The rancid, stinking, sewer that is John Boehner constantly weakens and humiliates the GOP using the media. Boehner owes Obama big time for helping him defeat the Tea Party thereby making Boehner the 'most powerful Republican in Washington' per NPR

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6/6/13, "GOP to Darrell Issa: Cool it," Politico, Bresnahan and Sherman

"Shortly after Darrell Issa dubbed Jay Carney a “paid liar” on CNN last Sunday, House Republican leadership staffers called the California Republican’s aides with a message: Cool it. Issa’s aides promptly responded: The remark was over the top, they agreed, according to sources familiar with the interaction....

Internal discussion has continued all week about Issa’s outburst at President Barack Obama’s top spokesman. Top Republicans have privately quizzed Issa’s friends and members of his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about how exactly Issa could slip up at such an inopportune time.

GOP leaders are concerned that the sometimes unpredictable chairman could jeopardize the biggest gift handed to them in months — public outrage over the IRS scandal, combined with questions over Benghazi. They think Issa should stop personalizing the scandals by insulting Obama and his aides and focus on the facts....

Issa’s behavior came up at meetings of GOP leaders several times this week, according to sources involved. The first time complaints surfaced — and where the frustration with Issa was most clearly expressed — was in a small Monday meeting of the House GOP leadership.

Since then, Issa has not appeared on television — a 

development Republican leadership has welcomed.

“He has made this personal,” one senior Republican told POLITICO. “He’s added an unnecessary element to the news cycle.” “When you make Jay Carney the issue, that’s the problem,” said another senior House GOP leadership aide. “No one cares about Jay Carney. That’s a sideshow; it’s not the real issue.”...

While Obama is a tempting target for Republicans approaching a midterm election, the GOP must look like it’s doing more than personally attacking a popular president instead of promoting a positive legislative agenda....

There have also been important developments in the Benghazi investigation this week, according to lawmakers in both parties.

Ambassador Thomas Pickering, who led the State Department-ordered investigation into the attack for the Obama administration, gave emotional closed-door testimony on Tuesday in front of Issa’s panel that stretched out over eight hours, sources said.

Pickering said that he was very close to U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stephens, who was killed in the Benghazi attacks. At the age of 81, Pickering said, he has no incentive to cover anything up, these sources said.

Democrats walked away from the testimony thinking they struck political gold, and if Issa allows Pickering to testify in public, the Benghazi issue will be put to bed."...via Rush Limbaugh  

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Obama re-election helped GOP House Speaker Boehner: NPR

12/8/12, "Once Boxed-In, Boehner May Finally Be Master Of The House," NPR, Frank James

"In a paradoxical way, Obama's re-election victory coupled with congressional Democrats adding to their numbers may have helped Boehner. Some of those wins came at the expense of the Tea Party, the conservative movement whose affiliated House members have been very willing to stand up to Boehner.

In recent weeks, Boehner...has gotten his entire leadership team to sign his tax-raising, fiscal-cliff counteroffer....

Despite complaints from conservative activists and bloggers, however, Boehner remains the most powerful Republican in Washington.".
 


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