however I guess one may take it both literal and as absolute truth if it's convenient to one's position...

totally political posturing, which I guess is another way of making my point:
re: how the GOP always wants it both ways: whining & playing the victim one
minute, then boasting & bragging the next.

I happened to catch Mark Levin today, he was practically frothing at the mouth, he was so pissed at Boner.