{"id":38999,"date":"2013-10-03T08:51:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/03\/the-boehner-dilemma-and-why-things-arent-likely-to-improve.html"},"modified":"2013-10-03T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T00:15:03","slug":"the-boehner-dilemma-and-why-things-arent-likely-to-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/03\/the-boehner-dilemma-and-why-things-arent-likely-to-improve.html","title":{"rendered":"The Boehner dilemma and why things aren’t likely to improve"},"content":{"rendered":"
Short version: Boehner wants to be Speaker, and if he tries to corral the hardliners he's afraid they'll vote him out. \u00a0So he wants to be the leader … but that means he can't lead.<\/p>\n

And those hardliners?<\/p>\n

'When you get the members off the talking points you come to a simple conclusion: They don't face consequences for taking these hardline positions. When you hear members talk candidly about their biggest victory, it wasn\u2019t winning the House in 2010. It was winning the state legislatures in 2010 because they were able to redraw their districts so they had many more conservative voters. The members get heat from the press but they don't get heat from back home.'<\/i><\/p>\n

So the Speaker's afraid of the career consequences, nobody else wants the job, and the hardliners driving the truck through the guard rails don't face any electoral consequences. \u00a0Sounds like a recipe for … well, just what we're seeing now.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Cynthia S.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Excellent interview with #RobertCosta<\/a> \u00a0 by +<\/span>Ezra Klein<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Robert Costa: When you get the members off the talking points you come to a simple conclusion: They don't face consequences for taking these hardline positions. When you hear members talk candidly about their biggest victory, it wasn\u2019t winning the House in 2010. It was winning the state legislatures in 2010 because they were able to redraw their districts so they had many more conservative voters. The members get heat from the press but they don't get heat from back home.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Why Boehner doesn\u2019t just ditch the hard right<\/a>
\n ‘What we\u2019re seeing is the collapse of institutional Republican power,\n <\/p>\n

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Short version: Boehner wants to be Speaker, and if he tries to corral the hardliners he's afraid they'll vote him out. \u00a0So he wants to be the leader … but that means he can't lead. And those hardliners? 'When you get the members off the talking points you come to a simple conclusion: They don't … Continue reading “The Boehner dilemma and why things aren’t likely to improve”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,81,353,358],"tags":[442],"class_list":["post-38999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2010","category-elections-2014","category-poor-citizenship","tag-robertcosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39177,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/10\/gop-hardliners-graciously-kick-the-can-down-the-road-a-few-weeks.html","url_meta":{"origin":38999,"position":0},"title":"GOP Hardliners graciously kick the can down the road a few weeks","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Oct-13 4:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't wait to hear how this is touted as \"compromise\" by pundits on the Right. \"We've promised not to shoot this one particular hostage for another twenty-four hours. We've very reasonable. Now, what are you going to give us in return?\"Reshared post from +Andreas SchouHurray! The apocalyptic crisis of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9986,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/02\/well_aint_that_a_pisser.html","url_meta":{"origin":38999,"position":1},"title":"Well, ain’t that a pisser?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 2-Oct-06 12:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure there's so much more to this story out of Norway ... 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