EXCERPT: John Boehner has now, for better or for worse, thrown his lot in with the radicals in the Tea Party. He has abdicated all pretense of leading, and now meekly follows what the extremists dictate. Or, to put it another way, he no longer exercises any control over his own party in the House, rather they exercise more control over him. The Republican Party, as a whole, has chosen which path it will now tread upon. They are all so frightened of "being primaried" by a more-pure Tea Partier (in what used to, politically, be called a "purge") that they will go along with anything the Tea Party demands of them. The GOP leadership has, in effect, left the building. The Tea Party takeover of the Republican Party is now complete. They ought to just change the name, really. Leave it as just the "Democrats" versus the "Tea Partiers" -- because the Republican Party of yore is nothing more than a corpse waiting for burial, at this point. John Boehner, in fact, just hammered the last nail in its coffin. huffingtonpost/chris-weigant/boehner-hammers-last-nail_b_4020579.html?utm_source=concierge&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=sailthru%2Bslider%2B
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 03:14:43 +0000
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