Epstein Secrets

. Best, Lisa Lisa Rossi Forwarded message From: Kirsten Gillibrand Date: October 6, 2012 9:39:15 AM Subject: This is serious Friend, When John Boehner announces hees coming to western New York for a fundraising breakfast this weekend, we need to take notice. Boehner has made Tea Party extremist Ch

nd, When John Boehner announces hees coming to western New York for a fundraising breakfast this weekend, we need to take notice. Boehner has made Tea Party extremist Chris Collins, race against Rep. Kathy Hochul a top priority. Now hens taking a page out of Karl Rove s playbook and opening a so-called G

ow slice of the population, residing on the far right of the political spectrum, is dictating how Republicans in Congress are proceeding. No wonder John Boehner is insisting on cuts to entitlements and other programs mainly aimed at working and middle class Americans, all while protecting the wealthy from a

en staunchly conservative ones, who even emitted a whiff of being somewhat reasonable. Conservative standard-bearer Orrin Hatch narrowly survived a Tea Party challenge last year. Hatch wasn't as fortunate as his fellow conservative from Utah, Bob Bennett, who lost to his primary challenger in 2010, just a

ntirely new cuts came to the House floor in the form of an actual bill for EFTA00678677 funding transportation and housing programs, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, confronted shaky support from less ardently conservative Republicans and decided to pull the $44 billion package on July 31. That sparked

like Paul Ryan and EFTA00678668 Rand Paul still don't think this is enough and some of my conservative friends are still sending me cartoons and Tea Party articles that suggest that President Obama's economic policies are a disaster. For them I asked one thing, is the country better off now than it was

ach an agreement: the debt ceiling had to be raised by the end of the summer. The Cantor-Biden talks ended two months later, and Obama and Speaker John Boehner worked until July to reach a "grand bargain" of modest tax hikes, entitlement reforms, and spending cuts. A fourth group, consisting of three Repub

ot as monolithically opposed to a deal as one might think. Last year's talks taught the White House that there are divisions between the hard-right Tea Party faction that is unilaterally opposed to any tax hikes and more traditional Republicans who are so concerned about the long-term deficit that under

tion to solving the problem. And in fact, we think our principles and our solutions are better than yours." BILL MOYERS: So • Speaker of the House John Boehner and I ask you to come see me and I say I want to do what you're suggesting. Give me the sound bites a real conservative can use. ANTHONY LEISEROWIT

n very different ways who have different values and who trust different messengers. BILL MOYERS: Assume that ■ a skeptic. Not only a skeptic but a Tea Party Republican who goes to church every Sunday where my beloved pastor tells me that, reassures me that God created the earth 6,000 years ago and that

ervative wing of the party which is really a radical wing of the party, from Pat Toomey to Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn. And it goes to the House, and John Boehner. who may have the worst job in America could barely get a third of his own party to go along. Now, that's a modest deal. If you can't get more than

d this rightward march of the party, both among elected officials, but also rank-and-file Republicans. And the strongest, most extreme of those, the Tea Party people, have pulled the others back toward them. It's a reality, and it's not just ideological difference either. They begin with those differences

not long after the election. “You’ll want to be your own son of a bitch, but you don’t know Washington.” Ailes had a suggestion: “Speaker Boehner.” (John Boehner had been the Speaker of the House until he was forced out in a Tea Party putsch in 2011.) “Who’s that?” asked Trump. Everybody in Trump’s billionai

ain off-again presidential candidate, in 2010; at a meeting in Trump Tower, Bannon had proposed to Trump that he spend half a million dollars backing Tea Party-style candidates as a way to further his presidential ambitions. Bannon left the meeting figuring that Trump would never cough up that kind of dough.

he way Breitbart viewed Ryan and the way Trump viewed him. For Breitbart, the House rebellion and transformation that had driven the former Speaker, John Boehner, from office, and which, plausibly, was set to remake the House into the center of the new radical Republicanism had been halted by Ryan’s election a

right, meanwhile, was more and more challenged by younger conservatives. In the Obama years, the conservative movement was increasingly bewildered by Tea Party rejectionism and a new iconoclastic right-wing media, exemplified by Breitbart News, which was pointedly excluded from the CPAC conference. In 2011,